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Papers on French linguistics, most in French, address the following topics: micro structural treatment of regionalisms in three French dictionaries; effects of the use of Quebec French on the intelligibility of synthesized speech; reading comprehension as a constructive process; acoustic markers of the utterance in Quebec French; constraints and phonological alternations in the French lexicon; second language learning in the Basque Country: Euskera, Basque language, versus foreign languages; an experiential approach to a second language conversation course; the ambisyllabic quality of intervocalic consonants in Quebec French; brain hemisphere preference and treatment of information by the interpreter; expression of scientific facts, through use of verbs, in several specialized texts; an onomastic approach to differential analysis of counter-argumentative connectors in French, English, and Spanish; a model for understanding literal and non-literal language with a common language mechanism (paper in English); moraic theories and syllabic structures; phonological tendencies as indications of a dynamic synchrony in the Black English spoken in Georgia; and phonological constraints and English loan words in Quebec French. (MSE)

The 33 papers, all in French, from the 1996 conference on research in linguistics address a wide range of topics in linguistics, including: linguists as an endangered species; categorizing verb specifiers in Yoruba; socio-terminology as a framework for understanding the language of orthodontia; French-to-Arabic borrowings in the 19th and 20th centuries; language attitudes and politics of bilingual Cameroon; spontaneous nasalization; atmospheric verb constructions and the choice of subject; the grammar of the Smurfs; linguistics in literary translation; verbal phonology of Inor; stylistic distortion in translation; Quebec French in the language chronicles of Abbott Narcisse Desgagne; use of trademarks in common language; Quebec regionalisms and the Canadian Bilingual Dictionary; the grammatical and the logical in the study of syntax; no one, nothing, and variation; the distinction between syllabus and curriculum; representation and derivation in morphology; vocabulary out of the closet; lack of definition in expressions of quantity; adaptation and importation of English segments into Quebec French; grammar and interference in germanophone Lorraine; objective and subjective in declension; prosodic markers in Spanish; relative object constructions in child language; the 1908 story "Rectification du vocabulaire" by Henri Roullaud; phonology and lexicology of French loans to Kinyarwanda; a new model of semantics, the "Wheel of Meaning"; automatic recognition of hyponyms; accent in Quebec French; the discourse marker "disons" in Quebec oral French; measuring second language reading comprehension; and the nature of the French participle. (MSE)

Papers (entirely in French) presented at the conference on linguistics include these topics: language used in the legislature of New Brunswick; cohesion in the text of Arabic-speaking language learners; automatic adverb recognition; logic of machine translation in teaching revision; expansion in physics texts; discourse analysis and the syntax of terminology; speech pathology and the right brain hemisphere; translating Spanish pronunciation to French; operators and child language competence; prosodic difficulties and the right hemisphere; nasalization in Inor; language planning in Guinea; intrinsic vowel frequency in discourse; pharmacy terminology; intonation patterns in back-channel communication; aphorisms and proverbs in daily conversation; borrowing and variations in adolescent speech in New Brunswick; second language reading; relative propositions in Acadian children's oral language; the language chronicles of Etienne Blanchard; microprosody and discourse type; syllabic adaptation of French borrowing in Kinyarwanda; adjectival quantifiers in Quebec French; modern English advertising grammar; comparison of sung vowels and spoken vowels; influence of the francophone Voyageurs' vocabulary on North American English; past participle agreement in one rule; problems of polysemy; syntactic analysis; homosemy and polysemy; plural of combined words; French head-driven phrase structure grammar; semantics of metaphors; negative quantifiers and double negation; definition of phrasemes; communicative structure of French causative utterances; and a plenary session summary. (MSE)

Papers from the conference on linguistic anomaly include: "La definition interactive de la deviance en situation exolingue et bilingue" ("The Interactive Definition of Deviation in Exolinguistic and Bilingual Situations") (Bernard Py); "La negociation ratee: pratiques sociales et methodes interactives du traitement de la deviance dans un 'talk show'" ("Negotiation Gone Awry: Social Practices and Interactive Methods of Treatment of Deviation in a Talk Show") (Cecilia Oesch-Serra); "Nommer l'autre: une etude des references a l'autre dans des conversations exolingues" ("Naming the Other: A Study of References to the Other in Exolinguistic Conversations") (Marion Perrefort); "Traitement des deviances au-dela du domaine morpho-syntactique dans l'enseignement des langues etrangeres" ("Treatment of Deviations in the Morphosyntactic Domain in the Teaching of Foreign Languages") (Gerard Merkt); "Langage deviant et orthophonie: l'exemple des dysphasies" ("Deviant Language and Pronunciation Instruction: The Example of Dysphasics"): Genevieve de Weck); "Faits deviants et tri des observables" ("Deviant Facts and the Sorting of Observables") (Marie-Jose Reichler-Beguelin): "La deviance de la suffixation en francais est-elle structurelle?" ("Is Suffix Deviation in French Structural?") (Amr Helmy Ibrahim); "Autour des relatives non standard" ("Concerning Non-Standard Relatives") (Joel Gapany, Denis Apotheloz); "Systemes experts et reseaux neuronaux: a propos de la deviance" ("Expert Systems and Neuron Networks: A Propos of Deviation") (Henri Madec); "Rabelais est-il un ecrivain deviant?" ("Is Rabelais a Deviant Writer?") (Andre Gendre); "Rabelais et la norme lexicale" ("Rabelais and the Lexical Norm") (Zygmunt Marzys); "L'intonation qui fait devier la conversation" ("Intonation That Derails Conversation") (Elisabeth Lhote); and "Le traitement des donnees linguistiques non standard. A propos du lexique commun franc-comtois/romand" ("The Treatment of Non-Standard Linguistic Data. A Propos of the Common Lexicon of Franche-Compte/Romansch") (Jean-Paul Colin). (MSE)

Papers, all in French, presented at a conference on linguistics include: "Machine Translation: Historic Aspects" (Ghada Attieh); "Translation and Conditioning" (Stephanie Bedard); "Semantic or Pre-Semantic Structures? From Perception to Causation" (Denise Belanger); "Presentation of Poetry Sung in Maroc" (Samira Belyazid); "There Is 'la' and 'la'--A Prosodic Study of the Discourse Particle 'la' in Quebec French" (Monique Demers); "The Oral Introspective Protocol in Reading: Testing and Refinements" (Linda de Serres); "Language Planning in Morocco" (Malika Ech-Chadli); "Semantic-pragmatic Description of the Connectors 'Car- Parce Que- Puisque'" (Odette Gagnon); "What Is the Meaning of a Word?" (Rene Gingras); "Left Dislocation by Anaphor: Preliminary Results" (Christian Guilbaut);"Factory Brands in the Domain of Medicines--Linguistic Acceptability: Euphemisms" (Benoit Leblanc); "Analysis of Fluidity in the Second Language" (Frederic Masse); "Analysis of Constructions using 'Etre Pour' in Quebec French" (Linda Pepin); and "Glottalization in Quebec French" (Mostafa Shoul). (MSE)

Papers from the linguistics colloquium address a variety of topics in linguistic theory and language research, most in French. Topics include: objectivity and subjectivity in understanding language; focalization in conversational language; the notion of "popular etymology"; serial construction in Malagasy; linguistic competence (in German); measuring the integration of an element in a linguistic system; discourse analysis; phonetic linkages among family names; ambiguity, misunderstanding, and paradiscursive activity; learning to explain; pertinence and conversation; syntax, pragmatics, and stylistics; bilingual discourse; transcription of oral language corpori; neologisms and the press; linguistic identity; cooperation, adjustment, and collaboration in language class; and morphosyntactic analysis of French and computer-assisted instruction. (MSE)

This publication presents 20 conference papers in French and German on aspects of linguistic research. Papers include: "Objectivite et subjectivite dans la connaissance du langage" (Mahmoudian); "Focalisation et antifocus"(Bearth); "Remarques sur la notion d''etymologie populaire'"(Chambon); "Sur la construction serielle en malgache"; (Fugier) "Ein Schichtungsmodell der Kompetenz, als Hilfe fur den Ueberblick uber die gesamte Sprachverwendung"(Glinz); "Une mesure de l'integration d'un element a un systeme" (Jolivet); "La convention X et la structure des unites discursives" (Rubattel); "Codification phonetique de noms de famille" (Vater); "Ambiguite, malentendu et activite paradiscursive" (Berthoud); "Apprendre a expliquer" (de Gaulmyn); "Pertinence et conversation"; (Moeschler);"Syntaxe, pragmatique, stylistique" (Reboul); "Konfirmandenunterricht..tout de meme! Les procedes de transcodage en conversation bilingue et exolingue" (Oesch-Serra); "Corpus oraux et edition: Quelle transcription pour quelle lecture?" (Rittaud-Hutinet); "Malentendu et communication" (Weil); "Aspects pragmatiques de l'emploi des circonstants" (Wuest); "Neocodage et discours de la presse: Le mot compose dans le quotidien suisse-romand 'Le Matin'" (Munch); "A propos de l'identite linguistique" (de Latour); "De la cooperation a l'ajustement collaboratif polylogal dans les cours de langues" (Murphey); and "Analyse morpho-syntaxique du francais et l'enseignement assiste par ordinateur" (Renard). (MSE)

The nine papers in this collection include: "L'expression du feminin dans l'adjectif latin: Genese et extension de *-ih2 comme morpheme de feminin grammatical en indo-europeen" (The Expression of the Feminine in the Latin Adjective: Genesis and Extension of the -ih2' as Grammatical Feminine Morpheme in Indo-European); "Lexikalische Neologismen und Wordbildung in Vergils Aeneis" (Lexical Neologism and Word Formation in Virgil's "Aeneid"); "Creativite lexicale et tabou linguistique (Presentation de faits Indo-Europeens)" (Lexical Creativity and Linguistic Taboo [Presentation of Indo-European Facts]); "Dynamique, fonctionnement et evolution dans la formation des mots" (Dynamic, Function, and Evolution in the Formation of Words); "Zur Konception der Wortbildung in Einer Lexikalistischen Syntax" (On the Conception of Word Formation in A Lexical Syntax); "Semantique et formation des mots" (Semantics and Word Formation); "Aspects enonciatifs et fonctionnels de la neologie lexicale" (Enunciative and Functional Aspects of Lexical Neologism); "Neologismes dans le francais de la Suisse romande (Resume)"; (Neologisms in Swiss French [Resume]); and "La 'neologie' dans Lexikalistischen Syntax" (On Neologisms in Swiss French [Resume]); and son contexte social: Identite et langage dans une bande de jeunes" ("Neologism" in Its Social Context: Identity and Language in a Group of Young People). (MSE)