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Articles in this issue focus on language evolution, variation, and heterogeneity. The following are English translations of the French article titles appearing in the issue: "Irregular Phonetic Development Due to Frequency; Regional Traits in Proto-Romance"; "Linguistic Evolution and Evolution of Perspective in the Comparative Grammar of Indo-European Languages: The Case of the "Endingless Locative"; "Evolutionary Phonetics and Analogic Reconstructions (The Case of Greek)"; Genetic Kinship and Phonetic Correspondences: About Proto-Global"; "Causes and Rhythms of Language Change in the Latin Occident (3rd-8th Centuries)"; "Prototypical Conceptions and Articulation of Diachronic Change"; On Some Types of Heterogeneousness of the Grammatical Structures in French"; "Language Contact and the Poetic Function of Linguistic Change"; "Metadiscursive Particles and Other Language Modes: Cases of Linguistic Change"; "Metonymies in the Press: Between Discourse and Language"; "The Use of Denominal Adjectives--Sign of an Anomaly?"; "Two Patterns of Dialect Accommodation of Valais German Speakers in Berne" (written in English); "Linguistic Change in the City: The Example of Bale"; "'Gheada': A Phenomenon of Phonetic, Geolinguistic, and Sociocultural Variation in Galician"; "A Statistical Method for the Control of Vocalic Changes Affected by Speaking Style. Applications to Spanish"; "Syntactic Maturation in the Young Child (9-36 Months): Continuity or Rupture?"; "Genesis and Grammatical Changes: Some Modest Lessons Drawn from the Emergence of Creoles and the Acquisition of Foreign Languages"; "Synchronic and Diachronic Variation in the Syntax of French Negation in Adults in a Guided Environment"; "Variation and Heterogeneity of the French Narrative Productions of Young Tunisian Students"; "Linguistic Change and Language Contact in Brussels and Strasbourg;""What Linguistic Changes in the Attrition of the L1 in Late Bilinguals?"; "Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in the Latin Language According to Varron and Aulu-Gelle: Historic, Social, and Functional Aspects"; "French Unilingualism versus Sociolinguistic Change"; "Images of Variation in French: Dominant and Harmonic, Changes"; and "Tensions, Contaminations, and Progressive Appropriation of Other Languages in the Linguistic and Sociocultural Universe of Daniel Pennac." (Individual articles contain references.) (JR)

Papers on language research in this volume include the following: "Temporalite en francais de France. Differences dans la conceptualisation du temps et son expression dans un texte narratif oral" ("Differences in the Conceptualization of Time and Its Expression in Oral Narratives") (Natalia Dankova); "La traduction des textes womanist: le cas de 'La couleur poupre' d' Alice Walker" ("The Translation of Womanist Texts: The Case of 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker") (Chantal Gagnon); "Traduction de la literature francais en Chine: survol historique et reflexions theoriques" ("The Translation of French Literature into Chinese: A Historical Survey and Reflections on the Theories") (Dazhi Wang); "La transmission orale de consignes. La nature de la tache a executer comme facteur d'influence de l'organisation discursive" ("The Oral Transmission of Punctuation. The Nature of the Tasks of Executing Them as a Factor of Influence from Discoursive Organization") (Annie Bergeron); "Parler du tiers absent: simple information ou commerage?" ("To Speak of the Third Person Who Is Absent: Simple Information or Gossip?") (Veronique Perron); "Syllabification unique et chute des consonnes finales en francais de Montreal" ("The Unique Syllabification and Dropping of Final Consonants in Montreal French") (Alain Theriault); "Le systeme vocalique du francais quebecois: imaginaire linguistique des locuteurs" ("The Vowel System of Quebec French: Locators that Are Linguistically Imaginative") (Anne-Marie Beaudoin-Begin); "Apport des outils informatiques a la cineradiologie" ("Contributions of Information Technology to the Radio Cinema") (Johanna-Pascale Roy); "A la recherche des enonces definitoires dans les textes specializes" ("Research on Definitive Enunciations in Specialized Texts") (Marie-Pierre Hetu); "L'esperanto: Du mythe a la realite" ("Esperanto: From Myth to Reality") (Natalia Dankova); "L'evolution de la societe vue a travers les mots et les sens nouveaux du Petit Larousse illustre: 1996-2000" ("The Evolution of the Society in Terms of Words with New Meanings in the Dictionary The Illustrated Petit Larousse: 1996-2000") (Caroline Campeau); and "Les verbes de perception en francais: une analyse des entrees de dictionnaires" ("The Verbs of Perception in French: An Analysis of Dictionary entrees") (Sophie Piron). Each paper contains references. (AA)

Papers on language research include: "L'expression de l'opposition en Latin" ("The Expression of Opposition in Latin" (Claude Begin); "Le francais de l'Abitibi: characteristiques phonetiques et origine socio-geographique des locuteurs" ("The French of Abitibi: Phonetic Characteristics and Socio-Geographic Origin of Speakers") (Chantal Boissonneault); "L'Inversion du sujet dans les phrases affirmatives a verbe simple en anglais moderne" ("Subject Inversion in Simple-Verb Affirmative Sentences in Modern English") (Andre Bourcier, Patrick Duffley); "Le Comportement particulier de /h/ dans les emprunts" ("The Behavior of /h/ in Loan Words") (Frederick Brault); "Anxiete et croyances langagieres chez des apprenants d'une langue seconde au niveau universitaire" ("Anxiety and Beliefs of Second Language Learners at the University Level") (Diane Coulombe); "Probleme de l'agent de l'infinitif et du gerondif en anglais apres 'propose, mean et intend'" ("The Problem of the Agent of the Infinitive and Gerund in English After 'Propose, Mean and Intend'") (Jean-Francois Joubert); "Adaptations phonologiques et influence de la graphie dans les emprunts lexicaux francais en anglais canadien" ("Phonological Adaptations and Influence of Writing in French Loan Words in Canadian English") (Annie-Karine Lamoureux); "Enseignement, apprentissage et semantique conceptuelle: le cas de l'accord du participe passe en francais ecrit" ("Teaching, Learning, and Conceptual Semantics: The Case of Agreement in the Past Participle in Written French") (Pierre Larrivee); "Les Themes discursifs ont-ils un sexe?" ("Do Discourse Themes Have a Sex?") (Sophie Marais); "Les consequences linguistiques de l'ALENA et de la 'Charte de la language francaise' sur le milieu quebecoise des affaires" ("Linguistic Consequences of Alena and the 'Chart of the French Language' on the Quebec Business Community") (Julie Moisan); "Variation particuliere de l'adverbe 'tout'" (Variation of the Adverb 'Tout'") (Francois Parent); "Usage et visage des langues en Afrique" ("Use and Appearance of Languages in Africa") (Abdourahmane Sakho); "Les Reseaux semantiques et l'automatisation linguistique" ("Semantic Networks and Computational Linguistics") (Arman Tajarobi); and "L'allongement penultieme des voyelles /i y u/ en francais quebecois" ("Penultimate Lengthening of the Vowels /i y u/ in Quebec French") (Benoit Tardif). Each paper contains references. (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)

Thirty-five papers, all but one in French, presented at the conference on research in linguistics are presented here. Topics include: verb tenses in English; computerized text analysis program; study of specialized terminology; court translation in Canada; subject-verb agreement in English; bilingual editing; swearing with religious words; language of news reporting; French-Brazilian Portuguese word borrowing; bilingual education; use of the term "OK" in Montreal French; attributive function of transitive verbs; language planning in Africa; terminology in translation; descriptive vs. prescriptive linguistics (in English); recording laughter and closure in a sociolinguistic interview; clitics; vowels in Quebec French; analyzing oral spontaneous discourse; French verb value; code-switching in Ontario; Acadian child and adolescent language; the cluster condition in Spanish; nasal vowels in Kinyarwanda; variability as a functional element in communication; the vocabulary of computer-assisted instruction; language rhythm in Quebec French; practical problems in linguistic research methodology; North American English borrowing from Canadian French. Most papers contain references. (MSE)

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)

Presentations by students at a colloquium on student research on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the University of Laval's Faculty of Letters, March 18-19, 1988, include: "Une enquete sur la qualite du francais ecrit au Quebec"; "Amenagement linguistique et neologie"; "Analyse syntaxique des 'arrets et retours' en arabe morocain parle"; "Fluctuations et flottements vocaliques en francais"; "'L'homme que je sais qui vient' et les etapes de sa construction"; "Etude sociolinguistique de la communaute montagnaise de Betsiamites"; "Modele pour l'identification automatique des 'syntaxemes' introduit par une preposition en francais ecrit"; "L'opposition 'maghura/mahmusa' (sonores/sourdes) en arabe"; "Breve etude historique du nom donne au jeu d'echecs dans quelques langues parlees en Europe"; "'Parti liberal' dans 'Pour une politique' de G.-E. Lapalme"; "L'aspect verbal du montagnais en propositions complexes"; "Le syntagme terminologique en lexicographie francaise"; "Qu'est-ce que 'IT'?"; "Les variations de la duree segmentale: etat de la question"; and "La semantique d'un modele de reseau associatif." (MSE)

Student papers presented at a sociolinguistics conference include: "La variation phonologique [d'une voyelle] a Hull"; "La force illocutoire des pronoms personnels 'je' et 'tu' en tant qu'insignes des places d'ou parlent les femmes et les hommes"; "L'emploi des modes indicatif et subjonctif dans le francais parle de la ville de Quebec"; "A Study of the (-ing) Variable in the Ottawa Male Community"; "An Application of Correspondence Analysis to the Multiple Variant Problem"; "Une etude des qualificateurs, intensificateurs et phrases encloses par rapport a la differenciation linguistique selon le sexe"; "Organisation conversationnelle en situation de plurilinguisme: les choix linguistiques des italophones de Montreal"; "'Pi' interrogatif en quebecois"; "Analyse parametrique de la chute du /s/ en espagnol"; "Lexical Variation in the Speech of Four Chinese Speakers"; "Marqueurs de discours et fonction discursive des narrations"; "Variation phonetique dans l'emploi des pronoms de troisieme personne en francais quebecois"; "L'alternance entre les determinants demonstratifs ['ce et cette'] en francais parle a Montreal"; and "A la recherche des diphtongues nasales du francais parle a Quebec". (MSE)