On Spoken French

On Spoken French
Author: William J. Ashby
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2023-03-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027254893

This scholarly edition invites us to reconsider our assumptions about the French language, by showcasing the oeuvre of one of the pioneers of diachronic Spoken French corpus linguistics, William J. Ashby, and the ground-breaking findings to come out of his influential Tours corpora (1976 & 1995), including two real-time studies appearing for the first time in English translation. To help readers visualize just how radically different the morphosyntax, morphophonology, and semantics of Spoken French are from French-on-the-page, the editor has developed a glossing framework, designed to capture the systemic, radically-prefixal morphology of Spoken French and the variability of change-in-progress. The model, presented here and used to gloss the examples from the Tours corpus, is also suitable for corpus-tagging. The volume is organized into sections preceded by an Editor’s note and followed by suggestions for further reading, and closes with an appendix of French corpora. This scholarly edition was written for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in the field.

Méthodes et outils pour l'analyse phonétique des grands corpus oraux

Méthodes et outils pour l'analyse phonétique des grands corpus oraux
Author: NGUYEN Noël
Publisher: Lavoisier
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2013-05-01
Genre:
ISBN: 274629530X

Cet ouvrage offre un panorama des méthodes et des outils utilisables pour les analyses phonétiques sur de grands corpus oraux. Les ressources considérables dont nous disposons aujourd'hui dans le domaine de l’oral, en sont venues à jouer un rôle majeur pour les phonologues et les phonéticiens, qui entreprennent de soumettre leurs hypothèses théoriques à des tests empiriques étendus. On a vu se généraliser l'utilisation d'un large ensemble d'instruments et de méthodes pour le traitement et l'analyse automatique des données recueillies. L'ouvrage aborde notamment le prétraitement des données acoustiques, l’extraction (semi-)automatique des paramètres d’analyse, la mise en relation entre les données acoustiques et les catégories phonologiques. L’accent est placé sur le français, et les données recueillies dans le projet « Phonologie du français contemporain » sont utilisées dans de nombreux exemples. Une large place est accordée à la contribution des technologies de la parole, et notamment les systèmes de reconnaissance automatique de la parole, à l’analyse phonétique des grands corpus oraux.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1222
Release: 1913
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Papers from the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Hamburg, August 22–26 1977

Papers from the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Hamburg, August 22–26 1977
Author: J. Peter Maher
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1982-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027280703

The papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 3rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), held in 1977 at the University of Hamburg. These selected papers deal with a wide variety of issues, some from a more general-theoretical perspective, some deriving new theoretical insights from language data ranging from Ojibwa to Old-Saxon.

First Person Singular II

First Person Singular II
Author: E.F.K. Koerner
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 315
Release: 1991-07-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027277702

This sequel to First Person Singular (1980) presents autobiographical sketches of 15 eminent scholars in the language sciences. These personal reminiscences on their careers in linguistics reflect developments in the field over the past decades and shed light on the role each of them played and the influences they underwent. This book is a valuable source for scholars of the history of ideas in general and for historiographers of linguistics in particular, while it makes interesting reading for every linguist interested in the history of the discipline. The volume includes photographs of all contributors and is completed by an index of names and an index of subjects and languages.

The study of languages

The study of languages
Author: Einar Haugen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 1200
Release: 2019-04-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3111684970

To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.

The French Language in the Seventeenth Century

The French Language in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Peter Rickard
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 574
Release: 1992
Genre: France
ISBN: 9780859913539

The sixty French texts edited here are all direct commentaries, by contemporary authors, on the French language in the 17th century. By this time, French had begun to assert its independence; in its written and printed form it was being used for a wide variety of literary, technical and administrative purposes. Its practitioners not only successfully challenged the hitherto dominant position of Latin, but also began, for the first time, to discuss and analyse for its own sake the language which was now their preferred medium for expression -- hence, in the first half of the seventeenth century, a growing number of publications on the nature and characteristics of French. The texts demonstrate the sustained critical preoccupationwith the welfare of the French language in the 17th century, and illustrate the various ways in which the writers of the age contributed to its development as an instrument of literary expression and social intercourse.