Published in Zeitschrift für Slawistik
The expression of binominal concepts, i. e. the combination of two nominal concepts, varies between the world’s languages qualitatively as well as with regard to quantitative proportions (Pepper 2020; Pepper et al. 2023). The combination of a noun and a relational adjective (NArel) is a frequently applied option, amongst others in Polish and French...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Introduction French is traditionally described as a language favoring syntactic means to mark focus, yet recent research shows that prosody is also used. We examine how French-speaking children use prosody to realize narrow focus and contrastive focus in the absence of syntactic means, compared to adults. Method We elicited SVO sentences using a vi...
Nous proposons un outil pour mesurer automatiquement les biais de genre dans des textes générés par des grands modèles de langue dans des langues flexionnelles. Nous évaluons sept modèles à l’aide de52 000 textes en français et 2 500 textes en italien, pour la rédaction de lettres de motivation. Notre outil s’appuie sur la détection de marqueurs mo...
We present the SUMM-RE corpus, a dataset of roughly 95 hours of spontaneous meeting-style conversations in French. The corpus is designed to serve as a foundation for downstream tasks such as meeting summarization. In its current state, it offers 25 hours of manually corrected transcripts that are aligned with the audio signal, making it a valuable...
Acquired brain injuries (ABI) often result in persistent emotional dysregulation. As part of a larger study, this paper explores the effectiveness of a dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) programme, a type of evidence-based psychotherapy that helps patients build emotional regulation skills. Current literature suggests that a significant proportion...
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Most uses of mais (‘but’) as a connector in French (i.e. correction, opposition, concession) imply a contrast between their antecedent p and their scope q but differ in terms of argumentative orientation. Conversely, p and q in overbid mais (‘des grands mecs mais très grands!’ 'tall guys mais very tall!') present a co-oriented argumentation and the...
Our study investigates the role of vowel duration as acue for focus marking in both L1 and L2 Italian and French.We aim to compare our data to highlight potential influencesof the native language on L2 productions in the use of thiscue. The analysis involves task-elicited speech from 60 partici-pants: 15 native Italian speakers, 15 native French sp...
Published in SHS Web of Conferences
L’orthographe du français est très complexe, mais il n’y a pas de consensus sur les conséquences à en tirer. Beaucoup de francophones sont très réticents à une réforme radicale de l’orthographe, mais sont plus favorables à simplifier des difficultés spécifiques (Réforme de l’orthographe française - Craintes, attentes et réactions des citoyens, A. D...
Against a background of political turmoil, economic crises, and cultural upsets from both within and abroad, France between the two World Wars was home to a flourishing romance novel industry. At first glance lighthearted love stories seem simple and frivolous in comparison to the canonical writings of the time, such as those of Simone de Beauvoir ...
