LLING research projects
Current funded programs
Hamida Demirdache has been appointed Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, effective October 1, 2023, for a period of 5 years. She is a laureate of the Innovation chair.
P1. Sense competition, which may explain why languages exhibit limited synonymy and why there is a “mutual exclusivity” effect in word learning (new words are assigned new meanings).
P2. Frequency of meaning. Zipf's law (*) on abbreviations establishes a link between word frequency and word length. The team of scientists argue that frequencies around the world cannot be ignored in this relationship.
P3. Complexity of meaning. Some words never appear in languages. Focusing on logical words such as connectives and quantifiers, the scientists explore how the complexity of a concept interacts with communicative pressures to appear or not as a lexical item.
The team will then focus on logical words such as connectors and quantifiers.
(*) Zipf's law is an empirical observation concerning the frequency of words in a text.
This network started in 2023 under the responsibility of Anamaria Falaus. with partners in the USA (Harvard University, University of California San Diego) and Germany (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft). It aims to analyze the relevance of logical properties for the study of linguistic phenomena, showing that inferential capacity is an essential component of the semantic competence of speakers and, more generally, of human language capacity. More information to come.
Afroasiatic languages represent an important part of the world's intangible cultural heritage. They are currently facing two challenges: a) some are endangered and threatened with extinction, b) they are characterized by situations where variation plays an important role.
ALL aims to mobilize the expertise of a network of specialists to analyze and provide solutions to these challenges, with an explicit heritage objective.
Ongoing research networks
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Language Faculty
Financed programs completed
Amadeus - Franco-Austrian Partenariat Hubert Curien (PHC) 2021
The project focuses on the conceptualization and expression of the passive in French and German L2, using eye-tracking. The project leaders are Cyrille Granget (UT2J, Université de Toulouse Jean-Jaurès) in France and Isabel Repiso (Fachbereich Romanistik, Salzburg Universität) in Austria. UMR6310 LLING is a partner in the project.
Financement séminaires pluridisciplinaires MSH Ange-Guépin
LLING and LPPL would like to develop an interdisciplinary “Methodologies in Cognitive Sciences” seminar, focusing on eyetracking and electrophysiological imaging, from the formulation of relevant questions from a multidisciplinary point of view, to data acquisition, via the visualization of the data obtained. This 2019 seminar would take the form of 4 thematic sessions. It should be noted that this interdisciplinary seminar is not only open to the humanities and social sciences, and that other disciplines (e.g. health) will be systematically invited to the sessions.
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