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L’Iroise à table. Carnet de recettes côtières soutenables et manuel de préservation de la diversité bioculturelle alimentaire
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Experimental Insights into the Prosodic Structure of Ersu (Tibeto-Burman)
No full textInternational audienceThis study experimentally examines the prosodic structure of Ersu (ISO-639 ers), an endangered Tibeto-Burman language, and empirically tests the hypothesis that Ersu’s prosodic system combines lexical tone in monosyllabic words with stress-like prominence in polysyllabic words (Chirkova et al. 2015).Ersu is proposed as a register tone language with two registers: High (H) and Low (L). In polysyllabic words, the initial syllable retains its tone, while non-initial syllables adopt the tone of the initial syllable. Among the three tone patterns found in di- and tri-syllabic words—H(H)H, L(L)L, and H(H)L—the first two are regular, while the third is exceptional. The exceptional patterns (HL, HHL) are believed to exhibit stress-like features, with the final Low-tone syllable perceived as less prominent, having reduced intensity and shorter duration.This study aims to deepen our understanding of the Ersu prosodic system by empirically testing previous claims using a small corpus of di- and tri-syllabic words in two contexts: citation (phrase-final) and phrasal (embedded within a phrase). It examines three acoustic correlates of prominence—duration, intensity, and fundamental frequency (f0)—to distinguish word-level from phrase-level stress and to investigate their interaction with lexical tone.The analysis draws on field recordings from eight Ersu speakers (3 female, 5 male). Word-list items were transcribed using Praat TextGrids (Boersma & Weenink 2020), and 8,085 acoustic tokens were extracted via a Praat script. Duration and mean intensity were measured once per vowel, while f0 was measured three times per vowel (vowel onset, midpoint, and offset) to capture both pitch height and contour. Due to gender-based differences in mean f0and f0 range, male and female speakers were analyzed separately. Statistical analysis was conducted using linear mixed-effects models in R (lme4 and lmerTest: Bates et al. 2015; Kuznetsova et al. 2017), with post-hoc pairwise comparisons via the emmeans package (Lenth 2016). Separate models were run for each acoustic parameter.Our results only partially support the original claims. For the HL tone pattern, the first syllable shows significantly greater intensity only in the citation context (estimate = 2.016, t = 2.503, p = 0.0124), while durational differences between syllables are not statistically significant in either context (citation: estimate = -0.003, t = -0.450, p = 0.6528; phrase: estimate = 0.007, t = 1.206, p = 0.2282). For the HH and LL patterns, f0, intensity, and duration do not differ significantly between syllables in either context. At the trisyllabic level, the HHL tone pattern resembles the LLL pattern in exhibiting peak intensity on the initial syllable across all contexts. In terms of duration, all three tone patterns show consistently longer duration on the final syllable in every context examined.This presentation further explores the implications of these findings for the prosodic organization of Ersu and its closely related language Lizu, for which comparable experimental data are available (Chirkova et al. 2023). More broadly, it contributes to the typology of prosodic systems in under-documented Tibeto-Burman languages of Southwest China (e.g. Evans 2008, 2018)
Le témoignage comme acte de dénonciation : la figure d’un paysan activiste sous le régime communiste au Vietnam
No full textInternational audienceThis article examines the testimony of resistance through the act of denunciation of Trinh Ba Phuong, a peasant activist, in the Vietnamese authoritarian context. Situating his act within a long history of land conflicts under communist rule, we will analyze his denunciation through his use of two discourse apparatus – testimonial and militant discourses, but also through the ambiguity of his ethos in staging the discourse. We place his testimonial and militant speech in the tradition of the Foucauldian dire-vrai. Our analysis is based on two videos which are live-streamed on his Facebook account on January 9, 2020 and June 24, 2020.Cet article examine le témoignage de résistance à travers l’acte de dénonciation de Trịnh Bá Phương, un paysan activiste, dans le contexte autoritaire du Vietnam. En situant son acte dans une longue histoire des tensions foncières sous le régime communiste, nous analyserons sa dénonciation à travers son usage de deux dispositifs discursifs - le discours testimonial et le discours militant, mais aussi à travers l’ambiguïté de son ethos dans la mise en scène de son discours. Nous inscrivons sa parole testimoniale et militante dans la lignée du dire vrai foucaldien. Notre analyse s’appuie sur deux vidéos du 9 janvier 2020 et du 24 juin 2020 qui sont diffusées en live streaming sur son compte Faceboo
The Task of the Translator. An Arabic-Persian-Turkish Translation Programme in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Kurdistan
No full textInternational audienceThis presentation examines three translations made from Arabic and Persian into Turkish in the Kurdish emirate of Bidlīs as part of what appears to have been a broader translation programme initiated by its ruler, Abdāl Khān (r. 1622–1664). The texts selected for translation are Ḥamdallāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī’s Nuzhat al-Qulūb (“Delight of the Hearts”), composed in 1340; Muḥammad al-Mahdawī b. ‘Alī al-Ṣanawbarī’s Kitāb al-Raḥma fī al-Ṭibb wa al-Ḥikma (“Book of Mercy on Medicine and Wisdom”), composed in 1412; and the anonymous Majmū‘at al-Ṣanāyi‘ (“Compendium of Arts and Crafts”), composed in the late sixteenth century. Among these, only the translator of the Nuzhat is known as ‘Abdallāh b. Miḥrāb al-Pādārī.In this study, I aim to focus more specifically on the methodology used in translating these three works. By analysing examples drawn from all sections of the texts, I will endeavour to accurately describe the translator’s (or translators’) modus operandi and address key questions related to grammar, semantics, vocabulary, and fidelity to the original text. To achieve this, I will explore the following questions: Does the translator employ unfamiliar “Arabisms” and “Persianisms,” or does he predominantly favour Turkish words, risking semantic loss or shift? Does the text contain numerous Persian grammatical calques? Are there noticeable changes in syntactic structure or meaning? What about additions and omissions? Finally, I will draw conclusions regarding the translator’s identity, the intended readership of these translations, and the broader objectives of Abdāl Khān’s translation programme
Toponyms and the Geographic Extension of Languages: A computational-visual approach
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Bayesian phylogenies as a tool to explore linguistic and cultural diversity: The case of Kra-Dai languages and the evolution of loom technology
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Le Yangsheng est-il mieux compris grâce au Grand Ricci ou à DeepSeek?
No full textInternational audienceThe Grand Ricci Dictionary of the Chinese Language (the “Grand Ricci”) brings together the 13,390 characters from the previous dictionary, their etymology and the evolution of their meaning since their origins, plus 300,000 compound words and expressions. This dictionary is available in print and online on the Brill Editions website and via the Pleco app, which can be downloaded to a mobile phone.Recently, DeepSeek, a Chinese startup specializing in artificial intelligence (AI), released a major update to its V3 language model. Its new model, DeepSeek V3-0324, includes significant improvements over its predecessor in reasoning and programming capabilities.In my undergraduate Chinese-to-French translation class, my mission with students is to develop their keen perception of the differences between French and Chinese and to introduce them to translation skills. How and in what ways can the two tools mentioned above, the Grand Ricci and DeepSeek, be useful in this mission?Le Grand dictionnaire Ricci de la langue chinoise (le « Grand Ricci ») rassemble les 13 390 caractères du dictionnaire précédent, leur étymologie et l’évolution de leur sens depuis les origines, augmentés de 300 000 mots composés et expressions. Ce dictionnaire existe en version papier et en ligne sur le site des Editions Brill et par l’application Pleco, téléchargeable sur un téléphone portable. Récemment, la startup chinoise spécialisée dans l'intelligence artificielle (IA) DeepSeek a sorti une importante mise à jour de son modèle de langage V3. Son nouveau modèle, DeepSeek V3-0324, comprend des améliorations significatives par rapport à son prédécesseur dans la capacité de raisonnement et de programmation. En classe de traduction du chinois au français en premier cycle, ma mission auprès des étudiants est de développer la perception fine des différences entre les langues française et chinoise et d’initier leurs compétences en traduction. En quoi et comment les deux outils cités plus haut, le Grand Ricci et DeepSeek, peuvent-ils être utiles dans cette mission