1,539 research outputs found
Dynamics of a wave-dominated tidal inlet and influence on adjacent beaches, Currumbin Creek, Gold Coast, Australia
No full textBruno Castelle, Julien Bourget, Nathalie Molnar, Darrell Strauss, Sophie Deschamps and Rodger Tomlinso
High occurrence of Orbulina suturalis and "Praeorbulina-like specimens" in sediments of the northern Arabian Sea during the Last Glacial Maximum
No full textLinda Rossignol, Frédérique Eynaud, Julien Bourget, Sébastien Zaragosi, Christophe Fontanier, Nadine Ellouz-Zimmermann and Valentine Lanfume
Collectivity, distributivity, and the interpretation of numerical expressions in child and adult language
No full textSentences containing plural numerical expressions (e.g., two boys) can give rise to two interpretations (collective and distributive), arising from the fact that their representation admits of a part-whole structure. We present the results of a series of experiments designed to explore children’s understanding of this distinction and its implications for the acquisition of linguistic expressions with number words. We show that preschoolers access both interpretations, indicating that they have the requisite linguistic and conceptual machinery to generate the corresponding representations. Furthermore, they can shift their interpretation in response to structural and lexical manipulations. However, they are not fully adult-like: unlike adults, they are drawn to the distributive interpretation, and are not yet fully aware of the lexical semantics of each and together, which should favor one or another interpretation. This research bridges a gap between a well-established body of work in cognitive psychology on the acquisition of number words and more recent work investigating children’s knowledge of the syntactic and semantic properties of sentences featuring numerical expressions.Peer reviewe
Turbidite system architecture and sedimentary processes along topographically complex slopes: the Makran convergent margin
No full textJulien Bourget, Sebastien Zaragosi, Nadine Ellouz-Zimmermann, Nicolas Mouchot, Thierry Garlan, Jean-Luc Schneider, Valentine Lanfumey and Sigfried Lalleman
Entretiens avec Julien Gaillard
No full textEntretiens avec Julien Gaillard, locuteur du patois de Valjouffrey, en vue d'explicitation de vocabulaire, syntaxe et prononciation
New Arabian Sea records help decipher orbital timing of Indo-Asian monsoon
No full textThibaut Caley, Bruno Malaizé, Sébastien Zaragosi, Linda Rossignol, Julien Bourget, Frédérique Eynaud, Philippe Martinez, Jacques Giraudeau, Karine Charlier, Nadine Ellouz-Zimmerman
Recent sedimentary processes along the Makran trench (Makran active margin, off Pakistan)
No full textNicolas Mouchot, Lies Loncke, Geoffroy Mahieux, Julien Bourget, Siegfried Lallemant, Nadine Ellouz-Zimmermann and Pascale Leturmyhttp://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/503350/description#descriptio
All together now: disentangling semantics and pragmatics with together in child and adult language
No full textThe way in which an event is packaged linguistically can be informative about the number of participants in the event and the nature of their participation. At times, however, a sentence is ambiguous, and pragmatic information weighs in to favor one interpretation over another. Whereas adults may readily know how to pick up on such cues to meaning, children – who are generally naïve to such pragmatic nuances – may diverge and access a broader range of interpretations, or one disfavored by adults. A number of cases come to us from a now well established body of research on scalar implicatures and scopal ambiguity. Here, we complement this previous work with a previously uninvestigated example of the semantic-pragmatic divide in language development arising from the interpretation of sentences with pluralities and together. Sentences such as Two boys lifted a block (together) allow for either a Collective or a Distributive interpretation (one pushing event vs. two spatio temporally coordinated events). We show experimentally that children allow both interpretations in sentences with together, whereas adults rule out the Distributive interpretation without further contextual motivation. However, children appear to be guided by their semantics in the readings they access, since they do not allow readings that are semantically barred. We argue that they are unaware of the pragmatic information adults have at their fingertips, such as the conversational implicatures arising from the presence of a modifier, the probability of its occurrence being used to signal a particular interpretation among a set of alternatives, and knowledge of the possible lexical alternatives.This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Language Acquisition on 02 July 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10489223.2015.1067319.Peer reviewe
Discovery of a giant deep-sea valley in the Indian Ocean, off eastern Africa: the Tanzania channel
No full textJ. Bourget, S. Zaragosi, T. Garlan, I. Gabelotaud, P. Guyomard, B. Dennielou, N. Ellouz-Zimmermann, J.L Schneider, and the FanIndien 2006 survey cre
Le fragment, l’inachevé : regards croisés
No full textDu Brouillon général de Novalis aux Illuminations de Rimbaud, des maximes de Joubert aux morceaux épars, poétiques ou non, de Baudelaire, en passant par le Livre de Mallarmé, la notion de fragment en littérature traverse le XIXe siècle avec une singulière opiniâtreté. Paul Bourget y lira le signe d’un plus vaste sentiment de désagrégation qui meut l’époque entière. Fondamentale pour une large frange du romantisme allemand, elle constitue, selon le mot fameux de Schlegel, une totalité qui serait à considérer dans toute son indépendance : « un fragment doit être pareil à une petite œuvre d’art, être séparé entièrement du monde environnant et accompli en soi-même comme un hérisson ». Et si, comme l’observe Goethe, la littérature elle-même n’est que « le fragment des fragments », le legs laissé au XXe siècle sera considérable
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