______________________________________________________ Dialectal Effect on Articulation Rate in French This paper compares the articulation rate of 3 distinct varieties of French: Parisian French (hereafter PA); Swiss French spoken in Neuchâtel (hereafter NE) and French spoken by Swiss German speakers (hereafter CH) who have been living in a French speaking environment (in Neuchâtel) for 20 yea...

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Selective orientation of attention and perceptual learning In this experiment we explored the effect of the orientation of attention on speech processing in a categorization task. We oriented the subjects’ attention by providing information about the cues that were relevant for classifying t...

| In a note at the end of his paper Recherches sur les fractions continues, Stieltjes gave a necessary and suucient condition when a continued fraction is represented by a meromorphic function. This result is related to the study of compact Jacobi matrices. We indicate how this notion was developped and used since Stieltjes, with special attention to the results by M. G. Krein. We also pay atte...

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Voice assimilation in French: It applies to nonwords just like to words Recent studies on voice assimilation in French have addressed several important issues. Firstly, is this assimilation process gradient or categorical? Recent analyses of how distributions of voicing ratio change with ass...

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Context and nature of phonetic realizations in conversational speech Since a decade, research in phonetics has turned with interest to the description of large corpora of casual speech. This new field of research opens up many opportunities but asks also new questions for phoneticians. First...

The measurement of anthropic uses impact on environnement is a major stake of sustainable coastal zones management. That implies to be able to describe and understand the progress and organisation of present human activities. In fact we need to develop tools allowing a dynamic description of the processes related to the coastal zone human activities. In this way, and this is particularly true i...

This paper presents an algorithm for distributed garbage collection and outlines its implementation within the Network Objects system The algorithm is based on a reference listing scheme which is augmented by partial tracing in order to collect distributed garbage cy cles Processes may be dynamically organised into groups according to appropriate heuristics to reclaim distributed garbage cycles...

Information retrieval on semi-structured documents like XML (SIR) allows the user to narrow his search down to the document element level. Queries and semi-structured documents could be seen as hierarchically nested elements. We consider that their structural proximity could be evaluated over their trees similarity. Our SIR approach combines both content and structure scores, the latter being b...

Hybrid learning during the Covid-19 pandemic was also applied to clinical practice of undergraduate nursing students. The policy limiting hours and guidance process is mostly done online. With these changes, it necessary measure student satisfaction. Student satisfaction in important achieve optimal objectives. purpose this study determine level students pandemic. Quantitative design used with ...