Marc Bourdeau
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marc Bourdeau is involved.
Articles
1996 Phonological planes and spaces A quantitative study on five corpora ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 113/114, pp. 349–378 | Article
We describe a statistical methodology that provides a quantitative definition of the concept of phonological space that has been used for a long time as a purely qualitative description of languages. We apply this description to five corpora : four of French language, and one of Polish language.… read more
1990 A Quantitative Framework for Phonology ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 87/88, pp. 121–150 | Article
Various parameters pertaining to selection and sequencing patterns are defined on phonological chains broadly transcribed. We apply some multivariate schemes with these parameters to produce quantitative frames for the phonological study of part of the Sankoff-Cedergren corpus of Montreal French,… read more
1986 A Quantification Of Phoneme Productions: Applications to deviant languages ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 74, pp. 17–45 | Article
Using continuous variables derived in information theory and from a Markovian model of phonemic chaining, we have anamysed some strings of jar-gonic speech of French speakers (glossolalics, schizophasics, aphasies, poets) and of natural French2. These anamyses give a quantitative meaning to the… read more