Models refers to the formalization of linguistic functioning and the cognitive and neurocognitive processes underlying language in phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics in voiced and signed languages (LSF), as well as formalization in natural language processing.
Dynamics refers to the study of linguistic, cognitive and neurocognitive changes induced by the acquisition of a first or second language, which can be part of a sociolinguistic, didactic or clinical linguistic perspective.
Corpus as methodological resources that federate the research of the laboratory, in the fields of textual, diachronic or discursive linguistics, in written linguistics, and in oral linguistics and in experimental psycholinguistics, thus being part of a data science perspective.
The 3 research centers of the laboratory
The general objective of the unit project is to study linguistic functioning and the impact that linguistic variations can have on grammar and on the functioning of linguistic mechanisms. The new project of the research unit is structured in three poles and three transversal axes. “Corpus-Based Modeling and Linguistics”, “Language Practices: Speech, Texts, Grammars”, and “Psycholinguistics, Neurocognition, Acquisitions and Variations” constitute these three poles, centered respectively on language as a set of productions, in as social practices, and as a cognitive object.
3 transversal methodological axes
To carry out these studies, the unit has three transversal axes which will provide statistical and methodological tools as well as tools for epistemological reflection on the theoretical concepts handled in linguistics and psycholinguistics: “Corpus of multidimensional data”, ” Research Methodology and Statistical Analysis”, and “Epistemology in Language Sciences”. These transversal axes will help researchers to overcome concrete problems encountered in the modeling business based on the uses established from the corpora.