Formal Models of Social Meaning and Identity Construction through Language

Project Information

SMIC

Grant agreement ID: 850539

DOI

10.3030/850539

Project closed

EC signature date 9 December 2019

Start date 1 February 2020

End date 31 July 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 415 974,00

EU contribution

€ 1 415 974,00

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

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Publications

Conference proceedings (7)

La résilience du <i>ne</i> en français contemporain : étude d’un marqueur stylistique à Paris, Montréal et Marseille

Author(s): Marie Flesch, Julie Abbou, Mireille Tremblay, Heather Burnett
Published in: SHS Web of Conferences, Issue 191, 2024, Page(s) 13003, ISSN 2261-2424
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.1051/shsconf/202419113003

Uniformité de la densité informationnelle: le cas du redoublement du sujet

Author(s): Yiming Liang, Pascal Amsili, Heather Burnett
Published in: ctes de CORIA-TALN 2023. Actes de la 30e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN), Issue 6, 2023, Page(s) 164-176
Publisher: ATALA

La microvariation socio-pragmatique : une étude du sens social de la liaison variable en France et au Québec

Author(s): Alexander Martin, Julie Abbou, Maria Copot, Heather Burnett
Published in: SHS Web of Conferences, Issue 191, 2024, Page(s) 02009, ISSN 2261-2424
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.1051/shsconf/202419102009

Dogwhistles as Identity Based Interpretative Variation

Author(s): Quentin Dénigot, Heather Burnett
Published in: Proceedings of the Probability and Meaning Workshop, Issue volume 1, 2020, Page(s) 17-25
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Characterizing non-binary French: A first step towards debiasing gender inference

Author(s): Marie Flesch, Heather Burnett
Published in: Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP), 2025, Page(s) 160-170
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.gebnlp-1.16

Uniform information density explains subject doubling in French

Author(s): Liang, Yiming; Amsili, Pascal; Burnett, Heather; Demberg, Vera
Published in: Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue 3, 2024
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society

Using Word Embeddings to Uncover Discourses

Author(s): Quentin Dénigot, Heather Burnett
Published in: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, Issue 4, 2021, Page(s) 298-312
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Analyzing linguistic variation using discursive worlds

Author(s): Heather Burnett, Julie Abbou, Gabriel Thiberge
Published in: Journal of Sociolinguistics, Issue 28, 2024, Page(s) 40-63, ISSN 1360-6441
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/josl.12672

Indexicalité et interprétation du monde social : une analyse socio-pragmatique de la liaison variable

Author(s): Alexander Martin, Julie Abbou, Heather Burnett
Published in: Langue française, Issue N° 219, 2023, Page(s) 121-135, ISSN 0023-8368
Publisher: Larousse
DOI: 10.3917/lf.219.0121

Contextual dilution in French gender inclusive writing: An experimental investigation

Author(s): Céline Pozniak, Emma Corbeau, Heather Burnett
Published in: Journal of French Language Studies, 2023, ISSN 1474-0079
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/hjfc4

Conceptual Spaces for Conceptual Engineering? Feminism as a Case Study

Author(s): Lina Bendifallah, Julie Abbou, Igor Douven, Heather Burnett
Published in: Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Issue 16, 2025, Page(s) 199-229, ISSN 1878-5158
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s13164-023-00708-7

French subject doubling

Author(s): Yiming Liang, Caterina Donati, Heather Burnett
Published in: Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, Issue 10, 2024, Page(s) 1-28, ISSN 2385-4138
Publisher: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.420

Soft locality restrictions in negative concord: Evidence from the French future polarity effect

Author(s): Yiming Liang, Pascal Amsili, Heather Burnett
Published in: Natural Language &amp; Linguistic Theory, Issue 43, 2025, Page(s) 1731-1769, ISSN 0167-806X
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11049-024-09650-4

New ways of analyzing complementizer drop in Montréal French: Exploration of cognitive factors

Author(s): Yiming Liang, Pascal Amsili, Heather Burnett
Published in: Language Variation and Change, Issue volume 33, issue 3, 2022, Page(s) 359-385, ISSN 0954-3945
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0954394521000223

Failures of Gricean reasoning and the role of stereotypes in the production of gender marking in French

Author(s): Céline Pozniak, Heather Burnett
Published in: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, Issue 6/1, 2021, ISSN 2397-1835
Publisher: Open Library of Humanities
DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.1310

From sociolinguistic perception to strategic action in the study of social meaning

Author(s): Gabriel Thiberge, Heather Burnett
Published in: Linguistics Vanguard, Issue 10, 2024, Page(s) 479-492, ISSN 2199-174X
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0183

Political dimensions of gender inclusive writing in Parisian universities

Author(s): Heather Burnett, Céline Pozniak
Published in: Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2021, ISSN 1360-6441
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/josl.12489

Testing speakers’ use of the social meaning potential of variable liaison in spoken French

Author(s): Alexander Martin, Emma Corbeau, Julie Abbou, Heather Burnett
Published in: Journal of French Language Studies, Issue 35, 2025, ISSN 0959-2695
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0959269524000176

Context, precision, and social perception: A sociopragmatic study

Author(s): Andrea Beltrama, Stephanie Solt, Heather Burnett
Published in: Language in Society, 2022, ISSN 0047-4045
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0047404522000240