Cet essai explore les singularités du nom propre, à la fois propriété d’un x et désignateur de l’x nommé. Le nom porté par l’x n’est pas tout à fait le nom qui réfère à cet x, et l’on envisage la propriété dénominative « être appelé Npr » aussi bien d’un point de vue « ontologique » que d’un point de vue linguistique. La dissociation des deux « parties » du nom propre permet de reprendre la question de son « sens » (sens du nom propre qui réfère à l’x, signification du nom porté par l’x), avant que soient examinées certaines des constructions dites « modifiées » du nom propre. On essaie de montrer que trois types de concepts (individuel, dénominatif, non dénominatif) échelonnent un continuum qui mène du nom propre au nom commun.On propose également une analyse des noms propres du type « le Philosophe », « la Ville Lumière » ou « le Docteur angélique », qu’on considère habituellement comme des surnoms. Un examen diachronique du terme d’« antonomase » précède une réhabilitation de l’antonomase de nom commun destinée à identifier un seuil dénominatif en synchronie. / This essay explores the singularities of the proper name, which is both owned by x and refers to x. The name which x bears is not exactly the name that refers to that x and I’ll try to describe the denominative property « being called N » from an « ontological » as well as a linguistic point of view. The dissociation of the proper name’s two parts allows us to reconsider the question of its « meaning » (meaning of the proper name which refers to x and what the name that x bears signifies), before some proper names’ constructions, that are deemed « modified », are examined. I’ll try to show that three types of concepts (individual, denominative and non denominative) stratify a continuum that leads from proper names to common nouns.In a second time, I’ll try to analyze proper names such as « the Philosopher », « the City of Life » or « the Angelic Doctor », that are usually considered as nicknames. A diachronic study of the word « antonomasia » precedes a rehabilitation of the antonomasia of common noun, which aims at identifying a synchronic denominative level.

Perceptual learning, when applied to speech, describes experience-evoked adjustments to the cognitive-perceptual processes required for recognising spoken language. It provides the theoretical basis for improved understanding of a speech signal that is initially difficult to perceive. Reduced intelligibility is a frequent and debilitating symptom of dysarthria, a speech disorder associated with neurological disease or injury. The current thesis investigated perceptual learning of dysarthric speech, by jointly considering intelligibility improvements and associated learning mechanisms for listeners familiarised with the neurologically degraded signal. Moderate hypokinetic dysarthria was employed as the test case in the three phases of this programme of research. The initial research phase established strong empirical evidence of improved recognition of dysarthric speech following a familiarisation experience. Sixty normal hearing listeners were randomly assigned to one of three groups and familiarised with passage readings under the following conditions: (1) neurologically intact speech (control) (n = 20), dysarthric speech (passive familiarisation) (n = 20), and (3) dysarthric speech coupled with written information (explicit familiarisation) (n = 20). Subsequent phrase transcription analysis revealed that the intelligibility scores of both groups familiarised with dysarthric speech were significantly higher than those of the control group. Furthermore, performance gains were superior, in both size and longevity, when the familiarisation conditions were explicit. A condition discrepancy in segmentation strategies, in which attention towards syllabic stress contrast cues increased following explicit familiarisation but decreased following passive familiarisation, indicated that performance differences were more than simply magnitude of benefit. Thus, it was speculated that the learning that occurred with passive familiarisation may be qualitatively different to that which occurred with explicit familiarisation. The second phase of the research programme followed up on the initial findings and examined whether the key variable behind the use of particular segmentation strategies was simply the presence or absence of written information during familiarisation. Forty normal hearing listeners were randomly assigned to one of two groups and were familiarised with experimental phrases under either passive (n = 20) or explicit (n = 20) learning conditions. Subsequent phrase transcription analysis revealed that regardless of condition, all listeners utilised syllabic stress contrast cues to segment speech following familiarisation with phrases that emphasised this prosodic perception cue. Furthermore, the study revealed that, in addition to familiarisation condition, intelligibility gains were dependent on the type of the familiarisation stimuli employed. Taken together, the first two research phases demonstrated that perceptual learning of dysarthric speech is influenced by the information afforded within the familiarisation procedure. The final research phase examined the role of indexical information in perceptual learning of dysarthric speech. Forty normal hearing listeners were randomly assigned to one of two groups and were familiarised with dysarthric speech via a training task that emphasised either the linguistic (word identification) (n = 20) or indexical (speaker identification) (n = 20) properties of the signal. Intelligibility gains for listeners trained to identify indexical information paralleled those achieved by listeners trained to identify linguistic information. Similarly, underlying error patterns were also comparable between the two training groups. Thus, phase three revealed that both indexical and linguistic features of the dysarthric signal are learnable, and can be used to promote subsequent processing of dysarthric speech. In summary, this thesis has demonstrated that listeners can learn to better understand neurologically degraded speech. Furthermore, it has offered insight into how the information afforded by the specific familiarisation procedure is differentially leveraged to improve perceptual performance during subsequent encounters with the dysarthric signal. Thus, this programme of research affords preliminary evidence towards the development of a theoretical framework that exploits perceptual learning for the treatment of dysarthria.

The thesis investigates the formal semantics of temporal indexical expressions in English. Examples of such expressions include now, tomorrow and last year. In the past, research has concentrated on instances of such expressions which have two major properties. These indexicals are sensitive to extralinguistic context, and while they do possess descriptive meaning, that meaning does not appear within the propositions which correspond to utterances of the sentences which contain the indexicals. The thesis argues that this line of research has neglected a significant body of natural language evidence in which indexicals display rather different behaviour. We term indexicals from the first group unbound, and indexicals from the second group bound. Given these two domains of indexical evidence, the thesis sets out to achieve three primary aims. The first aim is to provide a formal semantic representation of both bound and unbound indexicals which systematically relates them, while distinguishing them from non-indexical expressions. To establish this aim, we informally investigate the relationship between the two types of indexical, and propose a unifying generalisation. This generalisation is then embedded within an existing but novel semantic system, due to Richards, called IQ. IQ is an interval-based semantics for tenses and temporal quantifiers in English which makes use of double-indexing. IQ must be modified so as to properly accommodate indexicals. With a new representation in hand, we demonstrate that the thesis can adequately treat both types of indexical occurrence. The second aim of the thesis is to assess the effects of the incorporation of the two types of indexical on the semantic entities of IQ. The propositions of IQ already include two major types: value free and value specific. Using the new representation of indexicals, the thesis shows that there are further varieties of the value free proposition. These propositions are then compared with Kaplan's contents, Frege's thoughts and Russell's propositions. The final aim is to establish a rigorous formulation of a fragment of the version of IQ derived in the thesis. Given this formulation, it is possible to assess its position relative to a landmark in the logic of indexicals. Using mathematical techniques, the thesis proves that the tense operators and indexical operators of the final version of IQ have particular properties which distinguish them from those in other indexical logics also based on double-indexing.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A tatuagem é uma antiga forma de inscrição corporal que apesar de sua idade não sofreu alterações em termos de materiais e técnicas. O desenvolvimento de tecnologias para a concepção de novas modalidades de intervenção orgânica terá ramificações em diversas áreas, permitindo o uso de novas interfaces epiteliais interativas (tatuagens dinâmicas responsivas), e criando novas vias de interação e comunicação incorporada. Em contraste à prática tradicional de imagens estáticas, as tatuagens dinâmicas (TDs) permitem a geração de imagens dinâmicas e interativas na pele. Nosso objetivo aqui é apresentar este novo campo de pesquisa e refletir sobre o papel do designer no projeto de tatuagens dinâmicas e as implicações destas tatuagens que transformam a pele em uma nova fonte de inscrições interativas e reversíveis. / Tattoo art is a very old form of bodily inscription. In spite of its long history, tattoo art has not changed very significantly in terms of applying new materials and techniques. The impact of developing technologies for the conception of new modalities of organic interventions will have ramifications in unprecedented areas, allowing the use of new interactive epithelial interfaces (responsive dynamic tattoos), and creating new ways of interaction and embodied communication. In contrast to traditional tattoo art of static images, new tattoo art (NT) allows the generation of dynamic interactive images on the skin. Our purpose here is to present this new field of research and speculate on the role of the designer in the design of dynamic tattoo images, and the implications of these tattoos which transform the skin into a new source of interactive and reversible inscription.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A tatuagem é uma antiga forma de inscrição corporal que apesar de sua idade não sofreu alterações em termos de materiais e técnicas. O desenvolvimento de tecnologias para a concepção de novas modalidades de intervenção orgânica terá ramificações em diversas áreas, permitindo o uso de novas interfaces epiteliais interativas (tatuagens dinâmicas responsivas), e criando novas vias de interação e comunicação incorporada. Em contraste à prática tradicional de imagens estáticas, as tatuagens dinâmicas (TDs) permitem a geração de imagens dinâmicas e interativas na pele. Nosso objetivo aqui é apresentar este novo campo de pesquisa e refletir sobre o papel do designer no projeto de tatuagens dinâmicas e as implicações destas tatuagens que transformam a pele em uma nova fonte de inscrições interativas e reversíveis. / Tattoo art is a very old form of bodily inscription. In spite of its long history, tattoo art has not changed very significantly in terms of applying new materials and techniques. The impact of developing technologies for the conception of new modalities of organic interventions will have ramifications in unprecedented areas, allowing the use of new interactive epithelial interfaces (responsive dynamic tattoos), and creating new ways of interaction and embodied communication. In contrast to traditional tattoo art of static images, new tattoo art (NT) allows the generation of dynamic interactive images on the skin. Our purpose here is to present this new field of research and speculate on the role of the designer in the design of dynamic tattoo images, and the implications of these tattoos which transform the skin into a new source of interactive and reversible inscription.

Orientador: Edson Françozo / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T10:07:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Basso_RenatoMiguel.pdf: 1338405 bytes, checksum: 9163a03b6f57e64b88663107067bd72f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Nesta tese, avaliamos a afirmação de Davidson (1967) de que a anáfora de eventos e a anáfora de objetos ordinários lançam mão dos mesmos recursos linguísticos. Davidson usa a evidência da anáfora não apenas para postular eventos na ontologia, mas também como um argumento a favor de considerá-los como objetos ordinários (como particulares). No entanto, ao investigarmos os mecanismos linguísticos mobilizados na anáfora de eventos, encontramos grandes diferenças em comparação com o que encontramos na anáfora de objetos (em geral, linguisticamente veiculados através de nomes ou de descrições), levando-nos a colocar a afirmação de Davidson sob suspeita. Na primeira parte da tese, apresentamos e defendemos uma versão da teoria de eventos postulada por Davidson que os trata como objetos ordinários (particulares). Analisamos também as teorias que tomam eventos como propriedades de momentos de tempo e teorias que tomam eventos como entidades proposicionais. Cada uma dessas teorias tem seus méritos e problemas, mas o intuito é nos mantermos o mais próximo à formulação de Davidson para avaliarmos suas afirmações quanto à anáfora de eventos. Ainda na primeira parte, investigamos as relações entre dêixis e anáfora, um tema que envolve quaisquer discussões sobre termos usados anaforicamente. Na segunda parte da tese, nosso olhar volta-se para a anáfora de eventos cujos antecedentes são expressões sentenciais (i.e., que não são DPs). Diante de tais antecedentes, os termos anafóricos preferenciais são demonstrativos, e investigamos o pronome demonstrativo 'isso' e descrições demonstrativas da forma 'esse/essa/aquele/aquela N'. Apresentamos o estado-da-arte dos estudos sobre demonstrativos, salientando que eles podem ser tratados como termos referenciais ou como termos quantificacionais. Dado que o debate é bastante complexo e ainda incipiente, apresentamos duas análises de retomadas de eventos com demonstrativos: uma que os toma como termos referenciais, e outra que os toma como termos quantificacionais. Contudo, apesar dessa diferença nas análises, o resultado a que chegamos é semelhante, e mostra que os mecanismos por trás da anáfora de eventos são mais próximos da anáfora de entidades proposicionais do que da anáfora de objetos ordinários, contrariando a tese davidsoniana. Na terceira parte, analisamos a retomada de eventos em que o antecedente é uma estrutura nominal (i.e., DPs) e cujos termos anafóricos preferenciais são descrições definidas e demonstrativas. Nesta parte, investigamos a semântica das nominalizações e sua relação com eventos veiculados por verbos de ação flexionados. Assumimos, como é comum na literatura sobre eventos, que uma sentença com verbo de ação flexionado e sua contraparte com nominalização têm a mesma forma lógica. Mostramos que tal assunção leva a resultados indesejados quando consideramos a anáfora de eventos, que se situam, também nessa configuração, mais próxima da anáfora de entidades proposicionais. Na conclusão, apontamos que adotar a noção de evento como um objeto a partir do fenômeno da anáfora não se sustenta, já que a anáfora de eventos se assemelha em muito à anáfora de entidades abstratas, como as proposições, e não à anáfora de objetos. Tal conclusão tem consequências para as teorias semânticas contemporâneas que ingenuamente equiparam eventos a objetos. / Abstract: In this thesis, we evaluated Davidson's (1967) statement according to which event anaphora and (ordinary) object anaphora use the same linguistic resources. Davidson uses the evidence of anaphora not only to postulate events in the ontology but also as an argument for considering them as ordinary objects (as individuals). However, as we investigate the linguistic mechanisms mobilized in event anaphora and the ones mobilized in (ordinary) object anaphora we found significant differences, a conclusion which compromises Davidson's assumptions about the metaphysics of events. In the first part of this thesis, we present and defend a version of the theory of events postulated by Davidson that treats them as individuals in the same way as other objects. We look briefly at other theories that take events as properties of moments of time and theories that take events as propositional entities. Each of these theories has their merits and problems, but our intention is to follow Davidson's formulation closely, in order to evaluate his claims about anaphora event. We investigate the differences between deixis and anaphora, a theme that involves any discussion of the terms used in anaphora. In the second part, our attention goes to event anaphora when the antecedents are sentential expressions (i.e., that are not DPs). With this kind of antecedent, the preferred anaphoric terms are demonstratives, and we investigate the demonstrative pronoun 'isso' and demonstrative descriptions ('esse / essa / aquele / aquela N'). We present the state-of-the art of the studies of demonstrative, noting that they can be treated as referring or as quantificational expressions. Since the debate is very complex and still in its beginning, we present two analysis of event anaphora with sentential antecedents: one that takes the anaphoric terms as referential, and one that takes them as quantificational. However, despite this difference in the analysis, the result we reached is similar, and it shows that the mechanisms behind the anaphora of events are closer to the anaphora of propositional entities than to the anaphora of ordinary objects, against the Davidsonian thesis. In the third part, we analyze the anaphora of events in which the antecedent is a nominal structure (i.e., DPs); with this kind of antecedent the preferred anaphoric terms are definite and demonstrative descriptions. We also investigate the semantics of nominalizations and their relationship to events conveyed by inflected action verbs. We assume, as is common practice in the literature on events, that sentences with an inflected action verb and their nominalized counterparts have the same logical form. We show that this assumption leads to undesired results when we consider event anaphora. In the conclusion, we point out that adopting the concept of event as an object can not be sustained from the point of view of anaphoric phenomenona, since event anaphora resembles the anaphora of abstract entities such as propositions, and not object anaphora. This conclusion has implications for contemporary semantic theories which naively equate events and objects. / Universidade Estadual de Campi / Linguistica / Doutor em Linguística

The purpose of this study is to add to the knowledge of reading development by investigating reading processes from a neurocognitive and educational perspective. This study seeks to provide some insight about reading development for the neuroscience field. The goals of this study are to attain a clearer picture of reading development by using both behavioral assessments and event-related potentials (ERPs), and to begin to bridge the gap between both fields of study. Children between the ages of 7 and 13 were placed in one of two groups depending on their reading comprehension levels for the first analyses, and reading fluency levels for the second analyses. Children were asked to read active, active violation, passive and passive violation sentences, that had been manipulated to contain primed semantic context. Brain waves were recorded during the task. Repeated measures ANOVAS were used to analyze the mean N400 like amplitudes for the groups for the sentence ending target words. The lower fluency group had the largest amplitudes for all sentence types even though the sentences were two grade levels below their actual fluency levels; decoding and reading rate were not a problem for them in the reading task. Also, the lower fluency group processed the anomalous sentences very differently than the lower comprehension group whose average age was close to the same. Other N400 like amplitudes differences among the groups were observed. Implications for reading education consist of reintroducing the sentence processing exercises back into the classroom instruction in order to improve reading comprehension skills among fluent readers with comprehension problems.

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Detta arbete handlar om hur ett historiskt narrativ kan presenteras i ett escape room genom environmental storytelling. En artefakt bestående av ett fysiskt escape room har skapats för att undersöka frågeställningen hur det presenteras och sedan förstås. Arbetet grundar sig primärt i Nicholsons forskning om escape rooms, Caillois speldefinition samt Fernandez-Varas definition av environmental storytelling. Testerna har genomförts med dataspelsutvecklingsstudenter och visat mycket positiva resultat på hur rummet och narrativet kan förstås, men att det är lätt att små saker blir villospår. Det finns dock fortfarande mycket mer att utforska inom ämnet av escape rooms.

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