Papers (entirely in French) presented at the conference on linguistics include these topics: language used in the legislature of New Brunswick; cohesion in the text of Arabic-speaking language learners; automatic adverb recognition; logic of machine translation in teaching revision; expansion in physics texts; discourse analysis and the syntax of terminology; speech pathology and the right brain hemisphere; translating Spanish pronunciation to French; operators and child language competence; prosodic difficulties and the right hemisphere; nasalization in Inor; language planning in Guinea; intrinsic vowel frequency in discourse; pharmacy terminology; intonation patterns in back-channel communication; aphorisms and proverbs in daily conversation; borrowing and variations in adolescent speech in New Brunswick; second language reading; relative propositions in Acadian children's oral language; the language chronicles of Etienne Blanchard; microprosody and discourse type; syllabic adaptation of French borrowing in Kinyarwanda; adjectival quantifiers in Quebec French; modern English advertising grammar; comparison of sung vowels and spoken vowels; influence of the francophone Voyageurs' vocabulary on North American English; past participle agreement in one rule; problems of polysemy; syntactic analysis; homosemy and polysemy; plural of combined words; French head-driven phrase structure grammar; semantics of metaphors; negative quantifiers and double negation; definition of phrasemes; communicative structure of French causative utterances; and a plenary session summary. (MSE)