Legal divisions: French versus English libel laws

Cross-linguistic Prosodic Transcription: French versus English

French-English Medical Dictionary

A good French-English Medical Dictionary is an absolute necessity. Dr. Gordon has rendered a service to Medical Science in preparing a very useful pronouncing dictionary for all who wish to keep in touch wilh the vast amount of work that is being done by French workers in medical science. The Dictionary produced by Dr. Gordon will be found very useful especially as it gives the pronounciation o...

The influence of French, Spanish, and English legal traditions on early mental health proceedings in Louisiana.

Unlike other jurisdictions in the United States where the basis of the law can be traced more exclusively to the common law of England, the legal system in Louisiana also has origins in the laws of France and Spain. In this article, the authors describe the laws and procedures that developed early in Louisiana's history for the involuntary care and civil commitment of the mentally ill, focusing...

A Model for Matching Semantic Maps between Languages (French/English, English/French)

This article describes a spatial model for matching semantic values between two languages, French and English. Based on semantic similarity links, the model constructs a map that represents a word in the source language. Then the algorithm projects the map values onto a space in the target language. The new space abides by the semantic similarity links specific to the second language. Then the ...

Legal Aspects of the French Nuclear Tests

Even at the level of scholarly or diplomatic argumentation it is important to inquire into the competing interests and legal factors involved in the atmospheric tests. This is true not only because differing political expectations or even measures might depend on the consensus as to the legality or illegality of the French tests, but also because the precedential value of the tests will be of g...