About

ALTAE – Approaches to Linguistics: Theoretical, Applied and Experimental is an “In-house Research Unit” (URP 3967), a research group attached to the Doctoral school in Language Sciences and supported by two UFRs (UFR is a department with both teaching and research missions): the Department of English and American Studies (UFR d’Études Anglophones) and the Department of Intercultural Studies and Applied Languages (UFR EILA).

The research group is directed by Mojca Pecman, professor at the Department of Intercultural Studies and Applied Languages. The deputy director is Emmanuel Ferragne, professor at the Department of English and American Studies.

ALTAE is the name adopted on 1 January 2025 by CLILLAC-ARP (Centre for Inter-language Linguistics, Lexicology, English and Corpus Linguistic-Research Workshop on Speech). The new name reflects the development of the laboratory’s research topics over 18 years, as well as the current scientific orientations.

ALTAE brings together experts primarily in English, Spanish, German and French linguistics, but also in the linguistics of Vietnamese, Chinese, Esperanto and other languages.

ALTAE is organised in 4 research subgroups. This structure highlights the following areas of expertise:

• language technology, AI and linguistic data science, corpus linguistics, experimental approaches to language, epistemology of linguistics (APREM subgroup)
• specialised translation (human, AI-powered machine translation, post-editing; teaching specialised translation), terminology and phraseology (specialised and transdisciplinary) (ET3C subgroup)
• specialised language and discourse, including digital discourse, socio-digital networks, discourse in social and development contexts, grammar, syntax and semantics (3DS subgroup)
• phonology and phonetics, second language teaching and acquisition, psycholinguistics (PAP subgroup)