School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

About: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences is a facility organization based out in Villejuif, France. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Politics & Context (language use). The organization has 1230 authors who have published 2084 publications receiving 57740 citations. The organization is also known as: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales & EHESS.

Authoring Highly Generative Interactive Drama

Abstract: Authoring non linear narratives is a difficult and challenging issue. In this paper we focus on the process of authoring with the IDtension system, an interactive drama system designed by one of the authors. We report an experiment of realizing a real-size scenario and start from this point to think about nonlinear narratives and the possibilities and limits of the IDtension writing tool.

The Developmental Trajectory of Toddlers' Comprehension of Unfamiliar Regional Accents.

Abstract: Efficient language use involves the capacity to flexibly adjust to varied pronunciations of words. Although children can contend with some accent variability before their second birthday, it is currently unclear when and how this ability reaches its mature state. In a series of five experiments, we examine the developmental trajectory of toddlers’ comprehension of unfamiliar regional accents. Experiments 1 and 2 reveal that Canadian-English-learning 25-month-olds outperform their 20-month-old peers on the recognition of Australian-accented words and that this effect is likely driven by 25-month-olds’ larger vocabulary size. Experiments 3 to 5 subsequently show that 25-month-olds’ recognition of familiar words holds regardless of prior exposure to the speaker or accent. Taken together, these findings suggest that children’s ability to cope with accent variation improves substantially as their vocabulary expands in the second year of life and once it does, children recognize accented words on the fly, even ...

On Consonants, Vowels, Chickens, and Eggs

Abstract: On Consonants, Vowels, Chickens, and Eggs Luca L. Bonatti, Marcela Pena, Marina Nespor, and Jacques Mehler International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy; Universite de Nantes, Nantes Atlantique Universites, Labecd (EA 3259), Nantes, France; Laboratorio de Neurociencias, Escuela de Psicologia, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Macul, Chile; University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy; and Laboratoire de Science Cognitive et Psycholinguistique, CNRS and EHESS, Paris, France

A multimodal conception of bodily awareness

Abstract: One way to characterize the special relation that one has to one's own body is to say that only one's body appears to one from the inside. Although widely accepted, the nature of this specific experiential mode of presentation of the body is rarely spelled out. Most definitions amount to little more than lists of the various body senses (including senses of posture, movement, heat, pressure, and balance). It is true that body senses provide a kind of informational access to one's own body, which one has to no other bodies, by contrast to external senses like vision, which can take many bodies as their object. But a theory of bodily awareness needs to take into account recent empirical evidence that indicates that bodily awareness is infected by a plague of multisensory effects, regardless of any dichotomy between body senses and external senses. Here I will argue in favour of a multimodal conception of bodily awareness. I will show that the body senses fail to fully account for the content of bodily experiences. I will then propose that vision helps compensate for the insufficiencies of the body senses in people who can see. I will finally argue that the multimodality of bodily experiences does not prevent privileged access to one's body.

The Right to Tax: Economic Citizenship in the Chad Basin

Abstract: Roitman's paper explores the concept of ‘economic citizenship’ through an examination of practices in the cross-border territories of the Chad Basin. In doing so, Roitman demonstrates the simultaneous existence of regulated and unlicensed economic activities. Her exploration of the discourse surrounding these economic practices, and the civil disobedience of the Villes Mortes campaign, which brought regulated and unregulated traders together in a refusal to pay tax, reveals a concept of economic citizenship at work. Her analysis reveals the genealogies of citizenship in the Chad Basin, where notions of freedom were marked by the legacies of Islamic conquest as well as of French colonialism.