Papers, all in French, presented at a conference on linguistics include: "Machine Translation: Historic Aspects" (Ghada Attieh); "Translation and Conditioning" (Stephanie Bedard); "Semantic or Pre-Semantic Structures? From Perception to Causation" (Denise Belanger); "Presentation of Poetry Sung in Maroc" (Samira Belyazid); "There Is 'la' and 'la'--A Prosodic Study of the Discourse Particle 'la' in Quebec French" (Monique Demers); "The Oral Introspective Protocol in Reading: Testing and Refinements" (Linda de Serres); "Language Planning in Morocco" (Malika Ech-Chadli); "Semantic-pragmatic Description of the Connectors 'Car- Parce Que- Puisque'" (Odette Gagnon); "What Is the Meaning of a Word?" (Rene Gingras); "Left Dislocation by Anaphor: Preliminary Results" (Christian Guilbaut);"Factory Brands in the Domain of Medicines--Linguistic Acceptability: Euphemisms" (Benoit Leblanc); "Analysis of Fluidity in the Second Language" (Frederic Masse); "Analysis of Constructions using 'Etre Pour' in Quebec French" (Linda Pepin); and "Glottalization in Quebec French" (Mostafa Shoul). (MSE)