French

French (Wikipedia:French) is a Romance language (Wikipedia:Romance languages) of the Indo-European family (Wikipedia:Indo-European languages). It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. There are currently 4 released French language pairs

French is the official language in 29 countries across five different continents. It's the first language for the people in France, the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, the regions of Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, western Switzerland, Monaco, and certain other regions of Canada and the United States. It is the fourth most widely spoken language in the European Union. For Europeans who speak other languages natively and is the second most taught foreign language in the EU. About one-fifth are able to speak French as a second language. It is the sixth most spoken language in the world and is the second most studied language worldwide.

In Apertium

Language pairs

Trunk (released pairs)

• apertium-br-fr
• apertium-eo-fr
• apertium-fr-es
• apertium-fra-cat

Staging

• apertium-fra-por

Nursery

• apertium-epo-fra
• apertium-fr-it

Incubator

• apertium-byv-fra
• apertium-eu-fr
• apertium-fr-nl
• apertium-fra-eng
• apertium-fra-ina
• apertium-fra-ita
• apertium-fra-ron
• apertium-oc-fr
• apertium-oci-fra

Resources

General

• Battye, Adrian; Hintze, Marie-Anne; Rowlett, Paul. (2000). The French Language Today: A Linguistic Introduction. Routledge.
• Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "French". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
• Bourdais, Danièle; Talon, Geneviève. (2017). Cambridge IGCSE® and O Level French as a Foreign Language. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781316645994.
• Sanders, Carol. (1993). French Today: Language in Its Social Context. Cambridge University Press.
• Rickard, Peter. (1989). A History of the French Language. Routledge. ISBN-13: 978-0415108874.
• Ayres-Bennett, Wendy. (1995). A History of the French Language Through Texts. Routledge.
• Fagyal, Zsuzsanna. (2006).French: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge University Press; 1 edition. ISBN-13: 978-0521528962.
• Omniglot: French (français)

Machine translation

• Training and evaluation of POS taggers on the French MULTITAG corpus
• A.Allauzen & H.Bonneau-Maynard. (2008). Collins French Dictionary Training and evaluation of POS taggers on the French MULTITAG corpus. A.Allauzen & H.Bonneau-Maynard.

Grammars

• Calvez, Daniel. (2004). French Grammar: A Complete Reference Guide. McGraw-Hill Education.

Morphology

• Golato, Peter. (2006). Processing French: A Psycholinguistic Perspective. Yale University Press.

Dictionaries

Monolingual

Multilingual

Wordlists

Miscellaneous

• Bosmans, Daniel. (2017). An Exploration of French Pronunciation Learning Strategies of Distance Learners.
• Tranel, Bernard. (2006).The Sounds of French: An Introduction. Yale University Press.
• Lodge, Anthony. (1993). French: From Dialect to Standard. Routledge.
• Colin, Armand. (2006). Langue française. http://www.persee.fr
• ENS Éditions, Institut Français de l'Éducation. (2002). Repères. Recherches en didactique du français langue maternelle. http://www.persee.fr/collection/reper
• The Society for French Studies. (2017) French Studies: A Quarterly Review. Oxford University Press.
• Wikipedia: French Language
• Encyclopaedia Britannica: French Language
• The French Language: A Short Guide

Corpora

• CHIDES Corpora. Requires reference
• Lexique 3
• The ARTFL Project
• Linguistic Corpus of the University of Vigo
• SACODEYL Corpus of Spoken French
• Traitement de Corpus Oraux en Français
• Corpus de français parlé parisien des années 2000
• Corpus de français parlé au Québec
• Linguistic Data Consortium. French Gigaword Third Edition. Copyright Portions © 1994-2010 Agence France-Presse, © 1994-2010 The Associated Press, © 2006, 2009, 2011 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. License: LDC User Agreement for Non-Members