Essays on lexicon and vocabulary development, all in French, address these topics: bilingual lexicon in the context of translation; lexical and conceptual representation in bilinguals; pronouns in "existential" constructions in French and English; configurational functions within grammar; Gustaf Stern's diachronic semantic schema; the semantic categories of "event" and "action"; pragmatic connectors as indices of linguistic development of 5- to 11-year-olds; vocabulary needed by entering university students; disparate lexicalization in a minority context; semantic patterns in Montreal (Canada) anglophones and francophones; "francismes" in Canadian usage; English borrowing in Cajun French; computerized context analysis of English loan words in Canadian French; bilingual code-switching in an Armenian/French contact situation; Amerindianisms in Canadian French; phonemic preservation in the adaptation of loan words; English phonemes in Quebec (Canada) French; pronunciation of English loan words in Quebec French, particularly among anglophones; phonology and morphology in French loans to Kinyarwanda; phenomena related to new technical terms before they appear in the dictionary; criteria for selection of terms for a bilingual dictionary; inventory of food-related vocabulary; adaptation of French children's dictionaries for use in Quebec; and characteristics of sociopolitical vocabulary in Quebec. Each chapter contains references. (MSE)