Fernand Carton (4 September 1921 – 16 November 2019) was a French linguist who specialized in Picardic dialects.[1]
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Born | (1921-09-04)4 September 1921 Roubaix, France |
Died | 16 November 2019(2019-11-16) (aged 98) Malzéville, France |
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Discipline | Linguist |
Sub-discipline | Picard language |
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After passing the Agrégation de Lettres classiques exams in 1958,[2] Carton published numerous articles in the field of phonetics. He became a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada[3] and President of the Language Sciences section of the national committee of the French National Centre for Scientific Research. He also served as President of Nancy 2 University and University of Lorraine. He published a linguistic atlas of the Picard language,[4] and adapted the Feller-Carton dialect transcription system.[5]
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