Fernand Carton (4 September 1921 – 16 November 2019) was a French linguist who specialized in Picardic dialects.
[1] 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 published a linguistic atlas of the Picard language,[4] and adapted the Feller-Carton dialect transcription system.
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