Pierre Léon

Pierre R. Léon (March 12, 1926 – September 11, 2013)[1] was a French-Canadian linguist and writer.

Life and career

Léon was born in Ligré, Touraine, France on March 12, 1926. He received a PhD from the University of Besançon in 1960 and a Doctor of Arts from the Sorbonne in 1972, where he also worked as an assistant professor. He was a research professor at the University of Besançon and taught at the University of Pau. He went on to teach at the University of Ohio and then at the University of Toronto, gaining professor emeritus status there.[2] He founded the academic journals Studia Phonetica, 3L and Information et Communication. At U of T, he founded and headed the laboratory of phonetics research in the department of French Studies. He has written several important books on French linguistics. As a fiction writer, his authorship has earned him multiple accolades.[3]

Death

Léon died of cancer on September 11, 2013 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[4]

Selected publications

Fiction
  • Les Voleurs d’étoiles de Saint-Arbroussepoil, Montreal, Leméac, 1982
  • Pigou, Fiflard et compagnie, Winnipeg, Éditions des Plaines, 1993
  • Sur la piste des Jolicoeur, Montreal, VLB, 1993
  • L’Effrontée de Cuba, Toronto, GREF, 2007

Non-fiction
  • With Parth Bhatt, Structure du français moderne, 1988 / 3rd edition, Canadian Scholars Press, 2005
  • Phonétisme et prononciations du français, Paris, Nathan-Fac, 1992 / 3rd edition, 1998 / 4th edition, Armand-Colin, 2005 / 5th edition, Armand-Colin, 2007
  • With Monique Léon, La prononciation du français, Paris, Nathan, 1997 / 2nd edition, Armand Colin, 2009
gollark: You might have to contend with running out of usable energy in 10^lots years or something, I suppose.
gollark: The inevitable end point of "no growth/no new stuff/etc" is just "society runs through all available resources, can't get more, dies out" or maybe "natural disaster occurs and limited economic/technological resources don't allow dealing with it well".
gollark: This is why I don't like the "zero-growth" people, as well as the various other reasons.
gollark: > basic reading comprehension: surprisingly uncommonIndeed. People often just treat information related to computers or general technical stuff they don't know much about as utterly unfathomable, when it... isn't.
gollark: Servers generally ship in convenient rackable form factors, as do some network switches and stuff.

References
  1. "Léon, Pierre Roger (1926-2013)". Identifiants et référentiels pour l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche (in French).
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-20. Retrieved 2011-10-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Sylvestre, Paul-François (7 March 2006). "Naissance de Pierre Léon". L'Express (in French).
  4. "Pierre Léon n'est plus". Radio-Canada (in French).
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