Pierre Delattre

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Pierre Delattre (born October 21, 1903 in Roanne , † July 11, 1969 in Santa Barbara (California) ) was an American Romance scholar , phonetician and foreign language teacher of French origin.

life and work

Delattre began studying French linguistics and phonetics in France. In 1924 he went to the United States. In 1937 he received his doctorate from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor with the thesis La durée des e d'un Français. Etude de phonétique experimentale (published ud T. La durée des voyelles en français. Etude expérimentale sur la durée des E d'un Français , Paris 1939) and taught at Wayne State University in Detroit , at the University of Michigan, at Middlebury College , and from 1941 to 1946 at the University of Oklahoma . From 1947 to 1952 he taught at the University of Pennsylvania , from 1953 to 1963 at the University of Colorado and from 1964 until his death at the University of California at Santa Barbara , where he led a project on speech synthesis .
Pierre Delattre was married to Geneviève Delattre, a Romanist .

Works

  • Les difficultés phonétiques du français, Middlebury College, Vermont 1948
  • Principes de phonétique française à l'usage des étudiants anglo-américains, Middlebury College, Vermont 1951
  • Comparing the phonetic features of English, French, German and Spanish. An interim report, Heidelberg 1965
  • Studies in French and comparative phonetics. Selected papers in French and English, Den Haag / London / Paris 1966
  • Studies in comparative phonetics: English, German, Spanish and French, ed. by Bertil Malmberg , Heidelberg 1981

literature

  • George E. Smith / Ronald W. Tobin, Memorial Pierre C. Delattre 1903–1969, in: The Modern Language Journal 53, 1969, p. 575
  • Papers in linguistics and phonetics to the memory of Pierre Delattre, ed. by Albert Valdman , The Hague / Paris 1972

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personal data
SURNAME Delattre, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Delattre, Pierre Charles; Delattre, Pierre C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romance philologist and phonetician of French descent
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Roanne
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1969
Place of death Santa Barbara (California)