Harriet Walter at the rostrum of the UNESCO in 2008.

Henriette Walter, born in 1929 in Sfax ( Tunisia ) is a French linguist, professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Haute Bretagne in Rennes , and director of laboratory phonology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne. She is the mother of Hector Obalk.

She has written books highly specialized language as well as popular works (The French here, there, over there).

Harriet Walter was born in Tunisia to a French mother and a father of Italian origin. She soon learns to handle languages: she spoke French at home, the Italian school and hear Arabic and Maltese in the street. Because she was suffering from myopia important, she honed her ear for reaction. She said: "Every child, I loved the idea that an object can have several names, that emotions can be expressed in a different way ^Publications

• In collaboration with Andr Martinet , the Dictionary of French pronunciation in actual use, Droz, 1973.
• Phonology of French, PUF, 1977.
• French in every sense , preface by Andr Martinet , Robert Laffont, 1988 ( ISBN 2253140015 ) (large French Academy Award ). An accessible book that explains why the French spelling is sometimes complicated, what differentiates a patois of a dialect or regional language, and a presentation of French spoken in various Francophone countries.
• Words sans-culottes, Robert Laffont, 1989 ( ISBN 978-2-2210-5934-0 ).
• The dictionary of foreign words (with Gerard Walter), Cambridge, 1991 ( ISBN 978-2-0371-0227-8 ).
• The Adventure of languages in the West (preface by Andr Martinet), Robert Laffont, 1994 ( ISBN 978-2-2210-5918-0 ) (special award from the Society of Men of Letters and grand prize of readers it ): an accessible presentation of the various languages spoken in Europe, with their origin and evolution. Some exercises to test your knowledge.
• The Adventure of French words from elsewhere, Robert Laffont, 1998 ( ISBN 978-2-2210-8275-1 ) ( Prix Louis Pauwels ).
• The French here, there, over there, JC Lattes, 1998
• Evil be to him who evil thinks , ed. Robert Laffont 2001: interactions between French and English, why an English student more easily understand the Old French as its French counterpart.
• In collaboration with Pierre Avenas the astonishing story of the names of mammals, ed. Robert Laffont, 2003, included in the collection "Points" as the Chihuahua and zebu Co.
• In collaboration with Bassam Barak, Arabesques - The Adventure of Arabic in the West, ed. Robert Laffont / Time Publishing, 2006 ( ISBN 978-2-2210-9806-6 )
• In collaboration with Pierre Avenas, The Mysterious History of the names of birds, ed. Robert Laffont 2007.
• Adventures and misadventures of the languages of France, Editions du Temps, 2008.

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