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746: 758: 146:, in the hope that he would obtain a prestigious position in the administration. However, at graduation (1931), Haudricourt got the worst mark of the entire year group. Unlike his peers, he was interested not in promoting modern tools and technology but in understanding traditional technology, societies and languages. He attended lectures in 395:"...it seems that scholars have overlooked the fact that some rhymes in the Analytic Dictionary only appear with velar initials (/k/, /kʰ/, /g/, /x/, and /ŋ/), for instance -iʷei 齊, -ʷâng 唐, -iʷäng 清, -ʷâk 鐸, -iʷet 屑etc." (Middle Chinese reconstructions added in square brackets are from Baxter 1992.). 376:
pronunciation. For instance, words in the zhà 乍 and zuó 昨 series (Middle Chinese: *dzraeH and *dzak, respectively) rhyme, as do words in the bì 敝 and piē 瞥 series (Middle Chinese: *bjiejH and *phiet). That led Karlgren to reconstruct a voiced series of finals: /*-d/, /*-g/ and (in some cases) /*-b/.
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Haudricourt's theory, which states that the departing tone comes from *-s, explains that phenomenon. The words with departing tone rhyming with words in final stop should be reconstructed with final clusters *-ks, *-ts or *-ps. Moreover, from the point of view of
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explains tonogenesis in Vietnamese and numerous other East and Southeast Asian languages and paved the way for the reconstruction of nontonal ancestors for the languages of Mainland Southeast Asia, such as
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department, but he was disappointed by the research being done there, which relied on static classifications instead of an evolutionary approach espousing the new developments of
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Haudricourt decided to switch from the botany department of CNRS to its linguistics department in 1945. In 1947, he presented a PhD dissertation (supervised by
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The idea was used later to revise the reconstruction of the Old Chinese vowel system and is the basis for the six-vowel system common to recent systems.
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on the topic of tone languages and rare phonemes. Excerpt from a 52' documentary by Jean Arlaud and Pascal Dibie, produced by
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Les conditions d'apparition et de disparition, c'est ça, à mon avis, le scientifique: Entretien Avec André-Georges Haudricourt
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See a collection of articles (in French) edited by former LACITO members Luc BOUQUIAUX and Jacqueline M.C. THOMAS: "
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André-Georges Haudricourt et ses élèves : leçon d'ethnobotanique dans les bois de Meudon 29 mai 1986
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Linguistics articles by Haudricourt available in English translation (full-text, open-access)
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Bipartition et tripartition des systèmes de tons dans quelques langues d'Extrême-Orient
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from 1948 to 1949. There, he was able to clarify issues in the historical phonology of
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A second major finding is his hypothesis that labiovelars existed in Old Chinese:
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in 1928, his father advised him to enter the National Institute of Agriculture
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Two-way and Three-way Splitting of Tonal Systems in Some Far Eastern Languages
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and other East Asian languages draws on seminal insights. He clarified how a
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Haudricourt, André-Georges, Wouter Dessein, and Pierre Swiggers. 1997.
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dept. co-founded by him; now part of centre André-Georges Haudricourt)
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He participated with other colleagues committed to the left (
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Haudricourt clarified several rhyming patterns found in the
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Centre des recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes
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Dibie, Pascal; Weil, Shalva (October 1996). "Obituary".
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L'ethnolinguistique - Haudricourt et nous, ses disciples
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Other contributions to the reconstruction of Old Chinese
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In 1940, Haudricourt was awarded a position in the new
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He grew up on his parents' farm, in a remote area of
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Instead, Haudricourt volunteered to work at the 638:Bibliography of Haudricourt's works (open-access) 114:; 17 January 1911 – 20 August 1996) was a French 770: 645:A CNRS research centre named after Haudricourt: 170:for one year to pursue studies in genetics with 309: 199:École nationale des langues orientales vivantes 413:Haudricourt, André-Georges, and Pascal Dibie, 478:", Saint-Martin-au-Bosc: SELAF, 2013, 157 pp. 359:Haudricourt's main legacies to the field of 291:Centre national de la recherche scientifique 179:Centre national de la recherche scientifique 70:Centre national de la recherche scientifique 593:Consonantal combinations in Archaic Chinese 299:Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale 676: 561:Comment reconstruire le chinois archaïque 542:Comment reconstruire le chinois archaïque 441:Haudricourt and Dibie (1987), pp. 75-76 779:Linguists of Southeast Asian languages 771: 703:A 1987 video interview of Haudricourt 606:The Consonantal System of Old Chinese 426: 109: 839:Linguists of Austroasiatic languages 834:Linguists of Sino-Tibetan languages 814:20th-century French anthropologists 647:Le centre André-Georges Haudricourt 580:A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology 502:De l'origine des tons en vietnamien 429:Les Pieds sur terre (Down to earth) 340:De l'origine des tons en vietnamien 13: 655:Haudricourt's bio and bibliography 559:Haudricourt, André-Georges. 1954. 540:Haudricourt, André-Georges. 1954. 519:Haudricourt, André-Georges. 1961. 500:Haudricourt, André-Georges. 1954. 166:obtained funding for him to go to 14: 850: 829:Linguists of Hmong–Mien languages 626: 507:The origin of tones in Vietnamese 236:and to develop general models of 756: 744: 608:. Asia Major 9: 58–114, 206–265. 282:, focusing more on the study of 226:École française d'Extrême-Orient 222:École pratique des hautes études 671:Two publications on Haudricourt 611: 598: 585: 572: 553: 144:(Institut national agronomique) 566:How to reconstruct Old Chinese 547:How to reconstruct Old Chinese 534: 513: 494: 481: 468: 444: 435: 420: 417:(Paris: Métailié, 1987), p. 73 407: 321: 1: 804:20th-century French botanists 401: 604:Pulleyblank, Edwin G. 1962. 431:. A.M. 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Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Languages of East Asia
tonogenesis
[odʁikuʁ]
botanist
anthropologist
linguist
Picardy
baccalauréat
geography
phonetics
ethnology
genetics
Marcel Mauss
Leningrad
Nikolai Vavilov
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
botany
genetics
Asian languages
École nationale des langues orientales vivantes
André Martinet
Romance languages
Albert Dauzat
Mario Roques
École pratique des hautes études
École française d'Extrême-Orient
Hanoi
Asian languages
language change

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