Jean-Denis Gendron
Canadian linguist and academic
About Jean-Denis Gendron
Lived 1925 – 2025 (aged 99–100). Jean-Denis Gendron was a Canadian school teacher, university teacher, linguist and philologist.
Jean-Denis Gendron (1 January 1925 – 16 February 2025) was a Canadian linguist and academic.
A graduate of the Université Laval and a doctor of letters of the University of Strasbourg, he was President of the Commission of Inquiry on the Situation of the French Language and Linguistic Rights in Quebec.
Gendron died on 16 February 2025, at the age of 100.
Publications D'où vient l'accent des Québécois ? Et celui des Parisiens ? (2007) La modernisation de l'accent québécois (2014)
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Who was Jean-Denis Gendron?
Canadian linguist and academic
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Jean-Denis Gendron was born in 1925 in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu.
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Jean-Denis Gendron died on 16 February 2025.
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Jean-Denis Gendron was a school teacher, university teacher, linguist and philologist.
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Jean-Denis Gendron was Canadian.
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