Philip Carr

Philip Carr (25 September 1953 – 30 March 2020) was a British linguist and Emeritus Professor in the English Department of the University of Montpellier. He is best known for his works on phonology and philosophy of linguistics.

Career Philip Carr earned his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1987 with a thesis entitled, "Instrumentalism, realism and the object of inquiry in theoretical linguistics." He was lecturer and then senior lecturer at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1985 - 1999. In 1999 he took up a position as Professor at the University of Montpellier where he remained until his retirement in 2017.

He wrote two widely used textbooks: Phonology and English Phonetics and Phonology. Both went into second and even third editions, attesting to their continued popularity and usefulness.

Books Phonology, Palgrave Macmillan 1993 (1st ed.), 2013 (2nd ed.) A Glossary of Phonology, Edinburgh University Press 2008 Linguistic realities: an autonomist metatheory for the generative enterprise, Cambridge University Press 1990 English Phonetics and Phonology: An Introduction, 3rd edition 2019. Headhood, Elements, Specification and Contrastivity: Phonological papers in honour of John Anderson (co-ed. with Jacques Durand and Colin Ewen) John Benjamins 2005. Phonological Knowledge: Conceptual and Empirical Issues, with Noel Burton-Roberts and Gerard Docherty (eds.), Oxford University Press 2000