Hubert Octave Pernot (7 August 1870, in

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– 27 June 1946, Paris) was a

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, specializing in

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studies. He studied at the École des langues orientales in Paris as a pupil of Émile Legrand and

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, and from 1895 to 1912 worked as a ''répétiteur'' of Modern Greek at the school. In 1912 he became a lecturer at the

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, where from 1930 he served as a professor of post-classical and Modern Greek and of neo-Hellenic literature.Grammaire du grec moderne
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, from where he recorded music of traditional folk songs and dances, some of which were put to musical score by composer

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. In 1928–30 he made phonograph recordings of traditional folk songs in Romania, Czechoslovakia and Greece.Hubert Octave Célestin Pernot - Recording Pioneers
/ref> He was founder (1919) and director of the Institut néo-hellénique at the Sorbonne, and director of the Institut de Phonétique et des Archives de la parole (Institute of Phonetics and Speech Archives). He made contributions to Émile Legrand's ''Bibliographie hellénique'',HathiTrust Digital Library
(published works) and with

Jean-Pierre Rousselot Jean-Pierre Rousselot (14 October 1846, Saint-Claud – 16 December 1924, Paris) was a French priest who was an important phonetician and dialectologist. Rousselot is considered the founder of experimental phonetics, both theoretical and applied, ...

, he was co-editor of the journa
''Revue de phonétique''

Selected works

* ''Grammaire grecque moderne'', 1897 – Modern Greek grammar. * ''Chrestomathie grecque moderne publiée'' (with Émile Legrand, 1899) – Modern Greek chrestomathy. * ''Mélodies populaires greques de l'Ile de Chio recueillies au phonographe'', 1903 – Popular Greek melodies of the island of Chios collected via the phonograph. * ''Études de linguistique néo-hellénique'', 1907 – Studies of neo-Hellenic linguistics. * ''Grammaire et vocabulaire du grec vulgaire'' (with Girolamo Germano, 1907) – Grammar and vocabulary of common Greek. * ''Anthologie populaire de la Grèce moderne'', 1910 – Popular anthology of modern Greek * ''Bibliographie ionienne; description raisonée des ouvrages pub. par les Grecs des Sept-Îles ou concernant ces îles du quinzième siècle à l'année 1900'' (by Émile Legrand, posthumously edited and published by Pernot; 2 volumes, 1910) – Ionian bibliography, etc. * ''Études de littérature grecque moderne'', 1916 – Studies of modern Greek literature. * ''Recueil de textes en grec usuel avec traduction franc̜aise, notes et remarques étymologiques'', 1918 – Collection of texts in Greek, with French translation; etymological notes and remarks. * ''La Grèce actuelle dans ses poètes'', 1921 – Present-day Greece and its poets. * ''Chansons populaires grecques des XVe et XVIe siècles'', 1931 – Greek folk songs from the 15th and 16th centuries. * ''Lexique grec moderne français'', 1933 – French-Modern Greek lexicon * ''Introduction à l'étude du dialecte tsakonien'', 1934 – Introduction to the study of the Tsakonian dialect. * ''Recherches sur le texte original des Évangiles'', 1938 – Research on the original text of the Gospels.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pernot, Hubert 1870 births 1946 deaths People from Haute-Saône Academic staff of the University of Paris Linguists from France Phoneticians