Léone Boudreau-Nelson, C.M, (December 9, 1915 – April 26, 2004) was an American-born Canadian phonetician. She founded the Société d'art oratoire at the

Université de Moncton The Université de Moncton is a Canadian French-language university in New Brunswick. It includes campuses in Edmundston, Moncton, and Shippagan. The university was founded in 1963 following the recommendations of the royal commission on hig ...

, where she was ''professeur émérite''.

Biography

Léone Boudreau-Nelson was born in

Somerville, Massachusetts Somerville ( ) is a city located directly to the northwest of Boston, and north of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the city had a total population of 81, ...

, December 9, 1915 to

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parents. She was a professor of French

phonetics Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians ...

at the Université de Moncton, where she founded the Société d'art oratoire. She promoted closer ties between

Acadia Acadia (; ) was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the The Maritimes, Maritime provinces, the Gaspé Peninsula and Maine to the Kennebec River. The population of Acadia included the various ...

, France and

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, was an active contributor to the , and was the founder of the Association France-Canada.

Death and legacy

Léone Boudreau-Nelson died on April 26, 2004. Her documents are held by the Centre d'études acadiennes Anselme-Chiasson at Université de Moncton.

Awards and honours

* 1990, Member,

Order of Canada The Order of Canada () is a Canadian state order, national order and the second-highest Award, honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit. To coincide with the Canadian Centennial, ce ...

* 2002,

Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal The Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal () or the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal was a commemorative medal created in 2002 to mark the 50th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession in 1952. The Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal was ...

References

1915 births 2004 deaths Members of the Order of Canada People from Somerville, Massachusetts Phoneticians Acadian people Academic staff of the Université de Moncton {{Canada-academic-bio-stub