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 onphonology and philosophy of linguistics. His book Phonology is a coursebook taught across the world in phonology courses. He was the father of three children and enjoyed raising his son and daughter in the sunny South of France.

• 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, 2nd edition 2013
• Headhood, Elements, Specification and Contrastivity: Phonological papers in honour of John Anderson (ed.)
• Phonological Knowledge: Conceptual and Empirical Issues, with Noel Burton-Roberts and Gerard Docherty (eds.), Oxford University Press 2000