Henriette Walter , born in 1929, is professor emeritus of Linguistique at the university from High-Brittany to Rennes, and director of the laboratory of phonology to the practical École of the high studies in the Sorbonne.

It wrote works of linguistics very specialized as well as of the popularizing works.

Publications

• in collaboration with Andre Martinet, the dictionary of the French pronunciation in its real use , Droz, 1973.
• the phonology of French , PUF, 1977.
• French in all the directions , foreword of Andre Martinet, Robert Laffont, 1988, ISBN 2253140015, (Grand Prix of the French Academy). An accessible book which explains why the orthography of French is sometimes complicated, which differentiates a patois from a dialect or a regional language, and a presentation of French spoken in the various French-speaking countries.
• Of words sans-culottes , Robert Laffont, 1989, ISBN 978-2-2210-5934-0
• the dictionary of the words of foreign origin (with Gerard Walter), Larousse, 1991, ISBN 978-2-0371-0227-8
• the adventure of the languages in Occident , Robert Laffont, 1994, ISBN 978-2-2210-5918-0 (special price of the company of the Men of letters and Grand Prix of the readers of It): a presentation accessible from the various spoken languages in Europe, with their origin and their evolution. Some exercises to test its knowledge.
• the adventure of the French words come besides , Robert Laffont, 1998, ISBN 978-2-2210-8275-1, (Prix Louis Pauwels)
• Honni is which badly thinks of it, Robert Laffont, 2001: interactions between French and English, why an English student will more easily include/understand the Former French than his French counterpart.
• In collaboration with Pierre Avenas astonishing history of the names of the mammals R. Laffont 2003, taken again in collection Points under the title Chihuahua zebu and Co .