After passing the
Agrégation de Lettres classiques exams in 1958, Carton published numerous articles in the field of
phonetics. He became a fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada and President of the Language Sciences section of the national committee of the
French National Centre for Scientific Research. He also served as President of
Nancy 2 University and
University of Lorraine. He published a linguistic atlas of the
Picard language, and adapted the Feller-Carton dialect transcription system. ==References==