Spanish Phonology : Descriptive and Historical

✍ Scribed by Ian Richard Macpherson

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 190
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ian Richard Macpherson's 1975 textbook on Spanish phonology, including a historical view.

From the preface: "This book is intended to serve as a general introduction to the phonetics and phonology, both descriptive and historical, of the Spanish language. Until now, to the best of my knowledge, there has been no introductory course in English available. For the descriptive phonetics of Spanish, the student has been able since 1918 to consult Tomás Navarro’s Manual de pronunciación española and, more recently, Quilis and Fernández’s Curso de fonética y fonología españolas and J. B. Dalbor’s Spanish Pronunciation; for a study of the history of the language and of historical phonology he has had available principally Rafael Lapesa’s historical de la lengua española, W. J. Entwistle’s The Spanish Language and Ramón Menéndez Pidal’s Gramática histórica española. [...] In order to fill a gap which in my belief has existed for a long time, I have here combined into one volume an introduction to Spanish phonetics and phonology approached from a descriptive point of view in the first part and from a historical point of view in the second. It has not been my aim to present the material in any formalistic way..."

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......1
Contents......4
List of Figures and Tables......7

Preface......8
Introduction: Aims and Methods......10
Diacritical Marks and Phonetics Symbols......12

PART I: DESCRIPTIVE PHONOLOGY......18
1 Phonetics and Phonology......19
2 The Organs of Speech......25
3 Classification of the Sounds of Spanish......31
4 Phonetic Transcriptions......39
5 The Syllable......42
6 Spanish Vowels......50
7 Spanish Semivowels......57
8 Plosive, Fricative and Affricate Consonants......69
9 Vibrants, Laterals and Nasals......83
Appendix: Phonetic texts......91
PART II: HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY......96
10 The Historical Context......97
11 Classical Latin and Vulgar Latin......105
12 Stressed Vowels and Voiced Single Consonants......116
13 Stressed Vowels, Voiceless Single Consonants, Geminate Consonants......124
14 Final Vowels, Consonants Final in Romance, Apocope in Old Spanish, Vulgar Latin ts, Vulgar Latin j......132
15 Initial Vowels, Consonant Clusters......138
16 The Palatal Sounds of Old Spanish......144
17 Pretonic, Post-tonic Vowels, Secondary Consonant Clusters......155
18 Sixteenth-century and Seventeenth-century changes......164

Bibliography......170
Index......178
Word list......184

✦ Subjects

spanish,phonology,romance linguistics