This paper intends to throw some light on a chapter not too studied in the history of Spanish Phonetics, the miscellaneous works from the 18th century, through the personality of Juan Antonio González de Valdés and his Ortopeia Universal (1785). We pursue three objectives: (i) place this text in the Spanish orthoepist tradition, (ii) discuss the beginning of a new kind of works in Spain that combines orthoepic data of particular languages with notions of general Phonetics, and (iii) analyze the connections between the Ortopeia and samples of other European traditions, specifically De Brosses’ Traité de la formation méchanique des langues (1765).
Keywords:
Ortology, pronunciation, general Phonetics, letter, sound, articulatoy and acoustic settings
Quijada van den Berghe, C. (2016). On the history of phonic ideas in Spain: the case of González de Valdés’ Ortopeia Universal (1785). Boletín De Filología, 50(2), Pág. 149–178. Retrieved from https://revistaestudiosarabes.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/38845
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