Spanish II (2007/2008)

Learning outcomes

“An introduction to Spanish phonetics and phonology”.
The course, after concisely presenting some basic sociolinguistic concepts (in particular, variation, current and standard use), intends to outline the phonetic and phonological systems of contemporary standard Spanish. The fundamental concepts of Spanish phonetics, exemplified in detail with transcriptions, as well as those elements emerging from a contrastive analysis between the Italian and the Spanish systems, will be examined. Problems arising from the existence and the use of different phonetic alphabets will also be considered.

BIBLIOGRAFIA

Testi di base
- “Las variedades de la lengua. Tema 4. Variedades dialectales del castellano”, in Rodríguez Puértolas, J. (2000, ed.) Lengua castellana y literatura. 2° de bachillerato. Madrid: Akal, pp. 200-214.
- Lope Blanch, J. M. (1972) “El concepto de prestigio y la norma lingüística del español”, Anuario de Letras, 10, pp. 29-46.
- Lope Blanch, J. M. (2001) “La norma lingüística hispánica” in II Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española, Valladolid (http://cvc.cervantes.es/obref/congresos/valladolid/).
- Hernández Alonso, C. (2001) “¿Qué norma enseñar?”, in II Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española, Valladolid (http://cvc.cervantes.es/obref/congresos/valladolid/).
- Quilis, A. (1997) Principios de fonología y fonética españolas. Madrid: Arco Libros.
- Canepari, L. (19992) Il MaPI. Manuale di Pronuncia Italiana. Bologna: Zanichelli (alcune parti, che verranno indicate a lezione).
Testi di riferimento
- Lipski, J. M. (1994) El español de América. Madrid: Cátedra.
- Canepari, L. (2006) Avviamento alla fonetica. Torino: Einaudi.

Assessment will be by oral exam.
LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE REQUIRED:
Level 3 (ALTE), B2 (Council of Europe).