{"id":297,"date":"2019-04-29T15:02:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T15:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/?p=297"},"modified":"2019-05-04T15:01:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T15:01:05","slug":"audio-recording-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/2019\/04\/29\/audio-recording-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio Recording"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AnnaM-ReadingOfSelectedPassage\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M3sCYfPUhV4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Explanation of Pronunciation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Old Spanish pronunciation of \u2018x\u2019 is \/sh\/. But over time, due to a consonant shift where sibilant consonants became non-sibilant fricative sounds,\n<ul>\n<li>\/\u0283\/ \u201cx\u201d &gt; \/x\/ fricative velar voiceless \u201cja, o, u\u201d and \u201cge, gi\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In Modern Spanish \u2018x\u2019 is pronounced \/ks\/, except in a few words like \u201cM\u00e9xico\u201d \/m\u00e9xico\/.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In Old Spanish the letter \u2018\u00e7\u2019 and \u2018c+i, e\u2019 are pronounced like \/ts\/ but later evolved to \u2018c\u2019 which is the phonemes of the seseantes varieties \/\u019f\/ or \/s\/ depending on where the word is being spoken.<\/li>\n<li>In old Spanish the letter \u2018z\u2019 pronounced like \/dz\/ later evolved to \/s\/ in Modern Spanish.<\/li>\n<li>The Old Spanish pronunciation of \u2018j\u2019, \u2018g\u2019, and \u2018i\u2019 was \/\u01b7\/ This evolved to \/x\/ in Modern Spanish pronounced like the letter \u2018h\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>The Old Spanish pronunciation of \u2018v\u2019 is like the \/b\/ in Modern Spanish. This sound change from Latin stayed consistent through old to modern Spanish. There is a difference between \/b\/ (word initial, or after nasal consonant) and \/\u03b2\/ (other contexts) and how you pronounce the \u2018v\u2019 depends on its position in the word.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explanation of Pronunciation The Old Spanish pronunciation of \u2018x\u2019 is \/sh\/. But over time, due to a consonant shift where sibilant consonants became non-sibilant fricative sounds, \/\u0283\/ \u201cx\u201d &gt; \/x\/ fricative velar voiceless \u201cja, o, u\u201d and \u201cge, gi\u201d In Modern Spanish \u2018x\u2019 is pronounced \/ks\/, except in a few words like \u201cM\u00e9xico\u201d \/m\u00e9xico\/. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/2019\/04\/29\/audio-recording-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Audio Recording<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}