{"id":317,"date":"2019-04-29T15:12:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T15:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/?p=317"},"modified":"2019-04-29T15:37:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T15:37:13","slug":"audio-recording-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/2019\/04\/29\/audio-recording-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio Recording"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-317-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/wav\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/526\/2019\/04\/KatieMilligan_ReadingOfSelectedPassage.wav?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/526\/2019\/04\/KatieMilligan_ReadingOfSelectedPassage.wav\">https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/526\/2019\/04\/KatieMilligan_ReadingOfSelectedPassage.wav<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Explanation of Pronunciation<\/p>\n<p><em>El Cantar de Mio Cid<\/em> was composed between 1140 and 1207 in Old Spanish, which is comprised of numerous phonemes that contrast the modern version of Spanish. The main difference between the pronunciation of graphemes in Old and Modern Spanish is in consonants, which is due to the lenition, palatalization, and fortition of them as they evolve. To enumerate, the grapheme \u201c\u00e7\u201d, which isn\u2019t present in Modern Spanish and is instead assimilated into the fricative alveolar voiceless \/s\/ sound, is pronounced as the affricate alveolar voiceless \/ts\/, such as in \u201crats\u201d in English. A \u201cz\u201d, rather than being pronounced in the same manner as the modern fricative alveolar voices \/s\/ sound, is pronounced as an affricate alveolar voiced \/dz\/ sound. If an \u201cs\u201d is seen alone between vowels, it is pronounced as the fricative alveolar voiced \/z\/ sound, but if there is a geminated \u201css\u201d between vowels, it is pronounced as the modern \u201cs\u201d fricative alveolar voiceless \/s\/ sound. Unlike Modern Spanish, if an \u201cI\u201d or a \u201cj\u201d is seen between vowels or if a \u201cg\u201d precedes a high or mid front vowel \u2013 \u201cI\u201d or \u201ce\u201d, it is pronounced as an affricate postalveolar voiced \/d\u0292\/. An \u201cx\u201d, instead of the modern \/x\/ sound, is pronounced as a voiceless postalveolar fricative \/\u0283\/ in all contexts. In Modern Spanish, the graphemes \u201cb\u201d and \u201cv\u201d have nearly become entirely assimilated to represent the voiced bilabial stop \/b\/ sound at the beginning of words and the voiced bilabial fricative \/\u03b2\/ in intervocalic positions. However, in Old Spanish, the distinction between the two still existed, and the \u201cb\u201d corresponded to the voiced bilabial stop \/b\/ while the \u201cv\u201d corresponded to the voiced bilabial fricative \/\u03b2\/. In Modern Spanish, the \u201ch\u201d is completely unpronounced, even when at the beginning of a word or in an intervocalic position. However, this evolution took several stages, including the Old Spanish \u201cf\u201d being pronounced as a voiceless glottal fricative \/h\/, then that in Middle Spanish when the \u201cf\u201d came to represent the voiced labiodental fricative \/f\/ and the \u201ch\u201d came to represent the voiceless glottal fricative \u201ch\u201d before becoming a silent sound. Finally, the geminated \u201cnn\u201d in Old Spanish corresponds to the modern \u201c\u00f1\u201d grapheme, which is pronounced as the voiced palatal nasal \/\u0272\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explanation of Pronunciation El Cantar de Mio Cid was composed between 1140 and 1207 in Old Spanish, which is comprised of numerous phonemes that contrast the modern version of Spanish. The main difference between the pronunciation of graphemes in Old and Modern Spanish is in consonants, which is due to the lenition, palatalization, and fortition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/2019\/04\/29\/audio-recording-9\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Audio Recording<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-katie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","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\/1163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/historyoftheromancelanguages2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}