Tomás Navarro Tomás

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Tomás Navarro Tomás (* 12. April 1884 in La Roda , Province of Albacete ; † 16th September 1979 in Northampton , Massachusetts ) was a Spanish linguist , Hispanist , voice geographer , phonetics and Optometrist , who taught in Spain and in the United States.

life and work

Navarro Tomás studied in Valencia and Madrid with Ramón Menéndez Pidal and Miguel Asín Palacios (1871-1944). He received his doctorate in 1907. From 1912 to 1914 he studied in France, Germany and Switzerland and came into contact with modern experimental phonetics . Then he taught at the Centro de Estudios Históricos, founded in Madrid in 1910. He led the (never completed) project of the Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula (Atlas Lingüístico de la Península Ibérica, ALPI) and edited the magazine Revista de Filología Española .

In 1930 he became Professor of Phonetics at the Complutense University of Madrid . In 1934 the Real Academia Española elected him to its member.

In 1939 he went to the United States and was professor at Columbia University in New York City until 1952 . In 1945 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Works

  • (Ed.) Santa Teresa, Las moradas, Madrid 1910, 8th edition 1968
  • (Ed.) Garcilaso de la Vega, Obras, Madrid 1911; 10th edition, 1973
  • Manual de Pronunciación Española , Madrid 1918, 25th edition 1991 (German by Fritz Krüger : Handbuch der Spanish Pronunciation, Leipzig / Berlin 1923; further editing by Günther Haensch and Bernhard Lechner : Spanische Aussprachelehre, Munich 1970)
  • Compendio de ortología española para la enseñanza de la pronunciación normal en relación con las diferencias dialectales, Madrid 1927
  • Manual de Entonación Española, New York 1944, 1948, Mexico 1966, 4th edition Madrid 1974
  • Estudios de Fonología Española, Syracuse (New York) 1946
  • El Español en Puerto Rico. Contribución a la geografía lingüística hispanoamericana, Río Piedras 1948, 3rd edition 1974
  • Métrica española. Reseña histórica y descriptiva, Syracuse (New York) 1956; 5th edition, Madrid 1978, Barcelona 1991
  • Arte del Verso, Mexico 1959, 1968, Madrid 2004
  • Documentos lingüísticos del Alto Aragón, Syracuse (New York) 1957
  • Los Poetas en sus versos desde Jorge Manrique a García Lorca, Barcelona 1973
  • Capítulos de geografía linguística de la Península ibérica, Bogotá 1975
  • La voz y la entonación en los personajes literarios, Medellín 1976

literature

  • Johannes Kabatek and Claus D. Pusch, Spanish Linguistics, Tübingen 2009, p. 231

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Navarro Tomás, Tomás
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish Romance philologist, Hispanist and phonetician
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH La Roda , Albacete Province
DATE OF DEATH 16th September 1979
Place of death Northampton , Massachusetts