Reflexiones a propósito de un probo decimonónico

En 1865, Manuel Torrijos editó un folleto, "El Arte de Bien hablar", en el que se registraron los principales "errores de pronunciación" en el idioma español de su tiempo (un número total de 687 artículos). El estudio de este texto pone de relieve los problemas fonéticos del siglo XIX español: 1) los errores en la calidad de vocales; 2) reducción de grupos consonantes; 3) la inestabilidad de las líquidas; 4) Relajación de la dental sonora final; 5) procesos de labialización y/o velarization... La proximidad en el tiempo del folleto de Torrijos nos permite cuestionar la validez de este tipo de estudios cuando no toman en cuenta los aspectos sociolingüísticos de los textos en los que los "errores" se han encontrado.In 1865 Manuel Torrijos edited a booklet, a kind of modern version of Appendix, in which he registered the main «errors of pronunciation» in the Spanish Language of his time (a total number of 687 items). The study of this text highlights the phonetic problems of 19th C. Spanish: 1) mistakes in the quality of vowels; 2) reduction of consonantal clusters; 3) instability of liquids; 4) weakening of voiced dentals; 5)phonetic assimilations involving labialization and velarization. The time proximity of Torrijos' booklet allows us to question the validity of these kind of studies when they do not take into account the sociolinguistic aspects of the texts in which the «errors» have been found

Rigor metodológico e investigación filológica

In recent decades, technological advances have made extensive documentation available to us. But the philologist must be aware of the dangers of poor use of the documentary corpus in order to avoid creating dreaded ghost words. In this paper we recall the main sources of this type of error: folk etymology phenomena among speakers, copyists" errors, transcribers" errors in the interpretation of some abbreviations and graphic variants of the manuscripts, onomastic changes introduced by cartographers" ignorance of linguistic variants, gaps in the dating of some documents, confusion in the processes of lemmatization and the evaluation of texts... All these sources of error contribute, to a greater or lesser degree, to the distortion or to the masking of the data on which the research of philologists is based. Hence the importance of philological rigour in the transmission and study of ancient texts