The teaching of Spanish in the United States: the phonic component in the Spanish grammar, in the Vingut’s Ollendorff’s New Method and in the Le maître d’espagnol of Francisco Javier Vingut (1848, 1850, 1853 and 1854)

Abstract

This paper analyzes the phonic component in three texts of Francisco Javier Vingut: Spanish grammar, Vingut’s Ollendorff’s New Method and Le maître d’espagnol (New York, 1848, 1850, 1853 and 1854), since they are an interesting contribution to the historiography of the Spanish pronunciation, because it approaches, in a country and at a stage still little known, to articulatory descriptions, to comparative methodologies and to a system of notation or representation of the pronunciation from different signs of transcription.