Modèles et “vices” de prononciation du français aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles en France et en Espagne

Abstract

In this paper we attempt to contribute more information about the models of French pronunciation mainly during the 18th century, in France and Spain. To do so we analyse, in the first place, the situation in France regarding the use and the “good use” of French in general and, more particularly, of the pronunciation based on a number of influential works in linguistics. We collect the references to the models of pronunciation and we also point out the variations considered as “defects” by the authors. We also examine the prescriptive phonetic recommendations of the grammarians of French in Spain during the same period in order to check whether or not there was a correspondence between the two countries.

Keywords

• french pronunciation
• models
• 18th century
• france
• spain