Tomás Navarro Tomás

Tomás Navarro Tomás ( born April 12, 1884 in La Roda, Albacete Province, † September 16, 1979 in Northampton, Massachusetts) was a Spanish linguist, Hispanist, linguistic geographer, phoneticians and Optometrist, who taught in Spain and in the United States.

Life and work

Navarro Tomás studied in Valencia and Madrid Ramón Menéndez Pidal in Asin Palacios and Miguel ( 1871-1944 ). He received his doctorate in 1907. From 1912 to 1914 he studied in France, Germany and Switzerland and came up with the modern experimental phonetics in touch. Then he taught at 1910 in Madrid, founded Centro de Estudios Historical. He led the ( never completed ) project of the Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula ( Península Ibérica Atlas de la lingüístico, ALPI ) and edited the journal Revista Española de Filología. In 1930 he became Professor of Phonetics at the University Complutense of Madrid. 1934 elected him the Real Academia Española to their member. In 1939 he went to the United States and was until 1952 a professor at Columbia University in New York City.

Works

• (Ed.) Santa Teresa, Las moradas, Madrid 1910, 8th edition 1968
• (Eds. ), Garcilaso de la Vega, Obras, Madrid 1911; 10th edition, 1973
• Manual de pronunciación Española, Madrid 1918, 25th Edition 1991 ( German by Fritz Krüger: Handbook of the Spanish pronunciation, Leipzig / Berlin 1923; further processing by Günther Haensch and Bernhard Lechner: Spanish pronunciation teaching, 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 in 1966, 4th Edition Madrid 1974
• Estudios de fonologia Española, Syracuse ( New York) 1946
• El Español en Puerto Rico. Contribución a la geografía lingüística hispano americana, Río Piedras in 1948, 3rd edition 1974
• Métrica española. Resena histórica y descriptiva, Syracuse ( New York) 1956; 5th Edition, 1978 Madrid, Barcelona 1991
• Arte del Verso, Mexico in 1959, 1968, Madrid in 2004
• Documentos del Alto Aragón Lingüísticos, Syracuse ( New York) 1957
• Los Poetas en sus versos desde Jorge Manrique a García Lorca, Barcelona 1973
• Capitulos de geografía Linguistica de la Península Ibérica, Bogotá 1975
• La voz y la entonación en los personajes Literarios, Medellín 1976