Resumen de Una información fonética del siglo XI sobre la [h] del español
In the evolution of Latin F- to h and eventually to Ø a crucial element is the exact phonetic nature of F- and subsequent stages in the phonetic change. It will be presented and discussed a fragment of the XIth century in which a well-known Arabic author provides important metalinguistic information about the pronunciation of continuant back consonants and in particular the glottal fricative [h] by Romance speakers. This information corroborates and generalizes a similar albeit more particular piece of evidence presented and discussed by Diego Catalán in 1968, which also indicates that Spanish speakers had [h] in their phonetic inventories.
