Accent on "recorrido"

Question

First of all, what happened to the phonetic spellings that used to be at the beginning of each day's word?

So, for "recorrido": Spanishdict's audio pronunciation has the accent on the second syllable. Why? Other sites have it on the third, where I would expect it in the absence of an accent mark.

Answer 1

Good ear.

If I had to say based on that word alone, I'd say the guy pronouncing it was from Argentina. If you listen very carefully, you'll hear that there accent is still on the third syllable. However, because of his particular regional answer this guy also stresses the rist syllable, so he pronounces it almost like a Hungarian multi-accented word: rècorrído.

I would say this is not how most Spanish speakers woild pronounce it, but e wouldn't make a big deal about it. We'd just think "oh, he must be Argentinian".

Gracias Gekko. I may have an Argentinian accent then :) - jellonz, Aug 31, 2017

Sounds very natural to me. Certainly is the way I'd say it. Never imagined that it may sound as if the stress is in "re" for someone but listening to it it does appear that way. I can also notice the stress on "ri", as Gekko said - 00fac92a, Aug 31, 2017

Answer 2

I don't know why the phonetic spelling was removed. I remember Amber saying something about it at the time but can't find the thread now. It was useful, so I'm unsure what benefit its removal would serve.

Anyway, regarding your second question: This might be off the mark, but as a learner I always hear myself stressing the syllable before a rolling "rr" no matter how hard I may be trying to stress the syllable following it. Perhaps the same phenomenon sometimes takes place even when native Spanish speakers are speaking? I have no idea, and look forward to those native speakers comments, but it is just a thought

Adding to Gekko. I just looked up "recorrido" on Forvo.com. There are only two good examples. They are here. Fortunately one is from an Argentinian and one a Spaniard. And, exactly as Gekko suggests, the stress sounds like it is coming before the "rr" with the Argentinian, but after with the Spaniard.

That link is a nice find, J. All the samples work for me. Listen at how radically different is the pronunciation (and accenting of the word) between the sample from the Colombian woman and that of the Argentinian man. - Gekkosan, Aug 31, 2017

Yes. I missed that one at the bottom Gekko. It is a marked difference. - jellonz, Aug 31, 2017