Abstract

HERRERO DE HARO, Alfredo. Fourteen eastern andalusian vowels: production and perception of /i/, /e/, /a/, /o/, and /u/ at word-finally and before underlying /-s/, /-r/, and /-θ/ in Almería. Nueva rev. filol. hisp. [online]. 2019, vol.67, n.2, pp.411-446.  Epub July 26, 2019. ISSN 2448-6558.  https://doi.org/10.24201/nrfh.v67i2.3525.

The present article investigates the effects of deleting /-s/, /-r/, and /-θ/ on preceding vowels. For this, the speech of 60 speakers from Eastern Andalusia is analysed acoustically and an experiment is also carried out to analyse perception. From these studies we conclude that 1) deleting /-s/,/-r/, and /-θ/ changes the quality of a preceding vowel to different degrees, allowing us to identify 14 different vowels in this geolect; 2) Eastern Andaluian Spanish speakers can identify, without any contextual help, whether or not a vowel is followed by an underlying consonant and these speakers can also distinguish between nine different vowels.

Keywords : Eastern Andalusian Spanish; vowel doubling; consonant deletion; Eastern Andalusian Spanish phonetics; Eastern Andalusian Spanish phonology.

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