The phonetics and phonology of Eastern Andalusian Spanish: A review of literature from 1881 to 2016

Haro, Alfredo Herrero de

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“…The present article has analysed the perception of words with and without underlying word-final /s/ in EAS. As explained in Herrero de Haro ( , 2017aHaro ( , 2017b,…”

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“…Several theories have been suggested to describe the phonetic-phonological system of EAS (presented in detail in Herrero de Haro (2017b). Amongst many others, there are two recurring theories refuting phonemic desdoblamiento: 1) context is needed to perceive deleted /s/ (López Morales 1984); and 2) vowel-harmony (not just word-final vowel opening) needs to be present to identify when /s/ has been deleted (e.g.…”

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CONTEXT AND VOWEL HARMONY: ARE THEY ESSENTIAL TO IDENTIFY UNDERLYING WORD-FINAL /s/ IN EASTERN AND

2017

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Eastern Andalusian Spanish has been studied in detail; however, scholars have focused on production and the debate regarding its phonetic and phonological features is still ongoing. This paper analyses Eastern Andalusian Spanish perceptually to establish whether contextual information (articles, numerals, etc.) and vowel harmony are essential to identify underlying word-final /s/. The correct identification of underlying /s/ has been attributed to contextual information and to vowel harmony; however, no perceptual study has been performed to support these claims. A total of 7126 answers from 153 participants across two experiments are analysed to establish whether context and vowel harmony are necessary to perceive underlying word-final Eastern Andalusian /s/. These experiments examine the ability of Eastern Andalusian speakers to distinguish words with and without word-final /s/ deletion. The results show that neither contextual information nor vowel harmony are necessary to identify underlying /-s/ in Eastern Andalusian Spanish.

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“…The present article has analysed the perception of words with and without underlying word-final /s/ in EAS. As explained in Herrero de Haro ( , 2017aHaro ( , 2017b,…”

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CONTEXT AND VOWEL HARMONY: ARE THEY ESSENTIAL TO IDENTIFY UNDERLYING WORD-FINAL /s/ IN EASTERN AND

2017

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“…Sibilant fricatives and affricates have been studied broadly within Romance (Recasens and Espinosa 2007) and other typologically distinct languages (Gordon et al 2002). Within Peninsular Spanish, several variable phenomena have been identified that are relevant to the Spanish post-alveolar affricate, although focus is usually placed upon deaffrication in the speech of elderly, rural speakers (e.g., Henríquez-Barahona and Fuentes-Grandón 2018; Herrero de Haro 2017b;Samper-Padilla 2011). Alongside production of /tS/ (e.g., in hecho [hetSo] 'made/did') as the deaffricated Andalusian [S] (e.g., [heSo]; Villena-Ponsoda 2013), researchers have also identified a voiced post-palatal [dZ] in the Canary Islands (e.g., [hedZo]; Almeida 2019) and a voiced pre-palatal [Ã] in Murcia (e.g., [heÃo]; Torrano Moreno 2017).…”

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Buenas no[tʃ]es y mu[ts]isimas gracias: A Sociophonetic Study of the Alveolar Affricate in Peninsular Spanish Political Speech

Pollock

2024

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While variation in the southern Peninsular Spanish affricate /tʃ/ has been considered in the context of deaffrication to [ʃ], this study examines an emergent variant [ts] in the context of sociolinguistic identity and style in political speech. Based on a corpus of public speech from Madrid and Andalusia, Spain, this study examines the phonetic and sociolinguistic characteristics of the affricate, finding variation in the quality of the frication portion of the segment through an analysis of segment duration (ms), the center of gravity (Hz), and a categorical identification of realization type. The results suggest that both linguistic variables, like phonetic environment, stress, lexical frequency, and following vowel formant height, as well as extralinguistic variables, like speaker city, gender, political affiliation, and speech context, condition use. Based on these findings, it appears that production of the alveolar affricate [ts] is an incipient sociolinguistic marker in the process of acquiring social meaning. It is particularly associated with female speech and prestige norms that transcend regional identification. This alveolar variant serves as an additional sociolinguistic resource accessible for identity development among politicians and offers insight into ongoing change in the affricate inventory of southern and northern-central Peninsular Spanish.

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“…As a consequence, different scholars have proposed surface vowel systems for EAS that vary from eight vowels (e.g., Navarro Tomás 1938, 1939 to fourteen vowels (Herrero de Haro, 2019c). More information on EAS vowel opening can be found in Herrero de Haro (2017bHaro ( , 2023 and Herrero de Haro and Hajek (2022).…”

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Covariants of Gemination in Eastern Andalusian Spanish: /t/ following Underlying /s/, /k/, /p/ and /ks/

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Hajek

2023

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In Eastern Andalusian Spanish, consonants are deleted in syllable-final position, triggering regular gemination of a following consonant, even across word boundaries. This paper investigates five underlying phonemic contexts involving /t/, including singleton /t/ and four different underlying /C+t/ sequences that typically surface as [t:], by analyzing how durational and formant differences vary depending on the presence and identity of the preceding underlying consonant. Following the acoustic and statistical analyses of 444 instances of /ˈeta/, /ˈesta/, /ˈekta/, /ˈepta/ and /ˈeksta/, a Discriminant Function Analysis shows that differences in the total duration of /t/ and in the duration of the closure of /t/ are the strongest cues to distinguishing singletons from geminated consonants, with 91.9% and 90.6% accurate classifications, respectively. Cues indicating which specific consonants have been deleted before /t/ are much less robust and more varied in nature. It is unclear, however, whether this outcome is due to different compensation strategies in each case or whether they are affected by some kind of underlying coarticulatory effect. Given that gemination in this language variety is the result of regular /C1C2/ to [Cː] assimilation, and that its underlying phonemic status has not been demonstrated, Eastern Andalusian Spanish is unusual amongst languages studied with respect to gemination, making this study typologically interesting.

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The phonetics and phonology of Eastern Andalusian Spanish: A review of literature from 1881 to 2016

Cited by 16 publications

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CONTEXT AND VOWEL HARMONY: ARE THEY ESSENTIAL TO IDENTIFY UNDERLYING WORD-FINAL /s/ IN EASTERN AND

CONTEXT AND VOWEL HARMONY: ARE THEY ESSENTIAL TO IDENTIFY UNDERLYING WORD-FINAL /s/ IN EASTERN AND

Buenas no[tʃ]es y mu[ts]isimas gracias: A Sociophonetic Study of the Alveolar Affricate in Peninsular Spanish Political Speech

Covariants of Gemination in Eastern Andalusian Spanish: /t/ following Underlying /s/, /k/, /p/ and /ks/

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