What is it about?
The deletion of syllable-final consonants in Eastern Andalusian Spanish has been extensively documented; however, there is no consensus about its effect on neighbouring vowels. Researchers have focused on the effects of /s/ deletion on vowels to analyse how its semantic value is conveyed, while other consonants which are also deleted have been ignored. This paper examines the effects of word-final /s/, /r/, and /θ/ deletion on preceding /o/ from the point of view of production and perception. Regarding production, acoustic analyses of data from El Ejido (Eastern Andalusia), show specific changes to the F1 and F2 of /o/ depending on the underlying consonant it precedes (/s/, /r/, or /θ/). Likewise, a perception test demonstrates that Eastern Andalusian speakers can distinguish between more types of mid back vowels than previously thought.
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This article shows that the deletion of EAS /-s/, /-r/, and /-θ/ causes different changes to the quality of a preceding /o/.
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Alfredo Herrero de Haro lectures Spanish at the University of Wollongong, Australia. His research interests are the acquisition of Spanish pronunciation by learners of Spanish as a foreign language, and phonetics and phonology, especially EAS phonetics and phonology
Alfredo Herrero de Haro
University of Wollongong
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This page is a summary of: Four mid back vowels in Eastern Andalusian Spanish, Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (ZrP), January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/zrp-2017-0004.
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