https://hdl.handle.net/10481/22547 2026-04-12T05:23:09Z https://hdl.handle.net/10481/111462 Illustrations of the IPA: Eastern Andalusian Spanish Herrero de Haro, Alfredo; Hajek, John https://hdl.handle.net/10481/111461 The vowel system of Eastern Andalusian Spanish speakers with articulation disorders: The effect of consonant deletion on preceding vowels in Western Almería Herrero de Haro, Alfredo Eastern Andalusian Spanish deletes coda consonants and the effects of such deletions have been widely studied. However, this has been done almost exclusively for /s/. Furthermore, no study has considered Eastern Andalusian speakers with articulation disorders. The present paper explores the consequences of /s/, /r/, and /θ/ deletion on preceding vowels in Eastern Andalusian speakers with articulation disorders. The vowels from eight speakers affected by articulation disorder are analysed and the results are compared to findings from other studies which focus on speakers from the same geographical area with no articulation disorder. Acoustic and statistical analyses show that the vowels of speakers with an articulation disorder present a similar tendency to those of speakers without it: the vowels suffer different alterations depending on the underlying consonant they precede but the intensity of such alterations varies between both groups of speakers. It is hypothesized that functional compensation forces explain why speakers with articulation disorders acquire some features of Eastern Andalusian vowels but not others. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/111460 Morpheme dislocation in Eastern Andalusian Spanish Herrero de Haro, Alfredo This paper examines whether the morpheme of plurality has shifted from word-final to word-initial syllable in Eastern Andalusian Spanish. This would be explained by word-medial vowel lowering caused by vowel harmony, which extends leftwards from the vowel preceding deleted /-s/ up to the stressed vowel. Two experiments are performed: 1) Eastern Andalusian speakers have to decide if each item is singular or plural by listening to the first syllable of disyllabic words; 2) Disyllabic words are manipulated and the first syllable is taken from a singular word and the second syllable from its plural, and viceversa; the participants have to categorise each item as singular or plural. An analysis of 4503 answers shows that these speakers can identify singular /ˈCVCV/ words by listening to the first syllable only when the first syllable contains /e/ or /o/ and plural only when the first syllable contains /o/; they can identify singular /ˈCVCCV/ words when the first syllable contains /o/, /i/ or /u/ and plurals when they contain /e/ or /o/. The morpheme of plurality has not shifted completely to word-initial syllable but it is hypothesised that there is a shift currently underway and that this is more advanced for /e/ and /o/. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/111459 Anti-hiatus tendencies in Spanish: Rate of occurrence and phonetic identification Herrero de Haro, Alfredo; Alcoholado Feltstrom, Antonio Spanish normative grammar considers any two-vowel combination of /e/, /a/, and /o/ as a hiatus, accepting that they can be pronounced as a diphthong in lower basilects and/or informal registers. This paper analyzes speeches of educated speakers, performing an acoustic analysis of 60 segmental and suprasegmental features in 493 vowel sequences. Linear mixed-effects models suggest that two-vowel sequences of /e/, /a/, and /o/ are pronounced as diphthongs in 77.27% of cases; suprasegmental features (especially duration) are the most reliable cues to distinguish a hiatus from a diphthong in Spanish. These results call for a re-examination of diphthong classification in Spanish. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/111458 Catorce vocales del andaluz oriental: producción y percepción de /i/, /e/, /a/, /o/ y /u/ en posición final y ante /-s/, /-r/ y /-θ/ subyacentes en Almería Herrero de Haro, Alfredo El presente artículo investiga los efectos de la apócope de /-s/, /-r/ y /-θ/ en las vocales precedentes. Para esto, se analiza el habla de 60 hablantes de andaluz oriental y también se realiza un experimento de percepción, lo que confirma que: 1) la apócope de /-s/, /-r/ y /-θ/ cambia la calidad de las vocales precedentes en distinto grado, pudiendo así hablar de 14 vocales distintas; 2) los hablantes de andaluz oriental pueden identificar sin ayuda ninguna del contexto si una vocal va seguida o no de una consonante subyacente y también pueden identificar nueve vocales distintas.