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/. 2026-02-24T11:07:49Z 2026-02-24T11:07:49Z 2020 journal article Herrero de Haro, Alfredo. (2020). Morpheme dislocation in Eastern Andalusian Spanish. Lingua, 238 Artículo 102815. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/111460 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2020.102815 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional