"Covariants of Gemination in Eastern Andalusian Spanish: /t/ following " by Alfredo Herrero de Haro and John Hajek
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 ...
Eastern Andalusian Spanish Discriminant Function Analysis Consonant Deletion Urational Differences Eastern Andalusian Spanish Owel Formants
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