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Eastern Andalusian
Spanish Vowels
Nicholas Henriksen
Lorenzo García-Amaya
Maxim Aleksa
Research goal
Examine the vowel system of Eastern
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Andalusian Spanish
Plural marking
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Vowel harmony effects
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Spanish /s/
Plural marker /s/
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e.g., nene 'boy' vs. nenes 'boys'
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Many varieties undergo /s/ lenition in coda
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position (via aspiration or deletion)
e.g., Andalusian, Canary Islands, and
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Caribbean Spanish
Morphological distinctions may be lost
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Eastern Andalusian Spanish
Jaén
Córdoba
Granada
Almería
Eastern Andalusian Spanish
Morphological distinctions are preserved through vowel quality
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differences
/a/: [libra] - [libræ] ('pound, sg.'-'pound, pl.')
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• /e/ and /o/: [libre] - [librε] ('free, sg.'-'free, pl.'), [libro] - [librɔ]
('book, sg.'-'book, pl.')
/i/ and /u/: do not participate
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Vowel harmony: final vowel quality transmitted to stressed vowel
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[nene] - [nεnε] ('boy, sg.'-'boy, pl.')
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• [lobo] - [lɔbɔ] ('wolf, sg.'-'wolf, pl.')
Previous research
Descriptive/dialectal
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Navarro Tomás (1939); Alonso et al. (1950); Moya Corral (1975)
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Experimental
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Martínez Melgar (1994): 91 speakers
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Sanders (1994): 3 speaker
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Hualde & Sanders (1995): 1 speaker
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Corbin (2006): 1 speaker
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Theoretical accounts
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Zubizaretta (1979); Clements (1975); Hooper (1976); Jiménez & Lloret (2007)
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Social evaluation
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Within EAS: no negative association
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Outside EAS: negative association (even for WAS speakers)
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Research questions
1. Does EAS exhibit vowel quality
differences in /-V/ vs. /-Vs/ words?
2. If so, is this limited to contexts in
which /s/ is morphological?
3. If so, what is the extent of interspeaker
variation in EAS vowel production?
Research Design
Methods
Speakers
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12 speakers of EAS (6 M, 6 F)
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University students or young professionals in who live in Granada
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Hometowns: Granada or Almería
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Average age = 30
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Tasks
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Sociolinguistic interview (20 minutes)
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Oral narrative (Meyer, Frog, Where are you?)
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Sentence reading task (Experiment 1)
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Minimal pair reading task (Experiment 2)
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Methods
Speakers
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12 speakers of EAS (6 M, 6 F)
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University students or young professionals in who live in Granada
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Hometowns: Granada or Almería
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Average age = 30
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Tasks
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Sociolinguistic interview (20 minutes)
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Oral narrative (Meyer, Frog, Where are you?)
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Sentence reading task (Experiment 1)
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Minimal pair reading task (Experiment 2)
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