Journal article
Eastern Andalusian Spanish
Alfredo Herrero de Haro, John Hajek
Journal of the International Phonetic Association | Cambridge University Press (CUP) | Published : 2020
Abstract
Eastern Andalusian Spanish (henceforth EAS), is spoken in the east of Andalusia, the southernmost autonomous region of Spain. EAS is most similar to Western Andalusian Spanish (WAS) and to Murcian Spanish, the latter spoken in the autonomous region of Murcia, immediately to the east of Andalusia, and it shares some phonetic traits with EAS, such as vowel lowering. Geographically, Eastern Andalusia includes the provinces of Almería, Granada, Jaén and Málaga, although the precise linguistic delimitation of this area is somewhat more complicated (Figure 1). The main criterion to differentiate EAS from WAS is the lowering or opening of vowels preceding underlying /s/ (Villena Ponsoda 2000). More..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the editor of JIPA Amalia Arvaniti and the anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions on earlier drafts of this manuscript. The collection of data samples analyzed in this paper was funded by the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts of the University of Wollongong (Australia) and by a Hispanex grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. We would like to thank staff and students at the following schools for helping us gather the necessary materials for this paper: I.E.S. Fuente Nueva (El Ejido); I.E.S. Santo Domingo (El Ejido); C.E.I.P. Laimon (El Ejido); I.E.S. Mar Azul (Balerma); I.E.S. Virgen del Mar (Adra); and I.E.S. Abdera (Adra).