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Purdue University Purdue e-Pubs Open Access Dissertations Theses and Dissertations Spring 2015 An acoustic and perceptual analysis of vowels preceding final /-s/ deletion in the speech of Granada, Spain and Cartagena, Colombia Miguel Angel Rincon Perez Purdue University Follow this and additional works at: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations Part of the Linguistics Commons Recommended Citation Rincon Perez, Miguel Angel, "An acoustic and perceptual analysis of vowels preceding final /-s/ deletion in the speech of Granada, Spain and Cartagena, Colombia" (2015). Open Access Dissertations. 547. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/547 This document has been made available through Purdue e-Pubs, a service of the Purdue University Libraries. Please contact [email protected] for additional information. AN ACOUSTIC AND PERCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF VOWELS PRECEDING FINAL /-S/ DELETION IN THE SPEECH OF GRANADA, SPAIN AND CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of Purdue University by Miguel Ángel Rincón Pérez In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy May 2015 Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to extend my sincere gratitude to my major professor, Robert M. Hammond, for all his great support, advice, and guidance in the completion of this dissertation. I also gratefully acknowledge committee members John Sundquist, Alejandro Cuza, and Elena Benedicto for their insightful comments and suggestions. A special thanks to my friend and colleague Fernando Llanos for his contribution to this study. I thank David Dull for giving his technical support and assistance whenever I needed it. I am indebted to Antonio Pamies and Jairo Orozco for their help in recruiting participants in both Granada and Cartagena. Finally, I wish to thank my friends, who were always there for me, Rafael Climent, Sabino Torres, Cezar Medeiros, Lucero Flórez, Ager Gondra, César Gutiérrez, Esther Texeira, Sandra Usuga, Chris Alcantara, Ronald Simoes, Paulo Dutra, Mara Barbosa, Daniel Torres, David Guzmán, Nicolas Onofrio, Heidi Parker, and many others. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page LIST OF TABLES ................................................................................................................................... vii LIST OF FIGURES .................................................................................................................................. ix ABSTRACT .................................................................................................................................................x CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................... 1 1.1. Aspects of the Present Study .............................................................................................. 2 1.2. Perception Study Research Questions ............................................................................. 5 1.3. Perception Test Methodology ............................................................................................ 5 1.3.1. Perception Test Participants ....................................................................................... 5 1.3.2. Stimuli .................................................................................................................................. 8 1.4. Acoustic Analysis .................................................................................................................. 10 1.4.1. Acoustic Analysis Research Questions ..................................................................11 1.4.2. Methodology for the Acoustic Analysis ................................................................11 1.4.2.1. Participants ..................................................................................................................11 1.4.2.2. Oral Production Tasks .............................................................................................13 1.5. Overview ....................................................................................................................................14 Notes ....................................................................................................................................................18 CHAPTER 2. REVIEW OF PRIOR RELEVANT RESEARCH ON THE PHONETIC VARIANTS OF /S/ IN SYLLABLE CODAS ........................................................20 2.1. Introduction .............................................................................................................................20 2.2. Final /s/ Weakening in Spanish .......................................................................................20 2.3. Earlier Research on Final /-s/ Weakening ...................................................................23 2.4. Prior Research on Linguistic Factors Affecting Final /-s/ Reduction ................24 2.4.1. Previous Research on the Position of /s/ within the Word ..........................25 2.4.2. The Role of Stress ..........................................................................................................26 2.4.3. Phonetic Environment ................................................................................................27 2.5. Prior Research on Extralinguistic Factors in /s/ Weakening ...............................27 2.6. Previous Research on the Functionalist Hypothesis Involving Deleted /s/ .............................................................................................................................31 2.6.1 Mechanisms of Disambiguation ................................................................................34 2.7. Prior Studies on the Effect of Lexical Frequency on /s/ Weakening .................35 2.8. Summary ................................................................................................................................... 36 CHAPTER 3. THE GRANADA VARIETY OF SPANISH ..............................................................37 3.1. Introduction .............................................................................................................................37 3.2. The Spanish Varieties of Spain ..........................................................................................37 iv Page 3.3. The Castilian Variety of Spanish ...........................................................................................38 3.3.1. The Principal Phonetic and Phonological Characteristics of Castilian ..........39 3.4. The Andalusian Variety of Spanish .................................................................................40 3.4.1. Main Phonetic and Phonological Features of Andalusian .............................42 3.5. The Canary Islands Variety of Spanish ..........................................................................43 3.6. The Andalusian Spanish Linguistic Complexity .........................................................44 3.6.1. The Andalusian Complex ............................................................................................45 3.6.2. The Andalusian Linguistic Mosaic ..........................................................................47 3.6.3. Seseo, Ceceo and Distinción in Andalusia ..............................................................48 3.6.4. Articulation of /s/ in Andalusian ............................................................................50 3.6.5. Vowel Restructuring in Eastern Andalusian .......................................................51 3.7. The Spanish of Granada .......................................................................................................55 3.7.1. Distribution of /s/ Articulation in Granada ........................................................56 3.7.2. Seseo, Ceceo and Distinción in Granada .................................................................56 3.8. Summary ...................................................................................................................................58 Notes ....................................................................................................................................................59 CHAPTER 4. THE CARTAGENA VARIETY OF SPANISH .........................................................61 4.1. Introduction .............................................................................................................................61 4.2. The Speech of Cartagena .....................................................................................................61 4.3. Previous Studies on the Dialect of Cartagena ..............................................................62 4.4. Realization of Final /-s/in the Current Speech of Cartagena ................................65 4.4.1. Procedure .........................................................................................................................66 4.4.2. Results ...............................................................................................................................68 4.5. Summary ...................................................................................................................................72 Notes ....................................................................................................................................................73 CHAPTER 5. RESULTS OF PERCEPTION TEST AND ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS OF VOWEL PRECEDING FINAL /-S/