Andalusian codas.

This paper examines the phonetic implementation of word-internal s-aspiration in Eastern Andalusian Spanish, focusing on the relationships between three phonetic reflexes of s-aspiration: vowel lengthening, consonant lengthening, and vowel aspiration. The results of the study reveal a heretofore unreported, tightly constrained relation between vowel and consonant lengthening. Specifically, as the ratio of consonant lengthening in the s-aspirated versus nonaspirated contexts grows, the degree of vowel lengthening decreases. In addition, I argue that the data call attention to the limitations of traditional phonological representations. Focusing on the relationship between consonant and vowel lengthening, I show that traditional moraic structure does not adequately characterize this relationship. By contrast, I argue that a gestural model affords a more explicit, though still abstract, characterization of the data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]