Covariants of Gemination in Eastern Andalusian Spanish: /t/ following Underlying /s/, /k/, /p/ and /ks/

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 /C+t/ sequences that typically surface as [t:], by analyzing how durational formant differences vary depending on the presence identity preceding consonant. Following acoustic statistical analyses 444 instances /ˈeta/, /ˈesta/, /ˈekta/, /ˈepta/ /ˈeksta/, Discriminant Function Analysis shows total duration closure strongest cues to distinguishing singletons from geminated consonants, with 91.9% 90.6% accurate classifications, respectively. Cues indicating which specific have been before much less robust more varied nature. It is unclear, however, whether this outcome due compensation strategies each case or they affected some kind coarticulatory effect. Given language variety result /C1C2/ [Cː] assimilation, its status has not demonstrated, Spanish unusual amongst languages studied respect gemination, making study typologically interesting.