. In parts of southern Spain, the only feature defined for appears to be voiceless; it may lose its oral articulation entirely to become or even a geminate with the following consonant ( or from 'same'). In Eastern Andalusian and Murcian Spanish, word-final , and regularly weaken, and the preceding vowel is lowered and lengthened: > e.g. mis ('my' pl) > e.g. mes ('month') > e.g. más ('plus') > e.g. tos ('cough') > e.g. tus ('your' pl) A subsequent process of vowel harmony takes place so lejos ('far') is , tenéis ('you [plural] have') is and tréboles ('clovers') is or . Coda simplification Southern European Spanish (Andalusian Spanish, Murcian Spanish, etc.) and several lowland dialects in Latin America (such as those from the Caribbean, Panama, and the Atlantic coast of Colombia) exhibit more extreme forms of simplification of coda consonants: word-final dropping of (e.g. compás 'musical beat' or 'compass') word-final dropping of nasals with nasalization of the preceding vowel (e.g. ven 'come') in the infinitival morpheme (e.g. comer 'to eat') the occasional dropping of coda consonants word-internally (e.g. doctor 'doctor'). The dropped consonants appear when additional suffixation occurs (e.g. compases 'beats', venían 'they were coming', comeremos 'we will eat'). Similarly, a number of coda assimilations occur: and may neutralize to (e.g. Cibaeño Dominican celda/cerda 'cell'/'bristle'), to (e.g. Caribbean Spanish alma/arma 'soul'/'weapon', Andalusian Spanish sartén 'pan'), to (e.g. Andalusian Spanish alma/arma ) or, by complete regressive assimilation, to a copy of the following consonant (e.g. pulga/purga 'flea'/'purge', carne 'meat'). , , (and in southern Peninsular Spanish) and may be debuccalized or elided in the coda (e.g. los amigos 'the friends'). Stops and nasals may be realized as velar (e.g. Cuban and Venezuelan étnico 'ethnic', himno 'anthem'). Final dropping (e.g. mitad 'half') is general in most dialects of Spanish, even in formal speech. The neutralization of syllable-final , , and is widespread in most dialects (with e.g. Pepsi being pronounced ). It does not face as much stigma as other neutralizations, and may go unnoticed. The deletions and neutralizations show variability in their occurrence, even with the same speaker in the same utterance, so nondeleted forms exist in the underlying structure. The dialects may not be on the path to eliminating coda consonants since deletion processes have been existing for more than four centuries. argues that it is the result of speakers acquiring multiple phonological systems with uneven control like that of