Jesse Stewart
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jesse Stewart is involved.
Articles
2025 Written vowel variation in Imbabura Media Lengua Written Language & Literacy 28:2, pp. 173–232 | Article
This study investigates written vowel variation and stability in Imbabura Media Lengua, a contact language formed from Spanish lexicon and Kichwa morphosyntax. Through analyzing transcribed conversations by two native speakers, this research identifies patterns in orthographic choices,… read more
2020 Chapter 5. A preliminary, descriptive survey of rhotic and approximant fricativization in Northern Ecuadorian Andean Spanish varieties, Quichua, and Media Lengua Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain, Rao, Rajiv (ed.), pp. 103–140 | Chapter
This chapter examines acoustic data from six speech communities in the northern Andean region of Ecuador to describe variation in the Spanish rhotics /r, ɾ/ and approximants /ʎ, j/, as well as their relationship to the Quichua fricatives /ʐ, ʒ/. Data were collected from four dialects of Spanish,… read more
2014 A quantitative analysis of sign lengthening in American Sign Language Sign Language & Linguistics 17:1, pp. 82–101 | Article
In spoken languages, disfluent speech, narrative effects, discourse information, and phrase position may influence the lengthening of segments beyond their typical duration. In sign languages, however, the primary use of the visual-gestural modality results in articulatory differences not expressed… read more