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Hua, X., Stewart, J., Bromham, L., Algy, C., & Meakins, F. (2026). Sali-CAT: A new method for ranking social salience for multiple variables. Language Variation and Change, 37(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394526100659
Sali-CAT
Stewart, Jesse & Gabriela Prado Ayala. (2025). Media Lengua Collection of Jesse Stewart. The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA), ailla.utexas.org. PID Collection: 1923. https://ailla.utexas.org/collections/1923/
ML Collection
Lovick, Olga, Kristy Reyes Herrera, & Jesse Stewart. (2023). The Realization of Voiceless Nasal Consonants in Upper Tanana (Dene). In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (3306-3310). Prague: Guarant International.
Upper Tanana Nasals
Stewart, Jesse & Sky Onosson. (2023). Vowel Raising in Cotopaxi Quichuan Languages. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (3311-3315). Prague: Guarant International
Cotopaxi ML Vowels
Onosson, Sky & Jesse Stewart. (2023). Cotopaxi Media Lengua Vowels: A Preliminary Analysis. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (3360-3365). Prague: Guarant International.
Cotopaxi Raising
Stewart, J. (2023). Contacto de lenguas y variación. In Patricia Alandia Mercado (ed.) Introducción a la Lingüística: Curso para Investigadores de Lenguas Indígenas de Bolivia. Lingüística y Literatura Página y Signos: Cochabamba. (15 pages)
Contact de Lenguas
Stewart, J. L. Gonza Inlago, & G. Prado Ayala (2023). Cotopaxi Media Lengua is still very much alive. Language Documentation and Conservation. Vol. 17,49-63 http://hdl.handle.net/10125/74690
Cotopaxi Media Lengua Alive
Meakins, F. & J. Stewart. (2022). Mixed Languages. In Salikoko Mufwene and Anna Maria Escobar (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact. Cambridge Volume 2: Multilingualism in Population Structure: Cambridge University Press. 310-343. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316796146.016​
Mixed Languages
Bruil, M., & Stewart, J. (2022). Phonetics and phonology of nasality in Ecuadorian Siona. Phonological Data and Analysis, 4(3), 1–34. https://doi.org/10.3765/pda.v4art3.44
Siona Nasality
Portocarrero, A. & Stewart, J. (2021). A preliminary analysis of intonation patterns in Ecuadorian Cuencano Spanish. Open Linguistics, 7(1), 448-475. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2020-0169
Cuenca Intonation
Onosson, S., & Stewart, J. 2021 A multi-method approach to correlate identification in acoustic data: The case of Media Lengua. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 12(1): 13, pp. 1–30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.291
Correlate ID in ML
Prado Ayala, G., L. Gonza Inlago, & J. Stewart. (2021) Recetacunaca Yopa Comunidadmanta [Recipes from My Community: Told in Media Lengua], Lexington, KT, USA: Lulu. ISBN-13: 978-0578918075 [Book]
Cookbook
Stewart, J. & F. Meakins. (2021). Advances in mixed language phonology: An overview of three case studies. In Maria Mazzoli & Eeva Sippola (eds.), New Perspectives on Mixed Languages: From Core to Fringe. Language Contact and Bilingualism. Berlin: De GruyterMouton https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501511257-003
Mixed Language Phonology
Onosson, Sky & Jesse Stewart. (2021). The Effects of Language Contact on Non-Native Vowel Sequences in Lexical Borrowings: The Case of Media Lengua. Language and Speech PaPE 2019 Special Issue. 1-30 doi.org/10.1177/00238309211014911
Vowel Sequencies in ML
Stewart, J. Gabriela Prado Ayala & Lucia Gonza Inlago (2020). Media Lengua Dictionary. Dictionaria. 13. 1-3192 doi/10.5281/zenodo.4147099 (Available online: Dictionaria)
ML Dictionary
Stewart, J. (2020). A preliminary, descriptive survey of rhotic and approximant fricativization in Northern Ecuadorian Andean Spanish varieties, Quichua, and Media Lengua. In Rajiv G. Rao (ed.), Spanish phonetics and phonology in contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain. Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamin’s doi.org/10.1075/ihll.28.05ste
Rhotic & approx fric
Rosen, N. J. Stewart, & O. Sammons. (2020). How “mixed” is mixed language phonology? An acoustic analysis of the Michif vowel system. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 147(4): 2989–2999 doi.org/10.1121/10.0001009
Michif Vowels
Stewart, J., F. Meakins, C. Algy, T. Ennever, & A. Joshua. (to appear 2020). Fickle fricatives: Obstruent perception in Gurindji Kriol and Roper Kriol. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 147(4): 2766–2778 doi.org/10.1121/10.0000991
Fickle Fricatives
Rosen, N., J. Stewart, M. Pesch-Johnson, & O. Sammons. (2020). VOT in Michif. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 1372-1376). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.
Michif VOT
Stewart, J. M. Bruil, & E. Portilla Hernandez. (2019). Loosely structured role-playing events as a means to elicit intonation patterns. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 3593- 3597). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.
Role play events
Stewart, J. (2018). Vowel perception by native Media Lengua, Quichua, and Spanish speakers. Journal of Phonetics. 71: 117-193 doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2018.08.005
Vowel perception in ML
Stewart, J., F. Meakins, C. Algy, & A. Joshua (2018). The Development of Phonological Stratification: Evidence from Stop Voicing Perception in Gurindji Kriol and Roper Kriol. Journal of Language Contact, 11(1): 71-112 doi.org/10.1163/19552629-01101003
GK Stop Perception
Stewart, J. (2017). Voice onset time production in Spanish, Quichua, and Media Lengua. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 48 (2): 173-197. doi.org/10.1017/S002510031700024X
Media Lengua VOT
Stewart, J., M. Kohlberger. (2017). Earbuds: A method for measuring nasality in the field. Journal of Language Documentation and Conservation, 11: 49-80. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24724
Earbuds Method
Stewart, J. (2015). Intonation patterns in Pijal Media Lengua. Journal of Language Contact 8(2):223-262. doi.org/10.1163/19552629-00802003
Media Lengua Intonation
Stewart, J. (2014). A comparative analysis of Media Lengua and Quichua vowel production. Phonetica. 71(3):159-182 doi.org/10.1159/000369629
Media Lengua Vowel Production
Stewart, J. (2014). A Quantitative analysis of sign lengthening in American Sign Language. Sign language and linguistics 7(1):82-101. doi.org/10.1075/sll.17.1.04ste
Sign Lengthening
Stewart, J. (2013). Stories and Traditions from Pijal: Told in Media Lengua. North Charleston: CreateSpace [book]
ML Stories

Accepted/ Forthcoming/ In-press

Stewart, J. Mixed Languages (accepted). Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic Linguistics
Temporary link - Mixed Languages

Stewart, J. (accepted). Media Lengua in the Ecuadorian Andes. In Cerno L., Döhla HJ., Gutiérrez Maté M., Hesselbach R, Steffen J. (eds.), Contact varieties of Spanish and Spanish lexified contact varieties. Mouton De Gruyter: Leipzig
Temporary link - Media Lengua in the Ecuadorian Andes
Grzech, Karolina, A. Rice, C. Beier, P. Bermúdez, M. Bruil, A. Cognet, G. Ennis, A. Fawcett, C. High, W. de Lima Silva, C. Dickinson, T. Fink, S. Floyd, M. Kohlberger, P. Muysken, A. Schwarz, J. Stewart (accepted). Ecuadorian experiences in collaborative language documentation.