SLPOtherLanguage and speech2024

The Effects of Language Contact on Non-Native Vowel Sequences in Lexical Borrowings: The Case of Media Lengua.

Sky Onosson, Jesse Stewart

PMID 33977813

WHAT IT FOUND

This paper analyses the acoustic properties of vowel sequences in Media Lengua, a mixed language spoken in Ecuador.

It reports no patient outcomes or clinical findings, so it contains nothing to change therapeutic practice.

What this paper is

This is a linguistics paper on the acoustic phonetics of vowel sequences in Media Lengua, a mixed language spoken in Ecuador. It reports no patients, no clinical outcomes, and no therapeutic interventions, so there is nothing here for a physical therapist, occupational therapist, or speech-language pathologist to act on.

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