Mixed languages2 are the result of the fusion of two identifiable source languages, normally
in situations of community bilingualism. As recently as the 1990s, the existence of these …

This study explores mid and high vowel perception in and across Ecuadorian Spanish,
Quichua, and Media Lengua (a mixed language containing Quichua systemic elements and …

Many language pairs chosen in language switching studies differ randomly on multiple
linguistic levels, thus obscuring the nature of switching costs. Contact-induced languages …

Media Lengua (ML), a mixed language derived from Quichua and Spanish, exhibits a
phonological system that largely conforms to that of Quichua acoustically. Yet, it incorporates …

This paper presents Killkan, the first dataset for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in the
Kichwa language, an indigenous language of Ecuador. Kichwa is an extremely low …

Abstract This study of Media Lengua examines production differences between mid and
high vowels in order to identify the major correlates that distinguish these vowel types. The …

On a 2022 fieldtrip to Ecuador, we encountered a large community of Media Lengua
speakers in the province of Cotopaxi where the language was thought to be dormant. This is …

Abstract Mixed languages like Media Lengua incorporate grammar from one source
language (here, Quichua) but lexicon from another (here, Spanish). Due to their linguistic …

Every thought that a speaker wishes to communicate needs to be linguistically encoded in a
specific linear order. While there are various possible orders of subject (S), verb (V) and …

Code-switching, code-mixing, and, more generally, multilingualism pose technological
challenges for language documentation, the sub-discipline of linguistics that deals with the …