Anthropology

Jesse Stewart

Jesse Stewart (MA Linguistics, University of Manitoba; BA Linguistics, Evergreen State College) is halfway through the PhD program in Linguistics at the University of Manitoba. His research focuses on a rare mixed language spoken in the Ecuadorian highlands called Media Lengua (ML). ML is often described as an exemplary case of a bilingual mixed language because of its split between roots and suffixes. ML is formed through various processes of lexification where nearly all lexical roots in Quichua, including core vocabulary, are replaced by their Spanish counterparts.  Jesse also works on signed language disfluencies and quantitative methods for describing disfluent and non-disfluent prolongations in ASL. He has taught ESL in Japan, South Korea, Ecuador and pronunciation courses in the English Language Department at the University of Manitoba.      

Jesse is currently teaching Introductory Linguistics at the University of Winnipeg and will be teaching Rules of English Grammar at the University of Manitoba during the winter 2013 semester.

Research Interests

Acoustic phonetics, the phonetic-phonological interface, psycholinguistics , morphology, computational linguistics, field linguistics, discourse ergativity, mixed languages, language contact, language revitalization, Media Lengua, Quichua and Romance Languages.