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Dr. Chávez Peón investigated the speech sounds of Quiaviní Zapotec, an indigenous language of Mexico. He examined prominence, tone, and voice quality, within phonetic and formal linguistic theoretical approaches. His research sheds light on the relation between phonetics and the sound structure of words.

A randomly-selected Doctoral citation each day: today from the Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD) - graduated in 2010