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The participants were 11 Spanish-English bilingual speakers (8 males, 3 females). Each speaker recorded speech during three spontaneous speech tasks (SS) and five reading tasks (RS). Acoustic analyses were conducted to obtain the following measures: sound pressure level standard deviation (SPL_sd), fundamental frequency deviation (F0_sd), speech rate, and time. Results revealed an effect of gender on F0_sd and an effect of task on F0_sd for females. A language effect for SPL_sd, was found as English was found to be statistically significantly higher than Spanish for both males and females. An effect of task was also found, SPL_sd was statistically lower in read speech than spontaneous across languages for both females and males. A non-significant effect of language was found for speech rate as mean speech rate was found to be higher in Spanish than English for spontaneous speech. 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