Stanislav Mulík, Ph.D.
About me
I am a language and food enthusiast from Slovakia with Hungarian heritage. I have lived and worked in Czechia, Spain, Mexico, and the United States. In December 2021, I earned my Ph.D. in Linguistics at the Autonomous University of Queretaro (Mexico) after conducting research with heritage speakers of Otomi, an Indigenous language spoken in central Mexico. I am currently a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). I previously did a one-year-long postdoctoral stay at the Faculty of Psychology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). My main career interest is research in the fields of linguistics and cognitive neuroscience.
As a linguist, I specialise in the study of bilingualism from the psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic perspective, especially at the level of phonetics, phonology, and lexical learning and processing. I am specifically interested in understanding the underlying cognitive mechanisms for language in heritage speakers and other bilinguals, as well as studying the differences between their first and second language(s). In my language research, I have integrated experimental approaches ranging from the acoustic analysis of bilingual speech production to behavioural and electrophysiological measures of bilingual speech perception and lexical processing, namely eye-tracking and electroencephalography.
In addition to M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics, in 2007 I had obtained my M.Sc. in Chemistry from the Brno University of Technology (Czechia). Due to my interest in gastronomy, during my stay in Mexico I also collaborated on various research projects related to Mexican culinary products.
Contact information
sxm6739 [AT] psu [DOT] edu
stanmulik [AT] gmail [DOT] com
Links to my researcher profiles
Language and the brain
Event-related potentials (ERPs) provide a continuous measure of brain activity in real time and offer valuable insights into the cognitive mechanisms associated with language processing. ERPs are small portions of an electroencephalogram (EEG) recorded via a series of electrodes that register voltage changes on the participant's scalp, time-locked to linguistic stimuli that are presented visually or aurally.
A Mexican Indigenous heritage speaker participating in an EEG experiment on Hñäñho vowel perception at the Laboratory of Linguistics Studies at the Autonomous University of Queretaro
L1 Spanish
L2 English
Different effects of Spanish and English phonology on Slovak word learning in Mexican Spanish-English bilinguals, published in Second Language Research