Publications

     Refereed journal articles

Mulík, S., Amengual, M., Avecilla, G, & Carrasco-Ortíz, H. (2023). The vowel system of Santiago Mexquititlán Otomi (Hñäñho). Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 53(2), 383–403.

Mulík, S., & Carrasco-Ortíz, H. (2023). Different effects of L1 and L2 phonology on L3 lexical learning: An ERP study. Second Language Research, 39(2), 493–518.

Mulík, S., Carrasco-Ortíz, H., & Amengual, M. (2022). Perceptual Categorization of Hñäñho-Specific Vowel Contrasts by Hñäñho Heritage Speakers in Mexico. Languages, 7(2), 73. Special Issue: Heritage Speaker Phonetics and Phonology: Testing models and expanding the range of data.

Mulík, S., Amengual, M., Maldonado, R., & Carrasco-Ortíz, H. (2021). Heritage speakers: a concept applicable to the Ιndigenous people in Mexico? [Hablantes de herencia: ¿una noción aplicable para los indígenas de México?]. Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada, 39(73), 7-37.

Mulík, S., Corona-Dzul, B., Amengual, M., & Carrasco-Ortíz, H. (2021). Psycholinguistic Profile of Otomi (Hñäñho)-Spanish bilinguals, Migrants from Santiago Mexquititlán to Querétaro, Mexico [Perfil psicolingüístico de los bilingües otomí (hñäñho)-español, migrantes de Santiago Mexquititlán a Querétaro, México]. Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México, 8, e154.

Mulík, S., Carrasco-Ortíz, H., & Amengual, M. (2019). Phonological activation of L1 (Spanish) and L2 (English) when learning L3 (Slovak) novel words. International Journal of Bilingualism, 23(5), 1025-1040.

Mulík, S. (2018). Third and subsequent language acquisition [Adquisición de tercera lengua y de lenguas subsecuentes]. Diseminaciones, 1(1), 67-78.

Refereed chapters in edited volumes and proceedings

Baird, B., & Mulík, S. (forthcoming). The phonetics and phonology of Indigenous language bilinguals. In M. Amengual (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Mulík, S., Amengual, M., & Carrasco-Ortíz, H. (2023). Early exposure to an Indigenous heritage language and the transfer of perceptual abilities into a foreign language. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czechia 2023 (pp. 127-131). Prague, Czechia: Guarant International.

Mulík, S., Amengual, M., Avecilla-Ramírez, G., & Carrasco-Ortíz, H. (2019). An acoustic description of the vowel system of Santiago Mexquititlán Otomi (Hñäñho). In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 1377-1381). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.

Mulík, S., Sanaphre, M., & Carrasco Ortiz, E. H. (2017). The role of L1 and L2 in L3 vocabulary learning [El rol de L1 y L2 en el aprendizaje de vocabulario en L3]. In E. H. Carrasco Ortiz, J. De la Mora Gutiérrez, & E. P. Velásquez Upegui (Eds.), Convergencias en el estudio del lenguaje: adquisición, variación y uso (pp. 105-116). Lugo, Spain: Axac.

Conference presentations and lectures

Refereed conference presentations

2023       Aprendizaje de vocabulario en infantes indígenas mexicanos: el efecto de exposición al español y a la lengua originaria (with Armando Quetzalcóatl Angulo Chavira and Natalia Arias Trejo). Paper presented at the XVII Congreso Nacional de Lingüística AMLA. Chihuahua, Mexico. October 10-13, 2023

2023       Early exposure to an Indigenous heritage language and the transfer of perceptual abilities into a foreign language (with Mark Amengual and Haydée Carrasco-Ortíz). Paper presented at the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Prague, Czechia. August 7-11, 2023

2022       The diversity of language profiles and contexts in heritage language acquisition: A comparison across three heritage speaker populations (with Mark Amengual). Paper presented at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2022. Arizona State University, USA. November 3, 2022

2022       Early electrophysiological response to heritage language sounds in Mexican Indigenous bilinguals (with Mark Amengual, Gloria Avecilla Ramírez, and Haydée Carrasco Ortíz). Paper presented at the Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium 2022. University of Edinburgh, UK. October 26, 2022

2022       Huella cerebral de la lengua materna en los hablantes de otomí (hñäñho) como lengua de herencia (with Mark Amengual, Gloria Avecilla Ramírez, and Haydée Carrasco Ortíz). Paper presented at the XVI Congreso Nacional de Lingüística AMLA. University of Guadalajara, Mexico. September 20, 2022

2021       Indigenous bilingualism and language contact: An acoustic description of the Hñäñho vowel system (with Mark Amengual, Gloria Avecilla Ramírez, and Haydée Carrasco Ortíz). Paper presented at the 3rd Symposium on Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Latin America (ILCLA). University of Georgia, USA. March 19, 2021

2020       Indigenous bilingualism and language shift: Heritage language speakers in Mexico (with Mark Amengual and Haydée Carrasco Ortíz). Paper presented at the 11th Workshop of Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA). University of North Carolina, Asheville, USA. October 8, 2020

2020       A neurolinguistic study of vowel perception in Hñäñho heritage speakers (with Mark Amengual, Gloria Avecilla Ramírez, and Haydée Carrasco Ortíz). Poster presented at the Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium 2020. Krakow, Poland. September 22, 2020

2020       Estudio neurolingüístico de la percepción de vocales del hñäñho por sus hablantes de herencia (with Mark Amengual, Gloria Avecilla Ramírez, and Haydée Carrasco Ortíz). Paper to be presented at the Coloquio sobre Lenguas Otomangues y Vecinas (COLOV 2020). Centro Cultural San Pablo, Oaxaca, Mexico. April 23-26, 2020 (Abstract accepted, conference canceled due to COVID-19)

2019       Evaluación de la dominancia lingüística del bilingüismo de lenguas originarias mexicanas: el caso del Otomí (Hñäñho) (with Beerelim Corona Dzul, Mark Amengual, and Haydée Carrasco Ortíz). Paper presented at the IV Jornada de Lingüística LingUAQ 2019. Autonomous University of Queretaro, Querétaro, Mexico. September 5, 2019

2019       El sistema vocálico del otomí de Santiago Mexquititlán (Hñäñho) (with Mark Amengual, Gloria Avecilla Ramírez, and Haydée Carrasco Ortíz). Paper presented at the IV Jornada de Lingüística LingUAQ 2019. Autonomous University of Queretaro, Querétaro, Mexico. September 5, 2019

2019       An acoustic description of the vowel system of Santiago Mexquititlán Otomi (Hñäñho) (with Mark Amengual, Gloria Avecilla-Ramírez, and Haydée Carrasco-Ortíz). Paper presented at the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Melbourne, Australia. August 5-9, 2019

2019       L1 and L2 phonological activation in L3 lexical learning: An ERP study (with Mara Pimentel and Haydée Carrasco Ortíz). Poster presented at the 12th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB12). University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. June 23-28, 2019

2019       The role of L1 lexical gender in the processing of L2 gender agreement: An ERP study (with Mara Pimentel and Haydée Carrasco Ortíz). Poster presented at the 12th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB12). University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. June 23-28, 2019

2017       Aprendizaje lexical de una tercera lengua: influencia de la segunda lengua (with Haydée Carrasco Ortíz). Paper presented at the XIV Congreso Nacional de Lingüística. La Universidad de Oriente y la Asociación Mexicana de Lingüística Aplicada, Valladolid, Mexico. November 8-11, 2017

2017       The brain learns L2 words quickly [El cerebro aprende rápido palabras de una segunda lengua]. Paper presented at the 5th Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores del Estado de Querétaro. Querétaro, Mexico. October 5, 2017

2017       La similitud fonológica con la L2 influye en el aprendizaje lexical de una L3. Paper presented at the III Jornada de Lingüística LingUAQ 2017. Querétaro, Mexico. August 3-4, 2017

2016       La influencia de la L1 y la L2 en el aprendizaje lexical en L3 (with Mónica Sanaphre and Haydée Carrasco Ortíz). Paper presented at the XIV Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística de Noroeste de México. Hermosillo, Mexico. November 16-18, 2016

Guest lectures

Word learning in Mexican children: The effects of vocabulary size and exposure to an Indigenous language [Aprendizaje de palabras en niños mexicanos: los efectos del tamaño de vocabulario y de la exposición a una lengua indígena]. Lecture presented to M.A. and Ph.D. students of Linguistics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. September 4, 2023

What happened to my mother tongue? The case of heritage language speakers [¿Qué le pasó a mi lengua materna? El caso de los hablantes de herencia]. Lecture presented at the Faculty of Languages. Autonomous University of Baja California, Campus Ensenada. February 22, 2023

Studying speech perception and production in Mexican Indigenous bilinguals: challenges and opportunities. Lecture presented at the PoLaR lab. The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. October 17, 2022

Perceptual categorization of Hñäñho-specific vowel contrasts by Hñäñho heritage speakers in Mexico. Lecture presented to undergraduate students, attending the “Bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world” course at Lawrence University, Chicago, USA. April 29, 2022

Neurolinguistic study of Indigenous bilingualism: vowel perception in Hñäñho heritage speakers. Lecture presented to Ph.D. students of the Doctorate in Humanities. Anahuac University, Querétaro, Mexico. April 17, 2021

The sounds of Hñäñho: How do heritage speakers perceive them? [Los sonidos del hñäñho: ¿Cómo los perciben los hablantes de herencia?] Lecture presented at the 6th Festival of Otomi Language, Art, and Culture [Festival de la Lengua, Arte y Cultura Otomí - FLACO]. Querétaro, Mexico. February 23, 2020

Assessing language dominance in Mexican Indigenous bilinguals: The case of Otomi (Hñäñho) heritage speakers. Lecture presented at IX Seminario Permanente de Lingüística Aplicada. University of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. May 17-18, 2019

Language in the divided brain [El lenguaje en el cerebro dividido]. Lecture presented at the academic event “ACTIVAMENTE - El lenguaje del cerebro”, as a part of the Brain Awareness Week. Autonomous University of Queretaro, Querétaro, Mexico. March 21, 2019

L1 and L2 phonological activation in L3 lexical learning. Lecture presented at the VIII Seminario Permanente de Lingüística Aplicada y IV Foro de Resistencia Lingüística. University of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. November 3, 2018

Language and the Brain [Lenguaje y Cerebro] (with Jazmín Ovalle and Mara Pimentel). Project presented at the 1st Art, Science, and Technology Fair [1ª Feria de Arte, Ciencia y Tecnología]. Autonomous University of Queretaro, Querétaro, Mexico. April 1, 2018

Is it the same to learn an L3 and to learn an L2? [¿Aprender una L3 es lo mismo que aprender una L2?]. Lecture presented at the Seminario Multidisciplinario de Enseñanza de Lenguas Extranjeras: Divergencias, Prácticas e Implicaciones. El Centro Cultural Brasil-México de la Embajada de Brasil, Mexico City, Mexico. June 15, 2016