Stanislav Mulík, Ph.D.

Publications

Refereed journal articles

Mulík, S., Amengual, M., Avecilla, G, & Carrasco-Ortíz, H. (2026). Vowel perception in Hñäñho heritage speakers: An ERP study. Heritage Language Journal, 23(1), 1-30. PDF

Beatty-Martínez, A. L., Mulík, S., Bajo, M. T., & Dussias, P. E. (2026). Grammatical gender processing: More than meets the eye. Cognition, 272, 106520. PDF

Mulík, S., & Arias-Trejo, N. (2025). Bilingual Vocabulary Development in Mexican Indigenous Infants: The Effects of Language Exposure from Home and Mothers’ Language Dominance. Journal of Child Language, 53(3), 514-538. PDF

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. PDF

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. PDF

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. (2024). The phonetics and phonology of Indigenous language bilinguals. In M. Amengual (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology (pp. 584-606). 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.

Refereed dissemination articles

Mulík, S., Angulo-Chavira, A.Q., & Arias-Trejo, N. (2025). Why is it important to include understudied populations in psycholinguistic research? [¿Por qué es importante incluir poblaciones poco estudiadas en la investigación psicolingüística?]. Revista Digital Universitaria (RDU), 26(2).

Conference presentations and lectures

Keynote lectures

Cognitive Sciences and Bilingualism [Las ciencias cognitivas y el bilingüismo]. Keynote lecture presented at the Congreso Internacional de Lenguas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo. Mexico. June 25, 2025

Refereed conference presentations

2025 Grammatical gender processing of dual-gender nouns in Spanish: Evidence from pupillometry (with Anne Beatty-Martínez, Teresa Bajo Molina, and Giuli Dussias). Paper presented at the 15th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2025 (HLS 2025). University of Arizona, USA. November 13-15.

2025 When Machines Hear Variation: An Automatic Speech Recognition Approach to Spanish Grammatical Gender (with Yumeng Shen, Teresa Bajo Molina, Giuli Dussias, and Anne Beatty-Martínez). Paper presented at the 15th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 2025 (HLS 2025). University of Arizona, USA. November 13-15.

2025 Bilingual vocabulary development in Mexican Indigenous infants: the effects of language exposure from home and mothers’ language dominance. Paper presented at the 5th International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS 2025). Chania, Greece. June 16-19, 2025.

2025 Phonologically cued lexical anticipation in L2 English: additive effects of cross-linguistic influence and cue markedness (with Giuli Dussias, Domingo Salerno, Holger Hopp, and Teresa Bajo Molina). Paper presented at the 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15). Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. June 9-13, 2025

2025 Codeswitching as a Tool for Opportunistic Speech Planning (with Anne Beatty-Martínez, Robert Hawkins, Rosa Guzzardo, and Giuli Dussias). Paper presented at the 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15). Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. June 9-13, 2025

2025 Incremental sentence processing in late L2 learners: Exploring the effect of L2 proficiency and working memory on lexical anticipation (with Giuli Dussias, Manuel Pulido, and Teresa Bajo Molina). Poster presented at the 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15). Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. June 9-13, 2025

2025 They is one, not two: Cognitive control predicts individual ability to interpret inclusive pronouns in L2 English (with Rachel Leo, Rosa Guzzardo, Giuli Dussias, and Manuel Pulido). Poster presented at the 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15). Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. June 9-13, 2025

2025 The time-course of vocabulary learning during natural sentence reading, in the eyes and in the brain: Evidence from co-registration of eye-tracking and EEG (with Manuel Pulido, Kathy Conklin, Kevin Andía, and Federica Degno). Paper presented at the 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15). Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. June 9-13, 2025

2025 When I hear ‘cheese’, I prefer ‘sponge’ over ‘chicken’: Visual Preference for Shape Competitors through Written Words in Learners of English as a Foreign Language (with Alma Luz Rodríguez and Natalia Arias Trejo). Poster presented at the 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15). Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. June 9-13, 2025

2025 Perception of heritage language vowels in Spanish-dominant Mexican Indigenous speakers of Hñäñho: a psycholinguistic study. Paper presented at The 11th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech. Toronto, Canada. April 23-25, 2025

2024 Novel word learning in Mexican infants: an eye-tracking study (with Armando Quetzalcóatl Angulo Chavira and Natalia Arias Trejo). Poster presented at the Highlights in the Language Sciences (HILS) 2024. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. July 8-11, 2024

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). Poster 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

Poster presentation at the 12th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB12) at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, in 2019

Guest lectures

Processing and Understanding Gender-Neutral Plural Forms in Mexican Spanish. Lecture presented at the Bilingualism, Mind, and Brain (BMB) Lab Talk series at the University of California, Irvine, USA. January 26, 2026

Bilingual Vocabulary Development in Mexican Indigenous Infants: The Effects of Language Exposure from Home and Mothers' Language Dominance. Lecture presented to the BAM! Toronto lab at the University of Toronto, as part of the Bilingual & Multilingual Development Talk Series. Canada. December 8, 2025

Generic or Non-Binary? Processing and Understanding Gender-Neutral Plural Forms in Mexican Spanish. Lecture presented to the Center for Language Science community at the Pennsylvania State University. University Park, USA. November 7, 2025

Neurocognitive consequences of bilingualism [Las consecuencias neurocognitivas del bilingüismo]. Lecture presented at the Seminario Permanente de Formación Docente, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, UAM-Iztapalapa. Mexico. July 18, 2025

Psycholinguistics of bilingualism in understudied populations: focus on novel word learning. Lecture presented to the Center for Language Science community at the Pennsylvania State University. University Park, USA. October 25, 2024

The diversity of Mexico. Lecture presented to M.A. students of Speech Language Hearing Sciences at the George Washington University, USA. February 21, 2024

Studying Mexican Indigenous bilingualism via psycholinguistic methods. Lecture presented to M.A. students of linguistics at the University of Freiburg. Germany. January 31, 2024

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