Stanislav Mulík

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 an Assistant Teaching Professor at the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), where I previously served as a postdoctoral scholar and lab manager in the Dussias Brain Tracking Lab (2023–2026). Before that, I completed 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 specialize in the study of bilingualism from the psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic perspectives, especially at the level of phonetics, phonology, lexical learning and processing, as well as morphosyntactic processing and linguistic prediction. 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 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.

Publications:

• Mulík, S., & Arias-Trejo, N. (2026). 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. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000924000667
• Beatty-Martínez, A. L., Mulík, S., Bajo, M. T., Dussias, P. E. (2026). Grammatical gender processing: More than meets the eye. Cognition, 272, 106520. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2026.106520
• 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. https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-bja10057
• Beatty-Martínez, A. L., Jiaze, L., Shen, Y., Mulík, S., Hawkins, R. D., Guzzardo Tamargo, R. E., & Dussias, P. E. (2026). The Tangrams Codeswitching Corpus. Scientific Data. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-08158-3
• Shen, Y., Mulík, S., Bajo, M. T., Dussias, P. E., & Beatty-Martínez, A. L. (2026). Listening to Variation: Human and Whisper Responses to Grammatical Gender Agreement. Computer Speech & Language, 2026, 102038.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2026.102038
• 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. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009105767.027
• 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.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100321000153
• 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. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583211054448

Pronouns:

• He/him