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 a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the 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 specialize in the study of bilingualism from the psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic perspectives, 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 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. (in press). Bilingual vocabulary development in Mexican Indigenous infants: the effects of language exposure from home and mothers’ language dominance. Journal of Child Language. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000924000667
• 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
• Mulík, S., Carrasco-Ortíz, H., & Amengual, M. (2022). Perceptual categorization of Hñäñho-specific vowel contrasts by Hñäñho heritage speakers in Mexico. Languages 7(2), Special Issue: Heritage Speaker Phonetics and Phonology: Testing models and expanding the range of data. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020073
• 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. https://doi.org/10.22201/enallt.01852647p.2021.73.970

Pronouns:

• He/him