Research Interests
- Acoustic and articulatory phonetics
- Bilingual speech perception and production
- Heritage speaker phonetics and phonology
- Second language lexical and phonological processing
- Bilingual language dominance
- L3 phonetics and phonology
Peer-reviewed publications
Edited Volumes
Articles in Refereed Journals
Book Chapters
Conference Proceedings
- Amengual, M. (forthcoming). The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Amengual, M. (2021) (Ed.). Exploring Cross-linguistic Effects and Phonetic Interactions in the Context of Bilingualism. Languages. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI
Articles in Refereed Journals
- Amengual, M. (2024). Phonetics of early bilingualism. Annual Review of Linguistics, 10.
- 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., Amengual, M. (2022). Perceptual categorization of Hñäñho-specific vowel contrasts by Hñäñho heritage speakers in Mexico. Languages, 7: 73. Special Issue: Heritage Speaker Phonetics and Phonology: Testing models and expanding the range of data.
- Amengual, M. (2021). The acoustic realization of language-specific phonological categories despite dynamic cross-linguistic influence in bilingual and trilingual speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149(2), 1271-1284.
- Mulík, S., Amengual, M., Maldonado, R., & Carrasco-Ortíz, H. (2021). Heritage speakers: a concept applicable to the indigenous people in Mexico? [Hablantes de herencia: ¿una noción aplicable para los indígenas de México?] Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada, 73, 7-37.
- Carrasco-Ortíz, H., Amengual, M., & Gries, S. Th. (2021). Cross-language effects of phonological and orthographic similarity in cognate word recognition: the role of language dominance. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 11(3), 389-417.
- Amengual, M. (2021). Exploring cross-linguistic effects and phonetic interactions in the context of bilingualism: Introducing the Special Issue. Languages, 6(1), 54, 1-7.
- Mulík, S., Corona-Dzul, B., Amengual, M., & Carrasco-Ortíz, H. (2021). Perfil psicolingüístico de los bilingües otomí (hñäñho)-español, migrantes de Santiago Mexquititlán a Santiago de Querétaro, México. Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México, 8, e154, 1-50.
- Amengual, M., & Simonet, M. (2020). Language dominance does not always predict cross-linguistic interactions in bilingual speech production. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 10(6), 141-166.
- Simonet, M., & Amengual, M. (2020). Increased language co-activation leads to enhanced cross-linguistic phonetic convergence. International Journal of Bilingualism, 24(2), 208-221.
- 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.
- Amengual, M. (2019). Type of early bilingualism and its effect on the acoustic realization of allophonic variants: early sequential and simultaneous bilinguals. International Journal of Bilingualism, 23(5), 954-970
- Amengual, M. (2018). Asymmetrical interlingual influence in the production of Spanish and English laterals as a result of competing activation in bilingual language processing. Journal of Phonetics, 69, 12-28
- Amengual, M. (2016). Acoustic correlates of the Spanish tap-trill contrast: Heritage and L2 Spanish speakers. Heritage Language Journal, 13(2), special issue on the phonetic and phonological systems of heritage languages, 88-112
- Amengual, M. (2016). Cross-linguistic influence in the bilingual mental lexicon: evidence of cognate effects in the phonetic production and processing of a vowel contrast. Frontiers in Psychology, 7: 617.
- Amengual, M. (2016). The perception of language-specific phonetic categories does not guarantee accurate phonological representations in the lexicon of early bilinguals. Applied Psycholinguistics, 37, 1221-1251.
- Gutiérrez, M.E, & Amengual, M. (2016). Perceptions of standard and nonstandard language varieties: the influence of ethnicity and heritage language experience. Heritage Language Journal, 13(1), 55-79.
- Amengual, M. (2016). The perception and production of language-specific mid-vowel contrasts: shifting the focus to the bilingual individual in early language input conditions. International Journal of Bilingualism, 20(2), 133-152.
- Amengual, M., & Chamorro, P. (2015). The effects of language dominance in the perception and production of the Galician mid-vowel contrasts. Phonetica, 72(4), 207-236. *Top Cited Paper Impact Factor 2017 award in Phonetica: International Journal of Phonetic Science, Karger Publishers.
- Brown, E. L., & Amengual, M. (2015). Fine-grained and probabilistic cross-linguistic influence in the pronunciation of cognates: Evidence from corpus-based spontaneous conversation and experimentally elicited data. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 8, 1, 59-83.
- Bullock, B. E., Toribio, A.J., & Amengual, M. (2014). The status of s in Dominican Spanish. Lingua, 143, 20-35.
- Amengual, M. (2012). Interlingual influence in bilingual speech: Cognate status effect in a continuum of bilingualism. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 15(3), 517-530.
Book Chapters
- Amengual, M. & Rost Bagudanch, A. (forthcoming). Phonological variation of Spanish in contact with Catalan in the Balearic Islands [La variación fonológica del español en contacto con el catalán en las Baleares]. Enciclopedia Concisa de los Dialectos del Español (ENCODES)., Eds. M. Díaz Campos & Juan M. Hernández Campoy. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Birdsong, D. & Amengual, M. (forthcoming). Language dominance effects in the phonetics and phonology of bilingualism. In M. Amengual (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Amengual, M. & Simonet, M. (forthcoming). Phonology and bilingualism [Fonologia i bilingüisme]. Manual de Fonologia Catalana., Vol. 2, Eds. C. Pons-Moll, F. Torres-Tamarit, & M.M. Vanrell. València, Spain: Tirant lo Blanch.
- Simonet, M., Nadeu, M., & Amengual, M. (forthcoming). Articulatory and acoustic characterization of the sounds of Catalan [Caracterització articulatòria i acústica dels sons del català]. Manual de Fonologia Catalana., Vol. 1, Eds. C. Pons-Moll, F. Torres-Tamarit, & M.M. Vanrell. València, Spain: Tirant lo Blanch.
- Amengual, M. (2023). Cross-language influences in the acquisition of L2 and L3 Phonology. In I. Elgort, A. Siyanova-Chanturia, and M. Brysbaert (Eds.), Cross-language Influences in Second Language Acquisition and Processing: Interdisciplinary insights and perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Rao, R., & Amengual, M. (2021). The phonetics and phonology of Spanish as a heritage language [La fonética y fonología del español como lengua de herencia]. In D. Pascual y Cabo & J. Torres (eds.), Aproximaciones al estudio del español como lengua de herencia. (pp. 11-23). London, UK: Routledge.
- Amengual, M. (2019). The perception of the Catalan back mid vowel contrast revisited: accuracy and response latency data. In L. Marqués-Pascual & A. Cortijo Ocaña (Eds.), Second and Third Language Acquisition in Catalan-speaking regions. (pp. 97-128). Juan de la Cuesta: Hispanic Monographs.
- Gertken, L. M., Amengual, M., & Birdsong, D. (2014). Assessing language dominance with the Bilingual Language Profile. In P. Leclercq, A. Edmonds, & H. Hilton (Eds.), Measuring L2 proficiency: perspectives from SLA (pp. 208-225). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Conference Proceedings
- Amengual, M. (2023). The acoustic realization of L2 Spanish phonetic categories and allophonic alternations by English-speaking immigrants. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Prague, Czech Republic.
- Mulík, S., Amengual, M., Carrasco-Ortíz, H. (2023). Early exposure to an Indigenous heritage language can facilitate transfer of perceptual abilities into a foreign language. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Prague, Czech Republic.
- Amengual, M., Meredith, E., & Panelli, T. (2019). Static and dynamic phonetic interactions in the L2 and L3 acquisition of Japanese velar voiceless stops. In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 964-968). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.
- 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.
- Amengual, M. (2015). The acoustic realization of the /a/-/ə/ alternation in Majorcan Catalan. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Glasgow, Scotland.
- Amengual, M. (2013). Intonational cues in the perception of invitation and information-seeking yes/no questions by Mexican and Castilian Spanish speakers. In Selected Proceedings of the 15th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. Chad Howe, Sarah Blackwell and Margaret Quesada, 93-102. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
- Amengual, M. (2011). Spanish and Catalan in Majorca: Are there contact-induced changes in the Majorcan Catalan vowel system? In Selected Proceedings of the 13th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. Luis Ortiz, 214-223, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
- Amengual, M. (2011). Verbal morphology and identity in Majorca: the manifestation of attitudes in writing. In Selected Procedings of 5th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, ed. Jim Michnowicz & Robin Dodsworth, 26-39, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
- Amengual, M., & Blanco, C.P. (2010). Final Consonant Clusters in Majorcan Catalan Verbs: The Resolution of Sonority Sequence Principle violations through Cluster Simplification. In Selected Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology, ed. Marta Ortega-Llebaria, 91-99. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Invited Presentations/Workshops
- TBD. 54th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 54). Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. May 9-11, 2024.
- Operationalizing and Measuring Language Dominance with the Bilingual Language Profile. 1er Encuentro de la Red de investigación MULTILINGUA. Department of Translation and Language Sciences. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. July 27, 2023.
- Long-term and short-term phonetic interactions in bilingual and trilingual speech. Linguistics Colloquium. Department of Linguistics. Northwestern University. Evanston, Illinois. April, 14, 2023.
- The remarkable versatility of bi/multilingual speakers’ sound systems. 32nd Annual Graduate and Professional Spanish and Portuguese Symposium. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona. February, 18, 2023.
- The Bilingual Language Profile (BLP): a tool for assessing language dominance in bilingualism research Workshop. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona. February, 28, 2023.
- The flexibility of acoustic boundaries in multilingual speech. ANU Linguistics Seminar Series. School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics. The Australian National University. Canberra, Australia. September 22, 2022.
- Monolingualism can be cured! And what does this mean for bilingual speech? Slugs & Steins: Lectures from UC Santa Cruz. UCSC Alumni Association. December 13, 2021.
- Phonetic interactions in multilingual speech. UCSC Linguistics Colloquium. Department of Linguistics. UC Santa Cruz, October 22, 2021.
- La sensibilidad y flexibilidad de los sistemas fonológicos de hablantes bilingües y trilingües. Department of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies. University of Richmond, April 12, 2021
- How flexible are the sound systems of multilingual speakers?. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley, March 15, 2021.
- Methodological and theoretical considerations in multilingual speech production. Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas, September 17, 2020.
- Interferencia fonética estática y dinámica en la producción acústica de bilingües y trilingües. Departament de Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain), December 12, 2019.
- Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual and trilingual speech: static and dynamic interference. Hispanic Linguistics Colloquium, Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures, Texas Tech University, November 14, 2019.
- The Bilingual Language Profile: A Tool for Assessing Bilingual Language Dominance. Hispanic Linguistics Colloquium, Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures, Texas Tech University, November 15, 2019.
- Static and dynamic cross-linguistic influence in bilingual and trilingual speech. Hispanic Linguistics Colloquium, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University. October 18, 2019.
- The Bilingual Language Profile (BLP) questionnaire. Hispanic Linguistics Colloquium, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University. October 18, 2019.
- Interferencia lingüística en la producción acústica de bilingües tempranos y tardíos: consideraciones metodológicas e implicaciones teóricas (Plenary talk). IV Jornada de Lingüística LingUAQ , Facultad de Lenguas y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico. September 5, 2019.
- Assessing language dominance in Mexican Indigenous Bilingualism: The case of Otomi (Hñäñho) heritage speakers (Stanislav Mulík, Beerelim Corona Dzul, Mark Amengual, & Haydée Carrasco Ortíz). IX Seminario Permanente de Lingüística Aplicada, Departamento de Lenguas, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, May 18, 2019.
- Efectos de dominancia y modo lingüístico en la producción fonética de bilingües de español-inglés. Área de Lingüística, Departamento de Filosofía, División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Mexico. November 21, 2018.
- Workshop: Análisis acústico del habla en Praat. Facultad de Lenguas y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico. September 13 and 14, 2018.
- Early input effects in heritage speaker pronunciation. Applied Linguistics Colloquia, Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics. University of California, Santa Cruz. May 23, 2018.
- Pathways to Graduate School. Spanish Studies Career Orientation, Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics. University of California, Santa Cruz. March 5, 2018.
- Asymmetrical effects in the acoustic realization of English and Spanish laterals as a result of language mode and dominance. Language Identity and Perception group, Department of Linguistics. University of California, Santa Cruz. May 26, 2017.
- Workshop: Introducción al estudio del bilingüismo: aproximaciones teóricas y empíricas. Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico. November 23 & 25, 2016.
- Cross-language phonological influence in heritage and L2 Spanish: the acoustic realization of liquids. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin. November 16, 2016.
- Workshop: Empirical research in bilingualism. Facultat de Filosofía y Lletres, Universitat de les Illes Balears. November 2 and 3, 2016.
- Language dominance and cognate effects in bilingual language processing (Plenary talk). Applied Linguistics Doctoral Workshop 2016. Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and English Studies, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. October 28, 2016.
- A usage-based approach to cross-linguistic influence in bilingual speech. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de León, Spain. October 11 and 16, 2016.
- Living in two languages: Lexical effects in bilingual production. Languages and Applied Linguistics Colloquium. Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz. April 22, 2015.
- Language dominance effects on the perception and production of language-specific vowel contrasts by early Spanish-Galician bilinguals. Phlunch, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz. April 10, 2015.
- Robust phonetic discrimination does not guarantee target-like lexical encoding in early bilinguals. Berkeley Phonetics and Phonology Forum. Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley. February 2, 2015.
- The phonetic abilities of early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals: contact-induced change, standardization, and dialectal leveling. Linguistics Program. University of South Carolina. February 26, 2014.
- Phonetic interference in the Spanish of highly proficient native and non-native Spanish-English bilinguals. Department of Languages. Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture. Clemson University. October 8, 2013.
- Interactions between the phonetic and lexical levels of early bilinguals. Department of Romance Languages. Romance Linguistics Colloquium. University of Georgia. September 11, 2013.
- Production and perception of Catalan-specific categories by Majorcan Spanish-Catalan bilinguals. Department of Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics Colloquium. University of Arizona. December 7, 2012
- Cognate status effect on VOT for Spanish-English bilinguals. Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Production, Perception & Processing Speaker Series. University of Texas at Austin. October 10, 2010.
Refereed Conference Presentations
- The acoustic realization of L2 Spanish phonetic categories and allophonic alternations by English-speaking immigrants. Poster presented at the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Prague, Czech Republic. August 7-11, 2023.
- Early exposure to an Indigenous heritage language can facilitate transfer of perceptual abilities into a foreign language (with Stanislav Mulík* and Haydée Carrasco-Ortíz). Poster presented at the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Prague, Czech Republic. August 7-11, 2023.
- Ultimate attainment in L2 speech as shaped by the linguistic environment: a closer look at cross-linguistic influence in long-term immersion. Paper presented at the 2022 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Arizona State University, November 3-5, 2022.
- The diversity of language profiles and contexts in heritage language acquisition: A comparison across three heritage speaker populations (with Stanislav Mulík*). Paper presented at the 2022 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. Arizona State University, November 3-5, 2022.
- Early elecrophysiological response to heritage language sounds in Mexican Indigenous bilinguals (with with Stan Mulík*, Gloria Avecilla Ramírez, and Haydée Carrasco Ortíz). Paper presented at the 2022 Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium. Edinburgh University, October 25, 2022.
- Phonological variation in trilingual speech: English heritage speakers and native English-speaking long-term immigrants in a Spanish-Catalan bilingual community. Paper presented at the 50th New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV). Stanford University, October 13-15, 2022.
- Huella cerebral de la lengua maternal en los hablantes de otomí (hñäñho) como lengua de herencia (with Stan Mulík* and Haydée Carrasco Ortíz). Paper presented at the XVI Congreso Nacional de Lingüística. Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico, September 20-23, 2022.
- Open scholarship using the Bilingual Language Profile (with David Birdsong). Paper presented at the Open Scholarship in Applied Linguistics Symposium. AILA Research network, University of Cambridge, June 9-10, 2022.
- Long-term phonetic interactions in L3 acquisition: the case of British-born immigrants and English heritage speakers in Spain. Paper presented at the 10th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds 2022). Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, April 20-22, 2022
- The acquisition of new phonetic categories and new allophonic distributions: the case of British expats in Spain. Poster presented at the 10th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds 2022). Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, April 20-22, 2022
- Categorization of Californian English vowels by Catalan-Spanish bilinguals (with Lucrecia Rallo Fabra and Michael D. Tyler). Paper to be presented the 4th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe Conference (PAPE4). Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, June 21-23, 2021.
- Indigenous bilingualism and language contact: an acoustic description of the Hñäñho vowel system (with Stan Mulík, 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, March 19, 2021
- Comparing the context of learning in L2 phonetic acquisition: individual trajectories in a semester-long study-abroad and at-home context (with Morgen Smith and Jeff Michno). Paper presented at Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina (SLINKI). North Carolina State University. Raleigh, NC. March 6, 2021.
- Indigenous bilingualism and language shift: Heritage language speakers in Mexico (with Stan Mulík and Haydée Carrasco Ortíz). Paper presented at the 11th Workshop of Immigrant Languages in the Americas. University of North Carolina, Asheville, October 8-10, 2020.
- Phonetic interactions in heritage bilingual and trilingual speech production. Poster presented at the Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium 2020. Krakow, Poland, September 22, 2020.
- A neurolinguistic study of vowel perception in Hñäñho heritage speakers. Poster presented at the Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium 2020. Krakow, Poland, September 22, 2020.
- The acoustic realization of language-specific phonological categories despite interlingual phonetic interference: implications for L2 and L3. Paper presented at the World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA 2020). Groningen, The Netherlands, August 9-14, 2020 (Abstract accepted, conference canceled due to COVID-19)
- Phonetic gains during Study Abroad: a multimodal approach (with Jeff Michno). Paper presented at the World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA 2020). Groningen, The Netherlands, August 9-14, 2020 (Abstract accepted, conference canceled due to COVID-19)
- Estudio neurolingüístico de la percepción de vocales del hñäñho por sus hablantes de herencia (with Stanislav Mulík, Gloria Avecilla Ramírez, and Haydée Carrasco Ortíz). Paper 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)
- Dynamic phonetic interactions in Spanish heritage bilingual and trilingual speech production. Paper presented at the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL). University of Texas at Austin, April 9-11, 2020
- Is the heritage speaker a better language learner (at least in terms of phonology)?. Paper presented at the 2020 Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology (CASPSLaP). San Jose State University, February 28-29, 2020
- L2 Phonetic gains in a Spanish language program: Comparing semester-long study-abroad and at-home contexts (with Jeff Michno). Paper presented at the 2020 Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology (CASPSLaP). San Jose State University, February 28-29, 2020
- Evaluación de la dominancia lingüística del bilingüismo de lenguas originarias mexicanas: el caso del Otomí (Hñäñho) (with Beerelim Corona Dzul, Stanislav Mulík, and Haydée Carrasco Ortíz). Paper presented at the IV Jornada de Lingüística LingUAQ 2019. Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico. September 5, 2019
- El Sistema vocálico del otomí de Santiago Mexquititlán (Hñäñho) (with Stanislav Mulík, Gloria Avecilla Ramírez, and Haydée Carrasco Ortíz). Paper presented at the IV Jornada de Lingüística LingUAQ 2019. Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico. September 5, 2019
- An acoustic description of the vowel system of Santiago Mexquititlán Otomi (Hñäñho) (with Staníslav Mulík, Gloria Avecilla-Ramírez, and Haydée Carrasco-Ortíz). Paper presented at the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Melbourne, Australia. August 5-9, 2019
- Static and dynamic phonetic interactions in the L2 and L3 acquisition of Japanese velar voiceless stops (with Lizzie Meredith and Talia Panelli). Paper presented at the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Melbourne, Australia. August 5-9, 2019
- Language-specific phonological categories despite interlingual interference: Spanish, English, and Japanese in a bilingual and trilingual setting (with Lizzie Meredith and Talia Panelli). Paper presented at Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World (BHL2019). Leiden University, The Netherlands. January 9-11, 2019
- Different acoustic realizations of allophonic variants by early sequential and simultaneous Spanish-English bilinguals. Paper presented at Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World (BHL2019). Leiden University, The Netherlands. January 9-11, 2019
- Early input effects on degree of spirantization of voiced stops in adulthood (with Benjamin Youngstrom). Paper presented at the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS). Chania, Crete, Greece. September 4-7, 2017
- Interplay between language dominance and language mode in the acoustic realization of Spanish and English alveolar laterals. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS). Chania, Crete, Greece. September 4-7, 2017
- Early simultaneous or sequential exposure to two languages has consequences on the production of L2 allophonic variants in adulthood. Paper presented at the 47th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL). University of Delaware. Newark, Delaware. April 20-23, 2017
- Second-language speakers of Catalan find its unstressed vowel reduction rule easy. Why? (with Miquel Simonet) Paper presented at the 47th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL). University of Delaware. Newark, Delaware. April 20-23, 2017
- The acquisition of Spanish and English /l/ by Spanish heritage speakers and L2 learners. Paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Language Acquisition. Universitat de les Illes Balears. Palma, Mallorca. Spain. September 7-9, 2016
- Bilingual language mode and language dominance effects in the lateral consonant production of heritage and L2 Spanish speakers. Paper presented at the 8th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds 2016). Aarhus University. Denmark. June 10-12, 2016
- Not all heritage speakers are alike: the acoustic correlates of the Spanish tap-trill contrast vary as a function of language dominance. Poster presented at the 8th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds 2016). Aarhus University. Denmark. June 10-12, 2016
- The acoustic realization of the Spanish phonemic tap-trill contrast: bridging the divide between heritage and L2 Spanish speakers. Paper presented at Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology (CASPSLaP). The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH April 15-17, 2016
- Phonetic transfer in the production of Spanish-Portuguese bilinguals: intervocalic /s/ voicing is modulated by language dominance (with Manuel Serna Dimas and Yessica Andrea Ibáñez). Paper presented at Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology (CASPSLaP). The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH April 15-17, 2016
- Accurate categorization of L2 vowel contrasts does not guarantee that these sounds are successfully encoded in the lexicon of early bilinguals. Paper presented at Sound to Word in Bilingual and Second Language Speech Perception. University of Iowa. Iowa City, IA April 1-2, 2016
- The acoustic realization of the /a/-/ə/ alternation in Majorcan Catalan. Paper presented at the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Glasgow, Scotland, UK. August 10-14, 2015
- Convergence of the vowel systems in the production and perception of early Spanish-Galician bilinguals (with Pilar Chamorro). Poster presented at the 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB). Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ. May 20-24, 2015
- Phonetic convergence in a context of extensive language contact: merged phonetic contrasts in Galician (with Pilar Chamorro). Poster presented at the 18th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS). Purdue University. Lafayette, IN. November 13-16, 2014
- Language contact, language shift, and phonetic convergence: Loss of the mid-vowel contrasts in modern urban Galician (with Pilar Chamorro). Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 43 (NWAV 43). University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Chicago, IL. October 23-26, 2014
- Usage-based approaches to the perception and production of L2 mid-vowel contrasts. Paper presented at Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology (CASPSLAP). Georgetown University. Washington, D.C. March 14-16, 2014
- The Bilingual Language Profile as an assessment tool in the study of second language phonology (with David Birdsong and Libby Gertken). Paper presented at Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology (CASPSLAP). Georgetown University. Washington, D.C. March 14-16, 2014
- Bilingual lexical connections: a usage-based approach to the organization of early bilinguals’ dominant and non-dominant phonetic systems. Paper presented at Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT). Georgetown University. Washington, D.C. March 14-16, 2014
- Operationalizing and quantifying language dominance in bilingualism research. Paper presented at Spanish Linguistics in North Carolina (SLINKI). Appalachian State University. Boone, NC. February 8, 2014
- Cross-linguistic influence and lexical effects in the perception and processing of early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals. Poster presented at the International Conference on Multilingualism: Linguistic Challenges and Neurocognitive Mechanisms. McGill University. Montreal, Canada. October 24-25, 2013
- Attitudes and judgments towards accented speech: the influence of ethnicity and language experience. (with María Elena Gutiérrez) Paper presented at the 24th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages. University of Texas Pan American. McAllen, TX. March 6-9, 2013
- A phonetic and lexical approach to the perception of L2-specific contrasts. Paper presented at the 16th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS). University of Florida. Gainesville, FL. October 25-28, 2012
- Fine-grained and probabilistic phonological interference: Analyses of Spanish-English cognates. (with Esther Brown) Paper presented at the 16th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS). University of Florida. Gainesville, FL. October 25-28, 2012
- Contact-induced effects on language-specific vowel contrasts: challenging the notion of phonetic ‘deafness’ in highly proficient early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals. Paper presented at the 20th Symposium about language and Society-Austin (SALSA). University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX. April 13-15, 2012
- Assessing language dominance through self-reports on the Bilingual Language Profile (with Libby M. Gertken and David Birdsong) Paper presented at the L2 Proficiency Assessment Workshop. EMMA- Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3. Montepellier, France. February 24-25, 2012
- Intonational cues in the perception of invitation and information-seeking yes/no questions by Mexican and Castilian Spanish speakers. Paper presented at the 15th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS). University of Georgia. Athens, GA. October 6-9, 2011
- The use of the Spanish imperfect subjunctive in monolingual and bilingual populations (with Cynthia P. Blanco). Paper presented at the 15th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS). University of Georgia. Athens, GA. October 6-9, 2011
- The bilingual mental lexicon and segmental production accuracy in Spanish. Paper presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO). University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College. South Padre Island, TX. September 30th-October 2nd, 2011
- The Bilingual Language Profile: A Tool for Assessing Bilingual Language Dominance (with Libby M. Gertken and David Birdsong)Paper presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO). University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College. South Padre Island, TX. September 30th-October 2nd, 2011
- Cognate effect on segmental production accuracy in the bilingual continuum: determining the role of word frequency and defining cognate status. Paper presented at the Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics (BWTL14). University of Toronto, Canada. December 9-10, 2010
- Lost and found in rural Dominican Spanish: /s/ deletion and hypercorrection (with Barbara Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio). Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV39). San Antonio, TX. November 4-6, 2010
- Cognate status and VOT in Spanish production: data from heritage speakers of Spanish. Paper presented at the 14th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS). Indiana University. Bloomington, Indiana. October 14-17, 2010
- Reductio ad absurdu(m): Post-tonic phrase final vowel reduction in rural Dominican Spanish (with Barbara Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio). Paper presented at the 14th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS). Indiana University. Bloomington, Indiana. October 14-17, 2010
- The results of competition between a written Catalan standard and the expression of local identity. Poster presented at the 5th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics. NC State University. Raleigh, NC. April 8-10, 2010
- Catalan language and identity in Majorca: the manifestation of attitudes in writing. Paper presented at the 18 Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics. Austin, TX. November 13-14, 2009
- Spanish and Catalan in Majorca: Are there contact-induced changes in the Majorcan Catalan vowel system? Paper presented at the 13th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS). San Juan, Puerto Rico. October 21-24, 2009
- Sociolinguistic variation in Majorcan Catalan verbs (with Cynthia P. Blanco). Paper presented at the 1st Annual Conference on Spanish and Portuguese at Temple University. Philadelphia, PA. October 24-25, 2008
- Final consonant clusters in Majorcan Catalan verbs: The resolution of Sonority Sequence Principle violations through cluster simplification (with Cynthia P. Blanco) Paper presented at the Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology 4 (LASP4) Conference. Austin, TX. September 26-28, 2008