About me
I am Professor (Esp.Catedrático) and Chair of the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I am also the director of the UCSC Bilingualism Research Lab. I am a linguist who specializes in experimental phonetics, bilingualism, and psycholinguistics. As a phonetician, my research integrates experimental approaches to examine the speech production, perception, and processing of early and late bilingual individuals, and the linguistic and extra-linguistic factors that shape their phonetic performance. I have been the principal investigator or collaborator in several research projects on Spanish-Catalan bilinguals, Spanish-Galician bilinguals, English-Italian bilinguals, Spanish-English-Japanese trilinguals, Spanish and Tagalog heritage speakers in the United States, English heritage speakers in Spain, and Spanish-Otomi (Hñäñho) bilingual speakers in Mexico. This work has been published in international venues, including Journal of Phonetics, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Phonetica, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Second Language Research, Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, International Journal of Bilingualism, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, Applied Psycholinguistics, and Lingua. I recently edited The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and co-edited Interdisciplinary Approaches to Romance Linguistics (John Benjamins, 2025). My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), The Hellman Fellows Fund, UCMRPI, William C. Powers Jr. Fellowship, The University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS), Alianza MX and Faculty Research Grants from the Committee on Research at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Coming up:
Talk: La variación fonética en relación con la transmisión intergeneracional del español y el tagalo en la diáspora californiana. VI Jornadas Fonética Open Days. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. February 11, 2026.
Panel: Bilingual Co-Activation and the Blurring of Phonetic Boundaries. 50th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC50). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. February 28-March 1, 2026.
Talk: TBD. SEC Spanish Consortium. University of Mississippi. March 17-20, 2026.
Talk: Multilingual elasticity in the acoustic realization of simultaneous and sequential trilinguals. 20th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 20). Université du Québec à Montréal and McGill University. June 26-28, 2026.
I am Professor (Esp.Catedrático) and Chair of the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I am also the director of the UCSC Bilingualism Research Lab. I am a linguist who specializes in experimental phonetics, bilingualism, and psycholinguistics. As a phonetician, my research integrates experimental approaches to examine the speech production, perception, and processing of early and late bilingual individuals, and the linguistic and extra-linguistic factors that shape their phonetic performance. I have been the principal investigator or collaborator in several research projects on Spanish-Catalan bilinguals, Spanish-Galician bilinguals, English-Italian bilinguals, Spanish-English-Japanese trilinguals, Spanish and Tagalog heritage speakers in the United States, English heritage speakers in Spain, and Spanish-Otomi (Hñäñho) bilingual speakers in Mexico. This work has been published in international venues, including Journal of Phonetics, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Phonetica, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Second Language Research, Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, International Journal of Bilingualism, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, Applied Psycholinguistics, and Lingua. I recently edited The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and co-edited Interdisciplinary Approaches to Romance Linguistics (John Benjamins, 2025). My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), The Hellman Fellows Fund, UCMRPI, William C. Powers Jr. Fellowship, The University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS), Alianza MX and Faculty Research Grants from the Committee on Research at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Coming up:
Talk: La variación fonética en relación con la transmisión intergeneracional del español y el tagalo en la diáspora californiana. VI Jornadas Fonética Open Days. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. February 11, 2026.
Panel: Bilingual Co-Activation and the Blurring of Phonetic Boundaries. 50th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC50). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. February 28-March 1, 2026.
Talk: TBD. SEC Spanish Consortium. University of Mississippi. March 17-20, 2026.
Talk: Multilingual elasticity in the acoustic realization of simultaneous and sequential trilinguals. 20th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 20). Université du Québec à Montréal and McGill University. June 26-28, 2026.
Contact information:
MARK AMENGUAL
Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics
Humanities Division
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
EMAIL: amengual [AT] ucsc [DOT] edu
MARK AMENGUAL
Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics
Humanities Division
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
EMAIL: amengual [AT] ucsc [DOT] edu
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Recent Publications
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Amengual, M., & Dalola, A. (2025, eds.). Interdisciplinary Approaches to Romance Linguistics: in honor of Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida jacqueline Toribio. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. |
In Cross-language Influences in Bilingual Processing and Second Language Acquisition (John Benjamins), edited by Irina Elgort, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, and Marc Brysbaert.
Cross-language influences in the acquisition of L2 and L3 phonology
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