Mark Myslín :: Academic

Interests

I'm currently a senior Linguistics and Spanish major at UC Santa Barbara. This fall I'll be a first-year PhD student in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at UC San Diego. My main interests are in language and cognition and the ways language is shaped by usage. More (but still not very) specifically, I'm interested in corpus and computational approaches to syntax and semantics, in both mono- and multilingual contexts. I'm also increasingly fascinated by topics in cognitive psychology like memory and attention.

UC San Diego (photo credit)

Teaching

Courses I designed and taught at College of the Redwoods Upward Bound:

• Intro to Linguistics, Summer 2010

• Advanced Spanish: Latin American Film and Short Story, Summer 2010

• Intro to Linguistics, Summer 2009

• Intro to Spanish, Summer 2009

Research

• 2010. Myslín, Mark. Codeswitching, prosody, and information flow in Czech-English bilingual discourse. Paper presented at the Southern California Undergraduate Linguistics Conference, UCLA, 10 April 2010.

• 2010. Myslín, Mark and Stefan Th. Gries. k dixez? A corpus study of Spanish Internet orthography. Literary and Linguistic Computing 25: 85-104.

• (in progress) Language-specific lexical cohesion in codeswitching.

• (in progress) English morphological borrowing in computer-mediated American Czech.

Some early UCSB papers

• Progreso científico, conservadurismo cultural: ciencia e ideología en la (pre-)lingüística española del siglo XVIII (Spanish 110C, Winter 2009)

• Armonía sin luz: realidad y percepción a través de la luz y el color en Nada de Carmen Laforet (Spanish 110D, Fall 2008)

• Review of “Lexical repulsion between sense-related pairs” by Antoinette Renouf and Jayeeta Banerjee
(Linguistics 120, Spring 2008)

• Una realidad sucia y cotidiana: Images of Urban Modernity in Pizza, birra, faso and Amores perros (Film Studies 127, Winter 2008)

• Enterrado pero vivo: el elemento prehispánico en el cuento mexicano contemporáneo (Spanish 138, Fall 2007)

Other work

• El habla de Sinaloa, México Video data from a speaker of Mexican Spanish, in the format of the University of Iowa's Dialectoteca del Español. (Spanish 114A, Fall 2008)

• 120 Years of Transit: In Eureka, civic pride and public transit go way back (pdf). In Community Wheel (Fall 2008): 6.

CV

• CV as of April 2010