Paéng Martinez
pɐˈʔɛŋ maɾˈtinɛz (they/he/siya)
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About Me
About Me
I am a fourth-year undergraduate pursuing a degree in Linguistics and Communicative Disorders (with a minor in Spanish) at Cal State Fullerton. I am currently the Assistant Lab Director at the CSUF Heritage Language Research Lab.
I grew up in Quezon City, Metro Manila and lived in the province of La Union during my pre-teen years. I then moved to the United States when I was 14. While I am a native Tagalog speaker, I feel like having English as the dominant language of my teenage years influenced my Tagalog heavily.
Research Interests
Research Interests
My field of interest is in the morphosyntax of US heritage languages. I am currently forming a spoken corpus of Californian Heritage Tagalog speakers in order to examine the grammatical constructions of their Tagalog narration.
My last projects looked at receptive bilinguals-- speakers with strong comprehension but limited expressive skills in a language. I investigated how U.S. Tagalog receptive bilinguals understood verbal voice morphology through a picture-matching task. Results have shown that Tagalog receptive bilinguals may rely on word order instead, disregarding morphological cues!
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