Dr. Mario Ruiz Moreno

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | Spanisch, Portugiesisch Sprachwissenschaft

  • Acoustic phonetics
  • Sociolinguistics/variation linguistics and linguistic change
  • Bilingualism & multilingualism
  • Language contact and language death/preservation
  • Contrastive Romance – Germanic linguistics

Languages spoken
Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, English, German, and Catalan

  • Since 02/05/2019: “Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter”; Hispanic and lusophone linguistics (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany).
  • From 01/10/2017 to 31/08/2018: “Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter”. Hispanic and lusophone linguistics (Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany).
  • From 01/10/2016 to 30/09/2020: “Lehrbeauftragter”; Hispanic and lusophone linguistics (Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany).


Competitive scholarships

  • PhD scholarship - Hamburg University.
  • Master scholarship - Santander Postgraduate Scholarship

Awards

Doctor in Romance Philology/Linguistics, Hamburg University (Germany), 2014-2019.
PhD Thesis: Phonetic production in early and late German-Spanish bilinguals.
First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christoph Gabriel
Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Heike Zinsmeister.

Master of Arts in Bilingualism, Bangor University (United Kingdom), 2009-2010
Master Thesis: Spanish expressive vocabulary acquisition among Catalan bilinguals.

5-year-Bachelor of Arts (Licenciatura) in English Philology (specialisation on Applied Linguistics), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), 2003-2008.
Erasmus Scholarship, Southampton University (United Kingdom), 2006-2007.

Certificate of Pedagogical Aptitude (“C.A.P”), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain, 2008).

Course on Teaching Spanish as a foreign language, Fundación Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain, 2008).

Ruiz Moreno, Mario & Gabriel, Christoph (2020): Voice Onset Time in Pomerano-Brazilian Portuguese bilinguals. In: Gabriel, Christoph / Pešková, Andrea / Selig, Maria (Eds.): Contact, variation and change in Romance and beyond. Studies in honor of Trudel Meisenburg (Studienreihe Romania 35). Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 57–77.

Ruiz Moreno, Mario (2020). Phonetic production in early and late German-Spanish bilinguals. PhD thesis: Hamburg University.

Peer-reviewed oral and poster presentations

2023 - Oral presentation at 23. Deutschen Hispanistentag (Graz, Austria), 22-25/February
Accesibilidad léxica y adquisición de vocabulario castellano en hablantes bilingües dominantes en catalán

2021 - Oral presentation at the 14. Deutschen Lusitanistentag (Leipzig, Germany), 15-19/September
Variação na expressão das orações condicionais contrafactuais com se no português brasileiro.

2020 - Oral presentation at the II Simposio Internacional de lingüística contrastiva de la lengua alemana (Valencia, Spain), 9-11/December
Vocales castellanas y alemanas en contraste: nuevos datos acústicos de hablantes de L1 y L2.

2019 – Oral presentation with Christoph Gabriel at the 22. Deutschen Hispanistentag (Berlin, Germany), 27 – 31/March
Fonética y fonología de las oclusivas en tres grupos de bilingües (castellano/alemán).

2017 – Poster at the 21. Deutschen Hispanistentag (Munich, Germany), 29/March - 2/April.
Producción de oclusivas y fricativas en hablantes bilingües tempranos (español/alemán).

2017 – Poster with Christoph Gabriel at Pape2017, Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (Cologne, Germany), 12 -14/Juny
Voice Onset Time in Pomerano-Portuguese bilinguals.

2016 – Poster with Christoph Gabriel, at GLAC 22 - Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (Reykjavik, Iceland), 20 – 22/May.
Voice Onset Time in Pomerano-Portuguese bilinguals.

2016 – Oral presentation with Christoph Gabriel at the 17. Norddeutschen Linguistischen Kolloquium (Hamburg, Germany), 31/March - 2/April.
Voice Onset Time in Pomerano-Portuguese bilinguals

 

Invited talks

2020, 8/January – Aspekte der Aussprache bei Spanisch-Deutschen Bilingualen. Invited by Prof. Dr. Elmar Eggert (Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany).

2019, 3/December – Phonetic production in early and late German-Spanish bilinguals. Invited by Dr. Laia Arnaus & Prof. Dr. Susann Fischer (Hamburg University, Germany).

2019, 28/May – Producción fonética en hablantes bilingües tempranos de castellano y alemán. Invited by Prof. Dr. Guijarro Fuentes (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain).

2016, 11/March – Voice-onset time in Portuguese-Pomerano bilinguals. Invited by Prof. Dr. Robert de Jonge (Groningen University, The Netherlands).

2015, 2/December – Voice-onset time na fala de bilíngues em português e pomerano. Invited by Monique Fritscher (Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany).