DEGREES
1991MA: English – General and Applied Linguistics
Eötvös Loránd University
thesis: “Affricates as Contour Segments in Hungarian and in English”
1998PhD: Linguistics
Rijksuniversiteit Leiden
dissertation: “Vowel Harmony. An Account in Terms of Government and Optimality”
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1991–1992Hungarian Academy of Sciences
PhD-scholarship (supervisor: László Varga)
1993–1998Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) / Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (RUL), Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics (HIL)
researcher-in-training (supervisor: Harry van der Hulst)
1998–1999József Attila University, Institute of English and American Studies
lecturer
1999–2000József Attila University (since 2000 University of Szeged), Institute of English and American Studies
assistant professor
2000–2008University of Szeged, Institute of English and American Studies
senior assistant professor
2008–2010University of Szeged, Institute of English and American Studies
associate professor
2010– Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Linguistics
senior research fellow
1998–2001Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Bolyai-scholarship (‘Hungarian as a “strict CV” language’)
1998–2000Károli Gáspár Protestant University, English Department
lecturer
2-13 Aug 1999 6th European Summer School in Generative Grammar, Plovdiv
“Universals and Variation: Government Phonology and Optimality Theory”
2000–2001Eötvös Loránd University, Department of English Linguistics
teaching an advanced course in phonology each term
23-27 Apr 2001 Eötvös Loránd University, Theoretical Linguistics Program: Supercourse
“Vowel Harmony”
RESEARCH PROJECTS
2002–2004“The syntax, semantics and phonology of the left periphery” NWO-OTKA (Dutch-Hungarian) project member (N 37276) (project leaders: Johan Rooryck, Universiteit Leiden, and István Kenesei, University of Szeged)
2005–2008“An analogy-based formal approach to phonology and morphology” OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund) project (49327) member (project leader: Miklós Törkenczy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Linguistics)
EDUCATION AND SCHOLARSHIPS
1982–1986Arany János Grammar School, Budapest
1986–1991Eötvös Loránd University
English – General and Applied Linguistics
1989 First European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), Groningen
1990 Second ESSLLI, Leuven
1991 National Competition of Scientific Student Circles (OTDK), first place: “Affrication in Hungarian”
1992 Institute of Logic, Language and Information, Amsterdam
Tempus-scholarship (6 months)
1993 LSA Linguistic Institute, Columbus, Ohio: NWO-scholarship (6 weeks)
1995 Seventh ESSLLI, Barcelona: NWO-scholarship
1996 University College London / School of Oriental and African Studies, London
HIL-scholarship (6 months) (supervisor: John Harris)
COURSES TAUGHT
University of Szeged, Institute of English and American Studies
• Introduction to Phonology and Morphology (lecture) 1998–2007
• Introduction to Phonology and Morphology (seminar) 1998–2006
• Descriptive Grammar of English (lecture) 1999
• Descriptive Grammar of English (seminar) 1999
• Introduction to Linguistics (lecture) 2005
• English Phonetics and Phonology (lecture) 2006–2010
• English Phonetics and Phonology (seminar) 2006–2008
• advanced phonology lecture:
– Morphohonology of English 2008
• advanced phonology seminars:
– Government Phonology 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006
– Introduction to Optimality Theory 1999, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2009
– CV Phonology 1999, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010
– Vowel Harmony 2000
– Lexical Phonology 2002
– Theories of Phonological Representation 2002, 2005, 2008
– Feature Geometry 2003, 2006, 2009
– Advanced Optimality Theory 2005
• Accents of English 2005, 2008, 2009
• Non-linear Phonology (Theoretical Linguistics PhD-program) 1999–
• Phonology (lecture, Theoretical Linguistics MA-program) 2009
• Advanced Phonology (lecture, Theoretical Linguistics MA-program) 2010
• Advanced Phonology (seminar, Theoretical Linguistics MA-program) 2010
• Academic Writing 1998, 1999, 2008
Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, General Linguistics Department
• Linguistic Literature Survey course (phonology-morphology part) 1993–1998
• Introduction to Phonology and Morphology (co-taught) 1994, 1995
Károli Gáspár Protestant University, English Department
• Phonetics and Phonology (seminar) 1999, 2000
• Introduction to English Linguistics (seminar) 1999
• advanced phonology seminars:
– Government Phonology 1998
– Optimality Theory 1999
– CV Phonology 2000
• Thesis Writing Seminar 2000
Eötvös Loránd University, English Linguistics Department
• advanced phonology seminars:
– Vowel Harmony 2000
– Introduction to Optimality Theory 2001 spring, 2001 autumn
SUPERVISION OF MA THESES
Gábor Turcsán: Mid-vowels in Midi French. 1999
Ina Visogradszka: The Syllable in English and Bulgarian – comparison of onset structure. 1999
Péter Dienes: Hungarian Transparent Vowels. An account of Hungarian Palatal Harmony in terms of Government Phonology. 2000, Eötvös Loránd University, Theoretical Linguistics Program
Mónika Fischer: Representation of velar palatalisations in non-linear phonology. 2003
Ágnes Kiss: Testing Theories: A phonological study of the First Germanic Consonant Shift. 2003
Antónia Knopf: An account of the Hungarian vowel harmony in terms of Government Phonology. 2003
Anita Bozsidár: Vowels Alternating with Zero in Hungarian. 2004
Zsolt Hudák: Lenition and deletion in African American Vernacular English. 2005
Katalin Karlovics: Apophony in Old English Strong Verbs: A Government Phonology Analysis. 2005
Judit Pálmai: Italian as a CV language. 2005
Ágnes Várszegi: The Processes of Palatalization from a Government Phonology and Optimality Theory Perspective. 2005
Annamária Kocsis Bihari Péterné: Apophony in Old English Strong Verbs. 2006
Zsolt Milkovics: ‘r’ ~ Ø alternation in English. 2006
Ilona Kovács: Apophony in Old English. 2007
Erika Ildikó Dénes: Vowel Harmony in Hungarian: a Government Phonology Analysis. 2008
Gabriella Kovács: Adaptation of Old Hungarian Loanwords: An analysis with the Combination of Government Phonology and Optimality theory. 2008
Melinda Nagy Abonyi: Lexical stratification in the Japanese language: An Optimality Theoretic analysis. 2008
Ildikó Pilán: Vowel~Zero Alternation in the Italian Present Conditional. 2009
Károly Szundi: The analysis of compensatory lengthening and vowel-zero alternation in English and Latin in terms of the strict CV approach. 2009
Zsuzsanna Tanay: /ſ/ plus consonant clusters in German. 2009
Erika Fekete: Apophony in reduplicative words in English and in Hungarian. 2009
Réka Helga Bozsó: The Phonology of Saint Lucian Creole. 2010
SUPERVISION OF MAJOR PAPERS
Katalin Karlovics: Apophony in Old English Strong Verbs: A Government Phonology Analysis. 2000
Orsolya Sándorfi: The problem of Hungarian words beginning with s, sz consonant clusters. 2000
Gábor Szilasi: Apophony in Hungarian Doublets. 2000
Anita Bozsidár: Syncope in English. 2001
Mónika Fischer: Palatalisation from a non-linear perspective. 2001
Zsolt Hudák: Lenition and deletion in African American Vernacular English. 2001
Antónia Knopf: The Scottish Vowel Length Rule. 2001
Ágnes Kiss: A phonological study of the Great Vowel Shift. 2001
Annamária Kocsis: Vowel harmony: Differences between Standard Hungarian and the dialect of Szeged. 2003
Ilona Kovács: Palatalisation in Hungarian. 2003
Ágnes Várszegi: Palatalization in Hungarian. 2003
Erika Dénes: Resolution of Word-Initial Clusters in Early Borrowings from Slavic Languages to Hungarian. An Optimality Theory Analysis. 2004
Pálma Lőrincz: Hungarian Vowel Harmony within the Confines of Government Phonology. 2004
Zsolt Milkovics: Vowel~Zero Alternation in Hungarian. 2004
Tímea Papp: Vowel~zero alternations in Hungarian in a Government Phonology framework. 2004
Gabriella Kovács: Adaptation of Complex Onsets in Old Hungarian Loanwords: An Optimality Theoretic Analysis. 2005
Károly Szundi: Latin as a strict CV language. 2005
Zsófia Bodrogi: Phonological properties of Hawaiian Creole English. 2006
Adrienn Lucz: Consonant harmony in child language. 2006
Melinda Nagy Abonyi: Hungarian roundness harmony: A contrastive analysis of Dependency Phonology and Radical CV Phonology. 2006
Annamária Markovics: Palatal harmony in Hungarian in the framework of Dependency Phonology. 2006
Zsuzsanna Tanay: Nasal and Lateral Place Assimilation in Spanish: An analysis in Dependency Phonology and Feature Geometry. 2006
Ildikó Pilán: A Government Phonological Analysis of the Italian Present Conditional. 2007
Erika Fekete: Apophony in reduplicative words in English and in Hungarian. 2007
Éva Nagy: Finnish Consonant Gradation from a Government Phonological Aspect. 2008
Réka Helga Bozsó: OT in loanword phonology: Old Hungarian word-initial cluster resolution. 2008
SUPERVISION OF BA THESES
Anikó Éva Pető: Intrusive stops in Irish English. 2009
László Fekete: Palatalization in English. 2009
István Bolye: Ablaut in Old English Strong Verbs in CV Phonology. 2010
Ágnes Monoki: The Apophonic Path in Basque, English and Hungarian Reduplicated Words. 2010
SUPERVISION OF PAPERS FOR THE NATIONAL COMPETITION OF SCIENTIFIC STUDENT CIRCLES
Katalin Karlovics: Apophony in Old English Strong Verbs: A Government Phonology Analysis. 2001, Institute of English and American Studies: first place
Mónika Fischer: A palatalizáció elemgeometriai ábrázolása [An element geometric representation of palatalisation]. 2002, Institute of English and American Studies: first place
Ildikó Pilán: A Government Phonological Analysis of the Italian Present Conditional. 2007, Institute of English and American Studies: first place
Erika Fekete: Apophony in reduplicative words in English and in Hungarian. 2007, Institute of English and American Studies: fourth place
Éva Nagy: Finnish Consonant Gradation from a Government Phonological Aspect. 2008, Institute of English and American Studies: second place
SUPERVISION OF PHD DISSERTATIONS
Gábor Turcsán: Le Mot Phonologique en Français Du Midi. Domaines, Contraintes, Opacité. PhD dissertation, Universite Toulouse II-Le Mirail. 2005 (co-supervisor: Jacques Durand)
REFEREE OF PHD DISSERTATIONS
Péter Szigetvári: VC Phonology: a theory of consonant lenition and phonotactics. 2000
Dániel Huber: Velars and Processes: Their Treatment in Phonological Theory. 2007
MEMBER OF HABILITATION DEFENSE COMMITTEE
2006. Ádám Nádasdy
MEMBER OF DOCTORAL DEFENSE COMMITTEE
Szilárd Szentgyörgyi: Lowering: the interaction of phonology and morphology in Hungarian. 2000
Zoltán Benedek Gráf: Hosszúság a metrikus fonológiában [Length in metrical phonology]. 2001 (reserve member)
Zsuzsanna Bárkányi: Spanish Stress and Related Issues: Quantity Sensitivity. 2001
Péter Rebrus: Morfofonológiai jelenségek (Magyar tő- és toldalékváltakozások CV-fonológiai keretben) [Morphophonological phenomena (Hungarian stem and suffix alternations in a CV phonological framework]. 2002
Katalin Balogné Bérces: Strict CV Phonology and the English Cross-word Puzzle. 2006
Kata Baditzné Pálvölgyi: Spanish Intonation of Hungarian Learners of Spanish: Yes-or-No Questions. 2012
MEMBER OF DOCTORAL EXAM COMMITTEE
1999. Zoltán Benedek Gráf, Zsuzsanna Tóth
2000. Nóra Wenszky
2003. Katalin Balogné Bérces, Miklós Gáspár, László Kristó, Csaba Csides
FURTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
1995 organiser of phonology reading group, Leiden (HIL)
1995 Dec organiser of one-day meeting on Correspondence Theory, Leiden (HIL)
1993–1996setting up and maintenance of the HIL Manuscript Library (area of phonology)
1993– refereeing for The Linguistic Review, Lingua, Acta Linguistica Hungarica, Phonologica, Proceedings of the HILP Conference, LingDok, Mouton de Gruyter, and OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund)
2002–2006organiser of registration of students for courses, University of Szeged, Institute of English and American Studies (with Gabi Tóth)
2003–2010member of Curriculum Committee (area of linguistics), University of Szeged, Institute of English and American Studies
2005 abstract reviewer for the conference OCP3
2006 abstract reviewer for the conference ICSH8
2006–2010chair of Major Paper / BA Thesis Committee, University of Szeged, Institute of English and American Studies
2007–2008member of the board of directors of the International Society for the Study of the Structure of Hungarian
2009 abstract reviewer for the conference ICSH9
2011 abstract reviewer for the conference ICSH10
2011 member of the organising committee for the conference SinFonIJA4