contact
- phone
- +36 30 4702228
- mail
- szigetvariATelteDOThu
- web
- http://seas3.elte.hu/szigetva
affiliation
associate professor, head of the Department of English Linguistics,
Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
- address
- Rákóczi út 5, 1088 Budapest, Hungary
- phone
- +36 1 4855200
degrees
- 2000
- PhD in Linguistics (ELTE/MTA)
(supervisor: Miklós Törkenczy; opponents: Jean Lowenstamm,
Krisztina Polgárdi)
- 1994
- MA in Latin Language and Literature and Theoretical
Linguistics (ELTE)
- 1992
- MA in English Language and Literature (ELTE)
languages
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- Hungarian: native
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- English, Plain TEX: proficient
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- Latin, French, LaTeX, Perl, HTML, CSS: good
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- Ancient Greek: mediocre
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- Portuguese, Russian: basic
education
- 1994–1999
- Theoretical
Linguistics Doctoral Programme
- 1985–1994
- Eötvös Loránd University (majors: English, Latin,
Linguistics, Ancient Greek (4 yrs), Portuguese (2 yrs))
- 1980–1984
- Piarista Gimnázium, Budapest (secondary school, grades 9–12)
- 1976–1980
- International Children’s Center, Baghdad, Iraq
(primary school, grades 5–8)
- 1972–1976
- Baross Gábor Telepi általános Iskola, Budapest
(primary school, grades 1–4)
scholarships
- 2006–2007
- Hajdú Péter Scholarship
- 2001–2004
- Bolyai János Scholarship
- 1998–1999
- Telegdi Zsigmond Scholarship
- 1998–1999
- Soros PhD Grant (no. 230/3/781)
reviewed for
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- Acta Linguistica Hungarica
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- Approaches to Hungarian
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- ConSOLE
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- English Language and Linguistics
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- Language Sciences
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- The Linguistic Review
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- Linguistic Variation
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- Mouton/Walter de Gruyter
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- Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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- Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW)
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- Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP)
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- Phonologica 2002
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- Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
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- SinFonIJA
PhD supervisees
- 2014
- Marcin Fortuna, Double Licensing Phonology (opponents: Elisabeth Leiss, Andreas Dufter, and myself, defence summa cum laude, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)
- 2010
- Attila Starčević, Melodic Representation in the CV/VC Framework (opponents: Katalin Balogné Bérces, László Kristó, defence cum laude, Eötvös Loránd University)
- 2008
- Dániel Huber, Velars and Processes: Their Treatrment in Phonological Theory (opponents: Miklós Törkenczy, Krisztina Polgárdi, defence rite, Eötvös Loránd University)
MA supervisees
- 2016
- Péter Őri, Aspiration vs voicing (referee: Miklós Törkenczy, mark: 4)
- 2011
- Ida Verebes, The interactions of vowels and consonants in English (referee: Attila Starčević, mark: 5)
- 2006
- Veronika Pulai, CCCC clusters in English (referee: Miklós Törkenczy, mark: 5)
- 2004
- Ágnes Gyarmati, Sonority and syllables structure (referee: Miklós Törkenczy, mark: 5)
- 2004
- Sylvia Blaho, Syllabic consonants in strict CV (Pázmány Péter Catholic University)
- 2002
- Marianna Tóth, Clustering sounds of English in CV and VC phonology (referee: Miklós Törkenczy, mark: 5)
- 2002
- Dániel Huber, Velar phenomena: Processes and their expression in phonology (referee: László Varga, mark: 5)
- 2001
- Attila Starčević, Syllable-initial consonant clusters in English and Croatian: A melodic view on laryngeal and floating elements (referee: Miklós Törkenczy, mark: 5)
- 2001
- Gábor Oláh, CCC clusters in English (referee: Miklós Törkenczy, mark: 5)
- 2001
- Zoltán Kiss, Distributional effects in English and Hungarian non-initial CC clusters (referee: Miklós Törkenczy, mark: 5)
- 2000
- Dienes Péter, VC phonology: a theory of consonant lenition and phonotactics (referee: Péter Siptár, mark: 5)
- 1999
- Gábor Horváth, English rhymes: representational considerations of consonant syllabicity and schwa deletion in English (referee: Miklós Törkenczy, mark: 5)
- 1998
- Domonkos Barna, Representation of consonants with unary features: Aspiration in English (referee: Ádám Nádasdy, mark: 5)
BA supervisees
- 2018
- Luca Garai, Flapping in English
- 2016
- Szilvia Budai, Accents in popular culture
- 2016
- Katalin Jankó, Current changes in British English as reflected in the transcription system
- 2016
- Zita Nagy, The phonoloical effects of liquids on surrounding sounds in Swedish and English
- 2015
- Komlósi Réka, French Loanwords in English: The Pronunciation of Recently Adopted French Loanwords in English
- 2014
- Farkas Dorina, Allophonic Variation in the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary: Pre-Lateral Effects on Tense Vowels
- 2014
- Bálint Helga, Compounds in English
- 2013
- Budai Hajnal, Vowel mergers in some English accents: Mergers before R
- 2013
- Hoffmann Bettina, What if you can’t lisp: substituting th
- 2013
- Pándi Julianna, Flapping in American English: A Theoretical Approach: Intervocalic Flapping of Alveolar Stops
- 2013
- Szabó Ildikó, Compensatory Lengthening: Is there synchronic Compensatory Lengthening in English?
- 2012
- Kiss Júlia, The behaviour of the palatal approximant in British and American English: processes of change
- 2011
- Marton Boglárka, Phonological changes conditioned by syllabic position
- 2009
- Kánya Fruzsina, Comparing the phonologies of varieties of English: the behaviour of the palatal glide in accents of English
- 2009
- Papp Csilla, The advantages and disadvantages of English spelling
others i’m proud of having taught
Zsuzsanna Bárkányi,
Anikó Csirmaz,
György Dragomán,
Zsófia Gyarmathy,
Gábor Ittzés,
Ágnes Lukács,
Péter Rácz,
Márton Sóskuthy,
Balázs Surányi,
Kriszta Szendrői,
Anne Tamm,
Masa Tóth
professional experience
- 2016–
- editing a special issue on “Variation in Phonology” of Linguistic Variation
- 2016–
- Experimental and theoretical examination of patterns of vowel harmony NKIFH project #119863
- 2014–
- coeditor of The Even Yearbook
- 2013–
- maintainer of CUBE, an online pronunciation dictionary of English
- 2011–
- head of the Department
of English Linguistics
- 2006–
- associate professor at the School of English and American
Studies, ELTE, teaching introduction to linguistics, phonology
(introduction, advanced), typography, information technology
- 2002–
- maintainer of the website
of the School of English and American Studies
- 2000–
- member of the English Linguistics Doctoral Programme at ELTE
- 1997–
- maintainer of the Dept of English
Linguistics web site
- 2017–2018
- GLOW congress president
- 2016–2018
- editing issues 2017/4 and 2018/1 of Acta Linguistica Academica
- 2016–2017
- editing and typesetting 70 snippets to mark Ádám Nádasdy’s 70th birthday
- 2015–2016
- organizing OCP13
- 2013–2016
- Variation in phonology OTKA project (#104897)
- 2013
- editing and typesetting VLlxx: Papers presented to László Varga on his 70th birthday, Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest
- 2012
- course on the
skeleton at the Egg12 in Wrocław
- 2006–2007
- Hajdu Péter research fellow at the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences (MTA)
- 2002–2006
- director of studies at the
School of English
and American Studies, ELTE
- 2000–2006
- senior lecturer at the English Linguistics Department,
ELTE, teaching introduction to
linguistics, phonology, advanced phonology
- 2004–2005
- typesetting Sándor Kiss, Luca Mondin et Giampaolo
Salvi (eds.) Latin et langues romanes: études de
linguistique offertes à József Herman à l’occasion
de son 80ème anniversaire (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer
Verlag)
- 2004
- 1–30 April, professeur invité at l’Institut de la
linguistique française, Université de Nice
- 1994–2002
- coeditor of The Even Yearbook
- 1997, 2001
- course on plain TEX in the Theoretical Linguistics Programme
- 2000
- typesetting Acta Linguistica Hungarica
- 2000
- typesetting Siptár Péter (ed.) Szabálytalan fonológia (Budapest: Tinta, 2001)
- 2000
- typesetting Guglielmo Cinque and Giampaolo Salvi (eds.) Current Studies in Italian Syntax, Essays Offered to Lorenzo Renzi (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2001)
- 1999–2000
- typesetting chapters 5, 12, and 13 of Kiefer Ferenc (ed.) Strukturális magyar nyelvtan 3. Morfológia. (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2000)
- 1998–2000
- participating in the CompLin project
- 1992–2000
- assistant lecturer, ELTE Department of English Language and Literature (forming the English Linguistics Dept in 1994), teaching introduction to linguistics, phonology, advanced phonology, syntax
- 1998
- editing the phonetic transcriptions in Országh & Magay’s English–Hungarian dictionary (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1998)
- 1994–1997
- co-editor of The Odd Yearbook
- 1994–1997
- temporary lecturer, English phonetics and phonology, introduction to linguistics, English Department, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Piliscsaba
- 1995
- co-compiler (with ádám Nádasdy) of the Huron Angol Kiejtési Kézikönyv [Huron’s English Pronouncing Dictionary], Budapest: Biográf, 2000
- 1991–1992
- temporary lecturer, English phonetics and phonology, introduction to linguistics, ELTE Deptartment of English Language and Literature
- 1990–1991
- temporary lecturer in Latin, Nyelvi Lektorátus; Semmelweis Orvostudományi Egyetem (university of medicine)
- 1989–1990
- teaching English at the Kodály Zoltán Kórusiskola (music school, primary), Budapest
- 1989–1990
- teaching Latin at the Dózsa György Gimnázium (secondary school), Budapest
personal
- born
- 1966, Budapest
- husband of
- Zsuzsanna Regős since 1992
- father of
- Vince (1994),
Zsófia (1995),
Simon (1999),
Cecília (2001),
Berta (2007)