szigetvari's vita

reviewed for

journals: Acta Linguistica Hungarica/Academica ★ Általános Nyelvészeti Tanulmányok ★ Approaches to Hungarian ★ English Language and Linguistics ★ Folia Linguistica ★ Glossa ★ Isogloss ★ Language Sciences ★ The Linguistic Review ★ Linguistic Variation ★ Natural Language and Linguistic Theory ★ Nyelvelmélet és diakrónia ★ Phonology ★ Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics ★ Roczniki Humanistyczne
conferences: BLINC ★ ConSOLE ★ Elements Nantes 2018 ★ Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) ★ International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (ICSH) ★ Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP) ★ Össznyelvész ★ Phonologica 2002 ★ SinFonIJA
publishers: Mouton/Walter de Gruyter ★ Palgrave Macmillan ★ Springer (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory)

MA supervisees

2024: Vencel Wutka, Voiceless obstruent clusters in English: A phonological analysis exploring aspiration, assimilation, and transcription conventions (referee: Miklós Törkenczy); Bálint Péter Hornisch, Transcription and its role in language teaching (referee: Attila Starčević)
2023: József Nagy, The myths of English pronunciation among Hungarian learners (referee: Zoltán G. Kiss)
2016: Péter Őri, Aspiration vs voicing (referee: Miklós Törkenczy)
2011: Ida Verebes, The interactions of vowels and consonants in English (referee: Attila Starčević)
2006: Veronika Pulai, CCCC clusters in English (referee: Miklós Törkenczy)
2004: Ágnes Gyarmati, Sonority and syllables structure (referee: Miklós Törkenczy); 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); Dániel Huber, Velar phenomena: Processes and their expression in phonology (referee: László Varga)
2001: Attila Starčević, Syllable-initial consonant clusters in English and Croatian: A melodic view on laryngeal and floating elements (referee: Miklós Törkenczy); Gábor Oláh, CCC clusters in English (referee: Miklós Törkenczy); Zoltán Kiss, Distributional effects in English and Hungarian non-initial CC clusters (referee: Miklós Törkenczy)
2000: Dienes Péter, VC phonology: a theory of consonant lenition and phonotactics (referee: Péter Siptár)
1999: Gábor Horváth, English rhymes: representational considerations of consonant syllabicity and schwa deletion in English (referee: Miklós Törkenczy)
1998: Domonkos Barna, Representation of consonants with unary features: Aspiration in English (referee: Ádám Nádasdy)

BA supervisees

2023: Vencel Wutka, The vowel system of American English; Edvárd Kövér, Hunglish at a closer look: The main phonological patterns of the Hungarian accent
2022: Járay Bianka, Lindelëa tengwelë — phonology and aesthetics in Tolkien’s invented languages
2019: Flóra Darvas, The perception of laryngeal contrast; Ádám Bagarus, There exists no one immaculate alphabetic phonetic transcription; Vladyslav Telizhenko, The distribution of the R sound in English language
2018: Luca Garai, Flapping in English
2016: Szilvia Budai, Accents in popular culture; Katalin Jankó, Current changes in British English as reflected in the transcription system; Zita Nagy, The phonoloical effects of liquids on surrounding sounds in Swedish and English
2015: Réka Komlósi, French Loanwords in English: The Pronunciation of Recently Adopted French Loanwords in English
2014: Dorina Farkas, Allophonic Variation in the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary: Pre-Lateral Effects on Tense Vowels; Helga Bálint, Compounds in English
2013: Hajnal Budai, Vowel mergers in some English accents: Mergers before R; Bettina Hoffmann, What if you can’t lisp: substituting th; Julianna Pándi, Flapping in American English: A Theoretical Approach: Intervocalic Flapping of Alveolar Stops; Ildikó Szabó, Compensatory Lengthening: Is there synchronic Compensatory Lengthening in English?
2012: Júlia Kiss, The behaviour of the palatal approximant in British and American English: processes of change
2011: Boglárka Marton, Phonological changes conditioned by syllabic position
2009: Fruzsina Kánya, Comparing the phonologies of varieties of English: the behaviour of the palatal glide in accents of English; Csilla Papp, The advantages and disadvantages of English spelling

professional experience

2024–: head of Student Disciplinary Committee at the Faculty of Arts, Eötvös Loránd University
2022–: Laryngeal patterns in synchrony and diachrony NKFIH project #142498, principal investigator
2022–: setting up and maintaining the website of Nyelvtudományi Közlemények
2021–: The role of paradigm structure in Hungarian morphology and phonology with typological comparisons NKFIH project #139271, participant
2014–: coeditor of The Even Yearbook
2013–: maintainer of CUBE, an online pronunciation dictionary of English
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
2021: installing the Uralic Vowel Harmony database
2017–2018: GLOW congress president
2016–2021: Experimental and theoretical examination of patterns of vowel harmony NKFIH project #119863, participant
2016–2019: editing a special issue on “Variation in Phonology” of Linguistic Variation
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), principal investigator
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
2011–2023: head of the Department of English Linguistics
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 T_EX in the Theoretical Linguistics Programme
2000: typesetting Acta Linguistica Hungarica; typesetting Siptár Péter (ed.) Szabálytalan fonológia (Budapest: Tinta, 2001); 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; 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; teaching Latin at the Dózsa György Gimnázium (secondary school), Budapest

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