szigetvari’s vita
Today we’re younger than we ever gonna be
(Regina Spektor)
contact
- 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 (ELTE)
- MA in Theoretical Linguistics (ELTE/MTA)
- 1992
- MA in English Language and Literature (ELTE)
languages
- Hungarian: native
- English, Plain TEX: proficient
- Latin, French, LaTeX, Perl, HTML, CSS, bash: good
- Ancient Greek: mediocre
- 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
Acta Linguistica Hungarica/Academica,
Általános Nyelvészeti Tanulmányok,
Approaches to Hungarian,
BLINC,
ConSOLE,
Elements Nantes 2018,
English Language and Linguistics,
Folia Linguistica,
Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW),
Glossa,
International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (ICSH),
Isogloss,
Language Sciences,
The Linguistic Review,
Linguistic Variation,
Mouton/Walter de Gruyter,
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory,
Nyelvelmélet és diakrónia,
Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP),
Palgrave Macmillan,
Phonologica 2002,
Phonology,
Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics,
Roczniki Humanistyczne,
SinFonIJA,
Springer (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory)
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
- 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
- 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
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
- 2022–
- Laryngeal patterns in synchrony and diachrony NKFIH project #142498, principal investigator
- 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
- 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
- 2022
- setting up the website of Nyelvtudományi Közlemények
- 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
- 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
- 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
personal
- born
- 1966, Budapest
- husband of
- Zsuzsanna Regős since 1992
- father of
- Vince (1994),
Zsófia (1995),
Simon (1999),
Cecília (2001),
Berta (2007)
I’m grateful to George Soros.
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