szigetvari’s vita

Today we’re younger than we ever gonna be
(Regina Spektor)

contact

mail
szigetvari@elte.hu
web
http://seas.elte.hu/szigetva

affiliation

associate professor, 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

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

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)

PhD supervisees

2023
Péter Őri, The representation of voicing: A unified analysis of languages with two obstruent series as “aspirating” systems (opponents: Katalin Balogné Bérces, Zoltán G. Kiss, defence cum laude, Eötvös Loránd University)
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

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

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

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 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

commuting by bike since 1997
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.