= Department of English Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest » BA theses (2009–)

== spring 2023

**Kövér Edvárd,** //Hunglish at a closer look:: The main phonological patterns of the Hungarian accent// (supervisor: Szigetvári Péter; referee: Zoltán G. Kiss)

**Wutka Vencel László,** //The vowel system of American English// (supervisor: Szigetvári Péter; referee: Péter Őri)

== autumn 2022

**Szabó-Erdélyi Zsófia,** //The English subjunctive// (supervisor: Krisztina Szécsényi; referee: Attila Starcevic)

== spring 2022

**Páczelt Ádám Ferenc,** //Understanding Hunglish Accent in Light of the Phonological and Phonotactic Comparison of Hungarian and English: A Consonantal Analysis// (supervisor: Törkenczy Miklós; referee: Zoltán G. Kiss)

**Járay Bianka,** //Lindelëa tengwelë — phonology and aesthetics in Tolkien's invented languages// (supervisor: Szigetvári Péter; referee: Attila Starcevic)

**Gerber Dominika Zsófia,** //Doublets in English of French origin// (supervisor: Starcevic Attila; referee: Péter A. Lázár) <wrap round notice>OUTSTANDING THESIS</wrap>

== spring 2021

**Szikora Luca Mária,** //Voicing assimilation in English and in voicing languages: A comparison of English and Hungarian// (supervisor: G. Kiss Zoltán; referee: Törkenczy Miklós) <wrap round notice>OUTSTANDING THESIS</wrap>

**Szücs Virág Róza,** //Negation// (supervisor: Newson Mark; referee: Burukina, Irina) 

**Somogyi Brigitta,** //The 'l' in English// (supervisor: Starcevic Attila; referee: G. Kiss Zoltán) 

**Halm Tamás András,** //Truncated clauses in English and in Hungarian: Virtual performatives in English — The outlines of a syntactic analysis// (supervisor: Den Dikken, Marcel; referee: Szécsényi Krisztina) <wrap round notice>OUTSTANDING THESIS</wrap>

== autumn 2020

**Balogh Brúnó,** //Aspiration instead of a flap in dactylic words in the English language// (supervisor: Törkenczy Miklós; referee: G. Kiss Zoltán) 

**Árva Réka,** //Vocalic changes before /r/ in American English// (supervisor: Starcevic Attila; referee: Szigetvári Péter) 

== spring 2020

**Sujbert Viktória Fanni,** //Glottalisation in English popular speech// (supervisor: G. Kiss Zoltán; referee: Szigetvári Péter) 

== autumn 2019

**Chen Yu,** //A comparison of tense in Chinese and in English// (supervisor: den Dikken Marcel; referee: ) 

**Kaposi Berta Eszter,** //Analyses of stops after /s/ in English// (supervisor: G. Kiss Zoltán; referee: Törkenczy Mikló) <wrap round notice>OUTSTANDING THESIS</wrap>

== spring 2019

**Telizhenko Vladyslav,** //The Distribution Of The R Sound In English Language// (supervisor: Szigetvari Peter; referee: Starcevic Attila) 

**Pataki Petra Gabriella,** //Yod-dropping across English accents: What about the unstressed syllables?// (supervisor: G. Kiss Zoltán; referee: Szigetvári Péter) 

**Herendi Árpád,** //Spanish Loanwords in the English Language// (supervisor: Starcevic, Attila; referee: Nádasdy Ádám) 

**Hegyi Flóra Anna,** //Comparing comparatives: Differences and similarities of comparative constructions in English and Hungarian// (supervisor: Szécsényi Krisztina; referee: Marcel den Dikken) <wrap round notice>OUTSTANDING THESIS</wrap>

**Fu Shiyang,** //WH-question in Chinese and English: Similarities and differences// (supervisor: Szécsényi Krisztina; referee: Marcel den Dikken) 

**Bagarus Ádám Renátó,** //There exists no one immaculate alphabetic phonetic transcription// (supervisor: Szigetvári Péter; referee: Törkenczy Miklós) 

**Tóth Boglárka Fanni,** //The Syntax of English News Headlines: A Truncation Approach// (supervisor: den Dikken Marcel; referee: Szécsényi Krisztina) <wrap round notice>OUTSTANDING THESIS</wrap>

== spring 2018

**Mich Teodóra,** //Theories of Distribution of Pronouns// (supervisor: Dr. Newson Mark; referee: Hordós Marianna) 

**Alchukur Leila,** //Wh-movement in English and Arabic// (supervisor: Szécsényi, Krisztina; referee: Mark Newson) 

**Thornton David,** //The Semantic Information Contained in Light Verbs// (supervisor: Szecsenyi Krisztina; referee: Marcel den Dikken) 

**Chen Xi,** //Typical Chinese mistakes in the use of the English articles// (supervisor: Hordós Marianna; referee: Mark Newson) 

**Grajzel Fanni,** //The Glottal Stop in the Popular Speech of British English// (supervisor: G. Kiss Zoltán; referee: Törkenczy Miklós) 

== spring 2017

**Papp Dóra,** //Intrusive /r/ and its role as a possible hiatus-filler consonant// (supervisor: Starcevic Attila; referee: G.Kiss Zoltán) 

**Hlavacska Darinka,** //The distribution of Linking-R and Intrusive-R in English dialects// (supervisor: G. Kiss Zoltán; referee: Törkenczy Miklós) 

**Magyar Alexandra,** //The Early stages of language acquisition and the omission of the copula in child English// (supervisor: Szécsényi Krisztina; referee: Marcel den Dikken) 

== autumn 2016

**Pfeifenrót Fanni Mária,** //The special status of initial /s/+C clusters// (supervisor: Kis Zoltán; referee: Szigetvári Péter) 

== spring 2016

**Bajnay Berta Katalin,** //The etymology of English musical terms of French origin// (supervisor: Nádasdy Ádám; referee: Szigetvári Péter) 

**Lelner Zsófia,** //Prenominal possessors in English// (supervisor: Hordós Marianna; referee: Szécsényi Krisztina) 

**Budai Szilvia,** //Accents in popular culture: Accent asymmetry// (supervisor: Szigetvári Péter; referee: Nádasdy Ádám) 

**Pribil Péter,** //Long-distance dependencies in lexical functional grammar// (supervisor: Komlósy András; referee: Newson, Mark) 

**Nagy Laura,** //Do you understand what I am saying? - Accents of English: RP, GA, and the diphthongisation in Long Island// (supervisor: Kis Zoltán; referee: Starcevic Attila) 

**Parall Richárd Benjámin,** //Compounds in English: Their characteristics, categories and boundaries// (supervisor: Starcevic Attila; referee: Nádasdy Ádám) 

**Lagos Cortes Mátyás Bence,** //Complementisers in the English language: The distribution of the CP projection// (supervisor: Newson Mark; referee: Marcel Den Dikken) <wrap round notice>OUTSTANDING THESIS</wrap>

**Nagy Zita,** //The phonological effects of liquids on surrounding sounds in Swedish and English// (supervisor: Szigetvári Péter; referee: Starcevic Attila) 

**Kósa László,** //The phonology of English compounds// (supervisor: Nádasdy Ádám; referee: G. Kiss Zoltán) 

**Jankó Katalin,** //Current changes in British English: as reflected in the transcription system// (supervisor: Szigetvári Péter; referee: G. Kiss Zoltán) 

**Szegedi Márton,** //Post-verbal DPs in there-constructions// (supervisor: Hordós Marianna; referee: Newson, Mark) 

**Romhányi Ármin,** //The NURSE-phenomenon// (supervisor: G. Kiss Zoltán; referee: Szigetvári Péter) 

== autumn 2015

**Huber Jaroslava,** //Fronting Phenomena in English Language// (supervisor: Newson Mark; referee: Szécsényi Krisztina) 

**Ónodi Krisztián,** //English as a pro-drop language:: Syntactic approaches to subject omission in the diary register// (supervisor: Hordós Marianna; referee: Den Dikken, Marcel) 

== spring 2015

**Kocsis Szabolcs,** //Geminates in the English language// (supervisor: -; referee: Nádasdy Ádám) 

**Töklincz Tamara,** //The description and analysis of the schwa vowel// (supervisor: Kis Zoltán; referee: Szigetvári Péter) 

**Szabó Ádám,** //Vowel Reduction in English and Russian// (supervisor: Törkenczy Miklós; referee: G. Kiss Zoltán) 

**Fónad Natália,** //The Neutrality of English Suffixes// (supervisor: Nádasdy Ádám; referee: Törkenczy Miklós) 

**Menczer Izabella,** //Focus, definiteness and relative clauses in there-sentences// (supervisor: Newson Mark; referee: Hordós Marianna) <wrap round notice>OUTSTANDING THESIS</wrap>

**Komlósi Réka,** //French Loanwords in English: The Pronunciation of Recently Adopted French Loanwords in English// (supervisor: Szigetvári Péter; referee: Starcevic Attila) 

**Németh Katalin Zsófia,** //The phonology of English loanwords in Italian// (supervisor: Nádasdy Ádám; referee: G. Kiss Zoltán) 

**Eredics Diána,** //The comparison of English and Hungarian phonemes through language jokes// (supervisor: Törkenczy Miklós; referee: Lázár A. Péter) 

**Kiss Veronika Tünde,** //The present state of "cure" lowering// (supervisor: Nádasdy Ádám; referee: Szigetvári Péter) 

**Tárczy Balázs László,** //A comparison of English and French multiple complement verb structures// (supervisor: Hordós Marianna; referee: Marosán Lajos) 

**Gőcze Borbála,** //Stress assignment by affixes in English: Mixed suffixes// (supervisor: Törkenczy Miklós; referee: G. Kiss Zoltán) 

**Tóth Lilla,** //The English Negation: What the respondents say?// (supervisor: Marosán Lajos; referee: Newson, Mark) 

**Riskó Gergely,** //Phonetic differences between early and late French loanwords, and the motivation behind them// (supervisor: Nádasdy Ádám; referee: Starcevic Attila) 

== spring 2014

**Kiss Naómi,** //The comparison of the transcription systems of standard British English: RP and SSBE// (supervisor: Kiss Zoltán; referee: Lázár A. Péter) 

**Simon Balázs,** //The glottal stop// (supervisor: My supervisor's name is not present on my thesis.; referee: Kiss Zoltán) 

**Bálint Helga,** //Compounds in English// (supervisor: Szigetvári Péter; referee: Marosán Lajos) 

**Dabóczy Katalin,** //The vocalic system of Scottish Standard English// (supervisor: Starcevic Attila; referee: Szigetvári Péter) 

**Sélley András,** //Yod-dropping and Yod-coalescence in British and American English// (supervisor: Nádasdy Ádám; referee: Kiss Zoltán) 

**Farkas Dorina,** //Allophonic variation in the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary: Pre-lateral effects on tense vowels// (supervisor: Szigetvári Péter; referee: Törkenczy Miklós) 

**Réti Lőrinc,** //The linguistics of English puns// (supervisor: Lázár A. Péter; referee: Nádasdy Ádám) 

**Nguyen Dang Nóra Lien,** //Emphatic do in Syntax First Alignment System// (supervisor: Newson, Mark; referee: Hordós Marianna) 

**Jávorszky Ágnes Viktória,** //Syllable boundary and ambisyllabicity in some Germanic languages// (supervisor: Nádasdy Ádám; referee: Starcevic Attila) 

**Gyarmati Ádám,** //The strange case of Schwa the Intruder and Schwa the Outcast: Schwa epenthesis and schwa elision in English and Dutch// (supervisor: Nádasdy Ádám; referee: Starcevic Attila) <wrap round notice>OUTSTANDING THESIS</wrap>

== autumn 2013

**Zalánki Gábor,** //Birth of a phoneme// (supervisor: Nádasdy Ádám; referee: Kiss Zoltán) 

== spring 2013

**Budai Hajnal Andrea,** //Vowel mergers in some English accents: Mergers before R// (supervisor: Szigetvári Péter; referee: Starcevic Attila) 

**Szabó Petra Florina,** //Social and regional variation and intrusive /r/// (supervisor: Törkenczy Miklós; referee: Nádasdy Ádám) 

**Péter Evelin Erzsébet,** //Language specific access in phonological analysis// (supervisor: Kiss Zoltán; referee: Törkenczy Miklós) 

**Hoffmann Bettina Tamara,** //What if you can't lisp: substituting th// (supervisor: Szigetvári Péter; referee: Nádasdy Ádám) 

**Széll Zsófia,** //Analyzing /r/ in English: With a special focus on R-sandhi// (supervisor: Starcevic Attila; referee: Kis Zoltán) 

**Bereczki Nelli,** //The role of stress in English and Hungarian: the phenomenon of stress 'deafness'// (supervisor: G. Kiss Zoltán; referee: Varga László) 

**Szabó Ildikó Emese,** //Compensatory lengthening: Is there synchronic compensatory lengthening in English?// (supervisor: Szigetvári Péter; referee: Kiss Zoltán) 

**Pándi Julianna Sarolta,** //Flapping in American English: a theoretical approach: Intervocalic flapping of alveolar stops// (supervisor: Szigetvári Péter; referee: Törkenczy Miklós) 

== autumn 2012

**Pénzes Dóra,** //Ergativity in English and Spanish// (supervisor: Hordós Marianna; referee: Lázár A. Péter) 

**Mentes Júlia Virgínia,** //Variation in English phonology: Internal and external conditioning of phonological variation with particular focus on t,d-deletion// (supervisor: Törkenczy Miklós; referee: G.Kiss Zoltán) 

== spring 2012

**Kiss Júlia,** //The behaviour of the palatal approximant in British and American English: processes of change// (supervisor: Szigetvári Péter; referee: Kiss Zoltán) 

**Szalay Tünde Orsolya,** //The changing distribution of the phoneme /r/ and its influence on the preceding vowels presented through late 18th and early 19th century pronunciation guides// (supervisor: Nádasdy Ádám; referee: Starcevic Attila) 

**Dékány Norbert,** //Distribution of syllabic R in English and Serbian// (supervisor: Starcevic Attila; referee: Törkenczy Miklós) 

**Stefanecz Szilvia,** //Various causes of ambiguity in the English language// (supervisor: Hordós Marianna; referee: Varga László) 

**Kiss Gábor,** //Studies in English-Swedish Contrastive Phonetics: r-coloured vowels in English and Swedish// (supervisor: Siptár Péter; referee: Starcevic Attila) 

**Létai Olga Zsuzsanna,** //Light verbs in the structure of English sentences// (supervisor: Varga, László; referee: Marosán Lajos) 

**Kindert Kata Lívia,** //English native children's difficulties in the acquisition of the passive voice// (supervisor: Szécsényi Krisztina; referee: Newson, Mark) 

**Kucsera Márton,** //Participial constructions in English// (supervisor: Hordós Marianna; referee: Newson, Mark) <wrap round notice>OUTSTANDING THESIS</wrap>

**Varga Laura,** //R-related rules in Received Pronunciation and Standard Scottish English// (supervisor: Starcevic Attila; referee: Szigetvári Péter) 

**Koroknay Márton László,** //Some typical mistakes made by Hungarians in the pronunciation of English vowels: Mistakes in the production of English long monophthongs// (supervisor: Nádasdy Ádám; referee: Törkenczy Miklós) 

**Tomacsek Vivien,** //Approaches to the structure of English small clauses// (supervisor: Hordós Marianna; referee: Lázár A. Péter) 

**Schmidt Lili Sára,** //The use of the articles in English and Swedish// (supervisor: Nádasdy Ádám; referee: Lázár A. Péter) 

== autumn 2011

**Juric Igor,** //Distribution of the nasals in Serbian and English// (supervisor: Starcevic Attila; referee: Szigetvári Péter) 

**Frei Ágnes,** //Sentence structures in English and Danish: Constituent-order analysis from a topological point of view// (supervisor: Marosán Lajos; referee: Lázár A. Péter) 

**Vizvári Júlia,** //Hungarian mistakes in the pronunciation of English vowels// (supervisor: Starcevic Attila; referee: Nádasdy Ádám) 

**Marton Boglárka,** //Phonological changes conditioned by syllabic position// (supervisor: Szigetvári Péter; referee: Törkenczy Miklós) 

== spring 2011

**Poszuk Réka,** //The phenomenon of intrusive-R: A descriptive essay about the most peculiar phenomenon of the English language// (supervisor: Kiss Zoltán; referee: Varga László) 

**Ocsenás Alica,** //A comparison of finite and non-finite clauses in English and in Hungarian// (supervisor: Szécsényi Krisztina; referee: Hordós Marianna) 

**Manninger Mária,** //Typical Hungarian mistakes in the pronunciation of English vowels: Mispronunciations caused by the different vowel inventories and rules in the two languages// (supervisor: Törkenczy Miklós; referee: Szigetvári Péter) <wrap round notice>OUTSTANDING THESIS</wrap>

**Biczók Bálint,** //Az ACD-jelenségek lehetséges megközelítései// (supervisor: Szécsényi Krisztina; referee: Varga László) 

**Oláh Nikoletta,** //Hungarian mistakes in English pronunciation: Hungarian yes/no questions on the basis of English intonation// (supervisor: Kiss Zoltán; referee: Lázár A. Péter) 

**Korda Gergely,** //Typical Hungarian mistakes in English pronunciation and their causes: The phonological aspect// (supervisor: Törkenczy Miklós; referee: Kiss Zoltán) 

**Vass Gabriella,** //Typical Hungarian mistakes in English pronunciation// (supervisor: Starcevic Attila; referee: Lázár A. Péter) 

**Fodor Brigitta,** //Scottish vowel length: Regular vowel length alternations and the raising of /ae/ in Scottish Standard English// (supervisor: Siptár Péter; referee: Törkenczy Miklós) 

**Molvay Kinga,** //The treatment of tense in the representation of the English sentence// (supervisor: Varga László; referee: Mark Newson) 

== autumn 2010

**Szakál Eszter,** //A comparative analysis of transcription systems for English// (supervisor: Nádasdy Ádám; referee: Szigetvári Péter) 

**Pálfy Antal,** //Typical mistakes made by Hungarians in English and their causes// (supervisor: Szécsényi Krisztina; referee: Törkenczy Miklós) 

**Tési Áron,** //Old Norse influence on Old English phonology// (supervisor: Nádasdy Ádám; referee: Starcevic Attila) 

== spring 2010

**Pataky Éva,** //On the laryngeal contrast of English plosives// (supervisor: Kiss Zoltán; referee: Nádasdy Ádám) 

**Görög Julianna,** //Typical Hungarian mistakes of English pronunciation and their causes// (supervisor: Szigetvári Péter; referee: Törkenczy Miklós) 

**Pock Orsolya,** //Sentence stress: contrast and emphasis// (supervisor: Varga László; referee: Newson, Mark) 

**Kedves Nárcisz Ilona,** //Theta-role and case assignment in there-constructions// (supervisor: Hordós Marianna; referee: Szécsényi Krisztina) 

**Linka Zsuzsanna Tünde,** //The glottal stop in English and Danish// (supervisor: Törkenczy Miklós; referee: Starcevic Attila) 

**Rácz Emőke,** //A comparsion of the vowel inventories of various English accents: Pre-R breaking and Pre-R broadening// (supervisor: Törkenczy Miklós; referee: Lázár A. Péter) 

**Kovács Fruzsina,** //Typical Hungarian mistakes in English pronunciation: the 'th' sounds// (supervisor: Nádasdy Ádám; referee: Törkenczy Miklós) 

**Benkő Ágnes,** ///r/ and pre-/r/ vowels in some English accents// (supervisor: Törkenczy Miklós; referee: Szigetvári Péter) 

**Szalay Anikó,** //The differences in the distribution of nasal sounds in English and Polish: A proposal for a consistent usage of IPA symbols for Polish nasal vowels// (supervisor: Starcevic Attila; referee: Nádasdy Ádám) 

**Fábián Eszter Mária,** //Types and effects of negation in English and German// (supervisor: Szécsényi Krisztina; referee: Marosán Lajos) 

**Varga Tibor,** //Flapping in American English// (supervisor: Nádasdy Ádám; referee: Törkenczy Miklós) 

**Bosnyák Júlia,** //On the subject of English small clauses from the perspective of Generative grammar// (supervisor: Szécsényi Krisztina; referee: Hordós Marianna) 

**Lipécz Emese Eszter,** //The English ditransitive construction in different theoretical frameworks// (supervisor: Marosán Lajos; referee: Varga László) <wrap round notice>OUTSTANDING THESIS</wrap>

== autumn 2009

**Szombathy Péter,** //Glottal stop in various dialects of English// (supervisor: Törkenczy Miklós; referee: Szigetvári Péter) 

== spring 2009

**Izsáki Tímea,** //Case assignment in English and German: A comparative and contrastive analysis// (supervisor: Szécsényi Krisztina; referee: Hordós Marianna) 

**Böröndy Elza,** //The Wade-Giles phonological transcription of the Chinese language// (supervisor: Bartos Huba; referee: Törkenczy Miklós) 

**Kánya Fruzsina,** //Comparing the phonologies of varieties of English: the behaviour of the palatal glide in accents of English// (supervisor: Szigetvári Péter; referee: Kiss Zoltán) 

**Papp Csilla,** //The advantages and disadvantages of English spelling// (supervisor: Szigetvári Péter; referee: Lázár A. Péter) 

**Rung Ádám,** //Distribution of glides in Hungarian, English and Latin// (supervisor: Törkenczy Miklós; referee: Nádasdy Ádám) 

**Seszták Sándor,** //Modern translations of Chaucer's The Canterbury tales// (supervisor: Nádasdy Ádám; referee: Farkas Judit) 

**Porpáczy Adrienn,** //Background to some typical Hungarian mistakes in English consonantal articulation// (supervisor: Kiss Zoltán; referee: Starcevic Attila)