Awards

1998–2001:      Holder of state stipend for PhD students

Sept–Dec 2001: “Eötvös” Scholarship of the Hungarian State for studying abroad (Dept. of Linguistics, SOAS, London, UK) (3 months)

May–Aug 2003: “Eötvös” Scholarship of the Hungarian State for studying abroad (Dept. of Linguistics, SOAS, London, UK) with Academic Hospitality (3 months)

2005–2006:      HEFOP (Human Resources Operative Programme) Humanities Consortium, project for the development of BA-level teaching materials: textbook and digital material entitled The Pronunciation of English (Az angol nyelv kiejtése), co-author: Szilárd Szentgyörgyi (HEFOP-3.3.1-P.-2004-09-0134/1.0)

Nov 2010:        Guest lecturership at the Department of Linguistics and English Language, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh (LLP-Erasmus Programme Individual Teaching Programme for Teaching Staff Mobility)

Sept–Dec 2011: Guest researcher, CASTL, University of Tromsø (Yggdrasil Mobility Programme for Young Researchers, Research Council of Norway)

Nov 2016:        Guest lecturership at the Department of Hungarian and General Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Babeş–Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca (Romania) (Erasmus+ Programme for Teaching Staff Mobility)

2017–2018:      Coordinator of “KAP” research grant from PPCU awarded to the Theoretical Linguistics Research Group, PPCU (KAP17-61001-1.1-BTK “Nyelvelméleti kutatások a nyelvtan központi területein”)

Nov 2017:        Guest lecturership at the Department of Hungarian and General Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Babeş–Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca (Romania) (Erasmus+ Programme for Teaching Staff Mobility)

May–June 2018: “KAP” research grant from PPCU: research and strategic trip to the University of Edinburgh (KAP18-51006-1.2-BTK “Ábrázolásalapú fonológiák”)

Nov 2018:        Guest lecturership at the Department of Hungarian and General Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Babeş–Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca (Romania) (Erasmus+ Programme for Teaching Staff Mobility)

Oct 2019:         Guest lecturership at the Department of Hungarian and General Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Babeş–Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca (Romania) (Erasmus+ Programme for Teaching Staff Mobility)

Jan–June 2020: Ministry for Innovation and Technology “Tématerületi Kiválósági Program” (TKP – Thematic Excellence Program) (TUDFO/51757-1/2019-ITM) research grant for 2019-2020, Laboratory Linguistics sub-project, principal investigator: Balázs Surányi („Kutatások a mai reprezentációs fonológiaelméletek témájában. Áttekintő értékelő tanulmány készítése a témáról társszerzőként. Angol nyelvű tanulmánygyűjtemény szerkesztése a kutatási témában társszerkesztőként. Hibamintázatok tanulmányozása az angol mint idegen nyelv magyar nyelvtanulók általi elsajátításában a nyelvi univerzálék érvényesülésének szempontjából Piukovics Ágnessel közösen.”)

Oct 2020–Oct 2022: Ministry for Innovation and Technology “Tématerületi Kiválósági Program” (TKP – Thematic Excellence Program) research grant (TKP2020-NKA-11), Theoretical and Laboratory Linguistics project, principal investigator: Balázs Surányi

1 June 2022 “Cena dekana FF KU v Ružomberku za rok 2021 za pedagogickú činnosť” [Faculty of Arts KU Dean’s Award for 2021 for Teaching Excellence]

June 2024:    ESSE Book and Resource Grants reward (EUR 220) granted to the project “A sociophonetic study of Southern Hemisphere Englishes”, carried out jointly with Erika Sajtós

Projects

I am currently involved in the following research projects I am planning to continue pursuing and to accomplish:

• Sept 2024 – June 2025: Visegrad Fund grant #22420198 “Crossing borders between countries, scholars, and genres: Commemorating the late Kathleen E. Dubs”. Grantee: KU Ružomberok, partners: PPCU Budapest and Masaryk U. Brno (I am main coordinator). https://www.ku.sk/fakulty-katolickej-univerzity/filozoficka-fakulta/veda-a-vyskum/projekty-a-granty/crossing-borders-between-countries-scholars-and-genres-commemorating-the-late-kathleen-e-dubs.html
• 1 Oct 2022–31 Aug 2026: OTKA project (NKFIH #142498) (granted by the National Research, Development and Innovation (NRDI) Office and the Ministry for Innovation and Technology (ITM)) “Laryngeal patterns in synchrony and diachrony”, principal investigator: Péter Szigetvári (ELTE, Budapest). http://seas.elte.hu/w/!laryngeal
  • Our team is working on the phonetics and phonology of laryngeal (voicing and aspirating) patterns in languages, with a primary focus on synchronic and diachronic varieties of English and in second and third language acquisition. Experimental phonetic data are being gathered to support theoretical modelling. I am primarily concerned with dialectal variation and laryngeal subsystems in English, its emergence and motivation in historical and contact processes.
• 2023–2024: “Theoretical Phonology and the Phonology of English” (ThPhPhE) international project led by Patrick Honeybone (U. of Edinburgh) and Martin Krämer (U. of Tromsø)
  • The (unfunded) project intends to fill the gap in the current phonological literature of a comprehensive reference work on recent theoretical argumentation based on data from (varieties of) English on the one hand, and on phenomena attested in (varieties of) present-day English couched in cutting-edge theoretical discourse on the other. My planned contribution is on laryngeal subsystems and models of voice assimilation.
• 2023–2024: Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Phonology (PhonCom2) international project led by Kuniya Nasukawa; editors: Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan), Bridget Samuels (University of Southern California, USA), Geoff Schwartz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland), Miklós Törkenczy (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
  • The second volume is intended as a complement to the book first published in 2011. My planned contribution is on consonantal phonotactics.

• Jan 2024 – Dec 2026: Excellent research group internal grant of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, PPCU, awarded to the Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics Research Group’s project “‘Incomplete’ linguistic systems in a theoretical and experimental linguistic approach” (PPKE-BTK-KUT-23-2), principal investigator: Balázs Surányi
  • My planned contribution is to the theoretical phonological module (hybrid laryngeal systems emerging under language/dialect contact (esp. Northern British varieties of English); the emergence of an internal speech norm in the development of New Zealand English -- in collaboration with supervisee Erika Sajtós) and to the second language phonological module (interlanguage phonology, pronunciation teaching, the components of learner pronunciation and their characterisation in terms of teachability and learnability, Eastern European English phonology -- in collaboration with ex-supervisee Ágnes Piukovics and current co-supervisee Noémi Gyurka).

Besides these, a collaboration with Shanti Ulfsbjorninn (Memorial U. of Newfoundland) is still in progress (and the results are still to be published) on palatalisation in Hungarian on the one hand, and on the synchronic and diachronic analysis of article allomorphy interacting with H-dropping in (British) English on the other.

Publications

Publications and oral presentations (conference papers and posters)

♠ Publications

Official list (switch to English in the top right-hand corner): https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=authors10002980

Publications in pdf format in year-by-year folders: here.

♠ Oral presentations (conference papers and posters)

Oral presentations (conference papers and posters): here.

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