Department of English

Polgárdi, Krisztina

Associate Professor
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Office location: 3312
Office phone: (62) 544-258

• Degrees: PhD in linguistics, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, 1998; MA in English and General Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University, 1991.

• Areas of competence: theoretical linguistics, phonology, phonology-morphology interface

• Areas of specialization: vowel harmony, syllable structure, phonotactics

• 1991–1992 Hungarian Academy of Sciences PhD-scholarship (supervisor: László Varga)
• 1993–1998 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) / Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (RUL), Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics (HIL) researcher-in-training (supervisor: Harry van der Hulst)
• 1998– University of Szeged (until 2000 József Attila University), Institute of English and American Studies
• 2008– associate professor
• 1998–2001 Hungarian Academy of Sciences Bolyai-scholarship (‘Hungarian as a “strict CV” language’)
• 1998–2000 Károli Gáspár Protestant University, English Department lecturer
• 2-13 August 1999 6th European Summer School in Generative Grammar, Plovdiv; “Universals and Variation: Government Phonology and Optimality Theory”
• 2000–2001 Eötvös Loránd University, Department of English Linguistics
  teaching an advanced course in phonology each term
• 23-27 April 2001 Eötvös Loránd University, Theoretical Linguistics Program: Supercourse “Vowel Harmony”

• Research interests and work in progress: Currently I am working on a project on syllable structure in a loose CV approach (a recent version of Government Phonology). The phenomena investigated include the distribution of consonant clusters, long vowels and geminates, the representation of length alternations, vowel ~ zero alternation, the distribution of tense and lax vowels, and the alternations between them etc. in a number of languages (Hungarian, Turkish, Dutch, English).

• Publications: Download list of publications

• Theses topics offered:
  • BA/MA:
  • Phonology-morphology interaction
  • Syllable-related phenomena
  • Segmental processes
  • Stress and prosodic structure
  • Contrastive linguistics, loan word phonology
  • Phonological variation, accents of English
  • Sound change and analogy
  • Language games, speech disguise, slang
  • The language of poetry: poetic metre, poetic rhyme
  • Systematic aspects of sms language

• PhD:
• Phonology-morphology interaction
• Syllable-related phenomena
• Segmental processes
• Stress and prosodic structure

• Past theses supervised:
  • PhD:
  • Gábor Turcsán: Le Mot Phonologique en Français Du Midi. Domaines, Contraintes, Opacité. PhD dissertation, Universite Toulouse II-Le Mirail. 2005 (co-supervisor: Jacques Durand)
  • MA:
  • Mónika Fischer: Representation of velar palatalisations in non-linear phonology. 2003
  • Zsolt Hudák: Lenition and deletion in African American Vernacular English. 2005
  • Annamária Kocsis Bihari Péterné: Apophony in Old English Strong Verbs. 2006
  • BA/MP:
  • Anita Bozsidár: Syncope in English. 2001
  • Adrienn Lucz: Consonant harmony in child language. 2006
  • Réka Helga Bozsó: OT in loanword phonology: Old Hungarian word-initial cluster resolution. 2008

• Teaching this academic year:
  • Morphohonology of English ling, 2-3, lect
  • Theories of Phonological Representation ling, 2-5, sem
  • Non-linear Phonology ling, 4-5, PhD, sem
  • Academic Writing gen, 2-3, sem

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