Curriculum Vitae Daniel Szeredi March 22, 2015
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Szeredi, Daniel New York University Department of Linguistics 10 Washington Place, New York, NY, 10003
[email protected] http://files.nyu.edu/ds3041/public/ Hungarian
Education 2010-
2003-2009
2002-2008
New York University, Linguistics PhD (expected to graduate in 2016) Dissertation: Exceptionality in Vowel Harmony Committee: Gillian Gallagher (chair), Frans Adriaans, Lisa Davidson, Maria Gouskova, Susannah Levi E¨ otv¨ os Lor´ and University, Budapest, MA in Theoretical Linguistics Graduated in July 2009 E¨ otv¨ os Lor´ and University, Budapest, MA in Hungarian Language and Literature Graduated in July 2008
Publications Phonology and phonetics
2012
Szeredi, Daniel. “Possible theoretical relevance of subphonemic vowel reduction in Hungarian.” In: Constantinescu, Camelia, Bert Le Bruyn and Kathrin Linke (eds.), Proceedings of ConSOLE XVII, pp. 299–319.
2011
Blaho, Sylvia and Daniel Szeredi. “(The non-existence of) secondary stress in Hungarian.” In: Laczk´ o, Tibor and Catherine O. Ringen (eds.), Approaches to Hungarian, volume 12: Papers from the 2009 Debrecen Conference, John Benjamins, pp. 39–64. Blaho, Sylvia and Daniel Szeredi. “Secondary Stress in Hungarian: (Morpho)Syntactic, not Metrical.” In: Mary B. Washburn et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Cascadilla Press, pp. 51–59.
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2010
Szeredi, Daniel. “Vowel centralization and vowel harmony in Hungarian.” In: M´arton S´ oskuthy (ed.), Odd Yearbook, vol. 8., ELTE SEAS Undergraduate Papers in Linguistics.
2008
Szeredi, Daniel. “Centralized Vowels in Hungarian.” In: K´alm´an, L´aszl´o (ed.) Papers from the M´ okus Conference.
Sociolinguistics 2012
Szeredi, Daniel. “Loss of Agreement between Hungarian Relative Pronouns and their Antecedents”. In: Prichard, Hillary (ed.), University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 18.2: Selected papers from NWAV 40, pp. 147–155.
Computational linguistics
2010
Farkas, Rich´ ard, Daniel Szeredi, D´aniel Varga and Veronika Vincze, “MSD-KR harmoniz´ aci´ o a Szeged Treebank 2.5-ben [Harmonization of MSD and KR in the Szeged Treebank 2.5].” In: Tan´acs, Attila and Veronika Vincze (eds.), VII. Magyar Sz´ am´ıt´ og´epes Nyelv´eszeti Konferencia, Szeged, pp. 349-353.
2007
Varasdi, K´ aroly, Zs´ ofia Gyarmathy, Andr´as Simonyi and Daniel Szeredi. “Outlines of a Model of General Ontology.” In: Acta Cybernetica 18/2.
2006
Szakad´ at, Istv´ an, Mikl´ os Sz˝ots, Gy¨orgy Gyepesi, K´aroly Varasdi, Rudolf Ungv´ary, Andr´ as Simonyi, Zs´ ofia Gyarmathy and S´andor Szaszk´o and Daniel Szeredi. “MEO ontol´ ogiamodell [The MEO model of ontology].” In: Alexin, Zolt´an and D´ora Csendes (eds.), IV. Magyar Sz´ am´ıt´ og´epes Nyelv´eszeti Konferencia, Szeged, pp. 990–996. Gyarmathy, Zs´ ofia and Daniel Szeredi. “A kommunik´aci´os fogalmak jelent´esreprezent´ aci´ oj´ anak egy modellje [A model of semantic representation of communicational concepts].” In: Alexin, Zolt´an and D´ora Csendes (eds.), IV. Magyar Sz´ am´ıt´ og´epes Nyelv´eszeti Konferencia, Szeged. Varasdi, K´ aroly, Zs´ ofia Gyarmathy, Andr´as Simonyi and Daniel Szeredi. “Az ´altal´anos ontol´ ogia egy u ´j modellje. [A new model of general ontology].” In: Alexin, Zolt´an and D´ ora Csendes (eds.), IV. Magyar Sz´ am´ıt´ og´epes Nyelv´eszeti Konferencia, Szeged.
2005
Szeredi, Daniel. “Be´ as nyelv˝ u morfol´ogiai elemz˝o probl´em´ai a hunlex-hunmorph rendszerben [Problems of morphological parsing in the Bayash language in the hunlex-hunmorph system].” In: Alexin, Zolt´an and D´ora Csendes (eds.), III. Magyar Sz´ am´ıt´ og´epes Nyelv´eszeti Konferencia, Szeged.
Applied linguistics
2008
Szeredi, Daniel. “A helyes´ır´as szerepe ´es alapelvei [The role of orthography and its principles].” In: Magyar Nyelv. Tan´ ari Kincsest´ ar, 2008. m´arcius, Raabe Kiad´o. 2
2007
Szeredi, Daniel. “Nyelvi megk¨ ul¨onb¨oztet´es, nyelvi h´atr´any [Linguistic discrimination, linguistic handicap].” In: Magyar Nyelv. Tan´ ari Kincsest´ ar, 2007. ´aprilis, Raabe Kiad´ o.
Crowdsourcing
2015
Tara McAllister-Byun, Peter F. Halpin and Daniel Szeredi. “Online crowdsourcing for efficient rating of speech: A validation study.” Journal of Communication Disorders, 53, 70–83.
Theses, qualifying papers
2013
Szeredi, Daniel. Phonological status of near-merged categories. Qualifying Paper, New York University. QP Committee: Alec Marantz (chair), Lisa Davidson and Susannah Levi
2012
Szeredi, Daniel. Acceptability of harmonic mismatch for neutral vowel stems in Hungarian. Qualifying Paper, New York University. QP Committee: Gillian Gallagher (chair), Lisa Davidson and Maria Gouskova.
2009
Szeredi, Daniel. Functional phonological analysis of the Hungarian vowel system. Masters thesis, E¨ otv¨ os Lor´and University, Theoretical Linguistics. Thesis advisor: P´eter Rebrus
2008
Szeredi, Daniel. Vonatkoz´ o n´evm´ asok haszn´ alata besz´elt nyelvi korpusz alapj´ an [Usage of relative pronouns based on a spoken language corpus]. Masters thesis, E¨otv¨os Lor´ and University, Hungarian Language and Literature. Thesis advisor: Csilla Bartha.
Presentations at conferences March 2014
October 2013
July 2012 January 2012
McAllister Byun, Tara, Peter Halpin and Daniel Szeredi. Assessing the validity of a crowdsourcing approach to speech data rating (talk), Motor Speech 2014, Sarasota, FL. S´ oskuthy, M´ arton, P´eter R´acz and Daniel Szeredi. A phonetic study of l-deletion in Hungarian (talk), Colloquium, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. R´ acz, P´eter, M´arton S´oskuthy and Daniel Szeredi. A phonetic study of l-deletion in Hungarian (poster), LabPhon 13, Stuttgart, Germany. Szeredi, Daniel. Phonetically unnatural alternation as a result of regular sound change: the case of rounding harmony in Hungarian (poster), OCP 9, Berlin, Germany.
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January 2012 December 2011
December 2011 October 2011
October 2011
August 2011
August 2011
May 2011
December 2010
October 2010
February 2010
January 2010 January 2010
August 2009
May 2009
May 2009
R´ acz, P´eter, M´arton S´oskuthy and Daniel Szeredi. A phonetic study of l-deletion in Hungarian (talk), OCP 9, Berlin, Germany. Blaho, Sylvia and Daniel Szeredi. Vacillating stems in Hungarian vowel harmony: a dialectal comparison (talk), CASTL Colloquium, Tromsø, Norway. Szeredi, Daniel. Gradient perceptual categorization of neutral vowels in vowel harmony (talk), SYNC 13, New York University, New York, NY. Szeredi, Daniel. Loss of agreement between Hungarian relative pronouns and their antecedents (poster), New Ways of Analyzing Variation 40, Georgetown, Washington, DC. LaFave, Nathan, Daniel Szeredi, Allison Shapp, Timothy Mathes, Morakinyo Ogunmodimu and Gregory Guy. Variable auxiliary contraction in spoken American English (poster), New Ways of Analyzing Variation 40, Georgetown, Washington, DC. Fey´er, B´ alint, P´eter R´acz, M´arton S´oskuthy and Daniel Szeredi. A phonetic study of l-deletion in Hungarian (talk), 10th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, Lund, Sweden. Blaho, Sylvia and Daniel Szeredi. Do phonological and phonetic contrasts go hand in hand? An acoustic and lexical study of antiharmonic and vacillating stems in Hungarian (talk), 10th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, Lund, Sweden. Blaho, Sylvia and Daniel Szeredi. Do phonological and phonetic contrasts go hand in hand? An acoustic and lexical study of antiharmonic and vacillating stems in Hungarian (talk), 19th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, United Kingdom. Farkas, Rich´ ard, Daniel Szeredi, D´aniel Varga and Veronika Vincze. MSDKR harmoniz´ aci´o a Szeged Treebank 2.5-ben [Harmonization of MSD and KR in the Szeged Treebank 2.5] (talk), VII. Magyar Sz´am´ıt´og´epes Nyelv´eszeti Konferencia [7th Hungarian Conference on Computational Linguistics], Szeged, Hungary. Fey´er, B´ alint, P´eter R´acz, M´arton S´oskuthy and Daniel Szeredi. Morphology in the extreme: Labial Reduplication in Hungarian (talk), SinFonIJA 3, Novi Sad, Serbia. Blaho, Sylvia and Daniel Szeredi. Secondary stress in Hungarian: (morpho)syntactic, not metrical (talk), The 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Los Angeles, California. Szeredi, Daniel. Perception of centralized vowels in a language with vowel harmony (poster), OCP 7, Nice, France. Szeredi, Daniel. Fonol´ogiai kateg´ori´ak hat´asa szubfonemikus jelens´egek percepci´ oj´ ara [The effect of phonological categories on the perception of subphonemic phenomena] (talk), MAKOG 2010 Conference [Hungarian Conferencence of Cognitive Studies], Budapest, Hungary. Blaho, Sylvia and Daniel Szeredi. (The non-existence of) secondary stress in Hungarian (talk), 9th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, Debrecen, Hungary. R´ acz, P´eter and Daniel Szeredi. Testing usage-based predictions on Hungarian vowel reduction (poster), 17th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, United Kingdom. Szeredi, Daniel. A magyar mag´anhangz´orendszer funkcion´alis fonetikai alap´ u vizsg´ alata [Functional phonological analysis of the Hungarian vowel system] (talk), Research Institute of Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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January 2009 January 2009 December 2008
May 2008 September 2007 December 2006
December 2005
Szeredi, Daniel and Sylvia Blaho. (The non-existence of) secondary stress in Hungarian (poster), OCP 6, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Szeredi, Daniel. Possible theoretical relevance of subphonemic vowel reduction in Hungarian (talk), ConSOLE XVII., Nova Gorica, Slovenia. Szeredi, Daniel. Vonatkoz´o n´evm´asok haszn´alat´anak elemz´ese a BUSZI-2 interj´ uiban [Analysis of the usage of relative pronouns in the interviews of the BUSZI-2 corpus] (talk), Budapesti Szociolingvisztikai Interj´ u, I. Szimp´ ozium, Budapest, Hungary. Szeredi, Daniel. Accounting for subphonemic centralization in Hungarian (talk), 16th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, United Kingdom. Szeredi, Daniel. Centraliz´alt mag´anhangz´ok a magyarban [Centralized vowels in Hungarian] (talk), M´okus Konferencia, Balatonszemes, Hungary. Gyarmathy, Zs´ofia and Daniel Szeredi. A kommunik´aci´os fogalmak jelent´esreprezent´ aci´oj´anak egy modellje [A model of semantic representation of communicational concepts] (poster), IV. Magyar Sz´am´ıt´og´epes Nyelv´eszeti Konferencia [4th Hungarian Conference on Computational Linguistics], Szeged, Hungary Szeredi, Daniel. Be´as nyelv˝ u morfol´ogiai elemz˝o probl´em´ai a hunlex-hunmorph rendszerben [Problems of morphological parsing in the Bayash language in the hunlex-hunmorph system] (poster), III. Magyar Sz´ am´ıt´ og´epes Nyelv´eszeti Konferencia [3rd Hungarian Conference on Computational Linguistics], Szeged, Hungary.
Research Assistantship 2014 2013-
2010 2009
2008-2009
2008
2007-2008
Transcription, segmenting for Gillian Gallagher Programming consultant for Tara McAllister-Byun. Responsibilities included programming online experiments, and assistance in the analysis of their results. morphdb.hu morphological parser, University of Szeged. http://mokk.bme.hu/resources/morphdb.hu Research Assistant, Magyar generat´ıv t¨ ort´eneti mondattan [Historical gene´ Kiss), NK-78074 rative syntax of Hungarian] (Project Manager Katalin E. OTKA project, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Linguistic Institute. http://www.nytud.hu/oszt/elmnyelv/index.html Research Assistant, A szintaktikai lokalit´ as minimalista megk¨ ozel´ıt´esben [Syntactic locality in a Minimalist approach] (Project Manager Bal´azs Sur´ anyi), NF-73537 OTKA project, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Linguistic Institute. Responsibilities include processing, tagging sound files and examining intonational and other prosodic features using Praat scripts. http://www.nytud.hu/oszt/elmnyelv/index.html Experiment Conductor, Acoustic, phonetic and phonological factors in nonnative sound perception (Project Manager Barı¸s Kabak), AFF, University of Konstanz. http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/kabak/ morphdb.hu morphological parser, BME (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Media Research Center. http://mokk.bme.hu/resources/morphdb.hu
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2005-2007
Magyar Egys´eges Ontol´ogia [Hungarian Unified Ontology] project, BME (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Media Research Center and Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Linguistic Institute. http://ontologia.hu/meo
Teaching At New York University 2015 Spring 2014 Fall 2014 2013 2013 2013 2012
Spring Fall Fall Spring Fall
2012 Spring
Teaching Assistant for Language, with Anna Szabolcsi Teaching Assistant for Language and Mind, with Alec Marantz and Brian McElree Course Assistant for Phonological Analysis, with Gillian Gallagher Co-lecturer of Etymology, with Salvador Mascarenhas Teaching Assistant for Sound and Language, with Lisa Davidson Teaching Assistant for Language, with Lucas Champollion Teaching Assistant for Language and Mind, with Gillian Gallagher and Liina Pylkk¨ anen Course Assistant for Phonological Analysis, with Gillian Gallagher
At the Theoretical Linguistics Department, E¨ otv¨ os Lor´ and University 2009 Summer 2009 Spring
Extracurricular course taught on Statistical Methods in Linguistics. Course taught on the History of Hungarian in the Linguistic Institute.
Service 2012-14 2011-12 2008 2007-2008 2007-2008
Abstract review for the SYNC conference Vice President, LANYU (graduate student organization) Organizer of the SPE40 Phonology Workshops at Sz´alka, Hungary and Kov´ aˇcov, Slovakia. Organizer of the yearly ‘Linguistic Fiesta’ meeting at the Linguistic Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. ´ Organizer of the FOKa Phonology Reading Circle (2007 spring: Representation in Phonology; 2008 autumn: History of Hungarian)
Languages
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Language Level
Hungarian native
Language Level Test
English fluent TOEFL iBT November 21, 2009
Languages Level Test
Danish conversational CEFR B1 level examination March 19, 2009
Computer skills Operation systems Office systems Linguistic and mathematic softwares Programming skills Web development
Microsoft Windows, Linux Microsoft Office, LATEX, emacs MATLAB, R, Praat, SPSS JavaScript, Haskell, Python, C++ JavaScript, node.js, mongodb, Experigen
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