Curriculum Vitae Daniel Szeredi March 22, 2015 Personal data Name Address E-mail address Website Citizenship Szeredi, Daniel New York University Department of Linguistics 10 Washington Place, New York, NY, 10003 daniel.szeredi@nyu.edu http://files.nyu.edu/ds3041/public/ Hungarian Education 2010- 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 2003-2009 Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, MA in Theoretical Linguistics Graduated in July 2009 2002-2008 Eötvös Loránd 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: Laczkó, 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 28 th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Cascadilla Press, pp. 51 59. 1
2010 Szeredi, Daniel. Vowel centralization and vowel harmony in Hungarian. In: Márton Sóskuthy (ed.), Odd Yearbook, vol. 8., ELTE SEAS Undergraduate Papers in Linguistics. 2008 Szeredi, Daniel. Centralized Vowels in Hungarian. In: Kálmán, László (ed.) Papers from the Mókus 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, Richárd, Daniel Szeredi, Dániel Varga and Veronika Vincze, MSD-KR harmonizáció a Szeged Treebank 2.5-ben [Harmonization of MSD and KR in the Szeged Treebank 2.5]. In: Tanács, Attila and Veronika Vincze (eds.), VII. Magyar Számítógépes Nyelvészeti Konferencia, Szeged, pp. 349-353. 2007 Varasdi, Károly, Zsófia Gyarmathy, András Simonyi and Daniel Szeredi. Outlines of a Model of General Ontology. In: Acta Cybernetica 18/2. 2006 Szakadát, István, Miklós Szőts, György Gyepesi, Károly Varasdi, Rudolf Ungváry, András Simonyi, Zsófia Gyarmathy and Sándor Szaszkó and Daniel Szeredi. MEO ontológiamodell [The MEO model of ontology]. In: Alexin, Zoltán and Dóra Csendes (eds.), IV. Magyar Számítógépes Nyelvészeti Konferencia, Szeged, pp. 990 996. Gyarmathy, Zsófia and Daniel Szeredi. A kommunikációs fogalmak jelentésreprezentációjának egy modellje [A model of semantic representation of communicational concepts]. In: Alexin, Zoltán and Dóra Csendes (eds.), IV. Magyar Számítógépes Nyelvészeti Konferencia, Szeged. Varasdi, Károly, Zsófia Gyarmathy, András Simonyi and Daniel Szeredi. Az általános ontológia egy új modellje. [A new model of general ontology]. In: Alexin, Zoltán and Dóra Csendes (eds.), IV. Magyar Számítógépes Nyelvészeti Konferencia, Szeged. 2005 Szeredi, Daniel. Beás nyelvű morfológiai elemző problémái a hunlex-hunmorph rendszerben [Problems of morphological parsing in the Bayash language in the hunlex-hunmorph system]. In: Alexin, Zoltán and Dóra Csendes (eds.), III. Magyar Számítógépes Nyelvészeti Konferencia, Szeged. Applied linguistics 2008 Szeredi, Daniel. A helyesírás szerepe és alapelvei [The role of orthography and its principles]. In: Magyar Nyelv. Tanári Kincsestár, 2008. március, Raabe Kiadó. 2
2007 Szeredi, Daniel. Nyelvi megkülönböztetés, nyelvi hátrány [Linguistic discrimination, linguistic handicap]. In: Magyar Nyelv. Tanári Kincsestár, 2007. április, Raabe Kiadó. 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, Eötvös Loránd University, Theoretical Linguistics. Thesis advisor: Péter Rebrus 2008 Szeredi, Daniel. Vonatkozó névmások használata beszélt nyelvi korpusz alapján [Usage of relative pronouns based on a spoken language corpus]. Masters thesis, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungarian Language and Literature. Thesis advisor: Csilla Bartha. Presentations at conferences March 2014 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. October 2013 Sóskuthy, Márton, Péter Rácz and Daniel Szeredi. A phonetic study of l-deletion in Hungarian (talk), Colloquium, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. July 2012 Rácz, Péter, Márton Sóskuthy and Daniel Szeredi. A phonetic study of l-deletion in Hungarian (poster), LabPhon 13, Stuttgart, Germany. January 2012 Szeredi, Daniel. Phonetically unnatural alternation as a result of regular sound change: the case of rounding harmony in Hungarian (poster), OCP 9, Berlin, Germany. 3
January 2012 Rácz, Péter, Márton Sóskuthy and Daniel Szeredi. A phonetic study of l-deletion in Hungarian (talk), OCP 9, Berlin, Germany. December 2011 Blaho, Sylvia and Daniel Szeredi. Vacillating stems in Hungarian vowel harmony: a dialectal comparison (talk), CASTL Colloquium, Tromsø, Norway. December 2011 Szeredi, Daniel. Gradient perceptual categorization of neutral vowels in vowel harmony (talk), SYNC 13, New York University, New York, NY. October 2011 Szeredi, Daniel. Loss of agreement between Hungarian relative pronouns and their antecedents (poster), New Ways of Analyzing Variation 40, Georgetown, Washington, DC. October 2011 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. August 2011 August 2011 May 2011 December 2010 October 2010 February 2010 January 2010 January 2010 August 2009 May 2009 Feyér, Bálint, Péter Rácz, Márton Sóskuthy 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, Richárd, Daniel Szeredi, Dániel Varga and Veronika Vincze. MSD- KR harmonizáció a Szeged Treebank 2.5-ben [Harmonization of MSD and KR in the Szeged Treebank 2.5] (talk), VII. Magyar Számítógépes Nyelvészeti Konferencia [7th Hungarian Conference on Computational Linguistics], Szeged, Hungary. Feyér, Bálint, Péter Rácz, Márton Sóskuthy 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. Fonológiai kategóriák hatása szubfonemikus jelenségek percepciójára [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. Rácz, Péter and Daniel Szeredi. Testing usage-based predictions on Hungarian vowel reduction (poster), 17th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, United Kingdom. May 2009 Szeredi, Daniel. A magyar magánhangzórendszer funkcionális fonetikai alapú vizsgálata [Functional phonological analysis of the Hungarian vowel system] (talk), Research Institute of Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 4
January 2009 Szeredi, Daniel and Sylvia Blaho. (The non-existence of) secondary stress in Hungarian (poster), OCP 6, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. January 2009 Szeredi, Daniel. Possible theoretical relevance of subphonemic vowel reduction in Hungarian (talk), ConSOLE XVII., Nova Gorica, Slovenia. December 2008 Szeredi, Daniel. Vonatkozó névmások használatának elemzése a BUSZI-2 interjúiban [Analysis of the usage of relative pronouns in the interviews of the BUSZI-2 corpus] (talk), Budapesti Szociolingvisztikai Interjú, I. Szimpózium, Budapest, Hungary. May 2008 Szeredi, Daniel. Accounting for subphonemic centralization in Hungarian (talk), 16th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, United Kingdom. September 2007 Szeredi, Daniel. Centralizált magánhangzók a magyarban [Centralized vowels in Hungarian] (talk), Mókus Konferencia, Balatonszemes, Hungary. December 2006 Gyarmathy, Zsófia and Daniel Szeredi. A kommunikációs fogalmak jelentésreprezentációjának egy modellje [A model of semantic representation of communicational concepts] (poster), IV. Magyar Számítógépes Nyelvészeti Konferencia [4th Hungarian Conference on Computational Linguistics], Szeged, Hungary December 2005 Szeredi, Daniel. Beás nyelvű morfológiai elemző problémái a hunlex-hunmorph rendszerben [Problems of morphological parsing in the Bayash language in the hunlex-hunmorph system] (poster), III. Magyar Számítógépes Nyelvészeti Konferencia [3rd Hungarian Conference on Computational Linguistics], Szeged, Hungary. Research Assistantship 2014 Transcription, segmenting for Gillian Gallagher 2013- Programming consultant for Tara McAllister-Byun. Responsibilities included programming online experiments, and assistance in the analysis of their results. 2010 morphdb.hu morphological parser, University of Szeged. http://mokk.bme.hu/resources/morphdb.hu 2009 Research Assistant, Magyar generatív történeti mondattan [Historical generative syntax of Hungarian] (Project Manager Katalin É. Kiss), NK-78074 OTKA project, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Linguistic Institute. http://www.nytud.hu/oszt/elmnyelv/index.html 2008-2009 Research Assistant, A szintaktikai lokalitás minimalista megközelítésben [Syntactic locality in a Minimalist approach] (Project Manager Balázs Surányi), 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 2008 Experiment Conductor, Acoustic, phonetic and phonological factors in nonnative sound perception (Project Manager Barış Kabak), AFF, University of Konstanz. http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/kabak/ 2007-2008 morphdb.hu morphological parser, BME (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Media Research Center. http://mokk.bme.hu/resources/morphdb.hu 5
2005-2007 Magyar Egységes Ontológia [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 Teaching Assistant for Language, with Anna Szabolcsi 2014 Fall Teaching Assistant for Language and Mind, with Alec Marantz and Brian McElree 2014 Spring Course Assistant for Phonological Analysis, with Gillian Gallagher 2013 Fall Co-lecturer of Etymology, with Salvador Mascarenhas 2013 Fall Teaching Assistant for Sound and Language, with Lisa Davidson 2013 Spring Teaching Assistant for Language, with Lucas Champollion 2012 Fall Teaching Assistant for Language and Mind, with Gillian Gallagher and Liina Pylkkänen 2012 Spring Course Assistant for Phonological Analysis, with Gillian Gallagher At the Theoretical Linguistics Department, Eötvös Loránd University 2009 Summer Extracurricular course taught on Statistical Methods in Linguistics. 2009 Spring Course taught on the History of Hungarian in the Linguistic Institute. Service 2012-14 Abstract review for the SYNC conference 2011-12 Vice President, LANYU (graduate student organization) 2008 Organizer of the SPE40 Phonology Workshops at Szálka, Hungary and Kováčov, Slovakia. 2007-2008 Organizer of the yearly Linguistic Fiesta meeting at the Linguistic Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 2007-2008 Organizer of the FÓKa Phonology Reading Circle (2007 spring: Representation in Phonology; 2008 autumn: History of Hungarian) Languages 6
Language Level Hungarian native Language Level Test Languages Level Test English fluent TOEFL ibt November 21, 2009 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, L A TEX, emacs MATLAB, R, Praat, SPSS JavaScript, Haskell, Python, C++ JavaScript, node.js, mongodb, Experigen 7