A tervezett kutatás két összefüggő részkutatásból áll, illetve résztémára irányul: (i) empirikus kutatások, illetve (ii) formális-elméleti modell létrehozása és nyelvészeti elemzés az alábbi témákra összpontosítva: (a) a magyar és egyes uráli nyelvek nem-agglutinatív vonásainak vizsgálata és (b) tipológiai vizsgálódások, analógiás nyelvi modellek és szó-és-paradigma alapú morfológiai elemzések elkészítése.

The following syllable structure phenomena are investigated in a theoretical approach, in different languages. (a) [s] behaves in a special way in most languages because it shows similar properties to vowels (e.g. in its distribution), sometimes only in part (similarly to syllabic consonants), and sometimes completely, forming a so-called fricative vowel. (b) Glides also behave ambiguously and often interact with a neighbouring vowel. Often, liquids are also included in this class, and now, afte ...

The aim of our research is to model human linguistic ability within the theoretical framework of construction grammar. Our fundamental questions are (a) what mechanisms facilitate the acquisition of language and (b) how linguistic knowledge is best represented. We believe that speakers’ linguistic knowledge consists of a system built from their specific linguistic experiences and the similarity- and frequency-based relations between these experiences, and that this system can be acquired using o ...

Our research consists of two main strands; one is of a more practical nature, the other one is theoretical. The continuous processing of the data collected earlier constitutes the practical part. Extensive fieldwork on the Romani language was conducted in Hungary in the previous years as part of two research grants, in the course of which a comparatively large amount of data was obtained in the form of sound recordings of questionnaire-based interviews from several dialects. The transcription, a ...

The planned research on vowel harmony has two related sub-components: (i) empirical investigation (based on corpus studies and phonetic experiments) and (ii) theoretical modelling and analysis focussing on (a) specific properties of the harmony system of Hungarian (variation, antiharmony, morphological domains) and (b) general properties of (front/back) harmony systems (variation and neutrality patterns, morphological and lexical constraints, typological implications).Typology (Uralic and Hungar ...