Márton Sóskuthy visits the HUN-REN Research Centre for Linguistics as an MTA Visiting Research Fellow

Dr. Márton Sóskuthy, Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada, visits Budapest for four months in 2025 as a visiting researcher of the HUN-REN Linguistics Research Centre, thanks to the support of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His joint proposal with the Phonetics Research Group of the Institute of General and Hungarian Linguistics is entitled “Analysing non-linearities in Hungarian intonation and speech rate through advanced computational methods”.

The joint research focuses on prosodic analyses on large Hungarian speech databases using non-linear statistical models, mainly in the area of intonation and speech rate. These statistical procedures combine cognitive and physiological models with hierarchical statistical models and are therefore particularly suitable for the analysis of unbalanced and varied data typical of spontaneous speech.

Dr. Márton Sóskuthy has been an internationally known and respected expert in the application and teaching of non-linear models for more than a decade. Next to methodological publications, he is mainly interested in diachronic and inter-linguistic relations. His research interests include the description of sound change and lexical change processes, the iconic occurrence of the /r/ sound coupled with roughness, and the analysis of the morphological structure of Hungarian.

Márton Sóskuthy continued his university studies at the MTA-ELTE Department of Theoretical Linguistics at the then MTA Institute of Linguistics, and defended his dissertation as a doctoral student at the University of Edinburgh. He continued as a lecturer at the University of York and has been teaching and researching in Vancouver since 2018.