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ANNA BABARCZY

Curriculum Vitae 

 

 

Dept of Cognitive Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics,

Budapest 1111, Stoczek utca 2. ST. III/315.

Phone: +36 14631073, Fax: +36 14631072

E-mail: babarczy kukac cogsci.bme.hu

Education

 

2002    PhD in Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, UK

 

1995    MA Hons in Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, UK

Employment

 

2003 to date    Lecturer, Dept of Cognitive Science,
                        Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

 

2000—2003    Research Fellow
                        Informatics, University of Sussex, UK

Research

 

Budapest (current)

- Abstraction and metaphors in everyday language (EU)

- Experimental and corpus-based study of universal and language-specific syntactic characteristics of early child language (OTKA)

- Developing computational tools for corpus analysis with the CHILDES system: Hungarian morphology analyser and syntactic structure parser (T-com, Hungarian Science Research Fund)

 

Sussex (2000—2003) with Prof. Geoffrey Sampson and John Carroll

-        The LUCY project: English corpus linguistics

-        Syntax and discourse organisation in children’s early written prose

-        Computational linguistics: automatic part of speech tagging

 

Edinburgh (1995—2000) under the supervision of Prof. James Hurford and Ronnie Cann

-        PhD Thesis on the acquisition of argument structure: a comparative study of English and Hungarian child language

 

Other

-        2000, Corpus-based study of embedded infinitival clauses in Hungarian child language (“Verb clusters” project with Casper de Groot, Wassenaar, The Netherlands)

-        1997, Summer school on cross-linguistic studies of language acquisition (Odense Network of Language Acquisition and Cognitive Linguistics, Denmark)

-        1996, Summer school on the semantic organisation of language and cognition (Bolzano International Schools in Cognitive Analysis, Italy)

Teaching

 

Budapest (current)

-        Introduction to Linguistics, Language and Cognitive Science, Language Acquisition

-        Generative Syntax, Cognitive Grammar, Lexical Semantics

 

Edinburgh (1995—2000)

-        Inference and Information, Introduction to HPSG

-        Statistics and Experimental Design, First Language Acquisition