Conference Presentations and other lectures
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
“A magyar nyelvi tájkép, különös tekintettel az Appalache régió amerikai magyar sírfelirataira”. AlkNyelvDok 20, online, February 6, 2026.
“Családtörténeti krónika mint kollektív emlékezet: mikrotörténelem egy közösségi projekt tükrében”. IV. Országos Jelenkor Történeti Konferencia (OJTK2025), Pécs, September 6, 2025.
“American Hungarian cemeteries: A linguistic landscape”. 49th AHEA Conference, Pécs, June 19, 2025
“Hungarian Roots & American Dreams: Community-driven archiving of migration histories”. With co-presenter Réka Bakos. 34th ICARUS Convention on Archives Reflecting 21st Century Challenges, Migration and Sustainability. Budapest, May 12–14, 2025.
“Preliminary remarks on Appalachia Hungarian linguistic heritage”. Hungarian Society of the Study of English conference, Szeged, January 30, 2025.
“Családtörténeti kutatás és a modern identitás: Egy nyelvész személyes utazása a múltba és vissza a mába”. “A múltban gyökerezőidentitás jelene és jövője” konferencia, Veszprém, June 21–24, 2023.
“Az amerikai magyar nyelvhasználat kutatása: Áttekintés, 1960–2021”. “A szegedi Hungarológia 50 éves” konferencia, Szegedi Tudományegyetem, September 25, 2021.
“Supporting endangered languages with computational linguistic tools: The results of the FinUgRevita project”. International conference “Preservation of languages and development of linguistic diversity in cyberspace: Context, policies, practices”, Yakutsk, Russia, June 30 – July 5, 2019.
“Digital language use and how to handle it in the classroom: A sociolinguistic perspective”. Plenary, national conference of International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, Hungary chapter, Budapest, October 5–6, 2018.
“Young speakers’ attitudes to dominant and nondominant varieties of Hungarian in Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, and Hungary”. Presented at the 5th World Conference on Pluricentric Languages, Mainz, Germany, July 13-15, 2017.
“Multilingualism in the 21st century: The digital language use of bi- and multilinguals”. Plenary lecture at 17th Summer School of Psycholinguistics, Balatonalmádi, Hungary, May 21–25, 2017.
„Nyelv a virtuális világban: Digitális nyelvhasználat [Language in the virtual world: Digital language use]“. Presented at the „Virtuális világok [Virtual worlds]“ Conference in commemoration of the Day of Science and Scholarship, Szeged Chapter of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, November 27, 2015.
“Mansi language use in the digital sphere: A work-in-progress report from the FinUgRevita project”. Presented at the Ugra Global Expert Meeting on Multilingualism and Cyberspace, UNESCO, Information for All Program, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, July 6–8, 2015.
„A nyelvtechnológia a nyelvmegtartás szolgálatában: A FinUgRevita projekt munkájáról [Language technology in the service of language maintenance: About the FinUgRevita project]“. . Presented at the „Messzenéző tudomány [Far-seeing science]“, Conference in commemoration of the Day of Science and Scholarship, Szeged Chapter of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, November 18, 2014.
“Поддержка коренных языков под угрозой исчезновения путем разработки языковых компьютерных средств: О проекте ФинУгРевита” (“Supporting endangered indigenous languages through developing computerized language tools: About the FinUgRevita project”). Presented at the “Адаптация общества и человека в арктических регионах в условиях изменения климата и глобализации” (“The adaptation of the peoples of the Arctic to globalization and climate change”) conference, North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russian Federation, November 24–25, 2014.
“Multilingualism and minority language use in the digital sphere”. Presented at the “3rd International conference on Linguistic and cultural diversity in cyberspace”, Yakutsk, Russian Federation, June 28 – July 3, 2014.
“Language revitalization in the digital age: Supporting speakers of endangered Finno-Ugric languages in Russia”. Presented at the Endangered Languages Conference, Wilamowice, Poland, June 11–13, 2014.
“Multilingual speakers and language revitalization in the digital era”. Plenary talk at the Budapest Uralic Workshop 7: The Multilingual Uralic Speaker, Linguistics Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, February 3–5, 2014.
“Számítógépes eszközök a veszélyeztetett finnugor nyelvek nyelvi revitalizációjáért: A FinUgRevita project bemutatása” [Computational tools for the language revitalization of minority Finno-Ugric languages: Introducing the FinUgRevita project”]. Presented at the 26th Finno-Ugric Seminar, Linguistics Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, January 3–4, 2014.
“A közösségi média és a nyelvtechnológia a nyelvmegtartás szolgálatában” [Social media and language technology in the service of language maintenance]. Presented at “Modern mediális technikák a filológiai és kultúrtudományi kutatásban [Modern techniques of mediality in philological and cultural studies]” Conference, Szeged Chapter of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, November 12, 2013.
“Magyarországi és határon túli diákok nyelvi attitűdjei az általuk használt nyelvekhez” [The language attitudes of Hungarian students in Hungary and in countries neighboring Hungary towards the languages they use]. Presented at “Értékteremtés és értékközvetítés [Creating and passing on values]” Conference to commemorate 15 years of the Bolyai Research Grant, Szeged Chapter of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, November 11, 2013.
“The current challenges of multilingualism for the Hungarians of Central Europe: Competencies and attitudes”. Presented at the closing conference of the TOOLKIT project, NIAS, Wassenaar, The Netherlands, October 16–18, 2013.
“What social media offers for language revitalization: Recovering written language use in minority Finno-Ugric languages”. Presented at the experts’ seminar on “Social media and lesser used languages”, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, November 28-30, 2012.
“A nyelvkontaktus hatása amerikai emigráns nyelvek inflexiós rendszereire: Különbségek a főnévi és igei rendszerek változása között” [The effect of language contact on the inflectional systems of American immigrant languages: Differences in change between noun and verb inflections]. Presented at the “Nyelvelmélet és kontaktológia” [Linguistic theory and contact linguistics] conference, Piliscsaba, Hungary November 13-14, 2012.
“Anyanyelvhez és idegen nyelvhez kapcsolódó nyelvi attitűdök magyar diákok körében: Határon túli és magyarországi diákok viszonyulása a magyarhoz és az angolhoz” [Language attitudes of Hungarian students towards their mother tongue and their foreign language: The attitudes of students inside and outside Hungary towards Hungarian and English]. Presented at the 17. Élőnyelvi Konferencia [17th Conference of Hungarian Sociolinguistics], Szeged, August 30 – September 1, 2012.
“Language attitudes to L1 vs. FL: Minority Hungarian and Hungary Hungarian students’ language attitudes towards Hungarian vs. English”. Presented at the LINEE 2 conference: Multilingualism in the public sphere, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 4–6, 2012.
“Kisebbségi magyar (erdélyi, vajdasági és felvidéki) diákok anyanyelvükkel, a többségi nyelvvel, és az angol mint idegennyelvvel kapcsolatos nyelvi attitűdjei” [Language attitudes of minority Hungarian students (from Transylvania, Vojvodina and Southern Slovakia) towards their mother tongue, the state language, and English as a foreign language]. Magyar Alkalmazott Nyelvészek Egyesületének 22. kongresszusa [22nd Congress of the Association of Hungarian Applied Linguists], Szeged, April 13, 2012.
“Minority Hungarians in Romania, Slovakia and Serbia: Schoolchildren’s attitudes to their languages (minority vs. majority vs. EFL) and the teaching of these languages in their schools”. Presented at the “Uralic languages and multilingualism: contexts and manifestations in a language family” conference, Hamburg, Germany, June 3–4, 2011.
“Többnyelvűség a kisebbségi magyar kontextusban: Erdélyi, vajdasági és felvidéki magyar diákok nyelvi attitűdei és viszonyulása anyanyelvükhöz, az államnyelvhez és az angolhoz” [Multilingualism in a minority Hungarian context: The language attitudes and relationship of Hungarian students in Transylvania, Vojvodina, and Southern Slovakia to their mother tongue, the state language, and English]. Presented at the “Multilingualism in Europe: Practices and prospects in East-Central Europe” conference, Budapest, Hungary March 25–26, 2011.
“Language attitudes in a minority context: Minority Hungarian students’ attitudes to their minority language, the majority language, and English as a foreign language”. Presented at the Multilingual Individuals, Multilingual Societies conference, Hamburg, Germany, October 6-8, 2010.
“Nyelvi attitűdök kisebbségi kontextusban: Erdélyi, vajdasági és felvidéki magyar diákok viszonyulása anyanyelvükhöz, az államnyelvhez és az angolhoz” [Language attitudes in a minority context: How do Hungarian students in Transylvania, Vojvodina and Slovakia relate to their mother tongue, the state language, and English?]. Presented at the 16. Élőnyelvi Konferencia [16th Conference of Hungarian Sociolinguistics], Berehove/Beregszász, Ukraine, September 15–17, 2010.
“Multilingual encounters in a minority school context: Minority Hungarian students’ attitudes to their languages”. Presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 18, Southampton, United Kingdom, September 1-4, 2010.
“English takes it all? Minority Hungarian and Ladin students’ attitudes to EFL vs. their 1st vs. their 2nd languages”. Presented with co-presented Veronica Irsara at the conference LINEE: New challenges for multilingualim in Europe, Dubrovnik, Croatia, April 11-15, 2010.
“Work Package 9a, ‘Language use and language values in minority school settings’: Results”. Presented at the Research and Training Workshop of the LINEE Project, Szeged, Hungary, November 13, 2009.
“Language attitudes in minority contexts: Minority Hungarian and Ladin students’ attitudes to their languages”. Coauthored with Veronica Irsara (Free University Bozen-Bolzano) and presented at the International Conference on Multilingualism and Third Language Acquisition, Bolzano, Italy, September 11-13, 2009.
“Language attitudes in a minority context: Minority Hungarian students’ attitudes to their minority language, the state language, and English as a foreign language”. Presented at the 12th International Conference on Minority Languages, Tartu, Estonia, May 27-29, 2009.
“Work Package 9a, ‘Language use and language values in minority school settings’: An outline of theory and methodology”. Presented at the Research and Training Workshop of the LINEE Project, Southampton, United Kingdom, November 14, 2008.
“The ‘Languages in LINEE’ survey: Results”. Presented at the Research and Training Workshop of the LINEE Project, Southampton, United Kingdom, November 14, 2008.
“A LINEE project rövid bemutatása” [A brief introduction of the LINEE project]. Presented at the 15. Élőnyelvi Konferencia [15th Conference of Hungarian Sociolinguistics], Sturovo/Párkány, Slovakia, September 4–6, 2008.
“Soknyelvűség és oktatás: A LINEE projekt eddigi eredményei [Multilingualism and education: Results from the LINEE project]”. Presented at the A magyar nyelvészeti kutatások újabb eredményei [Recent results of Hungarian research projects in linguistics] conference at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Kolozsvár/Cluj, Romania, May 24-25, 2008.
“Are there borders in language contact? Outlining hypotheses for researching Canadian Hungarians”. Presented at the “Borders and Crossings” Inaugural Partnership Conference, University of Manitoba and University of Szeged, Szeged, June 14-16, 2007
“A ‘Lépésenként magyarul’ nyelvtani kézikönyvének angol fordításáról [On the English translation of the grammar handbook of the ‘Hungarian Step By Step’ series]. Presented at the Conference celebrating 25 years of Hungarian Studies at the University of Szeged, Szeged, December 8-9, 2006.
“Az angol kölcsönszavak hangsúlytalan szókezdő szótagjainak sorsa az amerikai magyarban: Mit mond a fonológus és mit a szociolingvista? [The fate of initial unstressed syllables of English loanwords in American Hungarian: What do the phonologist and the sociolinguist say?]. Joint presentation with Gyula Zsigri (University of Szeged, Hungary), presented at the 14. Élőnyelvi Konferencia [14th Conference of Hungarian Sociolinguistics], Bük, Hungary, October 9-11, 2006.
“The many faces of Hungarian: Sociolinguistic findings on contact varieties of Hungarian”. Invited lecture, presented at “The Hungarian language: Past and present” conference, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, May 5–6, 2006.
“Loanword adaptation in American Hungarian and American Finnish: The fate of initial unstressed syllables”. Joint presentation with Gyula Zsigri (University of Szeged, Hungary), presented at the 12th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (METHODS XII), Université de Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, August 1-5, 2005.
“Az USA nyelvpolitikájának hatása az amerikai magyarok magyar nyelvhasználatára” [The effect of the language policy of the USA on the Hungarian language use of American Hungarians]. Presented at the 13. Élőnyelvi Konferencia [13th Language Use Conference], Kolozsvár/Cluj, Romania, September 5-7, 2004.
“Az angol kölcsönszavak kölcsönzésének mechanizmusai az amerikai magyarban” [The borrowing mechanisms of English loans in American Hungarian]. Presented at the VII. Nemzetközi Magyar Nyelvtudományi Kongresszus [7th International Congress of Hungarian Linguistics], Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, August 29-31, 2004.
“Loanword adaptation in American Hungarian: An Optimality Theory account of initial unstressed syllables“. Joint poster presentation with Gyula Zsigri (University of Szeged, Hungary), presented at the 12th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, United Kingdom, May 20-22, 2004.
“A sociolinguistic and typological characterization of a contact dialect, Hungarian in the United States”. Presented at the 48th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association, New York City, USA, April 4-6, 2003.
“A toledoi magyarok nyelve: Nemstandard nyelvhasználat vagy a nyelvkontaktus hatása?” [The language of Toledo Hungarians: Nonstandard language use or the effect of language contact?] Presented at the “Magyarok a nagyvilágban: Diaszpórakutatás az ezredfordulón” [Hungarians in the world: Research on the diaspora at the turn of the millenium] workshop, Institute of Minority Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, October 17-18, 2002.
“Contact effects in Toledo Hungarian: Confirmation from a questionnaire”. Presented at the Workshop on Finno-Ugrian Language in Contact with English, 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (METHODS XI), University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland, August 4-9, 2002.
“The effect of English on noun and verb inflection in immigrant languages in the US”. Presented at the “Empirically based approaches in linguistic description” conference, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary, June 21-22, 2001.
“‘Hungarian language contact outside Hungary’: A book in preparation”. Presented at the Plenary Meeting of the Study Center on Language Contact, Wassenaar, the Netherlands, November 10-11, 2000.
“The effect of language contact on noun and verb inflection in immigrant languages in the US”. Presented at the 45th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association, Washington, D. C., April 7-9, 2000.
“Contact-induced change in the case systems of American Finnish and American Hungarian”. Joint paper with Pekka Hirvonen (University of Joensuu, Finland) presented at the 45th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association, Washington, D. C., April 7-9, 2000.
“Verb calquing in American Hungarian”. Presented at the Second Bilingual Language Use Theme Meeting of the Study Center on Language Contact, Domonyvölgy, Hungary, March 31 to April 2, 2000.
“The affectedness of the verbal complex in American Hungarian”. Presented at the First Bilingual Language Use Theme Meeting of the Study Center on Language Contact, Szeged, Hungary, November 11-13, 1999.
“Transplanted case systems: Morphological change in immigrant languages in the US”. Presented at the 10th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (METHODS X), Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, August 1 – 6, 1999.
“The pragmatics of Hungarian/English bilingual speech”. Presented at the conference “Verb clusters in a Language Contact Perspective”, Study Center on Language Contact, Wassenaar, the Netherlands, February 20-23, 1999.
“Nyelvkontaktus és nyelvvesztés az emigráns nyelvek esetrendszereiben” [Language contact and language loss in the case systems of immigrant languages]. Presented at the “Nyelvi érintkezések a Kárpát-medencében” [Language contact in the Carpathian Basin] conference, Bratislava, Slovakia, November 4-5, 1996.
“Nyelvkontaktus és nyelvvesztés az amerikai magyarban: A hasonulások sorsa a mckeesporti beszélők nyelvében” [Language contact and language loss in American Hungarian: The fate of assimilations in the speech of McKeesport speakers]. Presented at the 9. Élőnyelvi Konferencia [9th Conference of Hungarian Sociolinguistics], Szeged, Hungary, August 22-24, 1996.
“Hungarian-American case: Morphological change in McKeesport, Pennsylvania”. Presented at the 11th Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, May 28-29, 1996.
“Patterns of borrowing and language attrition: American Hungarian in McKeesport, Pennsylvania”. Presented at the Third International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, January 10-13, 1996.
“How assimilation affects assimilations: The loss of some phonological processes in American Hungarian”. Presented at the Symposium on Language Loss and Public Policy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA, June 30-July 3, 1995.
OTHER PRESENTATIONS:
“Blog manysiul, twitterezés udmurtul: A nyelvészet a veszélyeztetett nyelvek szolgálatában [Blogs in Mansi, tweets in Udmurt: Linguistics in service of endangered languages]”. Lecture at Science and Scholarship Week, Radnóti Miklós High School, Szeged, November 17, 2016.
“Nyelvi revitalizáció a digitális korban” [Language revitalization in the digital era]. Guest lecture, Department of Hungarian Language and Literature, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, December 9, 2014.
“Az angol szerepe ma: Magyar általános és középiskolások viszonyulása az angolhoz” [The role of English today: The attitudes of Hungarian primary and secondary school students to English”]. Szabad Egyetem day of lectures, University of Szeged, Hungary, January 4, 2013.
“English takes it all: Hungarian students attitudes towards Hungarian vs. English as a foreign language”. Invited lecture at the Linguistics Colloquium, University of Hamburg, Germany, June 7, 2012.
“Current perspectives on bilingualism”. Guest lecture, Department of British and American Studies, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia, February 22, 2012.
“Határon túli magyar diákok anyanyelvükkel, az államnyelvvel, és az angollal kapcsolatos nyelvi attitűdjei” [The language attitudes of Hungarian students outside Hungary towards their mother tongue, the state language, and English]. Lecture at the Kari Tudományos Nap [Arts Faculty Scholarship Day], University of Szeged, November 3, 2010.
“National languages: Barriers to multilingualism?” Presented at the LINEE Research Brief “Challenges of Multilingualism in Europe: Core findings of the LINEE Network of Excellence”, Brussels, Belgium, September 23, 2010.
“Mi a nyelvkontaktus? (A nyelvészetben persze :-)” [What is language contact (in linguistics, of course 🙂 ?]. Lecture in the Barangolások a nyelvészetben [Wandering around linguistics] series, Móra Kollégium, University of Szeged, February 20, 2008.
“Mit tud a szociolingvisztika?” [What does sociolinguistics know?]. Lecture in the Barangolások a nyelvészetben [Wandering around linguistics] series, Móra Kollégium, University of Szeged, April 5, 2006.
“The effect of language contact on noun and verb inflection in immigrant languages in the US: In search of an explanation”. Presented at the English Applied Linguistics PhD Program Colloquium Series, University of Szeged, March 22, 2006.
“Loanword adaptation in American Hungarian and American Finnish: The fate of initial unstressed syllables”. Joint presentation with Gyula Zsigri (University of Szeged, Hungary), English Applied Linguistics PhD Program Colloquium Series, University of Szeged, February 15, 2006.
“Hungarian Language Contact Outside Hungnary: Könyvbemutató [Hungarian language contact outside Hungary: Introducing a new book]. Presented at the “Nyelvészeti műhely [Linguistics workshop]” lecture series, Szeged Chapter of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, October 5, 2005.
“A magyar nyelv az USA-ban: Az amerikai magyarok és a magyar nyelvhasználat [The Hungarian language in the United States: American Hungarians and Hungarian language use]. Linguistics workshop of the Szabó T. Attila Linguistics Institute, Cluj/Kolozsvár, Illyefalva/Ileni, Romania, July 12, 2005.
“A határon túli kisebbségi magyar nyelvváltozatok sajátosságai: Könyvbemutató [The characteristics of the varieties of Hungarian spoken outside Hungary: Introducing a new book]. Linguistics workshop of the Szabó T. Attila Linguistics Institute, Cluj/Kolozsvár, July 12, 2005.
“The effect of language contact on noun and verb inflection in immigrant languages in the US”. Presented at the “Nyelvészeti műhely [Linguistics workshop]” lecture series, Szeged Chapter of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary, October 4, 2000.
“Transplanted case systems: Morphological change in immigrant languages in the United States”. Presented at the Natural Language Working Group colloquium series, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, October 27, 1999.
“Linguistic research in a Hungarian-American community in Western Pennsylvania”. Presented at the meeting of the Russian and East European Graduate Student Association, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 10, 1996.
“How assimilation affects assimilations: The loss of some phonological processes in American Hungarian”. Presented in the linguistics colloquium lecture series, Department of linguistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, September 13, 1995.