HUSZTHY Bálint

Date and place of birth

22nd March 1989, Budapest

Work

Assistant professor, Department of Italian Language and Literature, ELTE, Budapest

Visiting lecturer, UBB Departament of Hungarian and General Linguistics

 

E-mail addresses

huszthy.balint@gmail.com, huszthy.balint@btk.elte.hu

 

Courses

phonetics, sociolinguistics, semiotics, text linguistics, language philosophy and policy, academic writing

 

Education and qualifications

2014–2019: PhD in Theoretical Linguistics, PPCU

2012–2014: MA in Teacher of Italian and Hungarian, PPCU

2011–2014: MA in Italian Language, Literature and Culture, PPCU

2007–2011: BA in Romance Philology, Faculty of Humanities, PPCU

 

Fields of research

phonetics, phonology, morphology, sociolinguistics, Italian and Romance dialectology

Languages

Hungarian (L1), Italian (fluent), English (proficient), German (intermediate), Spanish (basic), Latin (basic)

 

Scientific activities

2015–2019: member of the Hungarian Historical Generative Syntax Research Group, Department of Theoretical Linguistics, Research Institute for Linguistics – Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

2022–present: Laryngeal Phonology in Synchrony and in Diachrony, ELTE, Department of Theoretical Linguistics, research member.

2012–present: Ungheriano: the Hungarian foreign accent during speaking Italian. Personal research project.

 

Most important publications

Huszthy Bálint (2023). Az írás hatásai a kiejtés változására. In: Cser András, Nemesi Attila László (eds.) Nyelvelmélet és diakrónia 5. Budapest: PPKE BTK, pp. 307–332.

Huszthy Bálint (2022). “Transylvanian Hunglish” Phonological Properties of Hungarian Accented English in Transylvania. Hungarian Sudies Yearbook 4/1: 131–159.

Huszthy Bálint (2022). Ungheriano: A magyar akcentus olaszul beszélve. Alkalmazott Nyelvtudomány 22/1: 40–63.

Huszthy Bálint (2021). Italian preconsonantal s-voicing is not regressive voice assimilation. The Linguistic Review 38/1: 33–63.

Huszthy Bálint (2021). Az észak-moldvai „sziszegés” mai hangtani megközelítésben. Certamen 8: 29–44.

Huszthy Bálint & Sándor Bíborka (2021). Székely hanglejtésformák: Egy székelyudvarhelyi esettanulmány. In: Balogné Bérces Katalin, Hegedűs Attils, Surányi Balázs (eds.) Nyelvelmélet és dialektológia 5. Budapest: PPKE BTK, pp. 107–129.

Huszthy Bálint (2020). Is Italian Swedish?: An uncommon look at Italian laryngeal phonology. In: Akamine, Sho (eds.) Proceedings of the Thirty-first Western Conference on Linguistics, Fresno (CA): California State University, pp. 42–50.

Huszthy Bálint (2019). Az idegen akcentus elméleti előnyei. Általános Nyelvészeti Tanulmányok 31: 137–166.

Huszthy Bálint (2018). “We wagliù!” A synchronic morpho-phono-syntactic approach to the Neapolitan vocative. In: Annamaria Chilà, Alessandro De Angelis (eds.) Capitoli di morfosintassi delle varietà romanze d’Italia: Teoria e dati empirici. Palermo: Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani, pp. 237–253.

Balogné Bérces Katalin & Huszthy Bálint (2018). Laryngeal relativism predicts Italian. Yearbook of the Poznań Linguistic Meeting 4, pp. 153–177.

Huszthy Bálint (2017). The “untamed” /s/ of Italian dialects: An overview of the singular behaviour of Italo-Romance sibilants. Verbum Analecta Neolatina 18/1–2, pp. 191–216.

Huszthy Bálint (2016). Viszi busz gyermeket zeskolába: Névelőtörlés a csángóban mint magánhangzó-gyengülési folyamat. In: É. Kiss Katalin, Hegedűs Attila, Pintér Lilla (eds.) Nyelvelmélet és kontaktológia 3. Budapest, Piliscsaba: Szent István Társulat, pp. 66–96.

Huszthy Bálint (2016). Cappuccinóba completát? A mássalhangzóhossz magyar aszimmetriái idegen szavakban. In: Szilágyi Csaba et al. (eds.) Studia Varia Tanulmánykötet, Budapest: PPKE BTK, pp. 121–141.

Huszthy Bálint (2016). Italian as a voice language without voice assimilation. In: Kate Bellamy, Elena Karvovskaya, George Saad (eds.) ConSOLE XXIV: Proceedings of the 24th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe. Leiden: Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, pp. 428–452.

Huszthy Bálint (2016). Intrighi macabri: Alla scoperta dell’accento ungherese nel parlare l’italiano. Verbum Analecta Neolatina 17/1–2, pp. 149–194.

 

Most important conference presentations

15th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English, Uniwersytet Łódź, 2022. 12. 08. Transylvanian Hunglish: Phonological properties of Hungarian accented English in Transylvania

Approaches to Phonology and Phonetics 2021, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, 2021. 06. 25. The influence of L1 syllable structure on L2 acquisition: A case study of Hungarian accented Italian

PAPE 2021 (Phonetics and Phonology in Europe), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 2021. 06. 21. SWP vs. WSP in L2 word stress assignment: A case study of “Ungheriano”

SinFonIJA 13 (Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis), MTA NYTI, Budapest, 2020. 09. 24. Anti-Romance laryngeal patterns in Italian phonology

A Magyar Tudomány Napja Erdélyben, Erdélyi Múzeum Egyesület, Kolozsvár, 2019. 11. 23. Az északi csángók „pöszesége” modern hangtani keretben

Western Conference on Linguistics 2019, California State University, Fresno, 2019. 11. 15. Italian preconsonantal s-voicing is not regressive voice assimilation

L2 accent and pronunciation research: acquisition, teaching, attitudes, Ca' Foscari University Venice, 2023. 11. 15. Schemi intonazionali nell’italiano degli ungheresi

Government Phonology Round Table 2019 (GPRT2019), Bécs, 2019. 6. 14. Is Italian Swedish? An uncommon look at Italian laryngeal phonology

13th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax and Morphology Meeting (CIDSM 13), Messina, 2018. 7. 2. “We wagliù!” A synchronic morpho-phono-syntactic approach to the Neapolitan vocative

13th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (ICSH 13), Budapest, 2017. 7. 29. “Unmotivated” consonant gemination in the Hungarian Foreign Accent

2nd Budapest Linguistics Conference (BLINC 2), Budapest, 2017. 6. 1. The “real” and “relative” typology of binary laryngeal systems

47th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2017), Poznań, 2017. 9. 18. Laryngeal Relativism predicts Italian

Manchester Phonology Meeting 2016, Manchester, 2016. 5. 26. Phonetically real, but phonologically impossible: The lack of voice assimilation in Italian

ConSOLE XXIV, York, 2016. 1. 6. Italian as a voice language without regressive voice assimilation

Italian Dialect Meeting 2015, Leiden, 2015. 6. 22. Te[kk]nico: Geminazione preconsonantica nelle varietà meridionali dell’italiano