Welcome!
My name is Csilla Tatár [‘t͡ʃilːɒ ‘tɒtaːr] (she / her), I’m a PhD candidate at the Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor.
In my work, I focus on exploring the connection between meaning (semantics, pragmatics) and form (prosody, phonetics, gesture) via experimental and theoretical means. Broadly, my interests are:
- the intersection of information structure with prosody and co-speech gesture
- the semantics and prosody of Hungarian
- conveying and recognizing speaker attitude, in relation to both the general population and individuals on the autism spectrum
My dissertation research is centered around the prosodic and information structural underpinnings of speech and co-speech gesture alignment in Hungarian.
Email: cstatar [at] umich [dot] edu
Office hours on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94317943357
Recent news:
- CONFERENCE ~ Preliminary results of my dissertation study have been presented at the Formal Linguistic Approaches to MultiModality (FLAMM) conference.
- CONFERENCE ~ Prelimiary results of my dissertation study have been accepted to DGfS 2026
- CONFERENCE & PUBLICATION ~ Prelimiary results of my dissertation study have been accepted to Speech Prosody 2026 (proceedings to come).
- PUBLICATION ~ My research project on the prosody of sarcasm and its perception by neurodiverse populations, coauthored with my advisors, appears in the Journal of the International Phonetics Association.
Csilla Tatár 