2020-in progress PhD in Linguistics University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA
Graduate Certificate in Cognitive Science University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA
MA in English Studies Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Specialization: English Theoretical Linguistics advisor: Péter Mekis, PhD. thesis ‘A semantic analysis of English cataphoric constructions’
BA in English Studies Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Minor: Philosophy advisor: Zsolt Komáromy, PhD. thesis ‘A Posteriori Fall: Representations of the Fall in Blake’s Songs’
Erasmus scholarship University of Limerick, Ireland Focus: Irish language, culture, and literature
NON-DEGREE PROGRAMS
Prosodic annotation with the ToBI framework: An interactive course MITx, 24.ToBIx, 2025
DGfS Summer School 2024 (Form-Meaning Mismatches in Spoken and Visual Communication) University of Göttingen – Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Irish Language University of Galway (NUIG), Ireland International Summer School
German Language Saarland University, Germany International Study Centre Saar
TEACHING (in person and online)
Instructor of Record (University of Michigan, Dept. of Linguistics) LING 209 / PSYCH 242 / COGSCI 209 Language and the Human Mind Spring 2025
Guest Lecture (University of Michigan, Dept. of Linguistics) “Introduction to Meaning” for Jelena Krivokapić’s Language and the Human Mind (LING 209 / PSYCH 242 / COGSCI 209), March 25, 2024
Graduate Student Instructor (University of Michigan, Dept. of Linguistics) LING 209 / PSYCH 242 / COGSCI 209 Language and the Human Mind 2025 Fall, lead instructor: Prof. Jonathan R. Brennan 2025 Winter, lead instructor: Prof. Jonathan R. Brennan 2024, lead instructor: Prof. Jelena Krivokapić 2023, lead instructor: Prof. Jonathan R. Brennan 2022 (Fall), lead instructor: Prof. Doug Merchant 2022 (Winter), lead instructor: Prof. Jonathan R. Brennan
Graduate Student Instructor (University of Michigan, Dept. of Linguistics) LING 111 Introduction to Language 2021, lead instructor: Prof. Ezra Keshet
Teaching Assistant (Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Dept. of English Linguistics) grader at BA-level (phonology and syntax classes) and MA-level (The History of English)
PUBLICATIONS
[ACCEPTED] Tatár, Cs., Brennan, J. R., Krivokapić, J., Keshet, E. Does prosody mark sarcasm early in an utterance? A production and perception study, including listeners who self-identified as being on the autism spectrum.
Tatár, Cs., Brennan, J. R., Krivokapić, J., Keshet, E. (2024).Examining melodiousness in sarcasm: Wiggliness, spaciousness, and contour clustering.Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024.
[UPCOMING] Tatár, Cs., Krivokapić, J., Keshet, E. (2026, February 25-27). Speech and co-speech gesture coordination in Hungarian: The role of prosody & information structure. [Talk] DGfS26 AG: Visual patterns in the phonetics of gestures,Trier University, Trier, Germany.
[UPCOMING] Tatár, Cs., Krivokapić, J., Keshet, E. (2025, December 4-5). An examination of the prosodic and information structural underpinnings of speech and co-speech gesture alignment in Hungarian. [Poster presentation] Formal Linguistic Approaches to MultiModality (FLAMM), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Tatár, Cs., Brennan, J. R., Krivokapić, J., Keshet, E. (2024, July 2-5). Examining melodiousness in sarcasm: Wiggliness, spaciousness, and contour clustering [Conference talk]. Speech Prosody 2024, Leiden, The Netherlands. https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/sp2024/about
Tatár, Cs., Brennan, J. R., Krivokapić, J., Keshet, E. (2024, May 13-17). Examining the time-varying measures of F0 in sarcasm: Wiggliness, spaciousness, and contour clustering [Poster presentation]. 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Ottawa, Canada. https://acousticalsociety.org/ottawa/
Tatár, Cs., Brennan, J. R., Krivokapić, J., Keshet, E. (2023, December 4-8). Early prosodic marking of sarcasm and its perception in autistic and neurotypical adults. [Poster presentation] Acoustics 2023 Sydney, joint meeting of the Australian Acoustical Society, the Acoustical Society of America, WESPAC, and PRUAC, Sydney, Australia. https://acousticalsociety.org/sydney-australia-2023/
Tatár, Cs., Brennan, J. R., Krivokapić, J., Keshet, E. (2023, June 15-16) Early prosodic marking of sarcasm and its perception in autistic and neurotypical adults. [Confrence talk] 43rd TABU Dag, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Tatár, Cs., Brennan, J. R., Krivokapić, J., Keshet, E. (2023, May 12) Early prosodic marking of sarcasm and its perception in autistic and neurotypical adults. [Poster presentation] 13th International Student Poster Presentation Conference, Eötvös Loránd University. Budapest, Hungary. (virtual) https://isppc.elte.hu/?p=108 [voted best in its category by the academic board (link)]
GROUP MEMBERSHIP
2021-present – Computational Neurolinguistics Lab member lab director: Dr. Jonathan R. Brennan University of Michigan, Department of Linguistics
2021-present – Prosody Group member, student organizer from September 2021 faculty advisor: Dr. Jelena Krivokapić University of Michigan, Department of Linguistics
2020-present – SemLab (semantics discussion group) member faculty advisor: Dr. Ezra Keshet University of Michigan, Department of Linguistics
2020-present – Linguistic Society of America member
SERVICE
2023-2024 – Admissions Committee (student member) University of Michigan, Department of Linguistics
2022-2023 – Colloquium Committee (member) University of Michigan, Department of Linguistics
2021-2022 – Graduate Committee (student member) University of Michigan, Department of Linguistics
2020-2021 – GLaM committee (committee member) GLaM is an organization that provides a forum for graduate students to discuss important issues relating to the Department of Linguistics and the University. University of Michigan, Department of Linguistics
2016 – Thirteenth Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP13) (task force) Eötvös Loránd University, Department of English Linguistics (ELTE, DELG)
2014-2015 – CUBE (Current British English) dictionary (task force) task: syntactic labeling of 7000 dictionary items in a new English pronunciation dictionary (CUBE) available at http://seas3.elte.hu/cube/ ELTE, DELG
2014-2015 – Co-editor and web page designer The ODD Yearbook – volume 9 available at: http://seas3.elte.hu/odd/ ELTE, DELG
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