PhD in Linguistics (in progress) University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA
Dissertation: The prosodic and information structural underpinnings of speech and co-speech gesture alignment in Hungarian
Co-chairs: Ezra Keshet and Jelena Krivokapić
Graduate Certificate in Cognitive Science University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA
MA in English Studies Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Specialization: English Theoretical Linguistics
Thesis: ‘A semantic analysis of English cataphoric constructions’
Advisor: Péter Mekis, PhD.
BA in English Studies Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Minor: Philosophy
Thesis:‘A Posteriori Fall: Representations of the Fall in Blake’s Songs’
Advisor: Zsolt Komáromy, PhD.
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
PUBLICATIONS
[ACCEPTED] Tatár, Cs., Keshet, E., Krivokapić, J. (2026) Examining the role of prosody and information structure in Hungarian speech and co-speech gestural coordination: An EMA study. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2026.
[UPCOMING] Tatár, Cs., Keshet, E., Krivokapić, J. (2026) Examining the role of prosody and information structure in Hungarian speech and co-speech gestural coordination: An EMA study.Speech Prosody 2026
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.
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)]
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 (fully online) Spring 2026 (fully online, confirmed)
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 (Winter), lead instructor: Prof. Jelena Krivokapić 2023 (Winter), 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 (Fall), 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)
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Communications Assistant to Dr. Ezra Keshet (2026)
Preparing accessible linguistics course materials for students who are blind or have low vision and preparing guidelines for the creation of future course materials.
Research Assistant to Dr. Jelena Krivokapić (2023)
Intonation (“Wiggliness” and “Spaciousness”) analysis of the Bora, Na, Yali, and Movima languages
Csilla Tatár 