Gósy, Mária

Head of the Phonetics Department, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and Head of the Phonetics Laboratory, Linguistics Institute, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest.
Office phone: 3214830
Office location: 1068 Budapest, Benczúr u. 33.
Areas of competence: general and Hungarian phonetics, psycholinguistics, applied linguistics

1991: visiting professor – IPO (Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
1987: postdoctoral fellowship at the Speech Research Laboratory of MIT (Cambridge, USA),

• Education
  1975: graduated from Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest with an M.A. degree in Hungarian and Russian linguistics and literature.
  1977: university doctoral degree with the qualification of summa cum laude
  1986: PhD in phonetics
  1993: DSc, highest doctoral (academic) degree of Hungary
  1996: habilitation, Janus Pannonius University, Pécs

• Awards
  2008: Bárczi Gusztáv Award for the development of the speech perception diagnostics for children (GMP)
  2008: Scientific Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  2004: Brassai Award for applied phonetic research
  2000: Széchenyi Professorship Award (for outstanding research and teaching)
  1994: Békésy-Award for practical applications in speech technology
  1993: Békésy György Award of the ENT Board of Hungary for scientific and practical work
  1990: Kempelen Farkas Award given for applied phonetic research in speech pathology
  1986: Award of Young Scientists by the Hungarian Academy of Science

• Areas of specialization:
  acoustic-phonetic research, spontaneous speech, speech perception, child language

• Teaching
  Undergraduate and graduate (PhD) courses. Currently 12 PhD-students in Hungary and 4 from abroad. 12 of my students have obtained their PhD-degree. Teaching courses (both undergraduate and PhD-levels): general, experimental and Hungarian phonetics, applied phonetics, psycholinguistics, speech production processes, speech perception, clinical phonetics, disfluency phenomena, speaker recognition.
  2002: A special program called “Experimental and Applied Phonetics” for undergraduate students developed and introduced (ELTE University).
  1991-1993: Department of General Linguistics, University of Vienna (Austria).
  1987: Boston University (MA)
  1977-1987: College for Teacher Training, Budapest

• Research interests and work in progress:
  I have done research on Hungarian phonetics, speech perception and first language acquisition. I am currently working on exploring the characteristics of the spontaneous speech.

• Publications, organizations
  10 scientific books (one in English), 3 university textbooks. More than 250 published papers. 18 edited books, permanent editor of Beszédkutatás. 2004–2007: Member of Presidency of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

• International commitments
  2003–: Secretary General of the International Society of Phonetic Sciences
  1997–2000: board member of ESCA European Speech Communication Association (later ISCA)
  1992–1997: representative of Hungary in the European Committee of the International Reading Association

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