Judit Baranyiné Kóczy is a habilitated associate professor of linguistics at the University of Pannonia, Hungary. Her research focuses on language, conceptualisation, and culture. She is the author of Nature, metaphor, culture: Cultural conceptualizations in Hungarian folksongs (Springer Singapore, 2018) and co-editor of Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The ‘Heart’, which will be published in 2023 with Brill. She was the Chair of The Third Cultural Linguistics International Conference held in Budapest 16-18 June 2021.
Important publications:
2022: Cultural metaphors in Hungarian folk songs as repositories of folk cultural cognition. International Journal of Culture and Cognition, 22(1-2): 136-163.
2021: The Moral Eye: A Study of Hungarian szem.In M. Baş, & M. Kraska-Szlenk (Eds.), Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The 'Eye' (pp. 45-69). Brill. Correspondences between Hungarian women’s marital names and the traditional family schema. In A. Finzel, D. Latić, & H.-G., Wolf, Hans (Eds.), Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society (pp. 152-183).John Benjamins.
2018: Nature, metaphor, culture: Cultural conceptualizations in Hungarian folksongs. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-981-10-5752-6
Krisztina Zajdó is an Associate Professor at the Department of Special Education/Speech-Language Therapy at Széchenyi István University/The University of Győr, in Győr (Hungary). Her research interests include developmental phonetics and phonology, both in typically and atypically developing populations. She focuses on speech and language development cross-linguistically. Her latest research concerns the acquisition of language skills in children with developmental language disorder (DLD) reared in the European Union and its neighboring countries.
Important publications:
2021 (with Jensen de Lopez, K.M., Feilberg, J., Baena, S., Lyons, R., Harding, S., Kelić, M., Klatte, I.S., Mantel, T.C., Novogrodsky, R., Ulfsdottir, T.S., & Rodriguez-Ortiz, I.): “So, I told him to look for friends!” Barriers and protecting factors that may facilitate inclusion for children with Language Disorder in everyday social settings: Cross-cultural qualitative interviews with parents. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 115, 103963. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2021.103963
2005 (with Van der Stelt, J.M., & Wempe, T. G.): Investigating the acoustic vowel space in two-year-old children: Results for Dutch and Hungarian. Speech Communication, 47(1-2), 143-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2005.06.006
2002: Vowel acquisition in Hungarian: A first look at the data. In J. Larson, & M. Paster (Eds.), BLS 28: Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Field Linguistics (pp. 363-374). Berkeley Linguistic Society (pp. 363-374). https://doi.org/10.3765/bls.v28i1.3851