About
Csilla is a linguistics PhD candidate. Her primary areas of interest are semantics-pragmatics and prosody, and she is currently working on the prosodic and informational structural underpinnings of speech and co-speech gesture alignment in Hungarian.
In her work, she focuses on exploring and understanding the connection between meaning (semantics, pragmatics) and form (prosody, phonetics, gesture) via experimental and theoretical means. Broadly, her interests are:
- the intersection of information structure with prosody and co-speech gesture alignment
- the semantics and prosody of Hungarian
- conveying and recognizing speaker attitude, in relation to both the general population and individuals on the autism spectrum
She completed her MA studies in English Philology with a specialization in Theoretical Linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary). Her MA research centered around the semantics of pronouns and their treatment in formal semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. In her MA thesis, she focused on the semantics of cataphoric structures in English, and touched upon the possibility of representing cataphoric reference in a dynamic semantic framework.
