Andrea Deme
Andrea DEME PhD Associate Professor
Room: A/246
E-mail: deme.andrea@btk.elte.hu
Web
https://demeandrea.web.elte.hu/
Research fields
segmental structure and segmental variability of speech; language registers; coarticulation; sociophonetics; attitudes toward speech
Speech Sound Variability Research Group
MTA–ELTE NYTK Lendület "Momentum" Neurophonetics Research Group
Az írás szociolingvisztikai vizsgálata // Sociolinguistics of Writing -- SLoW
Education
| 2024 | Habilitation (summa cum laude), Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities, Doctoral School of Linguistics, Budapest |
| 2010–2015 | Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics (summa cum laude), Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities, Budapest, Doctoral School of Linguistics |
| 2005–2010 |
M.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Philology in Hungarian Language and Literature, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities, Budapest |
Current and previous positions
| 2024– | Associate professor, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Applied Linguistics and Phonetics, Budapest |
| 2024– | Research fellow, MTA–HUN-REN (earlier: HUN-REN) NYTK Lendület "Momentum" Neurophonetics Research Group, Budapest |
| 2024– | Research-developer, Establishing and developing centres of excellence, No. 2022-1.1.1-KK-2022-00003 “Improving language skills in higher education” project (NKFI) |
| 2020–2024 | Senior lecturer, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Applied Linguistics and Phonetics (untill 2019: Department of Phonetics), Budapest |
| 2016–2021 | Research fellow, MTA-ELTE Lendület (“Momentum”) Lingual Articulation Research Group |
| 2016–2020 | Lecturer, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Phonetics, Budapest |
| 2013–2016 | Junior research fellow, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Experimental and Analogy-Based Phonology and Morphology Research Group |
| 2012–2013 | Junior research fellow, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Hungarian Academy of Sciences, MTA NYTI Lendület (“Momentum”) Quantifier Scope Research Group |
Awards and grants
| 2025–2027 | János Bolyai Research Scholarship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2024 | Faculty Scientific Student Circle Award, Eötvös Loránd University |
| 2024 | Faculty Science Grant, Eötvös Loránd University |
| 2023 | Bolyai Certificate (Bolyai Emléklap), Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2022 | Publication Excellence Award of ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University |
| 2022 | Faculty Science Grant, Eötvös Loránd University |
| 2021 | Publication Excellence Award of ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University |
| 2021 | Promising Researcher of ELTE Award, Eötvös Loránd University |
| 2021–2022 | ÚNKP-21-5 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology from the source of the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund |
| 2020–2021 | ÚNKP-20-5 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology from the source of the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund |
| 2019–2020 | ÚNKP-19-4 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology from the source of the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund |
| 2019–2021 | János Bolyai Research Scholarship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2018 | Scholarship of the Hungarian Talent Program, Hungarian Ministry of Human Capacities (NTP-NFTÖ-18) |
| 2018 | József Hermann Early Career Award, Research Institute for Linguistics Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2018 | Early Career Award (Award of Young Scientists), Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2015 | 1st prize at Conference of Young Research Fellows at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2013 | Scholarship for a study visit to the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden), awarded by the Campus Hungary Program, Balassi Institute |
| 2010–2013 | PhD Scholarship, awarded by the State of Hungary |
| 2011, 2012 | Research Grant, awarded by the Eötvös Loránd University Students’ Union (3 times) |
Scholarships abroad
| 2026 | Erasmus+ ICM teaching mobility, University of Mauritius |
| 2013 | One-month scholarship-funded study visit,, Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, School of Computer Science and Communication, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2012 | One-week study visit, Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, School of Computer Science and Communication, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2012 | Summer school, Function of the singing voice, KTH-course DT 211 V, Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, School of Computer Science and Communication, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm-Malmköping, Sweden |
Research grants
| 2024– | Research Fellow, MTA–ELTE NYTK Lendület "Momentum" Neurophonetics Research Group (PI: Tekla Etelka Gráczi) |
| 2025– | Senior Research Fellow, Az írás szociolingvisztikai vizsgálata / The sociolinguistics of writing (PI: Gergely Szabó) |
| 2024– | Research-developer, Establishing and developing centres of excellence, "Improving language skills in higher education” project (NKFI) (subproject PI: Zsuzsa Gonda) |
| 2022–2023 | Principal Investigator, Phonetic aspects of fast speech in Hungarian and German, Hungarian-German Exchange Project between the Eötvös Loránd University and the Univeristät zu Köln, funded by TKA-DAAD (Principal Investigator: Andrea DEME, ELTE & Reinhold GREISBACH, Universität zu Köln) |
| 2020–2021 | Principal Investigator, A cross-linguistic articulatory and acoustic analysis of the effect of vowel space density on the variability of vowels, Hungarian-German Exchange Project between the Eötvös Loránd University and the Univeristät zu Köln, funded by TKA-DAAD (Principal Investigator: Andrea DEME & Reinhold GREISBACH, Universität zu Köln) |
| 2022–2024 | Research Fellow, Interspeaker and intraspeaker variability of phonetic parameters in Hungarian, (PI: Tekla Etelka Gráczi, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics) |
| 2020–2021 | Researcher, Thematic Excellence Program, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University |
| 2019–2020 | Researcher, Thematic Excellence Program, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University |
| 2018–2021 | Researcher, The role of social, cognitive and genetic factors in language development (PI: Bence Kas, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) |
| 2017–2022 | Collaborator at MTA-ELTE Lendület Neuroethology of Communication Research Group. “Comparative mammalian brain imaging: a neuroethological approach to the emergence of lexical representations” (PI: Attila Andics, Department of Ethology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University) |
| 2016–2021 | Research Fellow, MTA-ELTE Lendület Lingual Articulation Research Group (PI: Alexandra Markó, Department of Phonetics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University) |
| 2016–2019 | Researcher, Neurocognitive predictors of early language development (PI: István Wikler, Research Center of Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) |
| 2014–2016 | Researcher, Form and function of prosodic structure in Hungarian and German, Hungarian-German Exchange Project between the Research Institute for Linguistics HAS and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, funded by TKA(MÖB)–DAAD |
| 2014–2016 | Researcher, Articulatory and acoustic analysis of high-pitched sung vowels in Hungarian and German by means of electromagnetic articulography, ultra sound and inverse filtering of the acoustic signal. Hungarian-German Exchange Project between the Eötvös Loránd University and the Univeristät zu Köln, funded by TKA(MÖB)–DAAD |
| 2013 | Researcher, Hungarian-Chinese Exchange Project between the Research Institute for Linguistics HAS and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Beijing, funded by the RIL HAS and the CASS |
| 2013–2014 | The prosody of focus, topic and givenness in Hungarian. Hungarian-German Exchange Project between the Research Institute for Linguistics HAS and the Universität Potsdam, funded by MÖB-DAAD |
| 2012–2013 | MTA NYTI Lendület (”Momentum”) Quantifier Scope Research Group (Principal investigator: Balázs SURÁNYI, Research Institute for Linguistics MTA) |
Teaching acivity
Courses and research seminars in phonetics and speech sciences, research methodology, research ethics, applied linguistics, speech training and speech prtactice, communication techniques, and teaching methodology.
Programme director of the postgraduate Speech Trainer, Voice Coach specialised training program.
Academic coordinator and lead instructor of the Phonetics and Psycholinguistics Student Workshop.