Hunyadi, Laszlo

Laszlo Hunyadi is professor of linguistics at the University of Debrecen. He has several "main professional interests". As a theoretical linguist, in the past 15 years he has been working on the syntax-phonology interface involving extensive experimentation. The results of this research suggest that syntax and phonology are both governed by a more abstract cognitive phenomenon, the faculty of grouping, that explains both the matches and mismatches between the two. As an applied linguist he has been long interested in how computing can enhance as well as apply our knowledge about language. In recent years this interest has grown into the study of multimodal human-computer interaction within a group of young researchers, that will, hopefully, lead to a deeper understanding of our linguistic and communicative competence and to the creation of social robots as well.