Ferenc Bunta, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
- Phone: (713) 743-2892
- Fax: (713) 743-2926
- E-mail: fbunta@uh.edu
- Office: 123 Clinical Research Services Center
Dr. Ferenc Bunta is a new Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. See his curriculum vitae.
Education
- Ph.D., Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
- M.A., Department of English - Linguistics Program, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
- B.Ed., Department of English, Center for English Teacher Training, Lajos Kossuth University (currently University of Debrecen)
Teaching
Currently, Dr. Bunta teaches Phonetics and Professional Writing in Communication Sciences and Disorders. For a complete list of Dr. Bunta's teaching interests and experience, please visit his curriculum vitae.
Research Interests
The core of Dr. Bunta's research is the study of bilingual and cross-linguistic phonological acquisition. There are multiple on-going projects that investigate various aspects of phonological acquisition and representation cross-linguistically and in bilingual speakers revolving around three main lines of research: 1. Phonological Accuracy and Whole-Word Measures in Bilingual and Monolingual Children, 2. Acoustic Properties of Bilingual Children’s Speech, and 3. Bi-Directional Markedness Phenomena in the Phonology of Bilingual Children. Projects focusing on the above-named lines of inquiry are in various stages of development, and to learn more about them, please visit Dr. Bunta's web site and the web page of the Bilingual and Cross-Linguistic Language Laboratory at the University of Houston.
Dr. Bunta and the Bilingual and Cross-Linguistic Language Laboratory at the University of Houston maintain active collaborations with various researchers and their laboratories locally and nationally.
Selected Publications
For a complete list of Dr. Bunta's publications, please visit his curriculum vitae.
Professional Activities
- Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Houston, Houston, TX
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Bilingual Language Laboratory and the Eleanor M. Saffran Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA