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Empirical corpus-based approach to linguistic variation in the Timok variety of Torlak
As a member of the TraCeBa project, I am doing research on various aspects of linguistic variation in the Timok variety of Torlak in Southeast Serbia. Within TraCeBa, I am creating a corpus of Torlak dialect spoken in the Timok, which is the central resource of the project. The focus of my analysis is on the diffusion and morphosyntactic variaiton of different linguistic features used by the speakers in Timok, mainly the noun phrase and the post-positive article. I am using methods from corpus-linguistics, as well as different computational linguistics and statistical methods.
Supervisors: Barbara Sonnenhauser, Hanne Eckhoff
Funding Sources:
Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for Foreign Scholars and Artists
Philipp Wasserscheidt, Marija Mandić, Nadine Vollstädt, Ana Jovanović, Ivana Tanasijević, Teodora Vuković, Ivana Vučina Simović, Uliana Yazhinova, Anđelka Zečević. Corpus-based analysis of spoken narratives. Introducing a corpus and a search tool. Govor, Vol. 37, No. 2. Zagreb: Hrvatsko filološko društvo. 149-178.
Teodora Vuković (2021). Representing variation in a spoken corpus of an endangered dialect: the case of Torlak. Language Resources and Variation. Springer Nature. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-020-09522-4
Anastasia Makarova, Daria V. Konior, Teodora Vuković, Andrej N. Sobolev, Olivier Winistörfer (2020). Automatic language profiling of a dialect speaker: the case of the Timok variety spoken in the village of Berčinovac (Eastern Serbia) (in Russian). In: Acta Linguistica Petropolitana Vol. 16.2. pp. 160-180. DOI 10.30842/alp2306573716207
Teodora Vuković, Nora Muheim, Olivier Winistörfer, Ivan Simko, Anastasia Makarova, Sanja Bradjan (2019).Corpora and Processing Tools for Non-Standard Contemporary and Diachronic Balkan Slavic. In: Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop (RANLPStud 2019) associated with RANLP 2019. Varna, Bulgaria. 62-68.
Teodora Vuković, Tanja Samardžić (2018). Prostorna raspodela frekvencije post-pozitivnog člana u timočkom govoru (Areal distribution of the freqiency of the post-posed article in Timok vernacular). In Svetlana Cirkovic (Ed.). Timok. folkloristička i lingvistička terenska istraživanja 2015 - 2017. Knjaževac: Narodna biblioteka Njegoš. Beograd: Udruženje Folklorista Srbije. 181-199.
Teodora Vuković, Maja Miličević (2017). Creation аnd some Ideas for Classroom Use of an Electronic Corpus оf тhe Dialect оf Bunjevci. in J. Filipović and J. Vučo ( Eds.), Minority. Languages in Education and Language Learning: Challenges and New Perspectives. Belgrade: Faculty of Philology.
Biljana Sikimić, Teodora Vuković (2017). Digitalna zaštita bunjevačkih govora. in Drago Njegovan (Ed.). Kultura i identitet Bunjevaca. Novi Sad: Muzej Vojvodine. 473–489.
Teodora Vuković (2015). Izrada modela dijalekatskog korpusa bunjevačkog govora. MA thesis. Belgrade: Faculty of Philology.
| 2016 - Present |
Univeristy of Zurich, Slavisches Seminar Doctoral candidate |
| 2013 – 2015 |
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology MA in Corpus Linguistics |
2009 – 2013 |
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology BA in General Linguistics and Spanish Language |
| 2005 – 2009 |
Philological High School, Belgrade English Language and Literature |
| July 2018 – August 2020 |
TraCeBa - a three-year project (July 2018 – July 2021) within the ERA.Net RUS Plus sub-programme of the FP7/Horizon 2020 programme. The project explores converging and diverging tendencies in linguistic and cultural practices in the Central Balkans. The focus is on the Torlak region, which represented a linguistic and cultural unit until 1878, but which since the end of the 19th century has been divided by the Serbian-Bulgarian political boundary. Specifically, the project investigates the role of boundaries – geographical, political, perceptual – on the transformation of linguistic and cultural traditions and their perception by the individual subjects. The investigation has an empirical basis, combining linguistic methods with language technology. |
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September 2015 – August 2017 |
Protecting the immaterial heritage of the Torlak vernacular (at The Institute for Balkan Studies of Serbian Academy for Sciences and Arts, Museum of Ethnography in Belgrade) The project has the goal of protecting and preserving the endangered Torlak vernacular by collecting linguistic samples of it in audio and video format and presenting them through an web page with various search options. I am one of the researchers in the field, and a corpus linguistics specialist in charge of creating an Internet archive of the Torlak vernacular. (Project leader: Biljana Sikimić) |
| July 2015 – December 2016 |
Constructing Narratives (The Institute for Balkan Studies of SASA and The Institute for Slavic Studies of The Humboldt University in Berlin) The goal of the project is the creation of a corpus of oral narratives in the light of Constructive grammar theory. My role is to provide transcription training in EXMARaLDA, and supervise the process of transcription. I am also involved in the annotation process and the creation of the corpus. (Project leaders: Christian Voss, Marija Mandic, Philipp Wasserscheidt) |
| May 2015 – Present |
Webdict – Dictionary of the Shokac dialect (The Institute for Balkan Studies of SASA) Editor and co-author of an online dictionary of the Shokac dialect (Supervisor: Biljana Sikimić) Webpage |
| 2012 - Present | Webdict – Dictionary of the Bunjevac dialect (The Institute for Balkan Studies of SASA) A small experimental self-managed project with the goal of creating a dictionary of the authentic use of the Bunjevac dialect Webpage |
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November 2011 |
Threads Project assistant (Short term development project “Threads“ (2011) for children living and working on the streets of Belgrade (independent project of four University of Belgrade students in cooperation with the Center for Youth Integration and the American Embassy in Belgrade)) |
| April 2017 - April 2020 | ERA.Net RUS Plus (Horizon 2020) - TraCeBa |
| September 2016 - August 2019 | Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships for Foreign Scholars and Artists |
| April 2017 - April 2020 | Serbian Ministry of Education scholarship for best students at foreign universities |
| September 2016 - August 2019 |
Doctoral researcher Language and Space, University of Zurich
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| 2012 - August 2017 |
External Associate Fields of research: corpus linguistic, digital humanities, lexicography, field research. Team leader: Biljana Sikimić) |
| March 2021 |
Empirical approaches to linguistic variation: The Balkans and beyond Teodora Vukovic, Anastasia Escher, Barbara Sonnenhauser: Degrees of non-standardness. Feature-based analysis of variation in a Torlak dialect corpus |
| November 2020 |
Tag der Schweizer Linguistik Teodora Vukovic, Ivan Šimko, Anastasia Escher, Barbara Sonnenhauser: Anatomy of Variation. Balkan Slavic research at Slavisches Seminar (UZH) |
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September 2019 |
14th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS-14), Potsdam, Germany Anastasia Makarova, Teodora Vuković: Possessive dative clitics and congruent possessive pronouns in Timok dialect |
| September 2019 |
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2019, Varna, Bulgaria Teodora Vuković, Nora Muheim, Olivier Winistörfer, Ivan Šimko, Anastasia Makarova, Sanja Bradjan: Corpora and Processing Tools for Non-Standard Contemporary and Diachronic Balkan Slavic |
| September 2019 |
14th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS-14), Potsdam, Germany Anastasia Makarova, Teodora Vuković: Possessive dative clitics and congruent possessive pronouns in Timok dialect |
| August 2019 |
SLE 2019 - 52nd Annual Meeting, Leipzig University, Germany - Teodora Vukovic: When two systems meet - Analytic and synthetic indirect object marking in Torlak dialect - Ivan Šimko, Teodora Vuković: Combining morphological and syntactic annotation |
| May 2019 | Language and Space Evaluation event, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| April 2019 |
Historical Corpora and Variation. Cagliari, Italy Teodora Vuković, Ivan Šimko, Barbara Sonnenhauser: Keeping linguistic variation across time and space: tagging of a diachronic and diatopic corpus of Balkan Slavic |
| March 2019 |
XLVIII International Philological Conference, Saint Petersburg, Russia Maja Miličević Petrović, Teodora Vuković: Challenges of creating dialect corpora: The case of Torlak |
| November 2018 |
First steps towards an interactive map of the Balkan Languages, University of Zurich, Switzerland Organizer |
| October 2018 |
Balkan Languages and Dialects: Corpus-Based and Quantitative Studies, Saint Petersburg, Russia - Teodora Vuković: Areal Distribution of the Post-positive Article in Timok Dialect of Torlak - Teodora Vuković, Max Wahlström: Is there a definite article? Reference annotation for a Torlak speech corpus - Teodora Vuković, Daria Konior, Anastasia Makarova: Количественные методы исследования сербского тимокского диалектного текста [Serbian Timok dialectal texts: quantitative research methods] |
| June 2018 |
CoLABnet workshop, Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany Non-standard corpora design |
| April 2017 |
Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction: Perspectives from Linguistics and Geography |
| March 2016 |
Variation in space and time: clausal complementation in South Slavic Towards the Torlak vernacular corpus |
May 2015 |
XV International Conference on Minority Languages, University of Belgrade, Serbia Teodora Vukovic, Maja Miličević: Creation and Some Ideas for Classroom Use of an Electronic Corpus of the Dialect of Bunjevci |
| May 2012 |
StuLiKon - Studentska lingvistička konferencija, University of Zagreb, Croatia Modifikacija ličnih glasovnih karakteristika u odnosu na jezik ili varijetet (Modfication of Perosnal Vocal Characteristics Depending on Language or Variety) |
