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Prof. Dr. Hotimir Tivadar is a full professor of Slovenian linguistics at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Slovenian Studies. His career spans from graduate assistant (1999) via assistant professor (2009) and associate professor (2014) to full professor (2020), specialising in phonetics, phonology, public-speaking pedagogy and orthography.
Education:
- Four-year single-subject Slovenian studies, University of Ljubljana
- Instrumental diploma work hosted at the Phonetic Institute, Charles University, Prague (mentorship: Prof. Zdena Palková & Prof. Ada Vidovič Muha)
- M.A. 2003 – thesis on orthography: The Spoken Image of the Slovenian Literary Language – an Orthography Perspective
- Ph.D. 2008 – dissertation on The Quality and Duration of Vowels in the Spoken Literary Language
Research & teaching: Acoustic and articulatory phonetics, speech-rate analysis, prosody, rhetoric and public speaking, orthoepy, orthography, language policy, comparative Slavic phonology. He co-authored the university textbook Fonetika 1, leads Slovenian participation in the International Slavic Committee’s phonetics commission, and cooperates with phonetic institutes in Prague, Zagreb, Toruń and Ljubljana’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering.
Publication profile: Output centres on segmental and prosodic features of contemporary Slovene, cross-Slavic vowel comparisons, speech tempo in political discourse, and normative aspects of spoken standard language; editorial work includes 2012 and 2013 conference volumes on Slavic phonetics.
Teaching portfolio: Mandatory courses – Phonetics and Phonology of Slovene (BA), Linguistic Master’s Seminar (MA), Language Norm & Culture (BA/MA), Basics of Slovene for West-Slavic students; electives – Textual Phonetics, Speech Technique, Public Speaking, Normative & Spelling Norms, Copy-editing of Written & Spoken Texts, Practical Slovene.
Office & contact: Room 536c, Aškerčeva 2, Thursday 11:00 or Zoom; e-mail: hotimir.tivadar@ff.uni-lj.si.
