Research

Junior researcher at the Section of Typology at the Institute of Linguistics, RAS. Research fellow at Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, RAS. Yury administers and develops pamiri.online. He is also in charge of the research seminar on Iranian languages.

Yury is the managing editor of the "Indo-Iranian Languages" journal.

Areas of interest: phonetics, phonological typology, online lexicography, Iranian languages, Pamir languages, digital language resources.

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Biography

Yury participated in three field trips to Pamir to study the Shughni language (2021–2023) and a trip to Vladizavkaz to study the Ossetic language (2023).
He is also a member of the Philological Society (PhilSoc), the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP) and the Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon).

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Academic pathway

2019–2023

Bachelorʼs programme in fundamental and computational linguistics at HSE University, Moscow (diploma with distinction)

2023–2024

Master of Philosophy in theoretical and applied linguistics (by thesis) at the University of Cambridge

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Publications

• 2022

  Digital Resources for the Shughni Language
  Y. Makarov, M. Melenchenko & D. Novokshanov
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. Marseille: European Language Resources Association.

• 2023

  Towards the Description of Shughni Morphophonology
  Y. Makarov & V. A. Plungian
  In Russian: К описанию шугнанской морфонологии: предварительные замечания Essays in honour of O. F. Krivnova. Moscow: Buki Vedi, 2023.

• 2023

  Aspiration length and intensity as potential acoustic cues to [voice] in final position: evidence from Shughni
  Y. Makarov
  Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Prague: Guarant International.

• 2023

  [Review of:] Sh. Ido, B. Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari (eds.). Tajik Linguistics. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. viii + 407 pp. (The Companions of Iranian Languages and Linguistics, 3.) ISBN 9783110622799.
  Artyom O. Badeev, Oleg I. Belyaev, Yury Makarov
  Voprosy Jazykoznanija, 6. DOI: 10.31857/0373-658X.2023.6.165-180

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