Research

Yury is a junior researcher at the Section of Typology at the Institute of Linguistics, RAS and a research fellow at Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, RAS. He administers pamiri.online and organises the research seminar on Iranian languages. Since 2024, Yury has been 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 & Applied Linguistics (by thesis) at the University of Cambridge

2024–

PhD in Theoretical & Applied Linguistics 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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