The Academy of Sciences of Albania has congratulated linguist Enkeleida Kapia, a scientific employee of the Institute of Linguistics and Literature at ASHA, for winning the first international prize in the competition announced by the “Journal of International Phonetic Association.”

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Enkeleida Kapia was honored for the scientific study “Northern Tosk Albanian: Illustration according to the principles of the International Phonetic Alphabet.”

For this study, Kapia had as co-authors: Stefano Coretta (University of Edinburgh), Josiane Riverin-Coutlee (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), and Stephen Nichols (University of Oxford).

The first prize was awarded to the authors for the contemporary methodology used in the study, in interaction with traditional methods of illustrating and detailed explanation of the sounds and intonation system of Northern Tosk Albanian. The evaluation was made according to the “peer review” principles of the jury members, composed of linguists and phoneticians from around the world.

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