Dr. Heiko Seeliger
Department of German Language and Literature I
Linguistics
Office: Philosophikum, room 2.122
Tel: +49 (0)221 470-3434
Email: hseelige(at)uni-koeln.de
Research areas
- Phonology/phonetics: prosody of non-canonical questions
- Phonology/phonetics: prosodic prominence in non-assertions
- Semantics/pragmatics: question bias
- Semantics/pragmatics: high negation in questions
CV
- Since 2018: Postdoc, Universtiy of Cologne
- 2018: PhD Linguistics, Humboldt University Berlin
- 2016-2018: research assistant, English Linguistics, Kassel University
- 2014-2015: research assistant, CRC 632, Area A08, Humboldt University Berlin
- 2012: MA Linguistics, Humboldt University Berlin
Publications
- Repp, Sophie & Heiko Seeliger (2023). Contrast and givenness in biased declarative questions. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).
- Repp, Sophie & Heiko Seeliger (2023). Reject?! On the prosody of non-acceptance. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp (2023). Information-structural surprises? Contrast, givenness, and (the lack of) accent shift and deaccentuation in non-assertive speech acts. Journal of Laboratory Phonology.
- Seeliger, Heiko & Constantijn Kaland (2022). Boundary tones in German wh-questions and wh-exclamatives - a cluster-based approch. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022.
- Schaebbicke, Katharina, Heiko Seeliger & Sophie Repp (2021). The diverse landscape of negative polarity items: On the use of German NPIs as experimental diagnostics. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.
- Repp, Sophie & Heiko Seeliger (2020). Prosodic prominence in polar questions and exclamatives. Frontiers in Communication. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00053
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp (2020). Competing prominence requirements in verb-first exclamatives with contrastive and given information. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020.
- Härtl, Holden & Heiko Seeliger (2019). Is a so-called "beach" a beach? An empirically based analysis of secondary content induced by ironic name use. In Daniel Gutzmann & Katharina Turgay (eds.): Secondary content. The linguistics of side issues. Amsterdam: Brill.
- Seeliger, Heiko (2019). Swedish and German rejecting questions. Empirical investigations of question bias. Dissertation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/19686
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp (2018). Biased declarative questions in Swedish and German: Negation meets modal particles (väl and doch wohl). In Christine Dimroth & Stefan Sudhoff (eds.): The grammatical realization of polarity. Theoretical and experimental approaches. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp (2017). On the intonation of Swedish rejections and rejecting questions. In Jardar Eggesbø Abrahamsen, Wim A. van Dommelen and Jacques Koreman (eds.): Nordic Prosody. Proceedings of the XXIIth Conference, Trondheim 2016. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
- Seeliger, Heiko (2015). "Surely that's not a negative declarative question?" Polar discourses in Swedish, German and English. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19.
Talks
- Seeliger, Heiko, Anne Lützeler & Constantijn Kaland. The perception of German wh-phrase-final intonation: a contour clustering evaluation. 2nd International Conference on Tone and Intonation, Singapore. November 20th 2023.
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. The prosody of contrastive focus and verum focus in rejections. 2nd International Conference on Tone and Intonation, Singapore, poster presentation. November 18th 2023. [Poster]
- Repp, Sophie & Heiko Seeliger. Reject?! On the prosody of non-acceptance. ICPhS 2023, Prague, poster presentation. August 10th 2023.
- Repp, Sophie & Heiko Seeliger. Contrast and givenness in biased declarative questions. ICPhS 2023, Prague, poster presentation. August 7th 2023.
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. On the prosodic marking of German rejections and rejecting questions. LabPhon18, online poster presentation. June 25th 2022. [Poster]
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. Don’t make me more prominent! Or do? Prosodic reflexes of contrast, newness and givenness in wh-exclamatives and wh-questions. 3rd International Conference on Prominence in Language, Cologne, poster presentation. June 3rd 2022.
- Seeliger, Heiko & Constantijn Kaland. Boundary tones in German wh-questions and wh-exclamatives: a cluster-based approach. Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon. May 23rd 2022. [slides]
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. Variability in information structure marking in German questions and exclamatives. Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2021. Workshop 'Creativity and Variability: Prosody and Information Structure', Barcelona, June 23rd 2021.
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. Competing prominence requirements in verb-first exclamatives with contrastive and given information. Speech Prosody 2020, Tokyo (online).
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. Intonation of Swedish rejections and rejecting questions. Nordic Prosody XII. Trondheim, August 10th - 12th 2016. [slides]
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. Rejections and rejecting questions: Declaratives with clause-initial negation in Swedish. 38. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, AG 5: The Grammatical Realizations of Polarity. Konstanz, February 24th - 26th 2016.
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. Swedish rejections and rejecting questions with fronted negation. Linguistic Evidence. Tübingen, February 18th - 20th 2016.
- Seeliger, Heiko. Two scopes of negation in Swedish declarative questions. Sinn und Bedeutung 19. Göttingen, September 15th - 17th 2014. [slides]
Organized workshops
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Attitudinal meaning in prosody. Workshop (AG) at the 46th Annual Meeting of the DGfS in Bochum, February 28th to March 1st, 2024. With Timo Buchholz (Uni Köln) and Katharina Zahner-Ritter (Uni Trier).
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Empirical approaches to canonical and non-canonical uses of negation. Workshop (AG) at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the DGfS in Freiburg (online), February 24th-26th, 2021. With Katharina Schaebbicke (Uni Köln).