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; project A06 of CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language"
- 2018: PhD Linguistics, Humboldt University Berlin, on the topic Swedish and German rejecting questions. Empirical investigations of question bias. Supervisors: Sophie Repp, Manfred Krifka.
- 2016-2018: research assistant, English Linguistics, Kassel University
- 2014-2015: research assistant, project A08 of CRC 632 "Information structure", Humboldt University Berlin
- 2012: MA Linguistics, Humboldt University Berlin
Recent publications
- Seeliger Heiko & Sophie Repp (2024). Givenness perception in declaratives vs. exclamatives. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024.
- Seeliger, Heiko, Anne Lützeler & Constantijn Kaland (2023). The perception of German wh-phrase-final intonation. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI).
- 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.