Dr. Heiko Seeliger
Department of German Language and Literature I
Linguistics
Office: 2.04 (Luxemburger Str. 299)
Tel: +49 (0)221 470-89911
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 & Seeliger, Heiko (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 & Repp, Sophie (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 & Repp, Sophie (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.
Lectures and conferences
- Repp, Sophie & Seeliger, Heiko. Reject?! On the prosody of non-acceptance. ICPhS 2023, poster presentation. August 10th 2023.
- Repp, Sophie & Seeliger, Heiko. Contrast and givennes in biased declarative questions. ICPhS 2023, poster presentation. August 7th 2023.
- Seeliger, Heiko & Repp, Sophie. On the prosodic marking of German rejections and rejecting questions. LabPhon18, online poster presentation. June 25th 2022. [Poster]
- Seeliger, Heiko & Kaland, Constantijn. Boundary tones in German wh-questions and wh-exclamatives: a cluster-based approach. Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon. May 23rd 2022. [slides]
- Seeliger, Heiko & Repp, Sophie. 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 & Schaebbicke, Katharina. Empirical approaches to canonical and non-canonical uses of negation. A workshop (AG) organized as part of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) in Freiburg, Febuary 24th - 26th 2021.
- Seeliger, Heiko & Repp, Sophie. Intonation of Swedish rejections and rejecting questions. Nordic Prosody XII. Trondheim, August 10th - 12th 2016. [slides]
- Seeliger, Heiko & Repp, Sophie. 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 & Repp, Sophie. 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]
Research projects
- SFB 1252 „Prominence in Language“, Teilbereich A06 „Prosodische Prominenz in nicht-assertiven Sprechakten“