Publications

Journal articles

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.
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 (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 & Constantijn Kaland (2022). Boundary tones in German wh-questions and wh-exclamatives - a cluster-based approch. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022.
Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp (2020). Competing prominence requirements in verb-first exclamatives with contrastive and given information. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020.
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.

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. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004393127_009
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. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.249.05see

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