Dr. Heiko Seeliger
Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur I
Sprachwissenschaft
Philosophikum, Raum: 2.122
Tel: +49 (0)221 470-3434
Email: hseelige(at)uni-koeln.de
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Phonologie/Phonetik: Prosodie von nicht-kanonischen Fragen
- Phonologie/Phonetik: prosodische Prominenz außerhalb von Assertionen
- Semantik/Pragmatik: Tendenz von Fragen
- Semantik/Pragmatik: hohe Negation in Fragen
Lebenslauf
- Seit 2018: Postdoktorand, Universität zu Köln
- 2018: Promotion Sprachwissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- 2016-2018: wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, anglistische Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Kassel
- 2014-2015: wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, SFB 632, Teilprojekt A08, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- 2012: MA Linguistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Publikationen
- 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.
Vorträge
- 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, Singapur. 20. November 2023.
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. The prosody of contrastive focus and verum focus in rejections. 2nd International Conference on Tone and Intonation, Singapur, Posterpräsentation. 18. November 2023. [Poster]
- Repp, Sophie & Heiko Seeliger. Reject?! On the prosody of non-acceptance. ICPhS 2023, Prag, Posterpräsentation. 10. August 2023.
- Repp, Sophie & Heiko Seeliger. Contrast and givenness in biased declarative questions. ICPhS 2023, Prag, Posterpräsentation. 7. August 2023.
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. On the prosodic marking of German rejections and rejecting questions. LabPhon18, Onlineposterpräsentation. 25. Juni 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, Köln, Posterpräsentation. 3. Juni 2022.
- Seeliger, Heiko & Constantijn Kaland. Boundary tones in German wh-questions and wh-exclamatives: a cluster-based approach. Speech Prosody 2022, Lissabon. 23. Mai 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, 23. Juni 2021.
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. Competing prominence requirements in verb-first exclamatives with contrastive and given information. Speech Prosody 2020, Tokio (online).
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. Intonation of Swedish rejections and rejecting questions. Nordic Prosody XII. Trondheim, 10.-12. August 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, 24.-26. Februar 2016.
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp. Swedish rejections and rejecting questions with fronted negation. Linguistic Evidence. Tübingen, 18.-20. Februar 2016.
- Seeliger, Heiko. Two scopes of negation in Swedish declarative questions. Sinn und Bedeutung 19. Göttingen, 15.-17. September 2014. [slides]
Organisierte Workshops
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Attitudinal meaning in prosody. AG bei der 46. Jahrestagung der DGfS in Bochum, 28. Februar bis 1. März 2024. Mit Timo Buchholz (Uni Köln) und Katharina Zahner-Ritter (Uni Trier).
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Empirical approaches to canonical and non-canonical uses of negation. AG bei der 43. Jahrestagung der DGfS in Freiburg (online), 24.-26. Februar 2021. Mit Katharina Schaebbicke (Uni Köln).
Forschungsprojekte
- SFB 1252 „Prominence in Language“, Teilbereich A06 „Die (Ent-)Kopplung von prosodischer Prominenz und Diskursprominenz: Der Fall der nicht-assertiven Sprechakte“