Anja Arnhold
Biographic Data
| ID | 1712682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anja Arnhold |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anja |
| FAMILY NAME | Arnhold |
| SIGNATURE | ARNHOLD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7408-1438 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Quantitative evidence of complex metrical prosody in Chugach Alutiiq
Impressionistic accounts of Chugach Alutiiq prosody describe a uniquely complex metrical system which builds both binary and ternary feet, is weight-sensitive, and demarcates metrical structure via stress, additional lengthening on ternary foot heads, foot-initial onset fortition, and metrically conditioned tone. They further state that compression, a length-neutralizing process, targets phonemic length and stress. Here, we present the first acou…
Focus effect unveils children’s local processing of pronouns and reflexives
Studies on young children’s comprehension have shown that children can experience problems interpreting object pronouns, even when reflexive interpretation is already adult-like. Compared to resolving reflexives, linking pronouns to a referent is considered a more “intensive” process, because it also involves non-syntactic factors like discourse context. This could explain why children experience more difficulties with pronouns than with reflexiv…
A Typological Outlier Explained
Aren’t Prosody and Syntax Marking Bias in Questions
As first observed by Ladd in 1981, English polar questions with high negation (e.g., Aren’t they adding a menu item?) can be used both to check the speaker’s belief that the proposition p is true (e.g., p = they are adding a menu item) and to check the addressee’s belief that p is not true (¬ p). We hypothesized that this ambiguity can be disambiguated prosodically. We further hypothesized that the prosodic disambiguation is absent in German, bec…
The North Atlantic and the Arctic
Goidelic word stress is initial but with some signs of quantity sensitivity. Phrasal intonation tends to be falling (for both declaratives and questions) in southern Irish dialects but rising in northern ones. Interrogativity is marked by phonetic adjustments in initial or final accents of the utterance. Icelandic and Faroese have traditional word-initial stress-to-weight but show signs of penultimate stress patterns in loanwords. Intonation is c…
(Mis) understanding your native language
Complex prosodic focus marking in Finnish
What do compounds and noun phrases tell us about tonal targets in Finnish
This article compares three accounts of Finnish intonation using a perception experiment with manipulated f0 contours. The experiment involved compound/noun phrase minimal pairs differing in f0 pattern. To address the question of tonal specification, manipulations changed f0 contours of recorded compound words, associating them with f0 patterns having different components of the naturally occurring f0 rise-fall contour. Thus, the study investigat…
Aren’t Prosody and Syntax Marking Bias in Questions
As first observed by Ladd in 1981, English polar questions with high negation (e.g., Aren’t they adding a menu item?) can be used both to check the speaker’s belief that the proposition p is true (e.g., p = they are adding a menu item) and to check the addressee’s belief that p is not true (¬ p). We hypothesized that this ambiguity can be disambiguated prosodically. We further hypothesized that the prosodic disambiguation is absent in German, bec…
Complex prosodic focus marking in Finnish
What do compounds and noun phrases tell us about tonal targets in Finnish
This article compares three accounts of Finnish intonation using a perception experiment with manipulated f0 contours. The experiment involved compound/noun phrase minimal pairs differing in f0 pattern. To address the question of tonal specification, manipulations changed f0 contours of recorded compound words, associating them with f0 patterns having different components of the naturally occurring f0 rise-fall contour. Thus, the study investigat…
Complex prosodic focus marking in Finnish
The North Atlantic and the Arctic
Goidelic word stress is initial but with some signs of quantity sensitivity. Phrasal intonation tends to be falling (for both declaratives and questions) in southern Irish dialects but rising in northern ones. Interrogativity is marked by phonetic adjustments in initial or final accents of the utterance. Icelandic and Faroese have traditional word-initial stress-to-weight but show signs of penultimate stress patterns in loanwords. Intonation is c…
(Mis) understanding your native language
Aren’t Prosody and Syntax Marking Bias in Questions
As first observed by Ladd in 1981, English polar questions with high negation (e.g., Aren’t they adding a menu item?) can be used both to check the speaker’s belief that the proposition p is true (e.g., p = they are adding a menu item) and to check the addressee’s belief that p is not true (¬ p). We hypothesized that this ambiguity can be disambiguated prosodically. We further hypothesized that the prosodic disambiguation is absent in German, bec…
Focus effect unveils children’s local processing of pronouns and reflexives
Studies on young children’s comprehension have shown that children can experience problems interpreting object pronouns, even when reflexive interpretation is already adult-like. Compared to resolving reflexives, linking pronouns to a referent is considered a more “intensive” process, because it also involves non-syntactic factors like discourse context. This could explain why children experience more difficulties with pronouns than with reflexiv…
A Typological Outlier Explained
Quantitative evidence of complex metrical prosody in Chugach Alutiiq
Impressionistic accounts of Chugach Alutiiq prosody describe a uniquely complex metrical system which builds both binary and ternary feet, is weight-sensitive, and demarcates metrical structure via stress, additional lengthening on ternary foot heads, foot-initial onset fortition, and metrically conditioned tone. They further state that compression, a length-neutralizing process, targets phonemic length and stress. Here, we present the first acou…
Linguistics (7 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 works) · Prosody (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Phrase (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)