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Department of Linguistics, UCSD, Phone: +1-858-534-8409 Fax: +1-858-534-4789 Office:
AP&M 4151 Background Amalia
Arvaniti is currently an Associate Professor of Linguistics at UCSD and the
director of the Phonetics
Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Linguistics, University
of Cambridge and has held research and teaching appointments at the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, the University of Edinburgh, King’s College London and the University of Cyprus. Prof. Arvaniti is one of the pioneers of
Laboratory Phonology which seeks to combine experimental methods with formal linguistic
representations. Her research, which has been widely published and cited, has
yielded crucial insights into the production, perception and linguistic
structure of intonation. Her work on speech rhythm has challenged traditional
views on the nature of rhythm and rhythmic typology. A large part of her
research has contributed significantly to our knowledge on Greek phonetics
and phonology and to several areas of Greek dialectology and sociolinguistic
variation. Prof. Arvaniti’s research has been supported by grants from
the Teaching At the undergraduate level, Prof. Arvaniti regularly teaches
two of the highest enrolment upper division classes in linguistics, Phonetics
(LIGN 110) and Language and Gender in Society (LIGN 174/SOCB 118A). At the
graduate level, she regularly teaches phonetics and seminars in phonetics and
phonology. She has supervised graduate and undergraduate research on topics
ranging from the acquisition of Armenian vowels by heritage Armenian speakers
to the phonetic exponents of focus in Taiwanese Mandarin (for details, see Prof. Arvaniti’s curriculum vitae). Teaching for 2009-10 Fall: (undergraduate) Phonetics LIGN 110 (graduate)
Phonetics LIGN 210 Winter: Gender and Language in Society LIGN 174/SOCB 118A |
Research Amalia Arvaniti's main research investigates the
production and perception of speech prosody, particularly of intonation,
stress, rhythm and speech timing. Much of her research integrates Prof. Arvaniti’s interests in phonetics and phonology with her interest
in language variation and change. The aim of her research is to
construct empirically supported phonological models and to use experimental
methods in order to answer questions pertaining to the structure of grammar
and the nature of linguistic representations. As such, her research has
repercussions for our understanding of language processing and acquisition.
Recent work along these lines includes a project on the production and
perception of speech rhythm, which seeks to explore the role of stress and
rhythmic structure for language processing particularly in languages that
pose challenges to traditional theories of rhythm, such as Greek and Spanish
(which are considered syllable-timed yet have stress with high functional
load), and Korean (which does not have prosodic elements with a culminative
function). A second project starting in 2009-2010 extends her work on the
phonetics and phonology of intonation to the investigation of the
interactions between intonation, syntax and pragmatics. For details visit Prof
Arvaniti’s research page or the Phonetics Lab. Prof. Arvaniti welcomes applications for
prospective graduate students interested in
working on any topic pertaining
to the production and perception of prosody, the relationship between
phonetics and phonology, and the role of variation in language structure and
use. Peer-reviewed publications 2006-present Arvaniti,
A. (2009) Rhythm, timing and the timing
of rhythm. Phonetica 66: 46-63 (Special issue on “Rhythm
in Language and Speech. From Theory to Data”) Arvaniti,
A. & D. R. Ladd (2009) Greek
wh-questions and the phonology of intonation. Phonology
26: 43-74 (Special issue on “Relations
Between Phonological Models and Experimental Data”) Arvaniti,
A. (2007a) On
the relationship between phonology and phonetics (or why phonetics is not
phonology). Special Session: Between Meaning
and Speech: On the Role of Communicative Functions, Representations and
Articulations, Proceedings of ICPhS XVI,
pp. 19-24. Arvaniti,
A. (2007b) On the presence of final lowering in
British and American English. In
C. Gussenhoven & T. Riad (eds.) Tone
and Tunes, vol. 2: Experimental Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody, pp.
317-347. Arvaniti, A. (2007c)
Greek Phonetics: The State of the Art. Journal of Greek Linguistics 8:
97-208. Arvaniti, A. & G. Garding
(2007). Dialectal variation in the rising accents
of American English. In J. Cole & J. H. Hualde (eds.), Papers in
Laboratory Phonology 9, pp. 547-576. del Giudice, Alex,
Ryan K. Shosted, Kathryn Davidson, Mohammad Salihie & Amalia
Arvaniti (2007) Comparing
methods for locating pitch “elbows.” Proceedings of ICPhS XVI, pp. 117-1120. Kilpatrick, Cynthia,
Ryan K. Shosted & Amalia Arvaniti (2007) On
the perception of incomplete neutralization. Proceedings of ICPhS XVI, pp. 653-656. Arvaniti, A., D. R. Ladd & Arvaniti, A., D. R. Ladd & |
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