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Dr Johannes Heim

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Dr Johannes Heim
Dr Johannes Heim
Dr Johannes Heim

Lecturer, Dean for Research Cultures

Accepting PhDs

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School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture
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Biography

I joined LLMVC in 2022 as a Lecturer in Language & Linguistics after two short stints in Greifswald, DE and Newcastle, UK. 

My research focuses on how adults and infants interact in conversation using discourse particles, prosody, and gestures. Much of this work revolves around non-assertive speech acts (aka 'non-canonical' questions).

If you are interested in PhD supervision on any of these topics, feel free to send me your proposal and CV. I am also open to mentoring Postdoctoral Fellowships (British Academy, Leverhulme, Horizon Europe's MSCA).

Qualifications

  • PhD Linguistics (Cognitive Stream) 
    2019 - University or British Columbia 

Internal Memberships

Director of PGR for the School of Language, Literature, Music & Visual Culture

REF Co-lead (Linguistics) for UoA27 (with Prof Andrew Gorden and Prof David Wheatley)

Co-director for the Centre of Training and Research in Linguistics (with Prof Robert McColl Millar)

Latest Publications

  • Not your average podcaster: Turn-taking timings and conversational role behavior in AI-generated dialogues

    Carruthers, Y., Heim, J.
    AI and Society
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

  • Pragmatic Modelling in Language Learning: Caregiver Question-Answer Feedback in Child-Directed Dialogue

    Heim, J., Bala, M., Edelstein, E., Sinclair, A.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • The interpretation of prenuclear accents in English (biased) questions

    Lau, E., Schlenter, J., Heim, J., Repp, S.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • English negative questions: A view on acquisition at the syntax-discourse-prosody interface

    Heim, J., Woods, R., Lau, E., Schlenter, J., Repp, S.
    Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations
    • [OPEN ACCESS]
    • [ONLINE]

  • Negation and prosody as markers of pragmatic bias in English polar interrogatives

    Heim, J., Schlenter, J., Repp, S.
    Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations
    • [OPEN ACCESS]
    • [ONLINE]

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Research

Research Overview

My research explores the syntax, pragmatics, prosody and gestures of interactional language in adults and infants. At the prosody-pragmatics interface, my research looks at how intonation encodes speaker attitudes and expectations. A particular focus here has been to explore how intonation contributes to the mapping of clause types and speech acts. At the syntax-pragmatics interface, I have worked on the syntactic integration of discourse particles in a range of unrelated languages. This work shows that discourse particles are subject to similar syntactic mechanisms as constituents inside the clause. At the syntax-prosody interface, I show that a syntactic integration of prosody explains the distributional facts of various contours and particles. Lately, I have started investigating how co-speech gesture signals (non-)canonical meaning and how infants draw on multimodal cues to scaffold language acquisition.

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Linguistics.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

Linguistics

  • Supervising
  • Accepting PhDs
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Research Specialisms

  • Early Childhood Studies
  • English Language
  • Linguistics

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is , published under the licence.

Publications

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  • Not your average podcaster: Turn-taking timings and conversational role behavior in AI-generated dialogues

    Carruthers, Y., Heim, J.
    AI and Society
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

  • Pragmatic Modelling in Language Learning: Caregiver Question-Answer Feedback in Child-Directed Dialogue

    Heim, J., Bala, M., Edelstein, E., Sinclair, A.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • The interpretation of prenuclear accents in English (biased) questions

    Lau, E., Schlenter, J., Heim, J., Repp, S.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • English negative questions: A view on acquisition at the syntax-discourse-prosody interface

    Heim, J., Woods, R., Lau, E., Schlenter, J., Repp, S.
    Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations
    • [OPEN ACCESS]
    • [ONLINE]

  • Negation and prosody as markers of pragmatic bias in English polar interrogatives

    Heim, J., Schlenter, J., Repp, S.
    Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations
    • [OPEN ACCESS]
    • [ONLINE]

  • Editorial: Advancing Research in Language Education, Acquisition, and Policy

    Abdulrahman, B. S., Heim, J. M.
    Granite Journal: The 51cg Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, 1
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials

  • Negotiating truth and relevance: a new typology of English rising declaratives  

    Heim, J.
    Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 249, pp. 23-43
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Quantifying Division of Labour: Effects of Clause Type on Intonational Meaning

    Heim, J.
    Speech Communication, vol. 172, 103265
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Rethinking structural growth: Insights from the acquisition of interactional language

    Heim, J., Wiltschko, M.
    Glossa, vol. 10, no. 1
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Prosodic variation in negative and positive polarity questions in English

    Heim, J., Schlenter, J., Repp, S.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Prosodic variation in negative and positive polarity questions in English

    Heim, J., Schlenter, J., Repp, S.
    3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation, pp. 1
    Contributions to Conferences: Posters
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Modelling and feedback in the context of early questions

    Heim, J., Bala, M., Sinclair, A.
    Working Papers: Preprint Papers
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • British English negative questions aren’t all acquired alike, are they?: Acquisition at the syntax-discourse interface

    Heim, J., Woods, R.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers
    • [ONLINE]

  • Acquisition of Non-Canonical Questions in English

    Woods, R., Heim, J., Roeper, T.
    The Handbook of Noncanonical Questions. Eckardt, R., Walkden, G., Dehé, N. (eds.). Oxford University Press; Oxford
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Three Stages in The Acquisition of English Response Tokens: A Window into the Development of Common Ground

    Heim, J., Marí, J. R., Wiltschko, M.
    Cahiers de praxématique, vol. 84, no. 2
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Input beyond the Threshold: Explaining Auxiliary Initial Assertions in a British English Early Talker

    Woods, R., Heim, J., Wallenberg, J.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
    • [ONLINE]
    • [ONLINE]

  • Javanese discourse particles: interlocutor perspective in the syntax kok

    Woods, R., Vander Klok, J., Heim, J.
    Studia Linguistica
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Rethinking child-caregiver interaction in syntactic and pragmatic development

    Heim, J.
    Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations
    • [ONLINE]

  • Multimodal profiles of different (negative) question types

    Heim, J., Woods, R., Busche, F., Repp, S.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers
    • [ONLINE]
    • [ONLINE]

  • What's a question to start with?: Auxiliary placement in English early talkers

    Woods, R., Heim, J.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers
    • [ONLINE]
    • [ONLINE]

  • Exploring caregiver intervention on early question-answer sequences

    Heim, J., Bala, M., Sinclair, A.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers

  • A flexible model for exposing and mitigating the hidden curriculum in the transition to Higher Education

    Heim, J., Cuskley, C., Woods, R., Barber, J., Donnelly, H., Hu, R., Sharma, A., Pichler, H.
    Open Scholarship and Teaching, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 30-55
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Caregiver modelling and feedback in the context of early questions

    Heim, J., Bala, M., Sinclair, A.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Emergence of syntactic structure through the lens of interaction

    Heim, J., Wiltschko, M.
    Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Early management of common ground: Lessons from L1 acquisition of interactional language.

    Wiltschko, M., Heim, J.
    Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Diagnosing use conventions of English Rising Declaratives

    Heim, J.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers
    • [ONLINE]
    • [ONLINE]

  • Co-speech gestures in negative questions.: Evidence from American soap opera actors

    Heim, J., Woods, R., Busche, F., Repp, S.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • What's a question to start with? Auxiliaries in input to English early talkers.

    Heim, J., Woods, R.
    Many Paths to Language 2023, pp. P1.07
    Contributions to Conferences: Posters
    • [ONLINE]

  • Javanese discourse particles: interlocutor perspective is in the syntax, kok!

    Woods, R., Vander Klok, J., Heim, J.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers
    • [ONLINE]
    • [OPEN ACCESS]
    • [ONLINE]

  • Unfolding trees: Evidence from the syntax of early interactional language

    Heim, J., Wiltschko, M.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Tailored feedback in language learning: synergies in linguistics and computer science

    Heim, J., Sinclair, A.
    Aberdeen Interdisciplinary Open Sessions
    Contributions to Conferences: Posters
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Acquisitional trajectories of North American vs British English tags

    Heim, J.
    Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations

  • Alignment of beat gestures and prosodic prominence in German

    Repp, S., Muhtz, L., Heim, J.
    Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [ONLINE]

  • Non-Arbitrariness across modalities: Bootstrapping the emergence and development of questions

    Cuskley, C., Heim, J.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Timing of belief as a key to cross-linguistic variation in common ground management

    Heim, J. M., Wiltschko, M. E.
    Linguistics Vanguard, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 261-275
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [ONLINE]

  • Acquiring the form and function of interactional language

    Heim, J., Wiltschko, M.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers
    • [OPEN ACCESS]
    • [ONLINE]

  • Input beyond the threshold: Explaining AUX-initial declaratives

    Woods, R., Heim, J., Wallenberg, J.
    39th Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL)
    Contributions to Conferences: Posters
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]
    • [ONLINE]

  • Grounding Beliefs: Structured Variation in Canadian Discourse Particles

    Wiltschko, M., Heim, J.
    Exoticism in English tag questions: Strengthening arguments and caressing the social wheel. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 37-82, 45 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
    • [ONLINE]

  • Deconstructing Questions: Reanalyzing a heterogeneous class of speech acts via commitment and engagement.

    Heim, J., Wiltschko, M.
    Scandinavian Studies in Language, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 56-82
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

  • Interaction at the prosody-syntax interface

    Heim, J., Wiltschko, M.
    Prosody in Syntactic Encoding. Kentner, G., Kremers, J. (eds.). de Gruyter, pp. 189-217, 29 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

  • Turn-peripheral management of Common Ground: A study of Swabian gell

    Heim, J.
    Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 141, pp. 109-129
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

  • Intonation and Particles as Speech Act Modifiers: A Syntactic Analysis

    Heim, J., Keupdjio, H., Lam, Z. W. M., Osa-Gómez, A., Thoma, S., Wiltschko, M.
    Studies in Chinese Linguistics, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 109-129
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

  • The syntax of confirmationals

    Wiltschko, M., Heim, J.
    Outside the Clause: Form and function of extra-clausal constituents. Kaltenböck, G., Keizer, E., Lohrmann, A. (eds.). John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 305-340, 36 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

  • Effects of mouthing and interlocutor presence on movements of visible vs. non-visible articulators

    Bicevskis, K., de Vries, J., Green, L., Heim, J., Božič, J., D'Aquisto, J., Fry, M., Sadlier-Brown, E., Tkachman, O., Yamane, N., Gick, B.
    Canadian Acoustics, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 17-24
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE]

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