Laura Arnold – Publications

Papers

Forthc. a	Laura Arnold. Sketch grammars of Wauyai Ma'ya and Batta: Two underdocumented languages of Raja Ampat, northwest New Guinea. To appear in Language Documentation & Conservation [accepted: 9 July 2024].
Forthc. b	Laura Arnold. The relative chronology of tone in Raja Ampat: Top-down vs bottom-up approaches. To appear in Relative chronology in historical linguistics, Florian Wandl, Thomas Olander, & Johannes-Mattis List (eds.), Language Science Press [accepted: 10 June 2024].
Forthc.	George Saad, Laura Arnold & Emma Peddie. Late Vernacular Production in Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific. To appear in Glossa Contact [accepted: 28 May 2024].
Forthc. c	Laura Arnold. The diachrony of word prosody in the Ma'ya-Salawati languages of Raja Ampat. To appear in Oceanic Linguistics [accepted: 24 April 2024].
Forthc.	Laura Arnold & Emily Gasser. Austronesian-Papuan contact in northwest New Guinea. To appear in The Oxford Guide to the Papuan Languages, Nick Evans & Sebastian Fedden (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2023 [accepted: 10 Oct 2023].
In press a	Laura Arnold. Language as a lens into the prehistory of western New Guinea. To appear in Archaeology and material culture in western New Guinea, Dylan Gaffney & Marlin Tolla (eds.), ANU Press, 2023 [accepted: 24 Aug 2021].
In press b	Laura Arnold. Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific. To appear in The Routledge encyclopedia of the world's endangered languages, Christopher Mosley (ed.), Routledge, 2023.
2024	Gasser, Emily, Laura Arnold & David Kamholz. The languages of Halmahera, Raja Ampat, and west New Guinea. Alexander Adelaar & Antoinette Schapper (eds.), The Oxford guide to the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 629-651. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198807353.003.0037
2024	Dylan Gaffney, Daud Tanudirjo, Laura Arnold, Wolter Gaman, Tristan Russell, Erlin Djami & Abdul Macap. Five centuries of settlement dynamics and mobility in the northern Raja Ampat Islands of West Papua. The Journal of Pacific History. doi:10.1080/00223344.2024.2328015
2023	Laura Arnold. Split Inalienable Coding in the East Bird's Head family. Oceanic Linguistics 62: 213-241. doi:10.1353/ol.2023.a913559
2023	Laura Arnold. Split Inalienable Coding in Linguistic Wallacea: Typology, origins, spread. Emily Gasser & Antoinette Schapper (eds.), Possession in the languages of Wallacea. Special issue of STUF: Language Typology and Universals), 76(3): 331-368. doi:10.1515/stuf-2023-2013
2023	Laura Arnold, Jiayin Gao & James Kirby. Intrinsic fundamental frequency differences in two tonal Austronesian languages. Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Prague: Guarant International, 3345-3349.
2022	Arnold, Laura. Illustrations of the IPA: Ambel. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 52: 368-388. doi:10.1017/S0025100320000237
2020	Laura Arnold. Four undocumented languages of Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Language Documentation and Description 17: 25-43. doi:10.25894/ldd95
2020	Arnold, Laura. Highs and lows: A previously unattested tone split from vowel height in Metnyo Ambel. Transactions of the Philological Society 118:141-158. [Joint winning article of the Tenth R.H. Robins Prize.] doi:10.1111/1467-968X.12177
2018	Arnold, Laura. A preliminary archaeology of tone in Raja Ampat. Antoinette Schapper (ed.), Contact and substrate in the languages on Wallacea, part 2. Special edition of NUSA: Linguistic studies of languages in and around Indonesia 64: 7-37.
2018	Arnold, Laura. Lexical tone in Metnyo Ambel. Oceanic Linguistics 57: 199-230. doi:10.1353/ol.2018.0007

Thesis and dissertation

2018	Arnold, Laura. A grammar of Ambel, an Austronesian language of Raja Ampat, west New Guinea. PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
2012	Arnold, Laura. Investigations in item stability: In pursuit of the optimal meaning list for use in the initial stages of the comparative method. MSc dissertation, University of Edinburgh.

Keynotes and plenaries

2024	Arnold, Laura. Psychocultural factors in language change: Perspectives from the Pacific. Keynote speaker, 16th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics conference, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2 July.
2024	Arnold, Laura. Lesser-known languages as a window to the past: Historical linguistics and human prehistory in west New Guinea. Plenary speaker, Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference, University of Edinburgh, 5 June.

Invited presentations

2024	Arnold, Laura. Psychocultural factors in language change: Perspectives from the Pacific.. Linguistics Seminar, Australian National University, 16 August.
2022	Arnold, Laura. From areal linguistics to (pre-)historical sociolinguistics: Identifying and diagnosing contact events in northwest New Guinea. Philological Society ECR panel. University of Edinburgh [online], 2 December.
2022	Saad, George & Laura Arnold. Adult Vernacular Production: With a focus on Abui. 51st Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Adam Mickiewicz University, 8 September.
2021	Arnold, Laura. The synchrony and diachrony of tone in Raja Ampat. Second International Seminar on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education. Halu Oleo University [online], 17 November.
2021	Arnold, Laura. Highs and lows: Tone splits from vowel height in Raja Ampat. Centre for Research on Language Diversity seminar series. La Trobe University [online], 15 April. Recording available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibZuFl4RlCk8.
2021	Arnold, Laura. Language vitality and the 'ten-year gap' in Indonesian Papua. Risk and Renewal in the Pacific seminar series. Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge [online], 22 February.
2019	Arnold, Laura. Unpacking areal features on and around the Bird's Head, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Sprachbund. A celebration of David Gil linguistics. Leipzig University, 20 August.
2016	Arnold, Laura. A preliminary archaeology of tone in Raja Ampat. Workshop on the Languages of Wallacea. KITLV Leiden, 1-2 December.

Peer-reviewed presentations

2024	Arnold, Laura. A closer look at *ə in South Halmahera-West New Guinea. 3rd Workshop on the Languages of Wallacea, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 4 July.
2023	Arnold, Laura. Multiple uncommon word-prosodic changes in the Austronesian language of Raja Ampat. The 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Workshop: The diachrony of tone—connecting the field), Heidelberg University, 8 September.
2023	Saad, George, Laura Arnold & Emma Peddie. Adult Vernacular Production in Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 29 August.
2023	Arnold, Laura. Interlingual identification in contact-induced grammatical change: Evidence from northwest New Guinea. The 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 29 August.
2023	Saad, George, Laura Arnold & Emma Peddie. Adult Vernacular Production in Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific. 15th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference, Palacký University, Olomouc, 25 August.
2023	Arnold, Laura. Questioning Eastern Malayo-Polynesian. 5th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference, Palacký University, Olomouc, 24 August.
2023	Arnold, Laura. Progress report on the subclassification of the Austronesian languages of Raja Ampat. Sixth Workshop on the Languages of Papua, Sorong, 17 July.
2023	Arnold, Laura, George Saad & Emma Peddie. Adult Vernacular Production in Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Sixth Workshop on the Languages of Papua, Sorong, 17 July.
2023	Arnold, Laura, George Saad & Emma Peddie. Adult Vernacular Production in Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The 14th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Macquarie University, 27 June.
2022	Arnold, Laura. The multiple causes of Split Inalienable Coding in northwest New Guinea: Contact meets drift. 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. University of Oxford, 1 August.
2021	Arnold, Laura. The tonal phonologies of three undocumented Raja Ampat languages. 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Palacký University, Olomouc [online], 30 June. Recording available here.
2021	Arnold, Laura. Split Inalienable Coding in the East Bird's Head family. 13th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference. University of Edinburgh [online], 10 June. Recording available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux8d4_OPF8k.
2020	Arnold, Laura. Differential inalienable marking in linguistic Wallacea. 12th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference. University of Oslo [online], 18-20 June 2020.
2019	Arnold, Laura. The origin and development of elevationals and other spatial coordinate demonstratives in South Halmahera-West New Guinea. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Workshop: Elevation as a deictic category: Typological and diachronic perspectives. Leipzig University, 21-24 August.
2019	Arnold, Laura. Multiple inalienable categories in linguistic Wallacea. 2nd Workshop on the Languages of Wallacea. KITLV Leiden, 17 June.
2019	Arnold, Laura. Strata of contact: Typologising spatial coordinate demonstratives in the Moluccas and west New Guinea. 11th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference. Universiteit Leiden, 13-15 June.
2018	Arnold, Laura. Highs and lows: Towards reconstructing the word-prosodic system of proto-Ambel. 14th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Université d'Antananarivo, Madagascar, 17-20 July.
2018	Arnold, Laura & David Gil. eeeH. 14th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Université d'Antananarivo, Madagascar, 17-20 July.
2018	Arnold, Laura. Possession in South Halmahera-West New Guinea: Contributions from Ambel. 10th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference. University of Surrey, 4-5 May.
2017	Arnold, Laura. Noun classification in three languages of Raja Ampat. Workshop on the Languages of Papua 4. Universitas Negeri Papua, Indonesia, 23-26 January.
2018	Arnold, Laura & David Gil. eeeH. Workshop on the Languages of Papua 4. Universitas Negeri Papua, Indonesia, 23-26 January.
2016	Arnold, Laura. Ambel: An areal perspective. 8th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference. SOAS, 13-14 May.
2015	Arnold, Laura. Verbal subject marking in Ambel: Accounting for apparent irregularities. Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference. University of Edinburgh, 2-4 June.
2014	Arnold, Laura. Possessive constructions in Ambel: An areal and historical perspective. Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference. University of Edinburgh, 28-30 May.

Non-peer-reviewed presentations

2024	Arnold, Laura, George Saad & Emma Peddie. Late Vernacular Production in Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Bilingualism and Developmental Linguistics Research Group, University of Edinburgh, 22 April.
2024	Arnold, Laura. Psychocultural factors in language change: Perspectives from the Pacific. The Angus McIntosh historical catch-ups, University of Edinburgh, 26 March.
2023	Arnold, Laura. The languages of Raja Ampat: A typological and historical overview. Meeting on the Culture, Languages, and History of Raja Ampat, Waisai, 21 July.
2021	Arnold, Laura. Highs and lows: Tone splits from vowel height in Raja Ampat . The P-Workshop (The Phonetics/Phonology Workshop). University of Edinburgh, 14 May.
2021	Arnold, Laura. The tonal phonologies of three undocumented Raja Ampat languages. The P-Workshop (The Phonetics/Phonology Workshop). University of Edinburgh, 5 March.
2015	Arnold, Laura. Lexical tone in Ambel. The P-Workshop (The Phonetics/Phonology Workshop). University of Edinburgh, 14 May.

Poster presentations

2023	Arnold, Laura. Multiple uncommon word-prosodic changes in languages of Raja Ampat: When—and why? The Sixth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology, University of Edinburgh, 5 December 2023.
2023	Arnold, Laura, Jiayin Gao & James Kirby. Intrinsic fundamental frequency differences in two tonal Austronesian languages. The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague Congress Center, 7 August.
2015	Arnold, Laura. The tonal phonologies of Raja Ampat languages: Towards a historical account. Second Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology. University of Edinburgh, 3-4 December.