Rate My Professor Amalia Arvaniti

Arvaniti's primary academic interests lie in prosody, with a focus on the phonetic and phonological aspects of intonation, rhythm, and their perception and production. She investigates speech variation in bilingual and diglossic contexts, contributing to sociophonetics. Currently, she directs the SPRINT project, funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant (ERC-ADG-835263, 2019–2024), aimed at formulating a phonological model of intonation that integrates phonetic realization and pragmatic function. She is also completing Sound Structures of Greek, a monograph on the phonetics and phonology of contemporary Greek dialects post-diglossia, supported by the Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2019–2020) and Radboud's Mohrmann grant (2020–2022). Arvaniti has authored or co-authored influential publications, including "Greek Phonetics: The State of the Art" (Journal of Greek Linguistics, 2007), "Rhythm, Timing and the Timing of Rhythm" (Phonetica, 2009), "The Representation of Intonation" in The Blackwell Companion to Phonology (2011), and "Prosodic Prominence Across Languages" (Annual Review of Linguistics, 2023, co-authored with D. Robert Ladd). She edited Phonology and Phonetic Evidence: Papers in Laboratory Phonology IV (1995, with Bruce Connell) and served as Editor of the Journal of the International Phonetic Association (2015–2019). Her research has profoundly impacted the study of prosodic systems, intonation modeling, and cross-linguistic comparisons of rhythm.