Amalia Arvaniti

Amalia Arvaniti is a distinguished linguist in the field of phonetics and laboratory phonology. She holds a BA from the University of Athens, an MPhil, and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge, awarded in 1991 for her thesis "The phonetics of Modern Greek rhythm and its phonological implications," supervised by Sarah Hawkins. Her career spans prestigious institutions: lecturer and assistant professor at the University of Cyprus (1995–2001), associate professor at the University of California, San Diego (2002–2012), professor and Head of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Kent (2012–2020), and since 2020, Professor and Chair of English Language and Linguistics at Radboud University.

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.