Aaron Seiler
Aaron Seiler joined the department in December 2022. He studied German and English linguistics at the University of Trier and obtained his M.A. in September 2022. He is currently working in a DFG-funded project on English root stress.
Research interests
> Lexical stress in English
> The morphology-phonology interface
> Computational modeling
Selected Presentations
2025
Arndt-Lappe, Sabine, Quentin Dabouis, Marie Gabillet & Aaron Seiler. 2025. “Stress position in English nouns and verbs – towards an analogy-based account”, paper presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2025), Bordeaux, France, 26.-29.08.
Seiler, Aaron & Sabine Arndt-Lappe. 2025 “Morphology, analogy and lexical distributions: the case of English stress“, paper presented at the 14th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting (MMM), Zadar, Croatia, 12.-14.06.
Gabillet, Marie, Quentin Dabouis, Sabine Arndt-Lappe & Aaron Seiler. 2025. “Exploring the roles of morphology and analogy in English stress assignment”, paper presented at the 31st Manchester Phonology Meeting (31MFM), Manchester, United Kingdom, 29.-31.05.
Arndt-Lappe, Sabine, Aaron Seiler, Marie Gabillet & Quentin Dabouis. 2025. “The nature of morphological effects on English stress – an analogical modeling study“, paper presented at the 47. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS 2025), Mainz, Germany, 04.-07.03.
2024
Plag, Ingo, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Aaron Seiler & Quentin Dabouis. 2024. “Modeling the role of prefixation in determining stress assignment in English verbs“, paper presented at the Nonuniformity in Morphophonology across Frameworks Workshop, Trier, Germany, 10.-11.10.
Seiler, Aaron & Sabine Arndt-Lappe. 2024. “Predicting stress in English verbs – analogy, morphology, and the level of abstraction of phonological patterns”, paper accepted for poster presentation at the 19th conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon), Hanyang University, South Korea, 27.-29.06.
Seiler, Aaron. 2024. “Analogical modeling of English verb stress“, seminar talk given at Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany, 17.06.
Arndt-Lappe, Sabine, Aaron Seiler, Quentin Dabouis & Marie Gabillet. 2024. “Predicting stress in English verbs: analogy, morphology, and the level of abstraction of phonological patterns”, paper presented at Phonology Reading Group, University of Bolzano / University of Tromsø, 21.02.
Gabillet, Marie, Aaron Seiler, Sabine Arndt-Lappe & Quentin Dabouis. 2024. “Stress assignment in English pseudo-words: On the role of weight, prefixation and syntactic category”, paper presented at the 21st Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP), Leipzig, Germany, 14.-16.02.
2023
Arndt-Lappe, Sabine, Aaron Seiler, Quentin Dabouis & Marie Gabillet. 2023. “The ERSaF project: Aims and first results”, paper presented at the Séminaire LRL (Université Clermont-Auvergne), Clermont-Ferrand, France, 14.12.
Arndt-Lappe, Sabine, Aaron Seiler, Quentin Dabouis & Marie Gabillet. 2023. “Analogy in morpho-phonology: the case of English verb stress”, paper presented at the Linguistisches Kolloquium der Universität Marburg, Germany, 07.05.