Dr Laura Arnold

I'm a documentary, descriptive, and historical linguist who works with speakers of endangered languages in west New Guinea. To date, most of my work has focussed on the languages spoken in the Raja Ampat archipelago, just off the northwest tip of New Guinea. I use data from these languages to investigate theoretical, typological, and historical questions about the phonetics and phonology of word prosody, the morphosyntactic expression of possession and spatial deixis, and language contact, diversification, and change more generally.