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Laura Arnold is a documentary, descriptive, and historical linguist who works with speakers of endangered languages in West New Guinea. Her research has focused on the languages spoken in the Raja Ampat archipelago, located at the northwest tip of New Guinea. Through her work, Arnold utilizes language data to investigate theoretical, typological, and historical questions pertaining to phonetics, phonology, word prosody, morphosyntactic expressions of possession, spatial deixis, language contact, and overall language diversification and change. With a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, her doctoral research concentrated on the grammar of the Ambel language, an Austronesian language from the Raja Ampat region. She has also earned a Master's degree from the University of Edinburgh, where her investigations tackled the stability of linguistic items and the pursuit of optimal meanings using initial stages of the comparative method. Arnold is currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, where she supervises research students and continues her linguistic research into the endangered languages of the region.
University of Edinburgh • Edinburgh, Scotland
Conducting research and supervising students in the field of linguistics, focusing on endangered languages.
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