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Judith Tonhauser

Judith Tonhauser is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Judith Tonhauser rather than just read about it. In short: Judith Tonhauser is a Professor of English Linguistics and Vice Rector for Early Career Researchers and Diversity at the University of Stuttgart. Education and career Tonhauser received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University in 2006.

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Reference excerpt

Judith Tonhauser is a Professor of English Linguistics and Vice Rector for Early Career Researchers and Diversity at the University of Stuttgart.

Education and career Tonhauser received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University in 2006. Her dissertation was titled The Temporal Semantics of Noun Phrases: Evidence from Guaraní. From 2006 to 2020, she was on the faculty of the Linguistics department at The Ohio State University. Since 2020 she has been Professor and Chair of English Linguistics and since 2024 a Vice Rector at the University of Stuttgart. Tonhauser's research interests include Presupposition projection, Prosody and Meaning, Temporal Anaphora and Reference, and empirical methods in Semantics and Pragmatics. She is known for her work in theoretical semantics and pragmatics, specifically on cross-linguistic semantic/pragmatic variation. To this end, she has investigated languages which are under-represented in linguistic theory like the Paraguayan Guarani language, a Tupí Guaraní language spoken in Paraguay and surrounding countries.

Awards and distinctions Tonhauser is the recipient of the 2016 Early Career Award from the Linguistic Society of America. The award recognizes scholars early in their career who have made outstanding contributions to the field of linguistics. Tonhauser's 2013 paper, "Toward a taxonomy of projective content," coauthored with David Beaver, Craige Roberts, and Mandy Simons, won the 2013 Best Paper in Language (journal) Award from the Linguistic Society of America. In 2013, she was awarded an ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars for her project Content and Context in the Study of Meaning Variation. She is an Associate Editor of Semantics and Pragmatics, a journal of the Linguistic Society of America.

Selected publications Tonhauser, Judith (2007). "Nominal Tense? The Meaning of Guaraní Nominal Temporal Markers". Language. 83 (4): 831–869. doi:10.1353/lan.2008.0037. JSTOR 40070967. S2CID 50797962. Tonhauser, Judith (2008-01-01). "Defining crosslinguistic categories: The case of nominal tense (Reply to Nordlinger and Sadler)*". Language. 84 (2): 332–342. doi:10.1353/lan.0.0017. ISSN 1535-0665. S2CID 144511555. Lee, Jungmee; Tonhauser, Judith (2010-08-01). "Temporal Interpretation without Tense: Korean and Japanese Coordination Constructions". Journal of Semantics. 27 (3): 307–341. doi:10.1093/jos/ffq005. ISSN 0167-5133. Tonhauser, Judith; Colijn, Erika (2010). "Word Order in Paraguayan Guaraní". International Journal of American Linguistics. 76 (2): 255–288. doi:10.1086/652267. JSTOR 10.1086/652267. S2CID 73554080. Tonhauser, Judith (2011-11-03). "Temporal reference in Paraguayan Guaraní, a tenseless language". Linguistics and Philosophy. 34 (3): 257–303. doi:10.1007/s10988-011-9097-2. ISSN 0165-0157. S2CID 62125736. Shain, Cory; Tonhauser, Judith (2010-10-01). "The synchrony and diachrony of differential object marking in Paraguayan Guaraní". Language Variation and Change. 22 (3): 321–346. doi:10.1017/S0954394510000153. ISSN 1469-8021. S2CID 146152550. Tonhauser, Judith; Beaver, David; Roberts, Craige; Simons, Mandy (2013-01-01). "Toward a Taxonomy of Projective Content". Language. 89 (1): 66–109. doi:10.1353/lan.2013.0001. ISSN 1535-0665. S2CID 50243. Clopper, Cynthia G.; Tonhauser, Judith (2013). "The Prosody of Focus in Paraguayan Guaraní". International Journal of American Linguistics. 79 (2): 219–251. doi:10.1086/669629. JSTOR 10.1086/669629. S2CID 143244853. Turnbull, Rory; Burdin, Rachel Steindel; Clopper, Cynthia G.; Tonhauser, Judith (5 August 2015). "Contextual predictability and the prosodic realisation of focus: a cross-linguistic comparison". Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 30 (9): 1061–1076. doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1071856. S2CID 145386394. Burdin, Rachel Steindel; Phillips-Bourass, Sara; Turnbull, Rory; Yasavul, Murat; Clopper, Cynthia G.; Tonhauser, Judith (2015-10-01). "Variation in the prosody of focus in head- and head/edge-prominence languages". Lingua. Prosody and Information Status in Typological Perspective. 165, Part B: 254–276. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2014.10.001. Tonhauser, Judith (2015-01-01). "Cross-Linguistic Temporal Reference". Annual Review of Linguistics. 1 (1): 129–154. doi:10.1146/annurev-linguist-030514-124923. Tonhauser, Judith (2015-02-01). "Are 'informative presuppositions' presuppositions?". Language and Linguistics Compass. 9 (2): 77–101. doi:10.1111/lnc3.12119. ISSN 1749-818X.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Judith Tonhauser

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Judith Tonhauser claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Judith Tonhauser before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Judith Tonhauser ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Judith Tonhauser

In research: Judith Tonhauser appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Judith Tonhauser in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Judith Tonhauser is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Academic staff of the University of Stuttgart, Linguists from the United States, Living people, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Judith Tonhauser outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Judith Tonhauser in simple terms?

Judith Tonhauser is a Professor of English Linguistics and Vice Rector for Early Career Researchers and Diversity at the University of Stuttgart. Education and career Tonhauser received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University in 2006.

Why does Judith Tonhauser matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Judith Tonhauser?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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