Dr. Annika Tjuka Language Scientist

Publications

Tjuka, Annika. 2025. The representation of foot/leg polysemy in the mind – Insights from Vietnamese body part extensions with chân. In Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho & Iwona Kraska-Szlenk (eds.), Embodiment in cross-linguistic studies: The ‘foot/leg,’ 173-192. Leiden: Brill.

https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004732100_010

Tjuka, Annika, Robert Forkel, Christoph Rzymski & Johann-Mattis List. 2025. Advancing the database of cross-linguistic colexifications with new workflows and data. In Kilian Evang, Laura Kallmeyer & Sylvain Pogodalla (eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Semantics, 1–15. Düsseldorf, Germany: Association for Computational Linguistics.

https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/2025.iwcs-1.1/

Tjuka, Annika & Johann-Mattis List. 2024. Partial colexifications reveal directional tendencies in object naming. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 12(1). 95–114.

https://doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2024-0005

Tjuka, Annika, Huong Thi Thu Nguyen, Ruben van de Vijver & Katharina Spalek. 2024. Investigating the variation of intonation contours in Northern Vietnamese tones. Frontiers in Education (Special Issue on Tonal Language Processing and Acquisition in Native and Non-native Speakers) 9. 1–9.

https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1411660

Tjuka, Annika, Robert Forkel & Johann-Mattis List. 2024. Universal and cultural factors shape body part vocabularies. Scientific Reports 14(1). 1–12.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61140-0

Tjuka, Annika. 2024. Objects as human bodies: Cross-linguistic colexifications between words for body parts and objects. Linguistic Typology 28(3). 379–418.

https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2023-0032

Kim, Yoolim & Annika Tjuka. 2024. Cognitive science from the perspective of linguistic diversity. Cognitive Science 48(2). 1–7.

https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13418

Nomura, Keiko, Simon Rella, Haily Merritt, Mathieu Baltussen, Darcy Bird, Annika Tjuka & Dan Falk. 2024. Tipping points of space debris in low earth orbit. 18(1). 17–31.

https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1275

Tjuka, Annika, Robert Forkel & Johann-Mattis List. 2023. Curating and extending data for language comparison in Concepticon and NoRaRe. Open Research Europe 2(141). 1–13.

https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.15380.3

Tjuka, Annika. 2023. Body part extensions with mặt ‘face’ in Vietnamese. In Kelsie E. Pattillo & Małgorzata Waśniewska (eds.), Embodiment in cross-linguistic studies: The ‘face,’ 237–255. Leiden: Brill.

https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004521971_012

Tjuka, Annika, Robert Forkel & Johann-Mattis List. 2022. Linking norms, ratings, and relations of words and concepts across multiple language varieties. Behavior Research Methods 54. 864–884.

https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01650-1

Tjuka, Annika, Huong Thi Thu Nguyen & Katharina Spalek. 2020. Foxes, deer, and hedgehogs: The recall of focus alternatives in Vietnamese. Laboratory Phonology (Special Issue on Prosody and Speech Processing across Languages and Varieties) 11(1). 1–29.

https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.253

Tjuka, Annika. 2020. General patterns and language variation: Word frequencies across English, German, and Chinese. In Michael Zock, Emmanuele Chersoni, Alessandro Lenci & Enrico Santus (eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on the Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, 23–32. Online: Association for Computational Linguistics.

https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.cogalex-1.3

Tjuka, Annika, Lena Weißmann & Kilu von Prince. 2019. Habitual aspect as a property of text spans. In Zygmunt Vetulani & Patrick Paroubek (eds.), Human language technologies as a challenge for computer science and linguistics. Proceedings of 9th Language & Technology Conference, 195–199. Poznań, Poland: Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje.

Tjuka, Annika, Lena Weißmann & Kilu von Prince. 2019. Tagging modality in Oceanic languages of Melanesia. In Annemarie Friedrich, Deniz Zeyrek & Jet Hoek (eds.), Proceedings of the 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, 65–70. Florence, Italy: Association for Computational Linguistics.

https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-4008