A03 - Prosodic prominence in cross-linguistic perspective
The basic goal of the project is to contribute to a better understanding of the nature of prosodic prominence by asking how languages differ with regard to its phonetic properties and phonological organization. The core phenomena investigated are those dealt with under the labels stress and accent. Empirical work in this project concentrates on Austronesian and Papuan languages of Indonesia, where a broad range of prosodic systems is found.
Team
Dr. Constantijn Kaland
Postdoc A03
Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 2.06E-Mail: ckaland(at)uni-koeln.de Phone: (+49) 221 470-89909
Sophia Meyer
Student assistant A03
E-Mail: smeyer44(at)uni-koeln.de
Alessandra On
Student assistant A03
E-Mail: aon(at)smail.uni-koeln.de
Publications
To appear
- Jeon, Hae-Sung, Constantijn Kaland & Martine Grice. To appear. Cluster Analysis of Korean IP-Final Intonation. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024. Leiden.
- Kaufman, Daniel & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. To appear. Suprasegmental phonology. In Alexander Adelaar & Antoinette Schapper (eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2024
- Bracks, Christoph. 2024. Compound Intonation Units in Totoli: Postlexical Prosody and the Prosody-Syntax Interface. Berlin: Language Science Press.
- Kaland, Constantijn & Martine Grice. 2024. Exploring and explaining variation in phrase-final f0 movements in spontaneous Papuan Malay. Phonetica. pdf
2023
- Coretta, Stefano, Joseph V. Casillas, Simon Roessig, Michael Franke, [...], Timo B. Roettger. (with Francesco Cangemi, Martine Grice, Constantijn Kaland, Maria Lialiou, Malin Spaniol & Simon Wehrle). 2023. Multidimensional Signals and Analytic Flexibility: Estimating Degrees of Freedom in Human-Speech Analyses. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 6(3). 1–29. pdf
- Farinella, Alessa, Constantijn Kaland & Daniel Kaufman. 2023. Gesture and prosodic prominence in Ambonese Indonesian. In Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 4196–4200. Prague, Czech Republic: Guarant International. pdf
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2023. On the comparability of prosodic categories: why ‘stress’ is difficult. Linguistic Typology 27(2). 341–361.
- Kaland, Constantijn. 2023. Intonation Contour Similarity: F0 Representations and Distance Measures Compared to Human Perception in Two Languages. The Journal of Acoustic Society of America (JASA) 154(1). 95–107. pdf
- Kaland, Constantijn & Maria Bardají. 2023. Phonetic description of filled pauses as discourse markers in Totoli. In Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 3242–3246. Prague, Czech Republic: Guarant International. pdf
- Kaland, Constantijn & T. Mark Ellison. 2023. Evaluating cluster analysis on f0 contours: An information theoretic approach on three languages. In Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 3448–3452. Prague, Czech Republic: Guarant International. pdf
- Kaland, Constantijn & Marc Swerts. 2023. The attractiveness of average speech rhythms: Revisiting the average effect from a crosslinguistic perspective. Language and Speech. 1–21. pdf
- Kaland, Constantijn, Marc Swerts & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2023. Red and blue bananas: Time-series f0 analysis of contrastively focused noun phrases in Papuan Malay and Dutch. Journal of Phonetics 96. 101200. pdf
2022
- Kaland, Constantijn. 2022. Bending the string: intonation contour length as a correlate of macro-rhythm. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2022, 5233–5237.
- Kaland, Constantijn & Matthew K. Gordon. 2022. The role of f0 shape and phrasal position in Papuan Malay and American English word identification. Phonetica. pdf
- Seeliger, Heiko & Constantijn Kaland. 2022. Boundary tones in German wh-questions and wh-exclamatives - a cluster-based approach. In Proceedings Speech Prosody 2022, 27–31. Lisbon, Portugal. pdf
2021
- Kaland, Constantijn. 2021. Contour clustering: A field-data-driven approach for documenting and analysing prototypical f0 contours. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1–30. pdf
- Kaland, Constantijn. 2021. The perception of word stress cues in Papuan Malay: A typological perspective and experimental investigation. Laboratory Phonology 12(1). 1–33. pdf
- Kaland, Constantijn & Matthew Gordon. 2021. How f0 and Phrase Position Affect Papuan Malay Word Identification. Proceedings Interspeech 2021, 2606–2610. pdf
- Kaland, Constantijn, Angela Kluge & Vincent J. van Heuven. 2021. Lexical analyses of the function and phonology of Papuan Malay word stress. Phonetica 78(2). 141-168. pdf
- Kaland, Constantijn, Naomi Peck, T. Mark Ellison & Uta Reinöhl. 2021. An initial exploration of the interaction of tone and intonation in Kera’a. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI), 132–136. Sønderborg, Denmark. pdf
- Seifart, Frank, Jan Strunk, Swintha Danielsen, Iren Hartmann, Brigitte Pakendorf, Søren Wichmann, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Balthasar Bickel. 2021. The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages. Linguistics Vanguard 7(1).
2020
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. & Daniel Kaufman. 2020. Prosodic systems: Austronesia. In Carlos Gussenhoven & Aoju Chen (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Prosody, 370-383. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pdf
- Kaland, Constantijn. 2020. Offline and Online Processing of Acoustic Cues to Word Stress in Papuan Malay. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 147(2): 731-747. pdf
- Kaland, Constantijn & Stefan Baumann. 2020. Demarcating and highlighting in Papuan Malay phrase prosody. The Journal of Acoustic Society of America 147(4). 2974–2988. pdf
- Kaland, Constantijn & Vincent J. Van Heuven. 2020. Papuan Malay word stress reduces lexical alternatives. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020 (Online-Konferenz), 454-458. pdf
- Kaland, Constantijn & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2020. Time-series analysis of F0 in Papuan Malay constrastive focus. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020 (Online-Konferenz), 230-234. pdf
- Riesberg, Sonja, Janina Kalbertodt, Stefan Baumann & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2020. Using Rapid Prosody Transcription to probe little-known prosodic systems: The case of Papuan Malay. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 11(1): 8. 1–35.
2019
- Kaland, Constantijn. 2019. Acoustic correlates of word stress in Papuan Malay. Journal of Phonetics, 74. 55-74. pdf
- Kaland, Constantijn & Stefan Baumann. 2019. Different functions of phrase-final F0 movements in spontaneous Papuan Malay. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XIX), 1312-1316. Melbourne, Australia. pdf
- Kaland, Constantijn & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2019. Repetition Reduction Revisited: The Prosody of Repeated Words in Papuan Malay. Language and Speech 63(1). 31-55. online first: pdf
- Kaland, Constantijn, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Angela Kluge. 2019. Stress predictors in a Papuan Malay random forest. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.), Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XIX), 2871-2875. Melbourne, Australia. pdf
- Martínez García, Nuria & Constantijn Kaland. 2019. The prosody of repeated mentions in Yucatecan Spanish. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.), Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XIX), 2494-2498. Canberra: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. pdf
2018
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2018. Some preliminary observations on prosody and information structure in Austronesian languages of Indonesia and East Timor. In Sonja Riesberg, Asako Shiohara & Atsuko Utsumi (eds.), Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian languages, 347-374. Berlin: Language Science Press.
- Himmelmann, Nikolaus P., Meytal Sandler, Jan Strunk & Volker Unterladstetter. 2018. On the universality of intonational phrases in spontaneous speech - a crosslinguistic interrater study. Phonology 35(2). 207- 245. pdf
- Kaland, Constantijn. 2018. Spectral tilt as a correlate of Papuan Malay word stress. In Katarzyna Klessa, Jolanta Bachan, Agnieszka Wagner, Maciej Karpiński, & Daniel Śledziński (eds.), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2018, 339-343. Poznań, Poland. pdf
- Kaland, Constantijn, Bracks, Christoph & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2018. Repetition reduction in Papuan Malay prosody. In Katarzyna Klessa, Jolanta Bachan, Agnieszka Wagner, Maciej Karpiński, & Daniel Śledziński (eds.), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2018, 10-14. Poznań, Poland. pdf
- Riesberg, Sonja, Janina Kalbertodt, Stefan Baumann & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2018. On the perception of prosodic prominences and boundaries in Papuan Malay. In Sonja Riesberg, Asako Shiohara & Atsuko Utsumi (eds.), Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian languages, 389-414. Berlin: Language Science Press. pdf