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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.

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Team

Prof. Dr. Nikolaus P. Himmelmann

Prof. Dr. Nikolaus P. Himmelmann

Project Leader A03, B05, INF und C09

Office: Allg. Sprachwissenschaft, Meister-Ekkehart-Straße 7
E-Mail: sprachwissenschaft(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-2323
Dr. Constantijn Kaland

Dr. Constantijn Kaland

Postdoc A03

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 2.06
E-Mail: ckaland(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89909

Publications

To appear

  • Kaland, Constantijn, Katharina Gayler, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Martine Grice. To appear. A first exploration of word- and phrase-final f0 movements in spontaneous Yali. Phonological Data and Analysis.
  • 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.
  • Jeon, Hae-Sung, Constantijn Kaland & Martine Grice. 2024. Cluster Analysis of Korean IP-Final Intonation. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024. Leiden.
  • Kaland, Constantijn, Anjali Bhatara, Natalie Boll-Avetisyan & Thierry Nazzi. 2024. Prosodic grouping in Akan and the applicability of the iambic-trochaic law. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024. Leiden.
  • Kaland, Constantijn & Martine Grice. 2024. Exploring and explaining variation in phrase-final f0 movements in spontaneous Papuan Malay. Phonetica. pdf
  • Kaland, Constantijn & Maria Lialiou. 2024. Quantity-sensitivity affects recall performance of word stress. In Proceedings of the 25th Interspeech Conference.
  • Kaland, Constantijn, Jeremy Steffmann & Jennifer Cole. 2024. K-means and hierarchical clustering of f0 contours. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2024.

2023

2022

2021

2020

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

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