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Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesGeneral Linguistics (Department of Linguistics)

Dr. Constantijn Kaland

 

General Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne

Büro: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, Raum 2.06

E-Mail: ckaland[at]uni-koeln[dot]de

Publications

Journals

As first author:

  • Kaland, C. (2023). Intonation contour similarity: F0 representations and distance measures compared to human perception in two languages. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154 (1), 95–107. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0019850 [pdf] [suppl]
  • Kaland, C., Swerts, M., & Himmelmann, N. P. (2023). Red and blue bananas: Time-series f0 analysis of contrastively focused noun phrases in Papuan Malay and Dutch. Journal of Phonetics, 96, 101200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2022.101200 [pdf] [suppl]
  • Kaland, C., & Gordon, M. K. (2022). The role of f0 shape and phrasal position in Papuan Malay and American English word identification. Phonetica, 79 (3), 219–245. https://doi.org/ 10.1515/phon-2022-2022 [pdf] [suppl]
  • Kaland, C. (2021). The perception of word stress cues in Papuan Malay: A typological perspective and experimental investigation. Laboratory Phonology, 12 (1). https://doi.org/10.16995/ labphon.6447 [pdf] [suppl]
  • Kaland, C., Kluge, A., & Van Heuven, V. J. (2021). Lexical analyses of the function and phonology of Papuan Malay word stress. Phonetica, 78 (2), 141–168. https://doi.org/10.1515/phon2021-2003 [pdf]
  • Kaland, C. (2021). Contour clustering: A field-data-driven approach for documenting and analysing prototypical f0 contours. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100321000049 [pdf] [web] [suppl] [audio]
  • Kaland, C., & Baumann, S. (2020). Demarcating and highlighting in Papuan Malay phrase prosody. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147 (4), 2974–2988. https://doi. org/10.1121/10.0001008 [pdf]
  • Kaland, C. (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. https://doi.org/ 10.1121/10.0000578 [pdf]
  • Kaland, C., & Himmelmann, N. P. (2020). Repetition Reduction Revisited: The Prosody of Repeated Words in Papuan Malay. Language and Speech, 63 (1), 31–55. https://doi.org/10. 1177/0023830918820044 [pdf]
  • Kaland, C. (2019). Acoustic correlates of word stress in Papuan Malay. Journal of Phonetics, 74, 55–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2019.02.003 [pdf]
  • Kaland, C., Galat`a, V., Spreafico, L., & Vietti, A. (2019). Which Language R You Speaking? /r/ as a Language Marker in Tyrolean and Italian Bilinguals. Language and Speech, 62 (1), 137–163. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830917746551 [pdf]
  • Kaland, C., Krahmer, E., & Swerts, M. (2014). White Bear Effects in Language Production: Evidence from the Prosodic Realization of Adjectives. Language and Speech, 57 (4), 470–486. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830913513710 [pdf] 
  • Kaland, C., Swerts, M., & Krahmer, E. (2013). Accounting for the listener: Comparing the production of contrastive intonation in typically-developing speakers and speakers with autism. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134 (3), 2182–2196. https://doi.org/10.1121/ 1.4816544 [pdf]
  • Kaland, C., Krahmer, E., & Swerts, M. (2012). On How Accent Distribution Can Signal Speaker Adaptation. Phonetica, 69 (4), 216–230. https://doi.org/10.1159/000353473 [pdf]

As co-author:

  • Borràs-Comes, J., Kaland, C., Prieto, P., & Swerts, M. (2014). Audiovisual Correlates of Interrogativity: A Comparative Analysis of Catalan and Dutch. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 38 (1), 53–66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-013-0162-0 [pdf]
  • Crespo Sendra, V., Kaland, C., Swerts, M., & Prieto, P. (2013). Perceiving incredulity: The role of intonation and facial gestures. Journal of Pragmatics, 47 (1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10. 1016/j.pragma.2012.08.008 [pdf]

Books and chapters

As first author:

  • Kaland, C. (2014). Prosodic marking of semantic contrasts: Do speakers adapt to addressees? [OCLC: 888400473]. Tilburg University [pdf]

As co-author:

  • Van Heuven, V. J., & Kaland, C. (2017). Chapter 10. Prosody of restrictive and appositive relative clauses in Dutch and German. In H. Reckman, L. L. Cheng, M. Hijzelendoorn, & R. Sybesma (Eds.), Crossroads Semantics (pp. 155–176). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/z.210.10van 

Conferences and Papers

As first author:

  • Kaland, C. (2022). Bending the string: Intonation contour length as a correlate of macrorhythm. Interspeech 2022, 5233–5237. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2022-185  [pdf]
  • Kaland, C., Peck, N., Ellison, T. M., & Reinöhl, U. (2021). An initial exploration of the interaction of tone and intonation in Kera’a. 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI), 132–136. https://doi.org/10.21437/TAI.2021-27  [pdf]
  • Kaland, C., & Gordon, M. (2021). How f0 and Phrase Position Affect Papuan Malay Word Identification. Interspeech 2021, 2606–2610. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-6  [pdf]
  • Kaland, C. (2020). Contour clustering: a tool for exploring prototypical f0 patterns. Oral presentation Middag van de Fonetiek, December 18th 2020. [abstract] 
  • Kaland, C., & Van Heuven, V. J. (2020). Papuan Malay word stress reduces lexical alternatives. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020, 454–458. https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-93 
  • Kaland, C., & Himmelmann, N. P. (2020). Time-series analysis of F0 in Papuan Malay contrastive focus. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020, 230– 234. https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-47 
  • Kaland, C., & Baumann, S. (2019). Different functions of phrase-final F0 movements in spontaneous Papuan Malay. In Sasha Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & Paul Warren (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1312–1316) 
  • Kaland, C., Himmelmann, N. P., & Kluge, A. (2019). Stress predictors in a Papuan Malay random forest. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, & Marija Tabain (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2871–2875). Australasian Speech Science; Technology Association Inc.
  • Kaland, C. (2018). Spectral tilt as a correlate of Papuan Malay word stress. 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018, 339–343. https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2018-69 
  • Kaland, C., Galatà, V., Spreafico, L., & Vietti, A. (2016). Production and perception of /r/ by bilinguals in South Tyrol. Experimental Approaches to Perception and Production of Language Variation (ExAPP)
  • Kaland, C., Galatà, V., Spreafico, L., & Vietti, A. (2016). /r/ as Language Marker in Bilingual Speech Production and Perception. Interspeech 2016, 515–519. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2016-418 
  • Kaland, C., & Postma-Nilsenov´a, M. (2014). Sound symbolic effects of intrinsic pitch and intrinsic intensity in Dutch vowels [OCLC: 6893490056]. In C. Gussenhoven, Y. Chen, & D. Dediu (Eds.), The 4th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (pp. 160–163). Language, Communication; Cognition, Creative Computing
  • Kaland, C. (2014). Adapting to atypical prosody: contrastive noun phrases in Dutch and Italian. Oral presentation Comparative Syntax Meetings (LUCL, Leiden University), March 27th 2014. [abstract]
  • Kaland, C. & Postma, M. (2012). Intrinsieke prosodie van klinkers. Oral presentation Dag van de Fonetiek (Utrecht), December 13th 2012.
  • Kaland, C., Krahmer, E., & Swerts, M. (2012). Contrastive intonation in autism: The effect of speaker-and listener-perspective. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspreech), 1, 1046–1049.
  • Kaland, C., Krahmer, E., & Swerts, M. (2012). Accentuation as a cue for speaker adaptation. In Q. Ma, H. Ding, & D. Hirst (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2012 (pp. 290–294). Tongji University Press.
  • Kaland, C., Krahmer, E., & Swerts, M. (2011). Contrastive intonation: Speaker- or listenerdriven. In W. S. Lee & E. Zee (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhs XVII) (pp. 1006–1009). City University of Hong Kong [pdf]
  • Kaland, C., Krahmer, E., & Swerts, M. (2011). Salient in the mind, salient in prosody. In L. Carlson, C. Hoelscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 261–266). Austin, TX.
  • Kaland, C. , Krahmer, E. J. & Swerts, M. G. J. (2011). Prosody of privileged information. Oral presentation ConSOLE XIX (Groningen), January 5-8 2011.
  • Kaland, C. , Krahmer, E. J. & Swerts, M. G. J. (2010). Prosody of privileged information. Poster presentation Prosody Frontiers (Leiden), November 19-20 2010.
  • Kaland, C. , Krahmer, E. J. & Swerts, M. G. J. (2010). Prosody of privileged information. Poster presentation TABU-Dag (Groningen), June 2010.
  • Kaland, C., & Van Heuven, V. J. (2010). The structure-prosody interface of restrictive and appositive relative clauses in Dutch and German. In M. Hasegawa-Johnson (Ed.), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010 (100064:1).
  • Kaland, C. & Van Heuven, V. J. (2010). The structure-prosody interface of restrictive and appositive relative clauses in Dutch and German. Oral presentation An´ela Juniorendag (Leiden), January 29th 2010.
  • Kaland, C. & Van Heuven, V. J. (2009). De structuur-prosodie interface van beperkende en uitbreidende relatieve bijzinnen in het Nederlands en Duits. Oral presentation Dag van de Fonetiek (Utrecht), December 18th 2009.

As co-author:

  • Seeliger, H., & Kaland, C. (2022). Boundary tones in German wh-questions and wh-exclamatives - a cluster-based approach. In S. Frota & M. Vig´ario (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2022 (pp. 27–31). https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody. 2022-6 [pdf]
  • Peck. N., Kaland, C., & Ellison, T.M. (2021). An initial exploration of the interaction of tone and intonation in Kera’a. Poster presentation 1st International Conference of Tone and Intonation (Sønderborg), December 6-9, 2021.
  • Martínez García, N., & Kaland, C. (2019). The prosody of repeated mentions in Yucatecan Spanish. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, & Marija Tabain (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2494–2498).
  • Vietti, A., Spreafico, L., Galatà, V., & Kaland, C. (2017). Mapping language experience onto phonetic categories. Oral presentation Workshop Speech Dynamics (Munich), May 3-5, 2017. [pdf]
  • Vietti, A., Spreafico, L., Galatà, V., & Kaland, C. (2017). Mapping language experience onto phonetic categories. Oral presentation Convegno Nazionale Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Voce (AISV XIII, Pisa), January 25-27, 2017. [pdf]
  • Galatà, V., Spreafico, L., Vietti, A., & Kaland, C. (2016). An Acoustic Analysis of /r/ in Tyrolean. Interspeech 2016, 1002–1006. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2016-434 
  • Spreafico, L., Vietti, A., Galatà, V., & Kaland, C. (2016). Sulla variazione allofonica: una prospettiva articolatoria. Oral presentation Spoken Communication (GSCP 2016, Napels), June 13-15, 2016.
  • Postma-Nilsenova, M., Kaland, C., & Oversteegen, L. (2013). The power of words in the brain: Systematic sound-meaning associations in novel and existing words. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1145–1150). Cognitive Science Society.
  • Postma, M. & Kaland, C. (2012). Effects of Intrinsic F0. Poster presentation Workshop Tone: Theory & Practice (Leipzig), September 28-29, 2012. [pdf]
  • Borràs-Comes, J., Kaland, C., Shahid, C.S., Prieto, P. & Swerts, M.G.J. (2012). Multimodal expression of questions in two European languages. Poster presentation The Fifth European Conference on Tone and Intonation (Oxford), September 6-8, 2012.
  • Borràs-Comes, J., Kaland, C., Shahid, C.S., Prieto, P. & Swerts, M.G.J. (2012). Audiovisual correlates of interrogativity: a crosslinguistic study. Poster presentation Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 13, Stuttgart), July 27-29 2012. [program]
  • Borràs-Comes, J., Kaland, C., Shahid, C.S., Swerts, M.G.J., & Prieto, P. (2012). Multimodal expression of questions in two European languages. Poster presentation Brainglot Workshop (IV, Catell`on de la Plana), November 25-26 2011.
  • Crespo-Sendra, V., Kaland, C., Swerts, M.G.J., & Prieto, P. (2011). Perceiving incredulity: the role of intonation and facial gestures. Oral presentation Phonetics & Phonology in Iberia (PaPI 2011, Tarragona), June 21-22 2011.

Talks

  • Word stress in Papuan Malay: production, perception, and functional aspects, Workshop Speech Units, April 2023, University of Zürich
  • Contour clustering: a tool to explore and analyse f0 contours in poorly annotated field data, Workshop Speech Units, April 2023, University of Zürich
  • Contour clustering: a tool for exploring prototypical f0 patterns, Phonetics & Phonology Seminar January 2021, Dept. of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge
  • Repetition reduction in Papuan Malay prosody, Colloquium, January 2018, IfL Phonetik, University of Cologne Course Prosody in Communication, BA, Winter semester 2018/2019, Utrecht University
  • Contrastive intonation: evidence from autism, Weekly Content Meeting, June 2017, Institut für Linguistik, Abteilung Phonetik, University of Cologne
  • Phonetics and Phonology, BA, April 2016, University of Innsbruck
  • Introduction to Linguistics, BA, 2014, Tilburg University
  • Nonverbal Communication, MA, 2013/2014, Tilburg University

Lectures

  • Laboratory Phonology, MA, Winter semester 2022/2023, University of Cologne
  • Word prosody, MA, Summer semester 2022, University of Cologne
  • Prosody in English and Dutch, BA, Winter semester 2016/2017, Utrecht University
  • Acoustic Phonetics, BA, Summer semester 2015, University of Malta
  • The meaning of intonational contours, BA/MA, 2013/2014, Tilburg University