General Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne

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Publications

Monographs

• Strunk, Jan. 2004. Possessive Constructions in modern Low Saxon. Master-Thesis, Stanford University

Articles

• 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). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0063

• Himmelmann, Nikolaus P., Meytal Sandler, Jan Strunk & Volker Unterladstetter (submitted for publication): On the robustness of intonational phrases in spontaneous speech – a crosslinguistic interrater study.

• Walter, Oliver, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, Jan Strunk & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2015. Lexicon discovery for language preservation using unsupervised word segmentation with Pitman-Yor language models. Technischer Bericht AUVIS-Projekt, Universität zu Köln und Universität Paderborn.

• Bardeli, Rolf, Daniel Stein, Jan Strunk & Volker Unterladstetter. 2015. Phone segmentation and audio search for untranscribed linguistic data. Technischer Bericht AUVIS-Projekt, Universität zu Köln und Fraunhofer-Institut für Intelligente Analyse- und Informationssysteme (IAIS) in St. Augustin.

• Strunk, Jan, Florian Schiel & Frank Seifart. 2014. Untrained forced alignment of transcriptions and audio for language documentation corpora using WebMAUS. In Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreon, Jan Odijk & Stelios Piperidis (eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC ’14), 3940-3947. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Reykjavik.

• Strunk, Jan. 2014. A statistical model of competing motivations affecting relative clause extraposition in German. In Brian MacWhinney, Andrej Malchukov & Edith Moravcsik (eds.), Competing Motivations in Grammar & Usage, 88-106. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

• Strunk, Jan & Neal Snider. 2013. Subclausal locality constraints on relative clause extraposition. In Gert Webelhuth, Manfred Sailer & Heike Walker (eds.), Rightward Movement from a Comparative Perspective (Linguistik Aktuell 200), 99-144. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.

• Kiss, Tibor, Katja Keßelmeier, Antja Müller, Claudia Roch, Tobias Stadtfeld & Jan Strunk. 2010. A logistic regression model of determiner omission in PPs. In Chu-Ren Huang & Dan Jurafsky (eds.), Proceedings of COLING 2010: Posters in Bejing, 23.-27. August 2010, Chinese Information Processing Society of China, 561-569.

• Müller, Antje, Olaf Hülscher, Claudia Roch, Katja Keßelmeier, Tobias Stadtfeld, Jan Strunk & Tibor Kiss. 2010. An annotation schema for preposition senses in German. In Nianwen Xue & Massimo Poesio (eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW IV) bei der ACL 2010 in Uppsala, 15.-16. Juli 2010, ACL, Stroudsburg, 177-181.

• Strunk, Jan. 2010. Enriching a treebank to investigate relative clause extraposition in German. In Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner & Daniel Tapias (eds.), Proceedings of LREC 2010 in Valletta, 19.-21. Mai 2010, ELRA, Paris, 1911-1917.

• Keßelmeier, Katja, Tibor Kiss, Antja Müller, Claudia Roch, Tobias Stadtfeld & Jan Strunk. 2009. Mining for preposition-noun constructions. In Magnus Sahlgren & Ola Knutsson (eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Extracting and Using Constructions in NLP bei der NODALIDA 2009 in Odense, 14. Mai 2009, Swedish Institute of Computer Science Technical Report T2009:10.

• Kiss, Tibor & Jan Strunk. 2006. Unsupervised multilingual sentence boundary detection. Computational Linguistics 32(4), 485-525.

• Strunk, Jan, Carlos N. Silla Jr. & Celso A. A. Kaestner. 2006. A comparative evaluation of a new unsupervised sentence boundary detection approach on documents in English and Portuguese. In Alexander Gelbukh (eds.), Proceedings of CICLing 2006 in Mexico City, 19.-25. Februar 2006, LNCS 3878, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 132-143.

• Strunk, Jan. 2005. Pro-drop in nominal possessive constructions. In Miriam Butt & Tracy Holloway King (eds.), Proceedings of the LFG 2005 Conference in Bergen, 18.-20. Juli 2005, CSLI Publications, Stanford, 447-467.

• Kiss, Tibor & Jan Strunk. 2002. Viewing sentence boundary detection as collocation identification. In Stefan Busemann (eds.), KONVENS 2002 Tagungsband, Saarbrücken, 30. September - 2. Oktober 2002, DFKI, Saarbrücken, 75-82.

• Kiss, Tibor & Jan Strunk. 2002. Scaled log likelihood ratios for the detection of abbreviations in text corpora. In Shu-Chuan Tseng (eds.), Proceedings of COLING 2002 in Taipei, 24. August - 1. September 2002, The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, 1228-1232.

Talks (peer-reviewed)

• Skomroch, Harald, Hedda Lausberg, Volker Unterladstetter, Meytal Sandler, Jan Strunk & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2014. Patterns of hand movement and prosodic behavior across language groups. Mapping Multimodal Dialogue 2, Leuven, Belgium (November 21-22, 2014).

• Bickel, Balthasar, Jan Strunk, Swintha Danielsen, Iren Hartmann, Brigitte Pakendorf, Søren Wichmann, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Taras Zakharko & Frank Seifart. 2014. Noun-to-verb ratio and word order. 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (September 11-14, 2014).

• Bickel, Balthasar, Jan Strunk, Swintha Danielsen, Iren Hartmann, Brigitte Pakendorf, Søren Wichmann, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Taras Zakharko & Frank Seifart. 2014. Non-verb-to-verb ratio and word order. 8. Tage der Schweizer Linguistik – Dynamics of Variation (CHLIN’8), Zürich, (June 19-21, 2014).

• Seifart, Frank, Jan Strunk, Balthasar Bickel, Brigitte Pakendorf, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Swintha Danielsen, Taras Zakharko & Søren Wichmann. 2014. Noun-to-verb ratio and speech rate. XIII Vserossijskaja konferencija TEL'2014, Kazan (February 6-9, 2014).

• Skomroch, Harald, Hedda Lausberg, Volker Unterladstetter, Meytal Sandler, Jan Strunk & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. 2013. Aligning hand movement behaviour and intonation sequences. Workshop Mapping Multimodal Dialogue, RWTH Aachen (November 21-22, 2013).

• Strunk, Jan. 2013. Automatic alignment of transcriptions and audio for a DoBeS comparative corpus analysis project. DoBeS-Abschlusskonferenz Language Documentation: Past – Present – Future, Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover (June 5-7, 2013).

• Strunk, Jan. 2010. A statistical model of competing motivations affecting relative clause extraposition in German. Vortrag Conference on Competing Motivations, Leipzig (November 23-25, 2010).

• Müller, Antje, Katja Keßelmeier, Claudia Roch, Jan Strunk, Tobias Stadtfeld & Tibor Kiss. 2010. Creating a feature space for the annotation of preposition senses in German. Linguistic Evidence 2010, Tübingen (February 11-13, 2010).

• Strunk, Jan & Neal Snider. 2008. Subklausale Lokalitätsbeschränkungen der Relativsatzextraposition. Generative Grammatik des Südens 2008, Berlin (May 2-4, 2008).

• Strunk, Jan & Neal Snider. 2008. Extraposition without subjacency. AG Rechtsverschiebung im Sprachvergleich, 30. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft 2008, Bamberg (March 26-29, 2008).

• Strunk, Jan. 2005. The role of animacy in the nominal possessive constructions of modern Low Saxon. PIONIER Workshop on Animacy, Nijmegen (May 19-20, 2005).

Talks (invited)

• Strunk, Jan. 2016. Regularization and normalization of Toolbox files. Language Documentation Tools Summit of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, University of Melbourne, Australia (June 1-3, 2016).

• Strunk, Jan, Frank Seifart & Florian Schiel. 2016. Forced alignment of language documentation data using (Web)MAUS. Language Documentation Tools Summit of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, University of Melbourne, Australia (June 1-3, 2016).

• Strunk, Jan, Balthasar Bickel, Swintha Danielsen, Iren Hartmann, Brigitte Pakendorf, Søren Wichmann, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Taras Zakharko & Frank Seifart. 2015. Noun-to-verb ratio and word order. Diversity Linguistics: Retrospect and Prospect, Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie in Leipzig (May 1-3, 2015).

• Seifart, Frank & Jan Strunk. 2015. Local variation in speech rate cross-linguistically: Noun-to-verb ratio and other factors. Functional Cognitive Linguistics (FunC) Friday lecture, KU Leuven (January 30th, 2015).

• Seifart, Frank & Jan Strunk. 2014. Local variation in articulation rate cross-linguistically. Nijmegen Grammar Group, Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik in Nijmegen (December 4th, 2014).

• Seifart, Frank & Jan Strunk. 2014. Noun-to-verb ratio and articulation speed. ACLC Seminar, Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (May 9th, 2014).

• Seifart, Frank & Jan Strunk. 2014. Noun to verb ratio and word order. ACLC Research Group „Description and Typology“, Universiteit van Amsterdam (May 7th, 2014).

• Seifart, Frank, Jan Strunk, Balthasar Bickel, Brigitte Pakendorf, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Swintha Danielsen, Søren Wichmann & Taras Zakharko. 2014. Noun-to-verb ratio and articulation speed. Linguistisches Kolloquium, Zürcher Kompetenzzentrum Linguistik (April 3rd, 2014).

• Bickel, Balthasar, Jan Strunk, Frank Seifart, Brigitte Pakendorf, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Swintha Danielsen, Søren Wichmann & Taras Zakharko. 2013. Noun-to-verb ratio and grammar. Workshop The relative frequencies of nouns, pronouns, and verbs in discourse, Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie in Leipzig (August 12-13, 2013).

• Seifart, Frank, Jan Strunk, Balthasar Bickel, Brigitte Pakendorf, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Swintha Danielsen, Taras Zakharko & Søren Wichmann. 2013. Noun-to-verb ratio and speech rate. Workshop The relative frequencies of nouns, pronouns, and verbs in discourse, Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie in Leipzig (August 12-13, 2013).

• Seifart, Frank, Jan Strunk & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich. 2013. Variation in the frequencies of noun and pronoun use as narrative texts unfold: A study on time-aligned DoBeS corpora. DoBeS-Abschlusskonferenz Language Documentation: Past – Present – Future, Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover (June 5-7, 2013).

• Seifart, Frank, Jan Strunk & Florian Schiel. 2013. Word- and phoneme-level time alignment for language documentation corpora. Workshop Exploring Data from Language Documentation, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin (May 10-11, 2013).

• Strunk, Jan. 2007. Extraposition mythbusting. Stanford Syntax Workshop, Stanford University (March 13th, 2007).

• Strunk, Jan. 2004. Multilingual sentence boundary detection. NLP Reading Group, Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) (May 7th, 2004).

Posters (peer-reviewed)

• Müller, Antje, Katja Keßelmeier, Claudia Roch, Jan Strunk, Tobias Stadtfeld & Kiss, Tibor. 2010. Developing an annotation scheme and a reference corpus for preposition senses in German. Postersession der Sektion Computerlinguistik, 32. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Berlin (February 23-26, 2010).

• Strunk, Jan. 2010. Investigating relative clause extraposition in German using an enriched treebank. Postersession der Sektion Computerlinguistik, 32. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Berlin (February 23-26, 2010).

• Strunk, Jan & Katja Keßelmeier. 2010. Using methods from contrastive corpus analysis to study lexical aspects of alternations. Linguistic Evidence 2010, Tübingen (February 11-13, 2010).

Posters (invited)

• Bardeli, Rolf, Oliver Schreer, Eric Auer, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Hedda Lausberg, Stefano Masneri, Harald Skomroch, Han Sloetjes, Jan Strunk & Volker Unterladstetter. 2015. AUVIS – Audiovisuelles Data Mining in multimodalen Sprachdaten. Digital Humanities Summit, Berlin (March 3-4, 2015).

• Strunk, Jan, Rolf Bardeli, Eric Auer, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Hedda Lausberg, Stefano Masneri, Przemyslaw Lenkiewicz, Oliver Schreer, Harald Skomroch, Han Sloetjes & Volker Unterladstetter. 2013. AUVIS – Audiovisuelles Data-Mining am Beispiel der Ereignis-Segmentierung in multimodalen Sprachdaten. Kick-Off-Workshop der eHumanities-Verbundprojekte, Leipzig (April 8-9, 2013).

• Kucharczik, Kerstin, Katja Braunmüller, Philipp Dorok, Steffen Hessler, Jörg Kohlscheen, Daniel Pottmann & Jan Strunk. 2012. Das Korpus der gesprochenen Sprache im Ruhrgebiet (KgSR). Messe zur Technologie für mündliche Sprachkorpora, 48. Jahrestagung des Instituts für deutsche Sprache (IDS), Mannheim (March 13-15, 2012).