Constantijn Kaland

Biographic Data

ID401249
NAMEConstantijn Kaland
GIVEN NAMESConstantijn
FAMILY NAMEKaland
SIGNATUREKALAND C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cologne
ORCID0000-0002-1813-5902
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS22
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Prominence and Grouping in Papuan Malay Prosody Perception

    Open AccessConstantijn KalandARTICLELanguage and Speech2026

    For successful processing of the speech signal, listeners need to perform at least two prosodic tasks: allocating prominences and grouping into smaller units. The separation of these two functions has been a fundamental assumption in the modeling of prosody production and perception across languages. The current study investigates how listeners allocate prominences and demarcate (group) them at the word level in Papuan Malay, an under-researched …

  • Gesture, prosodic prominence and stresslessness in Indonesian

    Open AccessAlessa Farinella, Constantijn Kaland et al.ARTICLELanguage and Cognition2025References: 28

    Previous studies on a variety of languages have demonstrated that manual gesture is temporally aligned with prosodic prominence. However, the majority of these studies have been conducted on languages with word-level stress. In this paper, we investigate the alignment of manual beat gestures to speech in local varieties of Standard Indonesian, a language whose word prosodic system has been the subject of conflicting claims. We focus on the variet…

  • F0 derivatives in the classification of meaningful tonal movements

    Open AccessConstantijn KalandARTICLEJournal of Phonetics2025References: 76

    F0 derivatives are informative for automatic classification of meaningful f0 movements. • Classification on the basis of f0 derivatives outperforms static or more direct measures of f0. • The third derivative (jerk) is particularly successful across multiple clusterings. Recent work applied cluster analysis on f0 contours in order to find ‘prototypical’ or ‘underlying’ categories as assumed in intonational phonology. However, it remains to be ans…

  • The Attractiveness of Average Speech Rhythms

    Open AccessConstantijn Kaland, Marc SwertsARTICLELanguage and Speech2024References: 43

    The current study investigates the average effect: the tendency for humans to appreciate an averaged (face, bird, wristwatch, car, and so on) over an individual instance. The effect holds across cultures, despite varying conceptualizations of attractiveness. While much research has been conducted on the average effect in visual perception, much less is known about the extent to which this effect applies to language and speech. This study investig…

  • Red and blue bananas

    Open AccessConstantijn Kaland, Marc Swerts et al.ARTICLEJournal of Phonetics2023Cited by: 2References: 37

  • Contour clustering

    Open AccessConstantijn KalandARTICLEJournal of the International…2021

    This paper reports an automatic data-driven analysis for describing prototypical intonation patterns, particularly suitable for initial stages of prosodic research and language description. The approach has several advantages over traditional ways to investigate intonation, such as the applicability to spontaneous speech, language- and domain-independency, and the potential of revealing meaningful functions of intonation. These features make the …

  • Repetition Reduction Revisited

    Open AccessConstantijn Kaland, Nikolaus P HimmelmannARTICLELanguage and Speech2020References: 43

    It has frequently been shown that speakers prosodically reduce repeated words in discourse. This phenomenon has been claimed to facilitate speech recognition and to be language universal. In particular, the relationship between the information value of a word in a discourse context and its prosodic prominence have been shown to correlate. However, a literature review provided in this paper reveals that most evidence comes from English, where pros…

  • Which Language R You Speaking? /r/ as a Language Marker in Tyrolean and Italian Bilinguals

    Open AccessConstantijn Kaland, Vincenzo Galatà et al.ARTICLELanguage and Speech2019Cited by: 2References: 26

    Across languages of the world the /r/ sound is known for its variability. This variability has been investigated using articulatory models as well as in sociolinguistic studies. The current study investigates to what extent /r/ is a marker of a bilingual’s dominant language. To this end, a reading task was carried out by bilingual speakers from South Tyrol, who produce /r/ differently according to whether they dominantly speak Tyrolean or Italian…

  • Acoustic correlates of word stress in Papuan Malay

    Open AccessConstantijn KalandARTICLEJournal of Phonetics2019Cited by: 3References: 24

  • White Bear Effects in Language Production

    Open AccessConstantijn Kaland, Emiel Krahmer et al.ARTICLELanguage and Speech2014Cited by: 1References: 33

    A central problem in recent research on speech production concerns the question to what extent speakers adapt their linguistic expressions to the needs of their addressees. It is claimed that speakers sometimes leak information about objects that are only visible for them and not for their listeners. Previous research only takes the occurrence of adjectives as evidence for the leakage of privileged information. The present study hypothesizes that…

  • Perceiving incredulity

    Open AccessVerònica Crespo Sendra, Constantijn Kaland et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2013Cited by: 14References: 17