Robert Eklund’s Publications


Publications – chronological listing

This page contains a chronologically organized listing of my publications, as well as some unpublished works. (Click on the button above for a thematic bibliography.)

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Arabic Published work.

Roman Unpublished work.

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Published material

[106]

Ikävalko, Tero, Anne-Maria Laukkanen, Anita McAllister, Robert Eklund, Eveliina Lammentausta, Mari Leppävuori, Miika T. Nieminen.
Three Professional Singers' Vocal Tract Dimensions in Operatic Singing, Kulning, and Edge—A Multiple Case Study Examining Loud Singing. In Press/Pre-print available online.
Journal of Voice, Published online 08 March 2022,
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2022.01.024

[105]

Rose, Ralph & Robert Eklund (eds.). Published/Pending ISBN number.
Proceedings of DiSS 2021, The 10th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech
25–26 August 2021, Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis, France. ISBN XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-X, DOI:XXX

[104]

Eklund, Robert. 2024.
Does purring "ronron" in the family? A longitudinal and intra-family study of purring in a female cheetah as a cub and as an adult and purring in her father as an adult and brother as a cub
In: Mattias Heldner, Martin Wlodarczak, Christine Ericsdotter Nordgren & Carla Wikse Barrow (eds): Proceedings from FONETIK 2024, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, 3–5 June 2024, pp. 39–44.
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[103]

Schötz, Susanne, Joost van de Weijer & Robert Eklund. 2024.
Context effects on duration, fundamental frequency, and intonation in human-directed domestic cat meows Applied Animal Behaviour Science, volume 270, 106146.
doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2023.106146
[pdf]

[102]

Schettino, Loredana & Robert Eklund. 2023.
Prolongation in Italian. Proceedings of DiSS 2023, The 11th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech
28–30 August 2023, Universität Bielefeld, Germany. DOI:10.21437/DiSS.2023-17
[pdf]

[101]

Silber-Varod, Vered, Mária Gósy & Robert Eklund. 2019.
Segment Prolongation in Hebrew
In: Rose, Ralph & Robert Eklund (eds.). Proceedings of DiSS 2019, The 9th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, 12–13 September 2019, ELTE Eötvös Lorànd University, Budapest, Hungary. ISBN 978-963-489-063-8, DOI: 10.21862/diss-09-013-silb-etal, pp. 47–50.
[pdf]

[100]

Rose, Ralph & Robert Eklund (eds.). 2019.
Proceedings of DiSS 2019, The 9th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech
12–13 September 2019, ELTE Eötvös Lorànd University, Budapest, Hungary. ISBN 978-963-489-063-8, DOI: 10.21862/diss-09
[pdf]

[099]

Schötz. Susanne, Joost van de Weijer & Robert Eklund. 2019.
Melody Matters: An Acoustic Study of Domestic Cat Meows in Six Contexts and Four Mental States
In: Angela Dassow, Ricard Marxer, Roger K. Moore & Dan Stowell (eds.), Proceedings of VIHAR 2019, the 2nd International Workshop on Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots, 29–30 August 2019, London, England. ISBN 978-2-9562029-1-2, pp. 29–34.
[pdf]

[098]

Hefele, Anna-Maria, Robert Eklund & Anita McAllister. 2019.
Polyphonic Overtone Singing: an acoustic and physiological (MRI) analysis and a first-person description of a unique mode of singing
In: Mattias Heldner (ed.): Proceedings from Fonetik 2019, 10–12 June 2019, Stockholm, Sweden. PERILUS XXVII, ISBN 0282-6690, ISSN 978-91-7797-984-5 (print version), ISSN 978-91-7797-985-2 (electronic version), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3246011, pp. 91–96.
[pdf]

[097]

Eklund, Robert, Anita McAllister & Kajsa Dahlström. 2019.
An acoustic analysis of Swedish cattle calls, ‘kulning’, performed outdoors at three distances
In: Mattias Heldner (ed.): Proceedings from Fonetik 2019, 10–12 June 2019, Stockholm, Sweden. PERILUS XXVII, ISBN 0282-6690, ISSN 978-91-7797-984-5 (print version), ISSN 978-91-7797-2 (web version), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3246001, pp. 61–66.
[pdf]

[096]

Schötz. Susanne, Joost van de Weijer & Robert Eklund. 2019.
Phonetic Methods in Cat Vocalisation Studies: A report from the Meowsic project
In: Mattias Heldner (ed.): Proceedings from Fonetik 2019, 10–12 June 2019, Stockholm, Sweden. PERILUS XXVII, ISBN 0282-6690, ISSN 978-91-7797-984-5 (print version), ISSN 978-91-7797-2 (web version), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3245999, pp. 55–60.
[pdf]

[095]

Eklund, Robert. 2019.
Xenophone
In: Jack. S. Damico & Martin J. Ball (eds.): The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders, Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, ISBN 978-1-4833-4, volume 4, pp. 2127–2129.

[094]

Eklund, Robert. 2019.
Pulmonic ingressive speech
In: Jack. S. Damico & Martin J. Ball (eds.): The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders, Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, ISBN 978-1-4833-4, volume 3, pp. 1529–1532.

[093]

Eklund, Robert. 2019.
Acoustic Phonetics
In: Jack. S. Damico & Martin J. Ball (eds.): The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders, Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, ISBN 978-1-4833-4, volume 1, pp. 21–36.

[092]

Eklund, Robert. 2019.
Neurala korrelat till fyllda pauser. En fMRI-studie av disfluensperception.
Röstläget, ISSN 1103-3983, Februari 2019, pp. 13–17 and 19 (figures on back cover).
[pdf] (print version/short); [pdf] (web version/long)

[091]

Gósy, Mária & Robert Eklund. 2018.
Language-Specific Patterns of Segment Prolongation in Hungarian
The Phonetician, ISSN 0741-6164, vol. 115, pp. 36–52.
[pdf]

[090]

Eklund, Robert. 2018.
A Typographical Primer – Some Basic Conventions
Linköping University, Department of Culture and Communication, Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Published 29 October 2018 (version 2.0.0).
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-152296
OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-152296
DiVA, id: diva2:1259248; http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-152296
[pdf] (v.2.0.3)

[089]

Eklund, Robert. 2018.
En Typografisk ”Primer” – Några Grundläggande Konventioner
Linköping University, Department of Culture and Communication, Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Published 29 October 2018 (version 2.0.0).
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-152295
OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-152295
DiVA, id: diva2:1259244; http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-152295
[pdf] (v.2.0.4)

[088]

Amundin, Mats, Robert Eklund, Henrik Hållsten, Jussi Karlgren & Lars Molinder. 2017.
A proposal to use distributional models to analyse dolphin vocalization
In: Angela Dassow, Ricard Marxer & Roger K. Moore (eds.): Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots, VIHAR 2017, 25–26 August 2017, University of Skövde, Sweden. ISBN 978-2-9562029-0-5, pp. 31–32.
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[087]

Schötz, Susanne, Joost van de Weijer & Robert Eklund. 2017.
Phonetic Characteristics of Domestic Cat Vocalisations
In: Angela Dassow, Ricard Marxer & Roger K. Moore (eds.): Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots, VIHAR 2017, 25–26 August 2017, University of Skövde, Sweden. ISBN 978-2-9562029-0-5, pp. 5–6.
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[086]

Gósy, Mária & Robert Eklund. 2017.
Segment prolongation in Hungarian
In: Robert Eklund & Ralph Rose (eds.), Proceedings of DiSS 2017, the 8th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, 18–19 August 2017, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden,
TMH-QPSR Volume 58(1), ISSN 1104-5787, ISRN KTH/CSC/TMH-17/01-SE, pp. 29–32.
[pdf]

[085]

Betz, Simon, Robert Eklund & Petra Wagner. 2017.
Prolongation in German
In: Robert Eklund & Ralph Rose (eds.), Proceedings of DiSS 2017, the 8th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, 18–19 August 2017, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden,
TMH-QPSR Volume 58(1), ISSN 1104-5787, ISRN KTH/CSC/TMH-17/01-SE, pp. 13–16.
[pdf]

[084]

Bergström, Axel, Martin Johansson & Robert Eklund. 2017.
Differences in production of disfluencies in children with typical language development and children with mixed receptive-expressive language disorder
In: Robert Eklund & Ralph Rose (eds.), Proceedings of DiSS 2017, the 8th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, 18–19 August 2017, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden,
TMH-QPSR Volume 58(1), ISSN 1104-5787, ISRN KTH/CSC/TMH-17/01-SE, pp. 9–12.
[pdf]

[083]

Eklund, Robert & Ralph Rose (eds.). 2017.
Proceedings of DiSS 2017, the 8th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech,
18–19 August 2017, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden,
TMH-QPSR Volume 58(1), ISSN 1104-5787, ISRN KTH/CSC/TMH-17/01-SE.
[pdf]

[082]

Eklund, Robert. 2017.
Statement by Robert Eklund
In: Roger K. Moore, Serge Thill & Ricard Marxer (editors): Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots (VIHAR), Dagstuhl Seminar 16442. Dagstuhl Reports, volume 6, number 10. ISSN 2192-5283, Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl–Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2017/6971
urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-69718
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/DagRep.6.10.154
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[081]

Eklund, Robert & Martin Ingvar. 2016.
Supplementary Motor Area Activation in Disfluency Perception. An fMRI Study of Listener Neural Responses to Spontaneously Produced Unfilled and Filled Pauses
In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2016, September 8-12, 2016, San Francisco, USA,
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2016-1082, pp. 1378–1381.
[pdf] [poster]

[080]

Geneid, Ahmed, Anne-Maria Laukkanen, Anita McAllister & Robert Eklund. 2016.
Kulning (Swedish Cattle Calls): Acoustic, EGG, Stroboscopic and High-Speed Video Analyses of an Unusual Singing Style
In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2016, September 8-12, 2016, San Francisco, USA,
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2016-1082, pp. 1132–1135.
[pdf] [poster]

[079]

Geneid, Ahmed, Anne-Maria Laukkanen, Robert Eklund & Anita McAllister. 2016.
Kulning: A study of the physiological basis for long-distance sound propagation in Swedish cattle calls
Proceedings of Fonetik 2016, TMH-QPSR 57(1), ISSN 1104-5787, ISRN KTH/CSC/TMH-16/01-SE, 13–15 June 2016, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 25–30.
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[078]

Schötz, Susanne, Robert Eklund & Joost van de Weijer. 2016.
Melody in Human-Cat Communication (Meowsic): Origins, Past, Present and Future
Proceedings of Fonetik 2016, TMH-QPSR 57(1), ISSN 1104-5787, ISRN KTH/CSC/TMH-16/01-SE, 13–15 June 2016, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 19–24.
[pdf]

[077]

Eklund, Robert & Anita McAllister. 2015.
An acoustic analysis of ‘kulning’ (cattle calls) recorded in an outdoor setting on location in Dalarna (Sweden)
In: Proceedings of ICPhS 2015, 10–14 August 2015, Glasgow, Scotland. Paper P7.37.
[pdf] [poster]

[076]

Hedenqvist, Clara, Frida Persson & Robert Eklund. 2015.
Disfluency incidence in 6-year old Swedish boys and girls with typical language development
Paper presented at Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, DiSS 2015, 8–9 August 2015, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. (Proceedings pending.)
[pdf] [poster]

[075]

Eklund, Robert, Peter Fransson & Martin Ingvar. 2015.
Neural correlates of the processing of unfilled and filled pauses
Paper presented at Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, DiSS 2015, 8–9 August 2015, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. (Proceedings pending.)
[pdf] [poster]

[074]

McAllister, Anita & Robert Eklund. 2015.
An acoustic analysis of the cattle call “kulning”, performed outdoors at Säter, Dalarna, Sweden In: Proceedings from Fonetik 2015. Working Papers 55/2015, 8–10 June 2015, Centre for Languages and Literature, General Linguistics/Phonetics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ISSN 0280-526X, pp. 81–84.
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[073]

Eklund, Robert 2015.
Languages with pulmonic ingressive speech: updating and adding to the list
In: Proceedings from Fonetik 2015. Working Papers 55/2015, 8–10 June 2015, Centre for Languages and Literature, General Linguistics/Phonetics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ISSN 0280-526X, pp. 31–34.
[pdf]

[072]

Eklund, Robert. 2015.
Grimaldi’s “Discovery of the Cat Language”: A theory in need of revival (or perhaps not?) In: Proceedings from Fonetik 2015. Working Papers 55/2015, 8–10 June 2015, Centre for Languages and Literature, General Linguistics/Phonetics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ISSN 0280-526X, pp. 27–30.
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[071]

Eklund, Robert (editor). 2013.
Proceedings of DiSS 2013, the 6th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech and TMH-QPSR Volume 54(1), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 21–23 August 2013, Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 978-91-981276-0-7, eISBN 978-91-981276-1-4, ISSN 1104-5787, ISRN KTH/CSC/TMH--13/01-SE, TRITA TMH 2013:1.
[pdf]

[070]

Eklund, Robert (editor). 2013.
Proceedings of Fonetik 2013, the XXVIth Swedish Phonetics Conference and Studies in Language and Culture, no. 21, 12–13 June 2013, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. ISBN 978-91-7519-582-7, eISBN 978-91-7519-579-7, ISSN 1403-2570.
[pdf]

[069]

Nilsson Björkenstam, Kristina, Mats Wirén & Robert Eklund. 2013.
Disfluency in child-directed speech.
In: Robert Eklund (ed.), Proceedings of Fonetik 2013, the XXVIth Swedish Phonetics Conference, Studies in Language and Culture, no. 21, 12–13 June 2013, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. ISBN 978-91-7519-582-7, eISBN 978-91-7519-579-7, ISSN 1403-2570, pp. 57–60.
[pdf]

[068]

Eklund, Robert & Gustav Peters. 2013.
A comparative acoustic analysis of purring in juvenile, subadult and adult cheetahs.
In: Robert Eklund (ed.), Proceedings of Fonetik 2013, the XXVIth Swedish Phonetics Conference, Studies in Language and Culture, no. 21, 12–13 June 2013, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. ISBN 978-91-7519-582-7, eISBN 978-91-7519-579-7, ISSN 1403-2570, pp. 25–28.
[pdf]

[067]

Eklund, Robert, Anita McAllister & Fanny Pehrson. 2013.
An acoustic comparison of voice characteristics in ‘kulning’, head and modal registers.
In: Robert Eklund (ed.), Proceedings of Fonetik 2013, the XXVIth Swedish Phonetics Conference, Studies in Language and Culture, no. 21, 12–13 June 2013, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. ISBN 978-91-7519-582-7, eISBN 978-91-7519-579-7, ISSN 1403-2570, pp. 21–24.
[pdf]

[066]

Rayner, Manny, Johanna Gerlach, Marianne Starlander, Nikos Tsourakis, Anita Kruckenberg, Robert Eklund, Arne Jönsson, Anita McAllister, Cathy Chua. 2012.
A web-deployed Swedish spoken CALL system based on a large shared English/Swedish feature grammar.
In: Lars Borin & Elena Volodina (eds.), Proceedings of the SLTC 2012 workshop on NLP or CALL. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings.
25 October 2012, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, vol. 80, pp. 37–46.
[pdf]

[065]

Jonsson, Håkan & Robert Eklund. 2012.
Kognition och talbaserade människa–maskin-gränssnitt.
[Cognition and speech based man–machine interfaces.]
In: Jens Allwood & Mikael Jensen (eds.), Kognitionsvetenskap.
Lund: Sweden: Studentlitteratur, ch. 9.3, pp. 583–594.

[064]

Eklund, Robert & Håkan Jonsson. 2012.
Kognition och kommunikationsteknologi.
[Cognition and communication technology.]
In: Jens Allwood & Mikael Jensen (eds.), Kognitionsvetenskap.
Lund: Sweden: Studentlitteratur, ch. 9.1, pp. 563–571.

[063]

Eklund, Robert. 2012.
Språk och medvetande  – ett neurokognitivt och evolutionärt perspektiv.
[Language and consciousness  – a neurocognitive and evolutionary perspective]
In: Jens Allwood & Mikael Jensen (eds.), Kognitionsvetenskap.
Lund: Sweden: Studentlitteratur, ch. 6.6, pp. 463–474.

[062]

Ahlsén, Elisabeth & Robert Eklund. 2012.
Språk, hjärnan och kognition.
[Language, the brain and cognition.]
In: Jens Allwood & Mikael Jensen (eds.), Kognitionsvetenskap.
Lund: Sweden: Studentlitteratur, ch. 6.4, pp. 437–552.

[061]

Eklund, Robert. 2012.
ASR “Sweet Sixteen”: An Evaluation of Nuance Swedish Speech Recognizer Success Rates in 69 Commercial Applications 16 years After Its Inception and an Assessment of Inter- and Intralabeler Agreement.
In: Proceedings from FONETIK 2012.
Gothenburg, Sweden, May 30–June 1, 2012, pp. 113–116.
[pdf]

[060]

Eklund, Robert, Gustav Peters, Florian Weise & Stuart Munro. 2012.
A comparative acoustic analysis of purring in four cheetahs.
In: Proceedings from FONETIK 2012.
Gothenburg, Sweden, May 30–June 1, 2012, pp. 41–44.
[pdf]

[059]

Eklund, Robert, Gustav Peters, Florian Weise & Stuart Munro. 2012.
An acoustic analysis of agonistic sounds in wild cheetahs.
In: Proceedings from FONETIK 2012.
Gothenburg, Sweden, May 30–June 1, 2012, pp. 37–40.
[pdf]

[058]

Jonsson, Håkan & Robert Eklund. 2011.
Gender differences in verbal behaviour in a call routing speech application.
In: Quarterly Progress and Status Report TMH-QPSR, Volume 51, 2011. Proceedings from Fonetik 2011.
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 8–10 June 2011, pp. 81–84.
[pdf]

[057]

Schötz, Susanne & Robert Eklund. 2011.
A comparative acoustic analysis of purring in four cats.
In: Quarterly Progress and Status Report TMH-QPSR, Volume 51, 2011. Proceedings from Fonetik 2011.
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 8–10 June 2011, pp. 9–12.
[pdf]

[056]

Ananthakrishnan, Gopal, Robert Eklund, Gustav Peters & Evans Mabiza. 2011.
An acoustic analysis of lion roars. II: Vocal tract characteristics.
In: Quarterly Progress and Status Report TMH-QPSR, Volume 51, 2011. Proceedings from Fonetik 2011.
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 8–10 June 2011, pp. 5–8.
[pdf]

[055]

Eklund, Robert, Gustav Peters, Gopal Ananthakrishnan & Evans Mabiza. 2011.
An acoustic analysis of lion roars. I: Data collection and spectrogram and waveform analyses.
In: Quarterly Progress and Status Report TMH-QPSR, Volume 51, 2011. Proceedings from Fonetik 2011.
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 8–10 June 2011, pp. 1–4.
[pdf]

[054]

Eklund, Robert. 2010.
The Effect of Directed and Open Disambiguation Prompts in Authentic Call Center Data on the Frequency and Distribution of Filled Pauses and Possible Implications for Filled Pause Hypotheses and Data Collection Methodology.
In: Proceedings of DiSS-LPSS Joint Workshop 2010, The 5th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech and The 2nd International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech.
University of Tokyo, Japan, September 25–26 September 2010, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 23–26.
[pdf]

[053]

Eklund, Robert & Mats Wirén. 2010.
Effects of open and directed prompts on filled pauses and utterance production.
In: Proceedings of Fonetik 2010, Lund University, 2–4 June 2010, pp. 23–28.
[pdf]

[052]

Eklund, Robert, Gustav Peters & Elizabeth D. Duthie. 2010.
An acoustic analysis of purring in the cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) and in the domestic cat (Felis catus).
In: Proceedings of Fonetik 2010, Lund University, 2–4 June 2010, Lund, Sweden, pp. 17–22.
[pdf]

[051]

Mårback, Sebastian, Gustav Sjöberg, Iris-Corinna Schwarz & Robert Eklund. 2009.
Uhm... What’s going on? An EEG study on perception of filled pauses in spontaneous Swedish speech.
In: Proceedings of FONETIK 2009, Stockholm University, 10–12 June 2009, pp. 92–95.
[pdf]

[050]

Lindström, Anders & Robert Eklund. 2009.
The Integration of Foreign Items. A Corpus-based Study of Cross-lingual Influence with Examples from Swedish.
In: Anke Lüdeling & Merja Kytö (eds.), Corpus Linguistics. An International Handbook, Series: Handbücher zur Sprache und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, vol. 2, ch. 48, pp. 1024–1043.

[049]

Eklund, Robert. 2008.
Pulmonic ingressive phonation: Diachronic and synchronic characteristics, distribution and function in animal and human sound production and in human speech.
Journal of the International Phonetic Association, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 235–324.
Download from Cambridge University Press.

[048]

Eklund, Robert. 2007.
Pulmonic ingressive speech: a neglected universal?
Proceedings of Fonetik 2007, TMH-QPSR, vol. 50, 30 May – 1 June 2007, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 21–24.
[pdf] [slides.pdf]

[047]

Wirén, Mats, Robert Eklund, Fredrik Engberg & Johan Westermark. 2007.
Experiences of an In-Service Wizard-of-Oz Data Collection for the Deployment of a Call-Routing Application.
Proceedings of Bridging the Gap: Academic and Industrial Research in Dialog Technology, HLT–NAACL Workshop, 26 April 2007, Rochester, New York, USA, pp. 56–63.
[pdf]

[046]

Eklund, Robert & Mats Wirén. 2006.
”Njutandes av en Monte Christo no 5 och en iskall Mojito”. Observationer om användning av s-particip.
Svenskans beskrivning 28, Förhandlingar vid Tjugoåttonde sammankomsten för svenskans beskrivning, Örebro den 14–15 oktober 2005, Örebro universitet, Humanistiska institutionen, Örebro, Sweden, ISSN 1102-3619, ISBN 91-7668-514-4, pp. 97–108.
[pdf]

[045]

Eklund, Robert, Rebecca Bates, Chad Kuyper, Elizabeth Willingham & Elizabeth Shriberg. 2006.
The Annotation and Analysis of Importance in Meetings.
ICSI Technical Report, TR-06-003, June 2006, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA.
[pdf]

[044]

Lee, Tzu-Lun, Ya-Fang He, Yun-Ju Huang, Shu-Chuan Tseng & Robert Eklund. 2004.
Prolongation in Mandarin.
Proceedings of ICSLP 2004, 4–8 October 2004, Jeju Island, Korea, vol. III, pp. 2181–2184.
[pdf]

[043]

Eklund, Robert. 2004.
Disfluency in Swedish human–human and human–machine travel booking dialogues.
PhD thesis, Linköping Studies in Science and Technology, Dissertation No. 882, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden, ISBN 91-7373-966-9, ISSN 0345-7524.

 
I:
Thesis: [pdf]

Version with all – currently known – typos corrected.

 
II:
Thesis: [pdf]

The “print” version, replete with typos.

Errata: [pdf]

The (very long) errata list containing all – currently known – typos.

[042]

Eklund, Robert (editor). 2003.
Proceedings of DiSS’03 – Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech. Gothenburg Papers in Theoretical Linguistics 90, ISSN 0349-1021. 5–8 September 2003, Göteborg University, Sweden.
Preambulum: [pdf]
Proceedings: [pdf]
Conference website: [Link]
Conference mirror: [Link]
ISCA archives: [Link]

[041]

Eklund, Robert. 2002.
Ingressive Speech As An Indication That Humans Are Talking To Humans (And Not To Machines).
Proceedings of ICSLP’02, 16–20 September 2002, Denver, Colorado, vol. 2, pp. 837–840.
[pdf] [poster.pdf]

[040]

Lindström, Anders & Robert Eklund. 2002.
Xenophenomena: studies of foreign language influence at several linguistic levels.
Proceedings of 24. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft: Mehrsprachigkeit Heute, AG 8: Integration Fremder Wörter, Universität Mannheim, February 27–March 1 2002, pp. 132–134.
[pdf] [slides.pdf]

[039]

Eklund, Robert. 2001.
Prolongations: A dark horse in the disfluency stable.
Proceedings of DiSS ’01 Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop, University of Edinburgh, August 29–31 2001, pp. 5–8.
[pdf]

[038]

Eklund, Robert & Anders Lindström. 2001.
Xenophones: An Investigation of Phone Set Expansion in Swedish and Implications for Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis.
Speech Communication 35, nos. 1–2, pp. 81–102.
Purchase/download print version at: Science Direct
Draft version here: [pdf]

[037]

Eklund, Robert. 2000.
Crosslinguistic Disfluency Modeling: A Comparative Analysis of Swedish and Tok Pisin Human–Human ATIS Dialogues.
Proceedings of ICSLP’00, Beijing, 16–20 October 2000, vol. 2, pp. 991–994.
[pdf]

[036]

Bell, Linda, Robert Eklund & Joakim Gustafson. 2000.
A Comparison of Disfluency Distribution in a Unimodal and a Multimodal Human–Machine Interface
Proceedings of ICSLP’ 00, Beijing, 16–20 October 2000, vol. 3, pp. 626–629.
[pdf]

[035]

Eklund, Robert. 2000.
Wanpela deitabeis long Tok Pisin bilong baim tiket bilong balus. (An ATIS database in Tok Pisin.) Methodological observations with regard to the collection of human–human data.
Proceedings of Fonetik 2000, The Swedish Phonetics Conference, May 24–26 2000, University of Skövde, pp. 49–52.
[pdf]

[034]

Carter, David, Manny Rayner, Robert Eklund, Catriona MacDermid & Mats Wirén. 2000.
Evaluation.
In: Manny Rayner, David Carter, Pierrette Bouillon, Vassilis Digalakis & Mats Wirén (eds.), The Spoken Language Translator, ch. 20, pp. 297–312. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-77077-7.
[Link]

[033]

Carter, David, Manny Rayner, Robert Eklund, Jaan Kaja, Bertil Lyberg, Per Sautermeister, Mats Wirén, Leonardo Neumeyer & Fuliang Weng. 2000.
Common Speech–Language Issues.
In: Manny Rayner, David Carter, Pierrette Bouillon, Vassilis Digalakis & Mats Wirén (eds.), The Spoken Language Translator, ch. 19, pp. 284–294. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-77077-7.
[Link]

[032]

Eklund, Robert, Jaan Kaja, Leonardo Neumeyer, Fuliang Weng & Vassilis Digalakis. 2000.
Porting a Recognizer to a New Language.
In: Manny Rayner, David Carter, Pierrette Bouillon, Vassilis Digalakis & Mats Wirén (eds.), The Spoken Language Translator, ch. 17, pp. 265–273. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-77077-7.
[Link]

[031]

Rayner, Manny, David Carter, Ivan Bretan, Mats Wirén, Robert Eklund, Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen & Christina Philp. 2000.
Rational Re-Use of Linguistic Data.
In: Manny Rayner, David Carter, Pierrette Bouillon, Vassilis Digalakis & Mats Wirén (eds.), The Spoken Language Translator, ch. 13, pp. 212–228. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-77077-7.
[Link]

[030]

Rayner, Manny, Mats Wirén & Robert Eklund. 2000.
Swedish Coverage.
In: Manny Rayner, David Carter, Pierrette Bouillon, Vassilis Digalakis & Mats Wirén (eds.), The Spoken Language Translator, ch. 11, pp. 180–191. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-77077-7.
[Link]

[029]

Bretan, Ivan, Robert Eklund, Jaan Kaja, Catriona MacDermid, Manny Rayner & David Carter. 2000.
Corpora and Data Collection.
In: Manny Rayner, David Carter, Pierrette Bouillon, Vassilis Digalakis & Mats Wirén (eds.), The Spoken Language Translator, ch. 8, pp. 131–144. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-77077-7.
[Link]

[028]

Lindström, Anders & Robert Eklund. 2000.
How foreign are “foreign” speech sounds? Implications for speech recognition and speech synthesis.
Multi-Lingual Interoperability in Speech Technology, RTO Meeting Proceedings 28, Papers and reports presented at the Tutorial and Workshop held in Leusden, The Netherlands, 13–14 September 1999, pp. 15–19.
[pdf]

[027]

Lindström, Anders & Robert Eklund. 1999.
Xenophones Revisited: Linguistic and other underlying factors affecting the pronunciation of foreign items in Swedish.
Proceedings of ICPhS ’99, San Francisco, California, 1–7 August 1999. Paper 0708, vol. 3, pp. 2227–2230.
[pdf]

[026]

Eklund, Robert. 1999.
A Comparative Study of Disfluencies in Four Swedish Travel Dialogue Corpora.
Proceedings of Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech Workshop, Berkeley, California, 1 July 1999, pp. 3–6.
[pdf]

[025]

Lindström, Anders & Robert Eklund. 1999.
[jɑːmes] or [dʒɛɪmz] or Perhaps Something In-between? Recapping Three Years of Xenophone Studies.
Gothenburg Papers in Theoretical Linguistics, 81.
Proceedings Fonetik 99, The Swedish Phonetics Conference, June 2–4 1999, Göteborg University, Sweden, pp. 109–112.
(NB! IPA font in title problematic in HTML.)
pp. 109–112.
(NB! IPA font in title problematic in HTML.)
[pdf]

[024]

Eklund, Robert & Anders Lindström. 1998.
How To Handle “Foreign” Sounds in Swedish Text-to-Speech Conversion: Approaching the ‘Xenophone’ Problem.
Proceedings of ICSLP 98, Sydney, 30 November–5 December 1998. Paper 514, vol. 7, pp. 2831–2834.
[pdf]

[023]

Eklund, Robert. 1998.
“Ko Tok Ples Ensin bilong Tok Pisin” or the TP-CLE: A first report from a pilot speech-to-speech translation project from Swedish to Tok Pisin.
Proceedings of ICSLP 98, Sydney, 30 November–5 December 1998. Paper 804, vol. 4, pp. 1131–1134.
[pdf] [poster]

[022]

Eklund, Robert & Elizabeth Shriberg. 1998.
Crosslinguistic Disfluency Modelling: A Comparative Analysis of Swedish and American English Human–Human and Human–Machine Dialogues.
Proceedings of ICSLP 98, Sydney, 30 November–5 December 1998. Paper 805, vol. 6, pp. 2631–2634.
[pdf]

[021]

Eklund, Robert. 1997.
Interaction between prosody and discourse structure in a simulated man–machine dialogue.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 102, No. 5, pt. 2, December 1997, p. 3202 (5aSC2). Poster presented at the 134th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA, USA, 1-5 December 1997.
[pdf]  [poster]

[020]

Carter, David, Ralph Becket, Manny Rayner, Robert Eklund, Catriona MacDermid, Mats Wirén, Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen & Christina Philp. 1997.
Translation Methodology in the Spoken Language Translator: An Evaluation.
Proceedings of ACL/EACL workshop“Spoken Language Translation”, 12 July 1997, Madrid, Spain, pp. 73–81.
Also SRI Cambridge Technical Report CRC-070.
[pdf]

[019]

Rayner, Manny, David Carter, Ivan Bretan, Robert Eklund, Mats Wirén, Steffen Leo Hansen, Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen, Christina Philp, Finn Sørensen & Hanne Erdman Thomsen. 1997.
Recycling Lingware in a Multilingual MT System.
Proceedings of ACL/EACL Workshop “From Research to Commercial Applications”, 12 July 1997, Madrid, Spain, pp. 65–70.
Also SRI Cambridge Technical Report CRC-067.
[pdf]

[018]

Becket, Ralph, Pierrette Bouillon, Harry Bratt, Ivan Bretan, David Carter, Vassilis Digalakis, Robert Eklund, Horacio Franco, Jaan Kaja, Martin Keegan, Ian Lewin, Bertil Lyberg, David Milward, Leonardo Neumeyer, Patti Price, Manny Rayner, Per Sautermeister, Fuliang Weng & Mats Wirén. 1997.
Spoken Language Translator: Phase Two Report.
Internal Report, Telia Research and SRI International.
I contributed to the following chapters:
ch. 1:    Introduction, pp. 1–14;
ch. 2:    Language Data Acquisition, pp. 15–24;
ch. 3:    Speech Data Acquisition, pp. 25–35;
ch. 4:    Speech Recognition, pp. 36–59;
ch. 7:    Acquisition of Linguistic Knowledge, pp. 88–102;
ch. 10:  Swedish Coverage, pp. 138–144;
ch. 13:  Transfer Coverage, pp. 175–197;
App. B:  SLT in the Media, pp. 251–256.
[pdf] (Draft version.)

[017]

Sautermeister, Per & Robert Eklund. 1997.
Some Observations on the Influence of F0 and Duration to the Perception of Prominence by Swedish Listeners.
Proceedings of Fonetik ’97, PHONUM, Reports from the Department of Phonetics Umeå University, No. 4, 28–30 May 1997, Umeå University, Sweden, pp. 121–124.
[pdf] [poster.pdf]

[016]

Eklund, Robert. 1996.
What is Invariant and What is Optional in the Realization of a FOCUSED Word? A Cross-Dialectal Study of Swedish Sentences with Moving Focus.
Proceedings of ICSLP ’96, 3–6 October 1996, Philadelphia, vol.3, pp. 1517–1520, University of Delaware and Alfred I. duPont Institute.
[pdf]

[015]

Bretan, Ivan, Robert Eklund & Catriona MacDermid. 1996.
Approaches to Gathering Realistic Training Data for Speech Translation Systems.
Proceedings of IVTTA - 1996 IEEE Third Workshop, Interactive Voice Technology for Telecommunications Applications, 30 September–1 October 1996, Basking Ridge, New Jersey, pp. 97–100.
[pdf]

[014]

Eklund, Robert & Anders Lindström. 1996.
Pronunciation in an internationalized society: a multi-dimensional problem considered.
FONETIK 96, Swedish Phonetics Conference, Nässlingen, 29–31 May 1996. TMH-QPSR 2/1996, pp. 123–126. (NB! The downloadable version contains some corrections.)
[pdf]

[013]

Eklund, Robert. 1996.
A Comparative Study of Focus Realisation in Three Swedish Dialects.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 99, No. 4, pt. 2, April 1996, p. 2492 (2pSC3). Poster presented at the 131st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Indianapolis, IN, USA, 13–17 May 1996.
[pdf]

[012]

Eklund, Robert & Bertil Lyberg. 1995.
Inclusion of a prosodic module in spoken language translation.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 98, no.5, pt. 2, November 1995, pp. 2894–2895 (2aSC27). Poster presented at the 130th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Saint Louis, MI, USA, 27 November-1 December 1995.
[pdf] [poster]

[011]

Lyberg, Bertil & Robert Eklund. 1995.
The Possible Use of Prosody in Spoken Language Translation Systems.
TELECOM 95, 3–11 October, 1995, Palexpo, Geneva, vol. 1, pp. 9–13.
[pdf] [poster]

[010]

Eklund, Robert (editor). 1994.
NODALIDA ’93 - Proceedings of ‘9:e Nordiska Datalingvistikdagarna’.
Stockholm, 3–5 June 1993. Stockholm University, Sweden. ISBN 91-7153-262-5.
HTML version

[009]

Eklund, Robert. 1994.
A Probabilistic Tagging Module Based on Surface Pattern Matching.
In: Robert Eklund (ed.) NODALIDA ’ 93 - Proceedings of ‘9:e Nordiska Datalingvistikdagarna’, Stockholm, 3–5 June 1993, pp. 83–95. Stockholm University.
[pdf]

[008]

Eklund, Robert. 1994.
Strategier för inslussning i nya sätt att tänka och arbeta.
In: Britt Rönnbäck (ed.): Vad gör vi för att förbättra kvalitén på utbildningen? Dokumentation från campuskonferens vid Stockholms universitet 15 november 1994, pp. 13–14,
Dept. of Pedagogics, Stockholm University.
[pdf]

[007]

Eklund, Robert & Janne Lindberg. 1993.
An Algorithm for End-of-Sentence Detection in Text.
Internal report. Infovox AB, Text-to-Speech Division, Stockholm.
[pdf]

[006]

Eklund, Robert. 1993.
Silvius Leopold Weiss und seine Zeit: en rapport från den första internationella lutkongressen i Freiburg 8–13 september 1992.
[Silvius Leopold Weiss und seine Zeit: a report from the first international lute congress in Freiburg September 8–13 1992]
Tidsskrift för tidig musik, 1993, nummer 1, årgång 15, pp. 15–18.
[pdf]
Also as Weiss och hans samtid, Gitarr och luta, 1992, 25:4, pp. 23–26.
[pdf]

[005]

Eklund, Robert. 1992. (Corrections 1993.)
Musikens charlatan: en historik över lutan.
[The charlatan of music: a history of the lute.]
Tidskrift för Tidig Musik, nr 4, årgång 14, pp. 5–13, Uppsala.
Corrections of editorial mistakes in: Tidsskrift för tidig musik, 1993, nummer 1, årgång 15, p. 10
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[004]

Eklund, Robert. 1991.
UUB 20:13 – A Contextual Analysis of a Lute Manuscript.
Svensk Tidskrift för Musikforskning, vol. 71, 1991, Göteborg 1992, p. 122. (Abstract of [iii].)
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[003]

Eklund, Robert. 1990.
Frihetstidens svenska lutenister – fanns dom?.
[The lutenists of the ‘Freedom Era’ – did they exist?]
Musikologen – Musikvetenskaplig bulletin, pp. 65–67,
Dept. of Musicology, Stockholm University.
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[002]

Eklund, Robert & Mathias Thiel. 1988.
The Instructions of Johann Christian Beyer.
THE LUTE, ISSN 0952-0759, vol. XXVIII, pp. 34–46. London.
[pdf]

[001]

Eklund, Robert. 1986.
På barockmusikkurs i Trondheim, sommaren 1985.
[Attending a baroque music course in Trondheim, the summer of 1985.]
Tidskrift för Tidig Musik, nr 1, årgång 8, Uppsala, pp. 23–24.
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Unpublished material

[iix]

Eklund, Robert. 1996 (latest edition).
En introduktion till programmering i prolog.
[An introduction to prolog programming.]
Course compendium (116 pages). Dept. of Linguistics, Stockholm University.
[pdf]

[vii]

Eklund, Robert. 1996.
Derek Bickerton’s Bioprogram: A Proposal and Its Critics. (25 pages.)
Course paper.
[pdf]

[vi]

Eklund, Robert. 1995 (latest edition).
Programmeringsspråket Prolog.
[The Programming Language Prolog.]
Introductory lecture on programming languages in general and prolog in particular (7 pages). Dept. of Linguistics, Stockholm University.
[pdf]

[v]

Eklund, Robert. 1993.
A Probabilistic Tagging Module Based on Surface Pattern Matching.
Bachelor’s Degree paper in Computational Linguistics (94 pages). Institute of Linguistics, Dept. of Computational Linguistics, Stockholm University.
[pdf]

[iv]

Eklund, Robert & Helén Kåselöv. 1992.
Några observationer rörande akustiskt korrelat till restriktiv bisats.
Bachelor’s Degree paper in Speech Technology (53 pages). Institute of Linguistics, Stockholm University and internal report, Swedish Telecom.
[pdf]

[iii]

Eklund, Robert. 1991.
UUB 20:13 – A Contextual Analysis of a Lute Manuscript.
Master’s Degree paper in Musicology (104 pages).
[pdf]
Supplementary book: Tablature, Transcription, Concordances. (124 pages.)
[pdf]
Abstract published in Svensk Tidskrift för Musikforskning, vol. 71, 1991, Göteborg 1992, p. 122, see [3].

[ii]

Eklund, Robert, Qina Hermansson & Janne “Beb” Lindberg. 1990.
Undersökning av reaktioner på förnamn.
[An Investigation of Reactions to First Names.]
Course paper (25 pages). Institute of Linguistics, Stockholm University.
[pdf]

[i]

Eklund, Robert. 1990.
En introduktion i editionsteknik.
[An introduction to editing.]
Course paper (48 pages). Dept. of Musicology, Stockholm University.
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Linguistics course material

A motley crew of selected course papers (of potential general interest) and crib sheets/compendia I use in courses. Feel free to use them, but please drop me an email if you use them in teaching.

Acoustics: Crib Sheet. (6 pages.)
[pdf]

Speech Technology – An Introduction / Språkteknologi – En introduktion. (80 slides.)
English: [pdf]
Svenska: [pdf]

Automatisk översättning – en introduktion. (30 pages.)
[Automatic Translation – An introduction.]

[pdf]

Den universella Turing-maskinen. (2 pages.)
[The Universal Turing Machine.]
[pdf]

Lathund till syntaktisk analys. (3 pages.)
[Crib sheet for syntactic analysis.]
[pdf]

Lathund till relationen mellan kategorier och funktioner. (2 pages.)
[The relation between categories and functions.]
[pdf]

Olika slags motsatser. (1 page.)
[Different kinds of opposites.]
[pdf]

Kortkompendium om morfologisk analys (5 pages.)
[Short compendium on morphological analysis.]
[pdf]

Prosodi i L2-inlärning (5 pages.)
[Prosody in Second Language Acquisition.]
[pdf]




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