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Robert Eklund

Senior Associate Professor

 

Publications

2024

Tero Ikavalko, Anne-Maria Laukkanen, Anita McAllister, Robert Eklund, Eveliina Lammentausta, Mari Leppavuori, Miika T. Nieminen (2024) Three Professional Singers' Vocal Tract Dimensions in Operatic Singing, Kulning, and Edge-A Multiple Case Study Examining Loud Singing Journal of Voice, Vol. 38, p. 1253e11-1253e27 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Tero Ikävalko, Anne-Maria Laukkanen, Anita McAllister, Robert Eklund, Eveliina Lammentausta, Mari Leppävuori, Miika T. Nieminen (2024) Three Professional Singers' Vocal Tract Dimensions in Operatic Singing, Kulning, and Edge-A Multiple Case Study Examining Loud Singing Journal of Voice, Vol. 38, p. 1253.e11-1253.e27 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Robert Eklund (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 Proceedings of Fonetik 2024, p. 39-44 (Conference paper)
Susanne Schötz, Joost van de Weijer, Robert Eklund (2024) Context effects on duration, fundamental frequency, and intonation inhuman-directed domestic cat meows Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Vol. 270, Article 106146 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2023

Loredana Schettino, Robert Eklund (2023) Prolongation in Italian

Research

Chilling cat

Melody in human - cat communication (Meowsic)

A phonetic project aiming at understanding how cats and humans use melody and other prosodic features when they communicate with each other (MAW 2016–2022).

Read more about the research project.

News

Cat.

Humour that makes you think – cat research at LiU

Linguist Robert Eklund shares an Ig Nobel Prize with two other researchers for their work on how cats communicate with humans in different ways. The alternative Nobel Prizes are awarded to research that makes people laugh and then think.

From computers to cats

Robert Eklund has gone from trying to make computers mimic human speech to investigating how cats communicate. He wants to know how to interpret their miaowing. A common thread that unites all his research is an interest in sound of various types.

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