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Robert Eklund

Senior Associate Professor

 

Publications

2024

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 Continue to DOI

2023

Loredana Schettino, Robert Eklund (2023) Prolongation in Italian

2019

Susanne Schötz, Joost van de Weijer, Robert Eklund (2019) Melody Matters: An Acoustic Study of Domestic Cat Meows in Six Contexts and Four Mental States Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop onVocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots, VIHAR 2019, p. 29-34 Continue to DOI
Vered Silber Varod, Mária Gósy, Robert Eklund (2019) Segment prolongation in Hebrew Proceedings of DiSS 2019, The 9th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech: ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, 12-13 September, 2019, p. 47-50 Continue to DOI
Ralph Rose, Robert Eklund (Editorship) (2019) Proceedings of DiSS 2019, The 9th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech: ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 12-13 September, 2019

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.
Robert Eklund

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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