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 Susanne Schötz, Joost van de Weijer, Robert Eklund (2019) Phonetic Methods in Cat Vocalisation Studies: A report from the Meowsic project Proceedings from Fonetik 2019 Continue to DOI
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
Susanne Schötz, Joost van de Weijer, Robert Eklund (2019) Phonetic Methods in Cat Vocalisation Studies: A report from the Meowsic project Proceedings from Fonetik 2019 Continue to DOI
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.
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.
Solving the mystery of purring The linguist Robert Eklund has researched how people speak while they inhale. But for the past few years, what has really taken his breath away has been how felines purr during both inhalation and exhalation.