Vocal practices for achieving embodied coordination
We at the non-lexical vocalizations and sounding for others team are intensely happy to announce that our PI Professor Leelo Keevallik has been awarded the 2025 Swensons Prize, in recognition of her career-long contributions to linguistics. The award is granted by the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters. We are incredibly grateful to work daily with …
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Keevallik, Hofstetter & Lindström have edited a special issue on how vocal and linguistic resources are used to instruct the body, published in Interactional Linguistics. Thank you to our wonderful collaborators for their excellent papers. Summaries of the texts can be found below: Editorial abstract by Keevallik, Hofstetter, & Jan Lindström: This special issue targets …
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Keevallik, Hofstetter, Löfgren, & Wiggins have published an article tracing the syntactic structures involving response cries. Abstract Response cries have been described as ritualized acts in human communication that come off as visceral reactions to local events (Goffman, 1978). Despite evidence that they are implemented at specific interactional moments, such as pain expressions in response …
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Keevallik and Amon have published an article tracing how the Estonian word 'näed', or 'you see', functions as an evidential, and how it has emerged as such a token through multimodal use. Abstract: Verbs of perception are known for their prolific use in various non-literal functions that are usually argued to have developed from their …
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Ogden & Keevallik have published an analysis of the difficulties involved in applying conversation analytic and phonetic tools to human-animal interaction, in Language & Communication. In encounters between humans and animals, both parties make use of sound, some of which are vocal. Since the anatomy of vocal tracts is different in different species, the production …
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One of the essential assets of human beings is our ability to coordinate action and collaborate in shared tasks. This project studies vocal practices for achieving embodied coordination in real time, with a focus on non-lexical but nevertheless communicative vocalizations, such as ugh, aargh. Targeting the liminal boundary between body and language, individual voice and …
Non-lexical vocalizations 