Vocal practices for achieving embodied coordination
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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Robots that can talk and move may turn from tools to potential participants, which poses new methodological challenges, particularly for transcription. This chapter first presents best practices for transcribing multimodal robot actions, focusing on sound. Robots animate the action repertoires that they are given by their designers and can do so again and again, producing …
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Non-lexical vocalizations 