Vocal practices for achieving embodied coordination
Keevallik & Hofstetter have edited a special issue on the phenomenon of Sounding for Others, in Language & Communication. Thank you to our wonderful collaborators for their excellent papers. Summaries of the texts can be found below: Editorial abstract by Keevallik & Hofstetter: Standard models of language and communication depart from the assumption that speakers …
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Leelo Keevallik, Emily Hofstetter, Ann Weatherall & Sally Wiggins have published an article defining and providing an overview of the phenomenon of 'sounding for others'. This study investigates the practice of “sounding for others,” wherein one person vocalizes to enact someone else’s putatively ongoing bodily sensation. We argue that it constitutes a collaborative way of performing …
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Hofstetter & Keevallik have recently published "Prosody is used for real-time exercising of other bodies" in a special issue on Sounding for Others. Abstract: While the lexico-grammatical and embodied practices in various instructional activities have been explored in-depth (Keevallik, 2013; Simone & Galatolo, 2020), the vocal capacities deployed by instructors have not been in focus. …
Wiggins and Keevallik have a new article on how mothers use 'lipsmack' sounds when feeding their infants, entitled 'Parental lip-smacks during infant mealtimes: Multimodal features and social functions', in Interactional Linguistics. Abstract The lip-smack is a communicative vocal tract sound that has received very little research attention, with most work examining them in nonhuman primate …
Non-lexical vocalizations 