Frohlich2017
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Frohlich2017 |
| Author(s) | Marlen Frölich |
| Title | Taking Turns Across Channels: Conversation-Analytic Tools in Animal Communication |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Comparative, Animal Communication, Language Origins, Turn-taking |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Journal | Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews |
| Volume | 80 |
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| Pages | 201-209 |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.05.005 |
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Abstract
To advance bridging the gulf between the fields of linguistics and animal communication, interest has recently been drawn to turn-taking behaviour in social interaction. While vocal turn-taking is the major form of conservational language usage in humans, recent studies on great apes has shown that they engage in a bodily form, gestural turn-taking, to achieve mutual communicative goals. However, most studies on turn-taking behaviour neglected the fact that signals are perceived and produced in a multimodal format. Here, I propose that research on animal communication could benefit from implementing a more holistic and dynamic approach: studying turn-taking using a multimodal and conservation-analytic paradigm. I will discuss recent research that operationalized this paradigm via a specific set of straightforward parameters. In sum, I argue that a conversation-analytic approach might help substantially to pinpoint how crucial components of language are embodied in the ‘human interaction engine’.
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