Organisation: Katja Liebal

Programm

Talk by Dr. Katie Slocombe, University of York: Chimpanzee vocal communication: roots to human language

Research of vocal communication

• Vocal production: context specific calling, structural-motivational rules, prosody in speech, signal design
• Perception of vocal signals:  information extraction from calls in vocalization research
• Discussion of emotion/information dichotomy
• Data collection: Equipment needed, how to use it well, how to collect vocal data

The vocal data set: pitfalls to avoid.

• Analysing vocalizations:  software needed, basics of acoustic analysis, statistical analysis

Analysis of vocal data with PRAAT (practical session)