Chimpanzee vocal communication
Workshop über Vocalisation mit Katie Slocombe
28.11.2011
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