Horse-directed vocalizations: Clicks, trills, and /ho:/

IF 1.4 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.006

Beatrice Szczepek Reed

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Abstract

The study investigates horse-directed vocalizations in English and German. A corpus of human-horse activities contains clicks, trills, and variants of /ho:/. Horse-directed vocalizations show much phonetic and prosodic variation, which makes them adjustable to local interactional contexts. The largest group are clicks (lateral, dental, bilabial), which are used to ask horses to move faster. Trills (bilabial, alveolar) optionally end in alveolar stops. Their duration, intonation, and overall pitch vary considerably. German and English speakers use trills for opposite interactional purposes (slowing down vs. speeding up). /ho:/-type vocalizations vary with regard to first consonants, vowels, final consonants, duration, and intonation. /ho:/-variants are used to calm and/or slow horses down. Unlike non-lexical vocalizations in human talk, horse-directed vocalizations have specific, conventionalized meanings.

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马的发音：咔哒声、颤音和/ho:/

这项研究调查了英语和德语中马的发音。人马活动的语料库包含咔哒声、颤音和/ho:/的变体。马的定向发声表现出许多语音和韵律的变化，这使得它们可以根据当地的互动环境进行调整。最大的一组是咔哒声（侧面、牙齿、双颊），用来要求马走得更快。颤音（双唇音、肺泡音）可以选择以肺泡音结尾。它们的持续时间、语调和整体音高差别很大。说德语和英语的人使用颤音是为了相反的互动目的（放慢速度和加快速度）。/ho:/类型的发音在首辅音、元音、尾辅音、持续时间和语调方面有所不同。/ho:/-变体用于使马平静下来和/或慢下来。与人类语言中的非词汇发声不同，马的定向发声具有特定的、约定俗成的意义。

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Language & Communication Multiple-

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3.40

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6.70%

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