Mindful tutors: Linguistic choice and action demonstration in speech to infants and a simulated robot

Interaction Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 134-161

  Fischer, Kerstin ^a,b   Foth, Kilian ^c   Rohlfing, Katharina ^b   Wrede, Britta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Child directed speech (CDS); Computers as social actors; Human robot interaction (HRI); Mindless transfer; Motherese; Motionese; Register theory; Robotese; Social communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953676884     PISSN: 15720373     EISSN: 15720381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/is.12.1.06fis     Document Type: Article

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