Assessing Animal Vocal Communication Using the Hyperspace Analog to Language (HAL) Model

• Main Author: Kaufman, Allison B.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2010
• Subjects: Psychology; Cognitive; Biology; Zoology; General; animal cognition; animal communication; animal language; Chomsky; Hyperspace Analog to Language; linguistic modeling; Burgess; Humpback Whale
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1sm4n21w; http://n2t.net/ark:/13030/m5z60pvm

The Hyperspace Analog to Language (HAL) model is used to measure contextual co-occurrence in human language (Lund & Burgess, 1996). In this dissertation, the HAL model was applied to three non-human animal systems; the vocalizations of an African gray parrot, the songs of humpback whales, and th...