TRANSCRIPTION SOFTWARES AS AID FOR RESEARCH WITH MULTIMODAL APPROACH IN THE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION PROCESS

Abstract

Through this work, it aims to contribute to the research carried out under the analysis in language acquisition, through the presentation of two data transcription free software that assist the organization and analysis of communicative interactions in natural use. The multimodal approach Language Acquisition proposes that gestures and vocal productions can not be dissociated and form a single matrix of meaning (KENDON, 1982, 2000, 2004; McNEILL, 1985, 1992, 2000). For this, it presented the Eudico Linguistic Annotator and the Computerized Language Analysis programs. The ELAN, developed by Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, is a transcription software aims to assist data recording on audio or video recordings.This software was developed for linguistic analysis, which may cover beyond data language, notes about gestures. Because of this the software is attractive to multimodal research, since it allows the examination of verbal, nonverbal and contextual. CLAN is a software that allows the realization of simultaneous speech notes, gestures and contextual elements observed in communicative interactions. It enables analysis that cover the frequency count, word searches, co-occurrence analysis, MLU (Mean Length of Utterance) counts, text changes and morphosyntactic analysis (MacWhinney, 2000). Overall, it is expected to cooperate with research in the area of language, which analyze your corpus in multimodal perspective.

Keywords

• interaction and technologies
• transcription softwares
• language acquisition