Animals can get confused around humans making different sounds, some of which mimic the "paralanguage" of animal sounds indicating various emotional states and intentions.

“Paralanguage – the nonlexical component of communication by speech. ex. Intonation, pitch, and speed of speaking, hesitation, noises, gesture, and facial expressions,” the note states ...

Joseph A. Devito, SILENCE AND PARALANGUAGE AS COMMUNICATION, ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 74, No. 3/4 (2017), pp. 482-486 ...

George L. Trager, The Typology of Paralanguage, Anthropological Linguistics, Vol. 3, No. 1, Uses of Typology in Language or Culture or Both: A Symposium Presented at the 1960 Meetings of the American ...

In any interpersonal dialogue, paralanguage, along with other non-verbal cues, creates, reflects and reinforces a relationship between the people involved. If they are meeting for the first time, ...

Valve is aiming to raise the standards of in-game animation to the point where paralanguage – particularly sign language – can be effectively simulated. The revelation emerged in a recently ...

Paralanguage is a key way in how we communicate how we feel about what we’re saying. If you think about Marvin the Paranoid Android from The Hitchhikers’ Guide To The Galaxy saying “I will ...

Animals can get confused around humans making different sounds, some of which mimic the “paralanguage” of animal sounds indicating various emotional states and intentions. I know of dogs who ...