Victor Yngve research on videotape

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Collection Descriptive Notes
From 1968-75 (at The University of Chicago) Victor Yngve videotaped experimental subjects to illustrate two kinds of phenomena: 1) "Forgetting" and 2) turn-taking in conversational exchanges. For some of the turn-taking experiments he used a split-screen technique in order to view the speakers’ reactions simultaneously.
Collection Technical Notes
[See the scanned text coded as "eng-yng-hstry-90" for precise information on Yngve's projects, his videotapes and the video equipment that he used.] This series of 12 (black & white) videotapes was dubbed at the LLA in 1995 from Yngve’s research tapes made between 1968 and 1975 on various kinds of reel-to-reel video recorders. For this reason the tapes had to be copied onto an up-to-date format for preservation. (Note: For the two earliest tapes no machine could be found to play them, so they were discarded. After dubbing, the remaining tapes were also discarded.) Only six of the U-Matics could be digitized: the U-Matic player being used for playback quit after #7, and Tape #3 was found to have deteriorated too badly. (Note: A possible reason for the deterioration is that only re-used videotapes of unknown quality were used for the back-ups.)
Contributor
Barbara Herbster and Rob Fox Robert Davidson
Helen Ellenbogen and Ann Weiser Neal Allen, Roberta Allen, Jessica Allen Dorcas and Joslin
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Title Contributor Medium
Two good friends with sound trace - Original tapes #1 & 2 Yngve, Victor (researcher); Vance, Stuart Morgan (researcher) VHS
Two good friends (wide angle): Tapes #3 & 4 Yngve, Victor (researcher); Vance, Stuart Morgan (researcher) VHS
Tape #1: Two good friends BACK-UP MASTER Yngve, Victor (researcher); Vance, Stuart Morgan (researcher); Two unnamed female subjects (consultant) U-Matic
Tape #2: Two good friends BACK-UP MASTER Yngve, Victor (researcher); Vance, Stuart Morgan (researcher); Two unnamed female subjects () U-Matic
Tape #3: Two good friends BACK-UP MASTER Yngve, Victor (researcher); Vance, Stuart Morgan (researcher); Two unnamed female subjects (consultant) U-Matic
Tape #4: Conversation between unacquainted individuals BACK-UP MASTER Yngve, Victor (researcher); Vance, Stuart-Morgan (researcher); Pregacke, Dennis (consultant); Weintraub, Kathy (consultant) U-Matic
Tape #5: Conversation between unacquainted individuals BACK-UP MASTER Yngve, Victor (researcher); Vance, Stuart Morgan (researcher); Holisky, D. (consultant); DeViney, Natalie (consultant) U-Matic
Tape #6: Forgetting experiment #4 BACK-UP MASTER Yngve, Victor (researcher); Vance, Stuart Morgan (researcher); Unnamed male subject (consultant) U-Matic
Tape #7: Forgetting experiment #3 BACK-UP MASTER Fox, Rob (interviewer); Herbster, Barbara (consultant); Yngve, Victor (researcher); Vance, Stuart Morgan (researcher) U-Matic
Tape #8: Forgetting experiment #2 BACK-UP MASTER Davidson, Robert (consultant); Fox, Rob (interviewer); Yngve, Victor (researcher); Vance, Stuart Morgan (researcher) U-Matic
Tape #9: Forgetting experiment #1 BACK-UP MASTER Yngve, Victor (researcher); Ellenbogen, Helen (consultant); Weiser, Ann (interviewer); Vance, Stuart Morgan (researcher) U-Matic
Tape #10: The Allens [...] BACK-UP MASTER Allen, Roberta (consultant); Allen, Neal (consultant); Allen, Jessica (consultant); Yngve, Victor (researcher); Vance, Stuart Morgan (researcher) U-Matic
Tape #11: Forgetting experiment BACK-UP MASTER Dorcas, [?] (consultant); Yngve, Victor (researcher); Vance, Stuart Morgan (researcher); Joslin, [?] (consultant) U-Matic
Tape #12: Forgetting experiment - Jane BACK-UP MASTER Yngve, Victor (researcher); Vance, Stuart Morgan (researcher); Jane [sic] (consultant) U-Matic