Ouch! Commonalties Found in Pain Vocalizations and Interjections Across Cultures
Study investigates vocalizations and interjections for pain, joy, and disgust across 131 languages.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12, 2024 – There are an estimated 7,000 languages spoken worldwide, each offering unique ways to express human emotion. But do certain emotions show regularities in their vocal expression across languages?
In JASA, published on behalf of the Acoustical Society of America by AIP Publishing, an interdisciplinary team of linguists and bioacousticians led by Maïa Ponsonnet, Katarzyna Pisanski, and Christophe Coupé explored this by… click to read more
From: JASA
Article: Vowel signatures in emotional interjections and nonlinguistic vocalizations expressing pain, disgust and joy across languages
DOI: 10.1121/10.0032454