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Ouch! Commonalties found in pain vocalizations and interjections across cultures
In the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, an interdisciplinary team explored possible regularities in vocal ...
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Confusing Vowels
Some of these sounds, or phones – yes, from Greek – are glides between two vowel sounds that in our heads we see as one and these are known as diphthongs. Romance languages don’t tend to have as many ...
From “Ouch” To “Wow”: The Universal Sounds of Human Emotion
Researchers investigated vocalizations and interjections for pain, joy, and disgust across 131 languages. An international ...
The Local1y
How to tell where a Swede comes from based on their dialect
Another key marker of the southern Swedish dialect is the vowel sounds, which can be diphthongs (one vowel pronounced as two) or even triphthongs (one vowel pronounced as three) in some areas. The ...