From “ouch” to “aïe” to “yakayi,” languages across the world exclaim pain using similar-sounding words, hinting at a common ...

In the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, an interdisciplinary team explored possible regularities in vocal ...

Researchers investigated vocalizations and interjections for pain, joy, and disgust across 131 languages. An international linguistic study identifies consistent vocal expressions of pain across ...