Expressive interjection (EI) is defined as non-lexical speech sound which indicates the speaker’s cognitive/affective state changes. It is a type of vocal affect burst, i.e., brief and sudden nonverbal expressions that are produced spontaneously and unconsciously. Although EI as a social signal is assumed to play an important part in speech communication, very little is known about its linguist...

As onomatopoeic words or expressions are attractive, the users of languages in the fields of religion, literature, music, education, linguistics, trade, and so forth wish to utilize them in their utterances. They are more effective and imaginative than the simple words. Onomatopoeic words or expressions attach us to the real nature and to our inner senses. This study aims at familiarity with on...

This paper reports on the results of a follow-up study to Scherbaum and Mzhavanadze (2020) (2020), which jointly describe acoustical musicological properties, respectively, new collection field recordings three-voiced Svan funeral dirges, known as zär in zari Georgian. The focus present work is language–music relation phonetic properties. It was motivated by pioneering Bolle Zemp (1994; 1997; 2...

As the most prominent novelist in contemporary Persian prose, Jalal Ale-Ahmad has had great influence on Persian writers, insofar as many writers have followed his suit. Employment of colloquial language is the characteristic style of his fiction. What makes his different, however, is mainly the employment of colloquialism in a subtle, precise and accurate way. Due to the extensive use of collo...

A comprehensive review of sentiment analysis for code-mixed and switched text corpus Indian social media using machine learning (ML) approaches, based on recent research studies has been presented in this paper. Code-mixing switching are linguistic behavior shown by the bilingual/multilingual population, primarily spoken but also written communication, especially media. involves combining lower...

Translation from source to the target language is an emerging field in applied linguistics. This plays a significant role compressing cultural and communication gap. Literal translation makes reciprocal communicative process more fluent. of Punjabi mystic poems creates new path exploring indigenous Sufi literature Pakistan foreign culture. The researcher has researched ‘Tere Ishaq Nachyaa by B....

The present paper takes an interactional approach to the problem of communicating pain. We ask how a shared understanding this subjective and internal experience is accomplished. focus on multimodal features pain displays way they emerge progress at micro level turn construction sequence organisation within health care interactions. setting study family doctor-patient primary consultations. Usi...

Optimal brain sensitivity to the fundamental frequency (F0) contour changes in the human voice is important for understanding a speaker's intonation, and consequently, the speaker's attitude. However, whether sensitivity in the brain's response to a human voice F0 contour change varies with an interaction between an individual's traits (i.e., autistic traits) and a human voice element (i.e., pr...

A word like Huh?–used as a repair initiator when, for example, one has not clearly heard what someone just said– is found in roughly the same form and function in spoken languages across the globe. We investigate it in naturally occurring conversations in ten languages and present evidence and arguments for two distinct claims: that Huh? is universal, and that it is a word. In support of the fi...