Maïa Ponsonnet, Christophe Coupé, François Pellegrino, Aitana Garcia Arasco, Katarzyna Pisanski
{"title":"Vowel signatures in emotional interjections and nonlinguistic vocalizations expressing pain, disgust, and joy across languagesa).","authors":"Maïa Ponsonnet, Christophe Coupé, François Pellegrino, Aitana Garcia Arasco, Katarzyna Pisanski","doi":"10.1121/10.0032454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0032454","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this comparative cross-linguistic study we test whether expressive interjections (words like ouch or yay) share similar vowel signatures across the world's languages, and whether these can be traced back to nonlinguistic vocalizations (like screams and cries) expressing the same emotions of pain, disgust, and joy. We analyze vowels in interjections from dictionaries of 131 languages (over 600 tokens) and compare these with nearly 500 vowels based on formant frequency measures from voice recordings of volitional nonlinguistic vocalizations. We show that across the globe, pain interjections feature a-like vowels and wide falling diphthongs (\"ai\" as in Ayyy! \"aw\" as in Ouch!), whereas disgust and joy interjections do not show robust vowel regularities that extend geographically. In nonlinguistic vocalizations, all emotions yield distinct vowel signatures: pain prompts open vowels such as [a], disgust schwa-like central vowels, and joy front vowels such as [i]. Our results show that pain is the only affective experience tested with a clear, robust vowel signature that is preserved between nonlinguistic vocalizations and interjections across languages. These results offer empirical evidence for iconicity in some expressive interjections. We consider potential mechanisms and origins, from evolutionary pressures and sound symbolism to colexification, proposing testable hypotheses for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"156 5","pages":"3118-3139"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142623014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lianglong Da, Baoheng Liu, Sichen Zou, Xiaochuan Zhang
{"title":"A baseline decomposition ultra-short baseline localization algorithm for arbitrary array structures.","authors":"Lianglong Da, Baoheng Liu, Sichen Zou, Xiaochuan Zhang","doi":"10.1121/10.0034425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0034425","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With the rapid development of the marine economy, hydroacoustic positioning technology plays an increasingly important role in marine engineering. The ultra-short baseline (USBL) hydroacoustic positioning system has the advantages of small size, simple operation, and flexible use, and has been widely used. Aiming at the existing USBL acoustic positioning algorithm with low positioning accuracy and complex calculation, a baseline decomposition localization algorithm with arbitrary array structure is proposed. The algorithm is based on the theory of coordinate system transformation, establishes positioning observation equations for each baseline in the base array, and adopts the least squares method to obtain positioning results by selecting different combinations of baselines. The systematic errors of different positioning models themselves are simulated, and then the effects of the three parameter errors, namely, time delay, element coordinates, and sound speed, on the positioning results are analyzed, respectively. Finally, the simulation results and sea trial data show that, compared with the existing algorithms, this algorithm not only simplifies the complicated computation process, but also improves the positioning accuracy and robustness, and has a better application effect.</p>","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"156 5","pages":"3232-3245"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142622970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Megan S Ballard, Kevin M Lee, Kyle A Capistrant-Fossa, Andrew R McNeese, Colby W Cushing, Thomas S Jerome, Robert T Taylor, Kenneth H Dunton, Preston S Wilson
{"title":"A multi-year study of acoustic propagation and ambient sound in a Thalassia testudinum seagrass meadow in a shallow sub-tropical lagoona).","authors":"Megan S Ballard, Kevin M Lee, Kyle A Capistrant-Fossa, Andrew R McNeese, Colby W Cushing, Thomas S Jerome, Robert T Taylor, Kenneth H Dunton, Preston S Wilson","doi":"10.1121/10.0034243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0034243","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Seagrasses provide a multitude of ecosystem services and act as important carbon sinks. However, seagrass habitats are declining globally, and they are among the most threatened ecosystems on earth. For these reasons, long-term and continuous measurements of seagrass parameters are of primary importance for ecosystem health assessment and sustainable management. This paper presents results from both active and passive acoustical methods for ecosystem monitoring in seagrass meadows. From a propagation perspective, gas bodies contained within the seagrass tissue as well as photosynthetic-driven bubble production result in attenuation, dispersion, and scattering of sound that produce increased transmission loss. For the passive approach, the detachment of gas bubbles from the plants is an important component of the ambient soundscape. Examples of both techniques will be presented based on data collected as part of a two-year continuous deployment of an acoustical measurement system operating in a moderately dense seagrass bed dominated by Thalassia testudinum (turtle grass) in Corpus Christi Bay, Texas. The data show annual trends related to the seasonal growth pattern of Thalassia as well as diurnal trends correlated with photosynthetically active radiation.</p>","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"156 5","pages":"3039-3055"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142568995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influence of variable sound-absorbing devices on room acoustical parameters of reverberation and intelligibility in medium-to-large multipurpose halls.","authors":"Kwang-Min Jeong, Yong-Hee Kim, Myung-Jun Kim","doi":"10.1121/10.0034238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0034238","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Multipurpose halls are designed to host various performances. However, achieving the ideal reverberation time (RT) for each of the different performance types can be challenging. This study investigates five halls of various sizes to determine the effects of sound-absorbing devices on variable RTs in multipurpose halls. The composition and sound absorption properties of the finishing materials were investigated in areas where sound-absorbing devices were not applied. Further, the changes in the room acoustic parameters of these medium-sized multipurpose halls were analyzed using computer-based acoustic simulations to find a suitable answer among the various solutions tested. By applying sound-absorbing devices (resonant-type) to 25% of the walls and ceilings of the target halls, the absorption and reflection modes displayed a variability range of more than 0.5 s in the bass-mid frequency (250-500 Hz). However, a variable range of 0.18 s was found in the high frequency (2000 Hz). To improve the low variable range in the high frequency, a partial application of a high-frequency high-performance sound absorption banner (porous-type) was used to secure a variable range of 0.35 s in the high frequency. Variable sound-absorbing devices should be considered to achieve effective RT variation for all frequencies.</p>","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"156 5","pages":"3006-3020"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142558105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chenyang Xu, Brian C J Moore, Mingfang Diao, Xiaodong Li, Chengshi Zheng
{"title":"Predicting the intelligibility of Mandarin Chinese with manipulated and intact tonal information for normal-hearing listeners.","authors":"Chenyang Xu, Brian C J Moore, Mingfang Diao, Xiaodong Li, Chengshi Zheng","doi":"10.1121/10.0034233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0034233","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Objective indices for predicting speech intelligibility offer a quick and convenient alternative to behavioral measures of speech intelligibility. However, most such indices are designed for a specific language, such as English, and they do not take adequate account of tonal information in speech when applied to languages like Mandarin Chinese (hereafter called Mandarin) for which the patterns of fundamental frequency (F0) variation play an important role in distinguishing speech sounds with similar phonetic content. To address this, two experiments with normal-hearing listeners were conducted examining: (1) The impact of manipulations of tonal information on the intelligibility of Mandarin sentences presented in speech-shaped noise (SSN) at several signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs); (2) The intelligibility of Mandarin sentences with intact tonal information presented in SSN, pink noise, and babble at several SNRs. The outcomes were not correctly predicted by the Hearing Aid Speech Perception Index (HASPI-V1). A new intelligibility metric was developed that used one acoustic feature from HASPI-V1 plus Hilbert time envelope and temporal fine structure information from multiple frequency bands. For the new metric, the Pearson correlation between obtained and predicted intelligibility was 0.923 and the root mean square error was 0.119. The new metric provides a potential tool for evaluating Mandarin intelligibility.</p>","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"156 5","pages":"3088-3101"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142604999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ziwei Huang, Liang An, Yang Ye, Xiaoyan Wang, Hongli Cao, Yuchong Du, Meng Zhang
{"title":"A broadband modeling method for range-independent underwater acoustic channels using physics-informed neural networks.","authors":"Ziwei Huang, Liang An, Yang Ye, Xiaoyan Wang, Hongli Cao, Yuchong Du, Meng Zhang","doi":"10.1121/10.0034458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0034458","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Accurate broadband modeling of underwater acoustic channels is vital for underwater acoustic detection, localization, and communication. Conventional modeling methodologies, based on methods such as the finite element method, finite difference method, and boundary element method, generally facilitate computation for only a single frequency at a time. However, in broadband modeling, this characteristic presents limitations, requiring multiple computations across frequencies, thereby leading to significant time challenges. To solve this problem, we propose a rapid broadband modeling approach using physics-informed neural networks. By integrating the modal equation of normal modes as a regularization term within the neural network's loss function, the method can achieve rapid broadband modeling of underwater acoustic channel with a sparse set of frequency sampling points. Operating in range-independent underwater environments with a liquid semi-infinite seabed, the method proficiently predicts the channel response across the frequency band from 100 to 300 Hz. Compared to the results obtained from KRAKEN, our method improves computational speed by a factor of 25 at a propagation distance of 20 km, while maintaining a mean absolute error of 0.15 dB for the acoustic channel response.</p>","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"156 5","pages":"3523-3533"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142681980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sasha Calhoun, Paul Warren, Joy Mills, Jemima Agnew
{"title":"Socialising the Frequency Code: Effects of gender and age on iconic associations of pitcha).","authors":"Sasha Calhoun, Paul Warren, Joy Mills, Jemima Agnew","doi":"10.1121/10.0034354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0034354","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Burgeoning research has shown the pervasiveness of sound symbolism, a type of iconicity, in language. However, little work looks at how individual experiences and beliefs affect sound symbolic associations. We investigate pitch associations under the Frequency Code, which links high vs low pitch to small vs large body size and female vs male gender (via sexual dimorphism), long claimed to underlie \"universal\" meanings like submissiveness vs dominance. While such associations appear widespread, the Frequency Code assumes ideological links, e.g., between dominance and masculinity, which differ between individuals and cultures. In Implicit Association Task experiments with English-speaking listeners, we show high pitch is implicitly associated with small size and female gender, and low with large and male, following the Frequency Code. Crucially, though, the strength of these associations varies by social factors. Associations are stronger for male voices and listeners, particularly older men, as ideologies related to the Frequency Code (linking large size, strength, and dominance) tend to be stronger for men. The association of pitch with gender is stronger than with body size, reflecting stronger gender-based stereotypes. This work shows that social experience shapes and reinforces iconic associations, with important implications for how iconic meanings develop and are processed.</p>","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"156 5","pages":"3183-3203"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142623036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spectral network based on lattice convolution and adversarial training for noise-robust speech super-resolution.","authors":"Junkang Yang, Hongqing Liu, Lu Gan, Xiaorong Jing","doi":"10.1121/10.0034364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0034364","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Speech super-resolution aims to predict a high-resolution speech signal from its low-resolution counterpart. The previous models usually perform this task at a fixed sampling rate, reconstructing only high-frequency spectrogram components and merging them with low-frequency ones in noise-free cases. These methods achieve high accuracy, but they are less effective in real-world settings, where ambient noise and flexible sampling rates are presented. To develop a robust model that fits practical applications, in this work, we introduce Super Denoise Net (SDNet), a neural network for noise-robust super-resolution with flexible input sampling rates. To this end, SDNet's design includes gated and lattice convolution blocks for enhanced repair and temporal-spectral information capture. The frequency transform blocks are employed to model long frequency dependencies, and a multi-scale discriminator is proposed to facilitate the multi-adversarial loss training. The experiments show that SDNet outperforms current state-of-the-art noise-robust speech super-resolution models on multiple test sets, indicating its robustness and effectiveness in real-world scenarios.</p>","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"156 5","pages":"3143-3157"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142623038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frequency-domain sound field from the perspective of band-limited functions.","authors":"Takahiro Iwami, Akira Omoto","doi":"10.1121/10.0034422","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0034422","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A model that approximates the sound field well is useful in various fields, such as acoustic signal processing and numerical simulation. We have proposed an effective model in which the wideband instantaneous sound field is regarded as an element of a spherically band-limited function space, using the reproducing kernel of that space. In this paper, the frequency-domain sound field is regarded as an element of some band-limited function space, and a representation of the field as a linear combination of the reproducing kernel in that space is proposed. This model has the strongest representational capacity of all function systems when we know only the sound pressure information at arbitrary positions. The proposed model can be considered a generalization of the existing three-dimensional sound field model using the reproducing kernel of the solution space of the Helmholtz equation to the spatial dimension. One of the advantages of capturing the frequency-domain sound field in this way is the simplicity achieved for the estimation formula of the wavenumber spectrum. Two numerical simulations were conducted to validate the proposed methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"156 5","pages":"3298-3305"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142638739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why active Willis metamaterials? A controllability and observability perspectivea).","authors":"A Baz","doi":"10.1121/10.0034357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0034357","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recently, active Willis metamaterials (AWM) have been the focus of extensive investigations because of their unique electro-elastic coupling characteristics. However, the treatments of this class of materials have been carried out exclusively, in all the available literature, by approaches that do not rely on solid control theory basis. In this paper, the emphasis is placed on revealing very important control features that are inherent to this class of materials because of their Willis coupling characteristics. These features lie in the enhanced controllability and observability properties of the AWM as compared to non-Willis active materials. Such control properties enable the AWM to possess broad sensing and actuation capabilities that can lend this material to be an effective means for monitoring and controlling the behavior of numerous critical applications, such as acoustic cloaking, particularly when integrated with appropriate robust control strategies. A simple example of a piezoelectric-based AWM is presented to demonstrate its effective control capabilities and distinguish this class of materials from conventional materials. In the selected example, the AWM is structured from two dissimilar masses connected by a piezoelectric spring. Lagrange dynamics formulation is utilized to generate the equations governing the Willis coupling, the piezoelectric coupling, and reveal the inherent control features. With this developed controlled-based structure of the AWM, it is shown that the AWM can simultaneously monitor and control both the strain and velocity whereas the conventional active material, which is formed from two similar masses connected by a piezoelectric spring, can only measure and control the strain alone. It is envisioned that the revealed control metrics for the simple one-dimensional AMW example can serve as means for investigating the potential of AMW's of higher dimensionality.</p>","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"156 5","pages":"3338-3352"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142648202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}