Acoustical Society of America
148th Meeting Lay Language Papers

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Melville, New York, October 25, 2004

The following are lay language versions of meeting papers being presented at the 148th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America to be held November 15-19 in San Diego. Since ASA meeting papers are not vetted by scientific referees, please keep in mind that some of the research described in the laypapers may not have yet been peer reviewed.


MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15


Study of Acoustic Correlates Associated with Emotional Speech by Serdar Yildirim, Sungbok Lee, Murtaza Bulut, Chul Min Lee, Abe Kazemzadeh, Carlos Busso, and Shrikanth Narayanan


Synthesis of Human-Like Laughter: Toward Machine Synthesis of Human Speech by Shiva Sundaram and Shrikanth Narayanan


Fifty Years of Progress in Speech Synthesis by Juergen Schroeter


TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16


Rock Art Acoustics by Lauren Ronsse


Acoustics at the Shrine of St. Werburgh by David Lubman


Chemical Detection With a MEMS Microphone by Michael Pedersen


Testing Infant Dolphin Hearing by Paul Nachtigall, Michelle Yuen, T.Aran Mooney and Kristen Taylor


A Potential Explanation for Marine Mammal Strandings by Lawrence Crum, Michael Bailey, Steven Kargl, and Thomas Matula


Engines for a "Silent" Aircraft by Cesare Hall


Whispering Songs by Michael Kiefte


Simulating Synchronized Calling with a Wireless Sensor Network by Kenneth D. Frampton, Efosa Ojomo, Praveen Mudindi, and Isaac Amundson


WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17


Perfect Pitch in Tone Language Speakers Carries Over to Music by Diana Deutsch, Trevor Henthorn, Elizabeth Marvin, and HongShuai Xu


Constant Interval Distance Between Resonance Peaks of Spanish Vowels Sung at High Pitch by Sopranos by Eduardo Castro-Sierra, Miguel Zenker, Adrián Poblano, & Alberto Ramírez-Treviño


THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18


Ten Years of Classroom Acoustical Design by Angelo Campanella


How to Pitch-Match Drumsticks--10,000 Times a Day by George Bissinger


Why Do Non-Native Speakers Have a Foreign Accent? A Three-Dimensional Perspective by Amee P. Shah


The Sweet Spot of a Hollow Baseball or Softball Bat by Dan Russell


Using Light and Sound to Improve Medical Imaging by Charles A. DiMarzio


Sound, As We See It: A Better Way to Diagnose Noise Sources by Ravinder Beniwal and Sean F. Wu


6+ Years of Acoustic Thermometry in the North Pacific Ocean:
A Cycle of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation
by Brian D. Dushaw, B. D. Cornuelle, M. Dzieciuch, W. H. Munk, P. F. Worcester, and J.A. Colosi


FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19


Vocal Expression by Horses: Nickers, Whinnies, and Squeals by David G. Browning and Peter M. Scheifele


English and French Classical Music Reflect the Melody and Rhythm of Speech in the Two Cultures by Aniruddh D. Patel


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