You will want first to visit the demonstration page and listen to a few dozen samples of sound combinations. There are more than 2000 so you probably won't hear them all. Then this Discover article offers a good summary of what you heard. The assertion here is that "there are at least 24 distinct ways that humans convey meaning without words." Here's the academic paper (server is currently overloaded). What I wonder is why there aren't words for these. I mean, instead of making a noise, why isn't there a word we utter that represents that emotion? The best we get are onomatopoeia like 'ugh' or 'aieeee'. But that doesn't really say it. Via Metafilter, via Open Culture.
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