{"id":104538,"date":"2024-05-28T11:51:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T15:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=104538"},"modified":"2024-05-28T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T18:00:01","slug":"report-global-study-reveals-common-cross-cultural-characteristics-song-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2024\/05\/28\/report-global-study-reveals-common-cross-cultural-characteristics-song-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT | Global Study Reveals Common Cross-Cultural Characteristics Of Song & Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"
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L-R: Musi-linguistic Study co-authors Aleksandar Arabadjiev (Macedonia), Neddiel Elcie Mu\u00f1oz Millalonco (Chile), Gakuto Chiba (Japan), and Latyr Sy (Senegal), singing and playing their traditional instruments (Photos courtesy of the artists)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More than 75 researchers from 55 countries across the globe are registered as authors on the study titled Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower and higher and use more stable pitches than speech: A Registered Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Published in the journal Science Advances, the prosaically titled paper uses an innovative model where the participants were also the co-authors.<\/p>\n

As they begin, \u201cBoth music and language are found in all known human societies, yet no studies have compared similarities and differences between song, speech, and instrumental music on a global scale.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a situation the study aims to correct.<\/p>\n

The Study<\/h2>\n

The researchers analyzed data gathered from two sources. One consisted of a set of 300 annotated auto recordings that match traditional songs with their spoken lyrics, conversational speech, and instrumental melodies from all 75 co-authors from 46 countries in 55 different languages.<\/p>\n

In the recordings, each subject\/co-author sang a traditional song, then recited the lyrics, performed an instrumental version, and described the song in spoken words without using the lyrics themselves. Those four recordings were compared to each other, and across all the participants.<\/p>\n

The other source came from previously published material that consisted of song and speech recordings from 209 different people in 16 different languages.<\/p>\n