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Singing researchers find cross-cultural patterns in music and language - EurekAlert


<p><strong>Are acoustic features of music and spoken language shared across cultures? Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen contributed to a global study of music and speech, published in <em>Science Advances</em>. An international team of researchers recorded themselves performing traditional music and speaking in their native language. In all 50+ languages, the rhythms of songs and instrumental melodies were slower than those of speech, while the pitches were higher and more stable.</strong></p>

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