Humans worldwide talk and sing, but the exact forms of speech and song vary cross-culturally. New research finds that songs are slower and use higher, more stable pitches than speech, and these similarities exist globally. Read more in this week’s issue: scim.ag/6XP

Our "Many Voices" 75-author collaboration led by Yuto Ozaki finding global regularities in music-speech relationships is now out on the cover of Science Advances: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Full video of 18 coauthors singing/speaking in our own languages at youtu.be/a4eNNrdcfDM

Many thanks to Yuto Ozaki and Pat Savage (@PatrickESavage.bsky.social) for leading this very cool work! I’m very happy to have made part of this. Links to paper, material (and a really cool cover) below! Thanks to the ManyVoices initiative! 👇

So glad to be a part of this team!! This was a really cool way to investigate similarities and difference between speech and song cross culturally.

2024.5.15（現地時間） 尾﨑雄人さん（Yuto Ozaki）率いる私たちの研究論文が学術誌「Science Advances」に掲載されました！音楽と言語におけるグローバルな類似点と相違点を探求しています #研究 #論文 #scienceadvances #paper #crosscultural #music #language #千葉楽斗 gakuto-chiba.com/post/scieadva1

Across the globe, singing traditions are vast and varied. Their commonalities may help explain how music evolved trib.al/UV1K52X

A global study (75 researchers, 46 countries!) finds predictable melodies in songs may help us bond & synchronise as a group. Dr Emmanouil Benetos (QMUL Electronic Engineering and Computer Science) contributed his expertise in analysing the music, revealing deep connections between music & language. scientificamerican.com/article/why-do…

So happy to see three of my students (Yuto Ozaki, 千葉楽斗 & Marin 茉倫) featured in the The New York Times 🥰 nytimes.com/2024/05/15/sci…

Great to chat a bit with Scientific American about this amazing study spearheaded by Yuto Ozaki and Pat Savage (@PatrickESavage.bsky.social), and especially represent Cherokee Nation language thanks to consultation with Sammy Still Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr. 🙏🏼

先週 Nature Communications と Science Advances に掲載された地球の音楽と言語の多様性についての論文、日本語の紹介が Forbes に出ました！ 元の論文： 1) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 2) nature.com/articles/s4146… forbesjapan.com/articles/detai… Yuto Ozaki @SamPassmore_

How do #songs and speech compare around the world? A Northeastern U. #music scientist contributes to a groundbreaking study. Read more: bit.ly/3WXa68X

Nice to see ongoing discussion of our recent paper (science.org/doi/full/10.11…) in letters to the The New York Times editor: nytimes.com/2024/06/09/opi… (Plus 377 reader comments on Carl Zimmer's initial coverage! nytimes.com/2024/05/15/sci…)

Researchers found that songs globally use higher pitches, slower tempos, and more stable pitches than speech, suggesting universal acoustic traits in music that facilitate social bonding and harmonization. dlvr.it/T8XsxN

New preprint up describing our planned #RegisteredReport Stage 1 protocol building on ManyVoices 1. In Many Voices 2, we aim to collect data from 1,500 people around the world singing/speaking in groups to directly test the social bonding hypothesis doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

I wrote the first draft about HOW to read/write on the way to a conference. But I became sort of radicalised there and added a section on WHY to read/write on the way back, including if/how we should tear it all down and redesign it from scratch: osf.io/p37zj

A few months ago, two independent research teams published separate analyses showing consistent differences in singing and speaking across diverse languages. Today, Scientific American published a cool podcast showcasing both studies together: scientificamerican.com/podcast/episod…