A Programmatic Stage 1 Registered Report of global song-speech relationships replicating and extending Ozaki et al. (2024) and Savage et al. (2024)
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How cross-culturally consistent and general are relationships between song and speech? Ozaki et al. analysed singing and speaking from their 75 coauthors speaking 55 languages, concluding that “Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower and higher and use more stable pitches than speech”. However, their coauthors were mostly academics and professional musicians who were not representative of general speakers of their languages, so the degree to which their findings would generalise to other speakers of their languages remains unclear. We hypothesize that Ozaki et al.’s findings that song is slower, higher, and uses more stable pitches than speech will replicate in all languages tested.
