Music intervals in speech: Psychological disposition modulates ratio precision among interlocutors’ nonlocal f0 production in real-time dyadic conversation

Robledo, Juan Pablo; Hurtado, Esteban; Prado, Felipe; Román, Domingo; Cornejo, Carlos

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“…These findings suggest a close connection between prosodic and musical behaviour. Though this suggestion is not new (speech prosody has long been seen as musical), Robledo et al [ 87 ] offer insights into how these close connections can work. Temporal and (absolute and relative) pitch measures operate across rather than just within turns.…”

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Musical improvisation enhances interpersonal coordination in subsequent conversation: Motor and speech evidence

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This study explored the effects of musical improvisation between dyads of same-sex strangers on subsequent behavioural alignment. Participants–all non-musicians–conversed before and after either improvising music together (Musical Improvisation—MI—group) or doing a motoric non-rhythmic cooperative task (building a tower together using wooden blocks; the Hands-Busy—HB—group). Conversations were free, but initially guided by an adaptation of the Fast Friends Questionnaire for inducing talk among students who are strangers and meeting for the first time. Throughout, participants’ motion was recorded with an optical motion-capture system (Mocap) and analysed in terms of speed cross-correlations. Their conversations were also recorded on separate channels using headset microphones and were analysed in terms of the periodicity displayed by rhythmic peaks in the turn transitions across question and answer pairs (Q+A pairs). Compared with their first conversations, the MI group in the second conversations showed: (a) a very rapid, partially simultaneous anatomical coordination between 0 and 0.4 s; (b) delayed mirror motoric coordination between 0.8 and 1.5 s; and (c) a higher proportion of Periodic Q+A pairs. In contrast, the HB group’s motoric coordination changed slightly in timing but not in degree of coordination between the first and second conversations, and there was no significant change in the proportion of periodic Q+A pairs they produced. These results show a convergent effect of prior musical interaction on joint body movement and use of shared periodicity across speech turn-transitions in conversations, suggesting that interaction in music and speech may be mediated by common processes.

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“…Cross further elaborated the discussion of underlying common temporal processes on naturalistic interaction in speech and music by discussing ongoing research at Cambridge on interaction in spontaneous speech and in music. Preliminary results suggest that music and speech share common features of temporal processes such as periodicity (Hawkins, Cross, & Ogden, 2013), entrainment (Ogden & Hawkins, 2015), and characteristic pitch intervals (Robledo Del Canto, Hawkins, Cross, & Ogden, 2016; Robledo, Hurtado, Prado, Román, & Cornejo, 2016) in their communicative use.…”

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The interdisciplinary spring school "Language, music, and cognition: Organizing events in time" was held from February 26 to March 2, 2018 at the Institute of Musicology of the University of Cologne. Language, speech, and music as events in time were explored from different perspectives including evolutionary biology, social cognition, developmental psychology, cognitive neuroscience of speech, language, and communication, as well as computational and biological approaches to language and music. There were 10 lectures, 4 workshops, and 1 student poster session. Overall, the spring school investigated language and music as neurocognitive systems and focused on a mechanistic approach exploring the neural substrates underlying musical, linguistic, social, and emotional processes and behaviors. In particular, researchers approached questions concerning cognitive processes, computational procedures, and neural mechanisms underlying the temporal organization of language and music, mainly from two perspectives: one was concerned with syntax or structural representations of language and music as neurocognitive systems (i.e., an intrapersonal perspective), while the other emphasized social interaction and emotions in their communicative function (i.e., an interpersonal perspective). The spring school not only acted as a platform for knowledge transfer and exchange but also generated a number of important research questions as challenges for future investigations.

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“…Although there is a line of research studying musical intervals based on the limited notion of the interval defined with the Western twelve-tone equal-tempered scale (Ross et al, 2007;Schwartz et al, 2003;Stegemöller et al, 2008;but cf. Han et al, 2011;Robledo et al, 2016), our study treats interval more generally as a ratio of frequencies to characterize the interval of song and speech in a unified way. Stone et al (1999) reported that country singers use similar formant frequencies in both song and speech which is consistent with our pilot analysis (Figure 5), and they argued that the use of higher formant frequencies (e.g.…”

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Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower and higher and use more stable pitches than speech: A Registered Report

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What, if any, similarities and differences between song and speech are consistent across cultures? Both song and speech are found in all known human societies and are argued to share evolutionary roots and cognitive resources, yet no studies have compared similarities and differences between song and speech across languages on a global scale. We will compare sets of matched song/speech recordings produced by our 81 coauthors whose 1st/heritage languages span 23 language families. Each recording set consists of singing, recited lyrics, and spoken description, plus an optional instrumental version of the sung melody to allow us to capture a “musi-linguistic continuum” from instrumental music to naturalistic speech. Our literature review and pilot analysis using five audio recording sets (by speakers of Japanese, English, Farsi, Yoruba, and Marathi) led us to make six predictions for confirmatory analysis comparing song vs. spoken descriptions: three consistent differences and three consistent similarities. For differences, we predict that: 1) songs will have higher pitch than speech, 2) songs will be slower than speech, and 3) songs will have more stable pitch than speech. For similarities, we predict that 4) pitch interval size, 5) timbral brightness, and 6) pitch declination will be similar for song and speech. Because our opportunistic language sample (approximately half are Indo-European languages) and unusual design involving coauthors as participants (approximately 1/5 of coauthors had some awareness of our hypotheses when we recorded our singing/speaking) could affect our results, we will include robustness analyses to ensure our conclusions are robust to these biases, should they exist. Other features (e.g., rhythmic isochronicity, loudness) and comparisons involving instrumental melodies and recited lyrics will be investigated through post-hoc exploratory analyses. Our sample size of n=80 people providing sung/spoken recordings already exceeds the required number of recordings (i.e. 60) to achieve 95% power with the alpha level of 0.05 for the hypothesis testing of the selected six features. Our study will provide diverse cross-linguistic empirical evidence regarding the existence of cross-cultural regularities in song and speech, shed light on factors shaping humanity’s two universal vocal communication forms, and provide rich cross-cultural data to generate new hypotheses and inform future analyses of other factors (e.g., functional context, sex, age, musical/linguistic experience) that may shape global musical and linguistic diversity.

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Music intervals in speech: Psychological disposition modulates ratio precision among interlocutors’ nonlocal f0 production in real-time dyadic conversation

Cited by 5 publications

References 42 publications

Musical improvisation enhances interpersonal coordination in subsequent conversation: Motor and speech evidence

Musical improvisation enhances interpersonal coordination in subsequent conversation: Motor and speech evidence

Spring School on Language, Music, and Cognition

Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower and higher and use more stable pitches than speech: A Registered Report

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