Music is scaled, while speech is not: A cross-cultural analysis
Abstract Music is well-known to be based on sets of discrete pitches that are combined to form musical melodies. In contrast, there is no evidence that speech is organized into stable tonal structures analogous to musical scales. In the current study, we developed a new computational method for meas...
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| Main Authors: | Elizabeth Phillips, Steven Brown |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2025-07-01
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| Series: | Scientific Reports |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-03049-w |
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