Both music and language are found in all known human societies, yet no studies have
compared similarities and differences between song, speech, and instrumental music on a …

Music is a universal yet diverse cultural trait transmitted between generations. The extent to
which global musical diversity traces cultural and demographic history, however, is …

Summary Culture evolves, 1–5 but the existence of cross-culturally general regularities of
cultural evolution is debated. 6–8 As a diverse but universal cultural phenomenon, music …

An Overview of Cross-Cultural Music Corpus Studies | The Oxford Handbook of Music and
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Evaluative judgment—ie, assessing to what degree a stimulus is liked or disliked—is a
fundamental aspect of cognition, facilitating comparison and choosing among alternatives …

While widely acknowledged in the cultural evolution literature, ecological factors—aspects of
the physical environment that affect the way in which cultural productions evolve—have not …

In this paper, we report on a free-hand motion capture study in which 32 participants
'traced'16 melodic vocal phrases with their hands in the air in two experimental conditions …

Perceived vocal attractiveness and measured sex-dimorphic vocal parameters are both
associated with underlying individual qualities. Research tends to focus on speech but …

The uniqueness of human music relative to speech and animal song has been extensively
debated, but rarely directly measured. We applied an automated scale analysis algorithm to …

Sociolinguists frequently examine the nature of gradual, internal shifts in languages and
dialects over time, arguing for both cognitive and cultural factors, as well as those that might …