We have several ongoing collaborations dedicated to understanding global relationships between music and language. The first major output from this work ("Many Voices 1") was published in Science Advances. It features the 75 coauthors from 46 countries shown below singing and speaking in our own native/heritage languages (see video below and news coverage in the New York Times and Scientific American). 

We have launched follow-up studies ("Many Voices 2 & 3" ) to test for behavioral differences between speaking and singing in addition to acoustic differences. Many Voices 2 and 3 have both received In Principle Acceptance after peer review at Peer Community In Registered Reports. Our team has now begun collecting data from over 1,000 participants speaking dozens of languages. We look forward to sharing the results as soon as we can (hopefully by early 2026 or sooner)! 

While we are no longer accepting new collaborators for Many Voices 1-3, we are always looking for new collaborators for future projects, so please email Patrick Savage if interested!

These projects have received funding from Aotearoa New Zealand's Royal Society Te Apārangi (Rutherford Discovery Fellowship and Marsden Fund) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.