We have several ongoing projects 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 finished collecting data from over 1,000 participants speaking thirty different languages. We look forward to sharing the results soon!

We have also begun "Many Voices: A world music podcast" to delve deeper into the stories behind the diverse voices of the world's music and musicians. The first pilot episodes interview collaborators from Many Voices 1-3 above. You can watch or listen to these episodes on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.

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.