A large-scale international study, conducted by 75 researchers from 46 countries, has found that music and language share common patterns in different cultures around the world. According to the research team, these shared patterns -related to rhythm or pitch- could be related to the evolutionary functions that music and language have developed in human societies.

The results of this research are presented in an article published recently in the journal Science Advances. The principal investigator of the study is Patrick Savage, of the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and its first author is Yuto Ozaki, of Keiō University in Japan. On behalf of Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Martín Rocamora, a researcher at the MTG, took part in the study.

The team conducting the study has involved researchers from 46 countries with 55 different languages, from Asia, Africa, America, Europe and the Pacific, from a variety of disciplines, such as ethnomusicology, music psychology, linguistics, and evolutionary biology.

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