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. 2024 May 15;10(20):eadm9797. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adm9797

Fig. 5. Mean values of acoustic features arranged along a “musi-linguistic continuum” from instrumental melodies to spoken descriptions.

Fig. 5.

This is an alternative visualization of the same sung/spoken data from Fig. 4, but showing mean values of each feature rather than paired differences, and now also including data for instrumental melodies and recited lyrics. The cent scale of f0 is converted from Hertz, where 440 Hz corresponds to 0 cents and an octave interval equals 1200 cents. Note that the colors of data points indicate language families, which are coded the same as in Fig. 2. The horizontal lines in the violin plots indicate the median.