Time after time: The coordinating influence of tempo in music and speech

摘要: Music is one of the most complex and popular human behaviors. People enjoy listening to music respond it with clapping, foot tapping, humming, other natu- ral We consider role timing in how performers coordinate per- formers. Like speech, a joint activity; must be relatively consistent for musi- cians their individual actions those others. address pro- duction rate or tempo as coordinating device among producers listeners. discuss evidence that musicians' choices tempi are influenced by contextual information, specif- ically, previously heard sequences. also describe persistence production rates global phrase patterns speakers' sentence productions. In addition contex- tual influences, producers' preferred influence choice both speech; affected speech more than primed rate, whereas rate. Tempo considered coordi- nating communication domains.