“…According to Gilbers, it is likely that people tend to use highly similar ways to handle these constraints in their language and their music. Indeed, several studies show, for example, small but striking similarities between the musical rhythm of instrumental compositions and speech rhythm in the composer's language (or the language associated with the obtained musical style, e.g., Carpenter & Levitt, 2016;Daniele & Patel, 2016;Hanson, 2017;Jekiel, 2014;McGowan & Levitt, 2011;Patel & Daniele, 2003, and others, but see Temperley, 2017 for conflicting evidence). Most researchers have measured these similarities by the normalized pairwise viability index (nPVI, Grabe & Low, 2002), i.e., the average difference between the duration of adjacent events in a sequel, although some authors use other tools Temperley & Temperley, 2011).…”