There is music in repetition: Looped segments of speech and nonspeech induce the perception of music in a time-dependent manner

While many techniques are known to music creators, the technique of repetition is one of the most commonly deployed. The mechanism by which repetition is effective as a music-making tool, however, is unknown. Building on the speech-to-song illusion (Deutsch, Henthorn, & Lapidis in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129(4), 2245–2252, 2011), we explore a phenomenon in which perception of musical attributes are elicited from repeated,...