In his article “The Territory Between Speech and Song: A Joint Speech Perspective,” Cummins (2020) argues that research has failed to adequately recognize an important category of vocal activity that falls outside of the domains of language and music, at least as they are typically defined. This category, referred to by Cummins as joint speech, spans a range of vocal activity so broad that it is not possible to define it using musical or phonetic terms. Instead, the feature that draws the varied examples together is vocal activity that is coordinated across participants and embedded in a physical and social context. In this invited commentary, I argue that although joint speech adds an important thread to the discourse on the relations between speech and song by putting an emphasis on the collective, it is ultimately related to a wider class of joint action phenomena found in the animal kingdom.

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联合讲话及其与联合行动的关系

康明斯（2020 年）在他的文章“语音和歌曲之间的领域：联合语音视角”中认为，研究未能充分识别出语言和音乐领域之外的重要声乐活动类别，至少在他们通常被定义。这一类别被康明斯称为联合语音，涵盖的声音活动范围非常广泛，以至于无法使用音乐或语音术语对其进行定义。相反，将各种示例结合在一起的特征是在参与者之间协调并嵌入到物理和社会环境中的声音活动。在这篇特邀评论中，我认为虽然联合演讲通过强调集体，为演讲和歌曲之间关系的论述增加了一条重要线索，