In 2018, Fred Cummins published The Ground From Which We Speak: Joint Speech and The Collective Subject. It is available for purchase from Cambridge Scholars. A free pdf of the text is available here.
Cummins, Fred and Longo, Luciana (2023). The empirical discovery of domains of assembly and communion. Language Sciences Vol 100, November 2023, 101586 [Available online]
This article identifies four domains of assembly and communion which we might imperfectly point to with the terms ritual/prayer, protest, sports, and primary education. These arise from observation of joint speech, but are not predicted or made visible by any sociological or psychological theories.
Cummins, Fred (2021). Language as a problem. Language Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2021.101433 [Available online]
This article problematizes the way “language” is treated within linguistics and beyond. It helps to account for the relative invisibility of joint speech in the literature.
Cummins, Fred (2021). Vain repetitions: The role of joint speech in enacting collective subjectivities. In Sign, Method and the Sacred: New Directions in Semiotic Methodologies for the Study of Religion, pages 73–86. De Gruyter. [pdf]
Cummins, Fred (2021). On vain repetitions: The enactment of collective subjectivities through speaking in unison. In Ponzo, J., Yelle, R., and Leone, M. (eds) Mediation and Immediacy: A Key Issue for the Semiotics of Religion, De Gruyter, pp 165–178. [pre-final pdf]
Cummins, Fred. (2021). Joint Speech as a challenge to our understanding of language. In: Verbetes LBASS. [Available online]
Cummins, F. (2020). The Territory Between Speech and Song: A Joint Speech Perspective. Music Perception, 37(4), 347-358 [pdf]
Cummins, F. (2018). Joint speech as an object of empirical inquiry. Material Religion, DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2018.1485344 [pdf, online]
Cummins, F. (2018). Comparing joint speech and synchronous speech: What happens when we add more speakers?. Proceedings of AICS 2018 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol 2259, pp.:14-20 [pdf]
Jasmin, K. M., McGettigan, C., Agnew, Z. K., Lavan, N., Josephs, O., Cummins, F., and Scott, S. K. (2016). Cohesion and joint speech: Right hemisphere contributions to synchronized vocal production. The Journal of Neuroscience, 36(17):4669–4680. [Available online]
Cummins, F. (2014). The remarkable unremarkableness of joint speech. In Proceedings of the 10th International Seminar on Speech Production, pages 73–77, Cologne, DE. [pdf]
Cummins, F. (2013). Towards an enactive account of action: Speaking and joint speaking as exemplary domains. Adaptive Behavior, 13(3):178-186 [Preprint pdf]
Cummins, F. (2013). Joint speech: The missing link between speech and music? Percepta: Journal of Musical Cognition. V1(1), pp. 17-32 [pdf]
Becoming through voice: Joint Speech explorations 