Singing to infants matters: early singing interactions affect musical preferences and facilitate vocabulary building
Franco, Fabia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1327-1080, Suttora, Chiara, Spinelli, Maria, Kozar, Iryna and Fasolo, Mirco
(2021)
Singing to infants matters: early singing interactions affect musical preferences and facilitate vocabulary building.
Journal of Child Language
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pp. 1-26.
ISSN 0305-0009
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(doi:10.1017/S0305000921000167)
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Abstract
This research revealed that the frequency of reported infant-parent singing interactions predicted 6-month-old infants' performance in laboratory music experiments and mediated their language development in the second year. At 6 months, infants (n=36) were tested using a preferential listening procedure assessing their sustained attention to instrumental and sung versions of the same novel tunes whilst the parents completed an ad-hoc questionnaire assessing home musical interactions with their infants. Language development was assessed with a follow-up when the infants were 14-month-old (n=26). The main results showed that 6-month-olds preferred listening to sung rather than instrumental melodies, and that self-reported high levels of parental singing with their infants[i] were associated with less pronounced preference for the sung over the instrumental version of the tunes at 6 months, and [ii] predicted significant advantages on the language outcomes in the second year. The results are interpreted in relation to conceptions of developmental plasticity.
Item Type: | Article |
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Research Areas: | A. > School of Science and Technology > Psychology |
Item ID: | 31899 |
Notes on copyright: | © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Depositing User: | Fabia Franco |
Date Deposited: | 11 Feb 2021 08:52 |
Last Modified: | 27 Aug 2021 17:06 |
URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/31899 |
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