Comparison of speech and music input in North American infants' home environment over the first 2 years of life.

ABSTRACT: Infants are immersed in a world of sounds from the moment their auditory system becomes functional, and experience with the auditory world shapes how their brain processes sounds in their environment. Across cultures, speech and music are two dominant auditory signals in infants' daily lives. Decades of research have repeatedly shown that both quantity and quality of speech input play critical roles in infant language development. Less is known about the music input infants receive in their environment. This study is the first to compare music input to speech input across infancy by analyzing a longitudinal dataset of daylong audio recordings collected in English-learning infants' home environments, at 6, 10, 14, 18, and 24 months of age. Using a crowdsourcing approach, 643 naïve listeners

SUBMITTER: Hippe L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12313026 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature