Infants pay attention to caregivers' vocal and visual cues to learn language.
What about song makes the mouths of singers so interesting for babies? Take a moment and sing the opening phrase of “Twinkle, twinkle little star,” using the well-known and well-loved melody. Now recite the same phrase using speech .
It turns out that all these aspects of communication promote infants’ attention to someone’s mouth. This is particularly meaningful during the latter half of the first year when infants are babbling and preparing to say their first words because it highlights the mouth movements that are used as part of producing speech, and it also calls attention to the bursty stop and start pattern of speech and pauses.
It's too early to know if this increased mouth-looking by infants during song is also helpful for language learning as it is during speech, a question for future research. But song appears to be a particularly powerful way to attract infants’ attention and naturally guide their looking behavior.You can engage with your baby and support their development by speaking and singing to them face-to-face every day.
It might also be fun to sing to your infant while looking in a mirror together so that your baby can notice how your facial expressions and movements change as you switch between singing and speaking to them. Try singing songs like “If You’re Happy and You Know It” using the lyrics below to play around with acting out different emotions as you sing, making your face very expressive and engaging to your baby.If you’re sad and you know it, get a hug Alviar, C., Sahoo, M., Edwards, L. A., Jones, W.
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