2023-12-02 16:32:01
Researchers of the University of Cambridge (England) have discovered through a study that sing to the you drink during the first months of life can be crucial for the language learning.
The study concluded that babies learn languages from rhythmic information (rise and fall of pitch), as seen in nursery rhymes or songsalphabet song case.
The study findings, published in the journal Nature Communicationschallenge the view that information phoneticsrepresented with the alphabetis the key to language learning.
To carry out the research, the scientists recorded the brain activity of 50 babies of four, seven and 11 months old while watching a video of a primary school teacher singing 18 children’s songs.
The researchers discovered that the phonetic coding in babies it appeared gradual way during the first year of life, beginning with dental sounds as the “d” and the “p” of “dad” and the nasal sounds as the “m” of “mother“.
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The teacher Usha Goswamiauthor of the study, said that the research “shows that individual speech sounds are not reliably processed until around seven months, thereafter individual speech sounds are added very slowly to form the basis of language”. “Parents should sing to their babies as much as possible because it will make a difference in the language outcome”Goswami concluded.
The study is part of the project BabyRhythm led by Goswami, which investigates how language is related to dyslexia and the Developmental disorders of language.
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