ArticleDevelopmental science2021
Everyday music in infancy.
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- InCHORRRuS: Infant-Directed Communication Highlights and Organizes Repetition and Redundancy Through Rhythmic Structure.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Review
- Patterns and Predictors of Children's Musical Engagement From an Aotearoa NZ Longitudinal Cohort.Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · 2026Article
- Brief Report: Telehealth Music-Enhanced Reciprocal Imitation Training in Autism: A Single-Subject Feasibility Study of a Virtual Parent Coaching Intervention.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Sounds of Hidden Agents: The Development of Causal Reasoning About Musical Sounds.Developmental science · 2025Article
- Temporal patterns in the complexity of child-directed song lyrics reflect their functions.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Bursty, Irregular Speech Input to Children Predicts Vocabulary Size.Developmental science · 2025Article
- Pitch characteristics of real-world infant-directed speech vary with pragmatic context, perceived adult gender, and infant gender.PloS one · 2025Article
- Infants' home auditory environment: Background sounds shape language interactions.Developmental psychology · 2024Article
- Music@Home-Retrospective: A new measure to retrospectively assess childhood home musical environments.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Comparison of speech and music input in North American infants' home environment over the first 2 years of life.Developmental science · 2024Article
- Social interaction links active musical rhythm engagement and expressive communication in autistic toddlers.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- Preschoolers' home music environment relates to their home literacy environment and parental self-efficacy.PloS one · 2024Article
- Infant attention to rhythmic audiovisual synchrony is modulated by stimulus properties.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Early social communication through music: State of the art and future perspectives.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2023Review
- Universality, domain-specificity, and development of psychological responses to music.Nature reviews psychology · 2023Article
- Children infer the behavioral contexts of unfamiliar foreign songs.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2023Article
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Abstract
Infants enculturate to their soundscape over the first year of life, yet theories of how they do so rarely make contact with details about the sounds available in everyday life. Here, we report on properties of a ubiquitous early ecology in which foundational skills get built: music. We captured daylong recordings from 35 infants ages 6-12 months at home and fully double-coded 467 h of everyday sounds for music and its features, tunes, and voices. Analyses of this first-of-its-kind corpus revealed two distributional properties of infants' everyday musical ecology. First, infants encountered vocal music in over half, and instrumental in over three-quarters, of everyday music. Live sources generated one-third, and recorded sources three-quarters, of everyday music. Second, infants did not encounter each individual tune and voice in their day equally often. Instead, the most available identity cumulated to many more seconds of the day than would be expected under a uniform distribution. These properties of everyday music in human infancy are different from what is discoverable in environments highly constrained by context (e.g., laboratories) and time (e.g., minutes rather than hours). Together with recent insights about the everyday motor, language, and visual ecologies of infancy, these findings reinforce an emerging priority to build theories of development that address the opportunities and challenges of real input encountered by real learners.
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