Using music to facilitate infant word learning

Previous studies on infant word-object learning suggest that infants as young as 6-months of age are capable of learning word-object relationships when labeled by their mother (Matayaho & Gogate, 2008). Yet, the unexplored topic that music could influence infants' learning led to the conduction of this present study. Sixteen 6-8 month old infants heard two novel word-object pairs being labeled. Eight of the infants heard the word-object pair being labeled through speech, while the other 8 heard the pair being labeled through song. Results indicated that infants within the song condition performed better than the infants in the speech condition for identifying the correct word-object pair. Un-hypothesized results also indicated that girls performed better than boys. These findings are discussed and if replicated imply that singing, as opposed to speaking words, may facilitate young infants word-object learning.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Alabama Libraries

Year dc:date.issued

2013

Author dc:creator

• Granger, Jessica Anise Marian

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Hernandez-Reif, Maria

Contributors dc:contributor

• Lian, Bradley E.
• Scofield, Jason M.

• Behavioral sciences

Statement dc:rights

• All rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated.

Language dc:language.iso

en_US, English

Dc Identifier Other

u0015_0000001_0001394
Granger_alatus_0004M_11715

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ir.ua.edu:123456789/1860