Everyday Music in Infancy

Autor/inn/en	Mendoza, Jennifer K.; Fausey, Caitlin M.
Titel	Everyday Music in Infancy
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 24 (2021) 6, (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1467-7687
DOI	10.1111/desc.13122
Schlagwörter	Infants; Music; Ecology; Learning Processes; Learning Theories; Child Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Musik; Ökologie; Learning process; Lernprozess; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Kindesentwicklung
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. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01