You might think that you don't have to talk to babies because they'd understand anything, but it seems to be wrong.
Parents should start speaking to their new babies using sing-song speech, like nursery rhymes, as soon as possible, according to a new study.
Let's find out more about the experiment that proves it.
Learning Is Complex
In the very beginning, infants acquire languages mainly through rhythmic information, not phonetic information.
Phonetic information, denoting the smallest sound elements of human speech, is typically regarded as the bedrock of language.
Nonetheless, recent research indicates that infants learn phonetic information too slowly to construct words effectively.
Rhythmic speech aids kids by highlighting the distinctions between individual words, proving effective even in their earliest months.
The processing of phonetic information becomes reliably established only at around 7 months, and it remains limited at 11 months, coinciding with the onset of kids uttering their first words.
How It Was Tested
The team of specialists recorded electrical brain activity in fifty kids and found that phonetic encoding in them emerged gradually over their first year.
They claim that speech rhythm information is the key to language learning and suggest parents talk and sing to their infants as much as they can.
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