Exploration and play are closely linked in infants where, for example, discovering that a toy makes a noise leads to infants repeating the action that made the noise.
Kicking and waving their arms while lying in their cot can lead them to discover that a kick can make a banging sound. Even young babies love to learn about the world through exploration.Heightens curiosity and encourages exploration.Giving babies plenty of opportunities to hear music, singing, rhythm and talk enhances their learning and prepares them for the social world where they will talk, sing, play and listen to music. Even in their first year babies are distinguishing between musical tunes on the basis of rhythmic patterns and later they begin to recognise the same melody played in a different key. At the same time they become increasingly sensitive to music and musical patterns. As babies develop their auditory abilities narrow so that eventually babies are only sensitive to those sound categories specific to their native language.Īs soon as babies are born they are influenced by what they hear around them and modify what they able to hear, accordingly. Young babies are quite sensitive in their auditory abilities and can perceive all the categorical sound distinctions in world languages.
This is sometimes referred to as ‘infant directed speech’ or even ‘baby talk’. They are especially aware of the sound of language and like to be spoken to slowly and with a high pitch. Young infants listen longer to the sound of human voice and seem to prefer it to any other sound. This ability to recognise the direction that a sound is coming from improves greatly during the first few years of life. Infants will turn towards the sound of a toy and begin to reach towards it.
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