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While reading to your baby, it may be the back-and-forth cooing and talking, not just the sound of words being read from a page, that is the key to language development, according to new research at the University of Iowa (UI).
For the study, researchers observed how mothers responded to their 12-month-old babies during book reading, puppet play, and toy play. They found that the babies made more speech-like sounds during reading than when playing with puppets or toys. They also discovered that mothers were more responsive to these types of sounds while reading to their child than during the other activities.
These findings might help explain why reading has been so strongly associated with language development in young children.
“A lot of research shows that book reading even to infants as young as six months of age is important to language outcomes, but I’m trying to explain why by looking at the specifics, which could be responding to speech-like sounds,” said Dr. Julie Gros-Louis, assistant professor of psychology at the UI and corresponding author on the study.
The researchers also found that no matter the context, mothers’ responses to speech-like sounds were often imitations or an expansion of the sound. For instance, if the baby said, “Ba,” the mother might respond with “Ba-ba” or “Ball,” even if it had nothing to do with the story. Mothers also frequently pointed at objects in the pictures and identified them, such as “horse.”
Gros-Louis says she used mothers and their babies for this study because their interactions have been studied more than those between fathers and their children. That would make it easier to compare the current results to past findings.
What does the passage discuss?
Reading to infants is essentially important.
First language is acquired through reading to babies.
Mother and her baby develop innate relationship.
Infants start learning languages at the age of 6 months.
Infants learn more from their mother than father.
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