Across demographics and recent history, most parents sing to their infants and toddlers daily.
Across demographics and recent history, most parents sing to their infants and toddlers daily.
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从人口统计数据和近代历史来看，大多数父母每天都会给婴儿和幼儿唱歌。
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10.1098/rstb.2021.0089
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2021
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Mehr,SamuelA
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Yan,Ran;Jessani,Ghazal;Spelke,ElizabethS;deVilliers,Peter;deVilliers,Jill;Mehr,SamuelA
音乐在人类社会中普遍存在，是年轻家庭生活的重要组成部分。在这里，我们研究的频率唱歌和播放录制的音乐在家里使用调查的父母与婴儿（N= 945）。我们发现，大多数父母每天都给婴儿唱歌，婴儿唱歌的频率与父母的收入或种族无关。然而，两个可靠的个体差异出现了：（i）父亲唱得比母亲少;（ii）随着婴儿年龄的增长，父母唱得更少。此外，儿童年龄的后一种影响只针对唱歌，并没有反映在播放录制音乐的频率报告中。最后，我们荟萃分析了婴儿指导唱歌频率的报告，发现在过去的30年里，尽管家庭技术环境发生了重大变化，但其频率几乎没有变化。这些研究结果与音乐的心理功能理论相一致，特别是婴儿指导的歌唱，证明了音乐在婴儿时期的日常性质。本文是主题问题“声音调制：从起源和机制到社会影响（第一部分）”的一部分。
Music is universally prevalent in human society and is a salient component of the lives of young families. Here, we studied the frequency of singing and playing recorded music in the home using surveys of parents with infants (N= 945). We found that most parents sing to their infant on a daily basis and the frequency of infant-directed singing is unrelated to parents’ income or ethnicity. Two reliable individual differences emerged, however: (i) fathers sing less than mothers and (ii) as infants grow older, parents sing less. Moreover, the latter effect of child age was specific to singing and was not reflected in reports of the frequency of playing recorded music. Last, we meta-analysed reports of the frequency of infant-directed singing and found little change in its frequency over the past 30 years, despite substantial changes in the technological environment in the home. These findings, consistent with theories of the psychological functions of music, in general, and infant-directed singing, in particular, demonstrate the everyday nature of music in infancy.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Voice modulation: from origin and mechanism to social impact (Part I)’.