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Across demographics and recent history, most parents sing to their infants and toddlers daily

2021-04-25

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<p>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 individ...

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Literature Corpus work: 973c6e88-d57f-5152-841e-5af5999aa0ae
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/fy5bh

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