The Influence of Hearing Discrete Phonemes in Mother's Voice in the Infant's Natural Environment and With Natural Melody on Developing Phonetic Categories Between 4-10 Months Old

Maaynei Hayesha Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Healthy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01003041

1010

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to record voice samples of infant's mothers, process in samples to a phonetic musical piece, play the phonetic musical piece to 4-10 month old infants, and then test the infants in a conditioned head turning test in lab, and to analyze the results.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 10 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• normal newborn infants
• males and females
• age 4 months to 10 months old

Exclusion criteria

• chronic illness
• hearing loss
• history of otitis media
• serious otitis media

Trial design

50 participants in 1 patient group

lifestyle counseling

Description:

in the future parents will be advised to expose their infants to phonetic sounds in order to develop their phonetic categories in the future