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

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01003041

Enrollment

Registered

2009-10-28

Start date

2009-10-31

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2009-10-28

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Conditions

Healthy

Keywords

healthy normal infants

Brief summary

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.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_CROSSOVER

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

4 Months to 10 Months

Healthy volunteers

Yes

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

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Response by head-turning test to familiar and unfamiliar phonetic categories	one year

Outcome results