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In a secondary analysis, we explored whether formal training affected how tempo, articulation, dynamics, rhythm, and phrasing were employed to express the target emotions. Mothers were interviewed on musical background, musical preferences, beliefs and uses of music with their infants.

g., children's songs, counting songs, and nursery rhymes), improvising songs to accompany everyday routines, dancing, playing musical (including toy) instruments, and listening to recorded music [34][35].

Using a telephone survey of 1065 6-month-to 6-year-olds in the USA, Rideout, Vendewater and Wartella (2003) discovered that 69% of birth to 3-year-olds listened to recorded music on a daily basis, with those children listening for an average of 1 h and 24 min per day. Although there is broad agreement that learning processes affect how we represent, comprehend, and produce language and music, there is little understanding of the content and dynamics of the early language-music environment in the first years of life.

In this paper, after first reviewing the limitations of traditional developmental approaches to understanding language-music interaction, we describe how a developmental-ecological approach can not only inform developmental theories of language-music learning, but also address challenges inherent to neurocognitive and genetic approaches. Secondly, different aspects of the young child’s socio-musical environment were examined using Ecological Systems Theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1979; 2005).Especially in early childhood, parents and their musical practices in the home environment have a major influence on children's musical lives (Ilari, 2018). Neurocognitive and genetic approaches have made progress in understanding language-music interaction in the adult brain. For example, the Canadian mothers with immigration backgrounds were reported to listen to and sing lullabies and children's songs of their culture and in their native languages to their infants more often than in the languages used in the host country (Ilari, 2005). The ‘Baby’ firms redefine babies solely as early learners whose potential to learn can be released by these firms' brand-name ‘educational’ or ‘developmental’ products. Using experience sampling, Lamont (2008) concluded that recorded music was present during 81% of the waking hours of 3.