<p>Why reading nursery rhymes and singing to babies may help them to learn language</p>

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<li><strong>Phonetic information – the smallest sound elements of speech – may not be the basis of language learning in babies as previously thought</strong><strong> </strong></li>
<li><strong>Babies don’t begin to process phonetic information reliably until seven months old – which researchers say is too late to form the foundation of language</strong></li>
<li><strong>Instead, babies learn from rhythmic information – the changing emphasis of syllables in speech – which unlike phonetic information, can be heard in the womb</strong></li>
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