EFFECTS OF LULLABIES ON LINGUISTIC AND MENTAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN

Lullabies have a great importance in our culture. It was thought that lullabies just helping the babies and children with falling into sleep, in old times. According to the new researches, it is understood that lullabies are told to educate the children. Lullabies provide a contribution on linguistic, mental, emotional, social and physical and mental development of children. Especially in the early age, like babies, lullabies help the improvement of the mental development. For the children it helps to improve the skill of discovering the sound features of language, recognizing the sounds, and noticing syllable and words. Thus, it constitutes a base for the listening, speaking and reading. So, lullabies should be considered very important and necessary information about lullabies are given to the mothers.