Language discrimination by newborns: Teasing apart phonotactic, rhythmic, and intonational cues

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The Infant's Auditory World: Hearing, Speech, and the Beginnings of Language (2007, background): “With these stimuli, French newborns were still able to discriminate languages from two different rhythmic classes (Ramus, 2002; Ramus et al., 2000), although levels of discrimination were somewhat attenuated.”
The prosodic bootstrapping of phrases: Evidence from prelinguistic infants (2003, methodology): “As with Experiments 1 and 2, an analysis of the pattern of looking times was performed using an ANOVA with one between-subjects factor (Familiarization Group) and two within-subjects factors (Trial: first or last, and Sequence Type).”
Within-rhythm Class Native Language Discrimination Abilities of Basque-Spanish Monolingual and Bilingual Infants at 3.5 Months of Age (2014, background): “, English, a stress-timed language versus Japanese, a mora-timed language), even if both languages are unfamiliar to them (e.g., Mehler et al., 1988; Moon, Cooper, & Fifer, 1993; Nazzi, Bertoncini, & Mehler, 1998; Ramus, 2002).”