Language discrimination by newborns: toward an understanding of the role of rhythm.

By Thierry Nazzi, J. Bertoncini, J. Mehler. 1998

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Infants' Perception of Intonation: Is It a Statement or a Question? (2014, background): “Rising/falling Japanese pitch accent discriminated by French newborns (Nazzi et al., 1998), but by Japanese infants only at 6-8 months (Sogabe et al., 2006).”
A typological study of stress ‘deafness’ (2002, background): “An indication that this is a realistic assumption is that newborns rapidly become attuned to some global suprasegmental and rhythmic properties of their native language (Mehler, Jusczyk, Lambertz, Halsted, Bertoncini & Amiel-Tison 1988; Moon, Cooper & Fifer 1993; Mehler, Bertoncini, Dupoux & Pallier”
Language discrimination by newborns: Teasing apart phonotactic, rhythmic, and intonational cues (2002, unknown): “…experiments performed on new-borns to this day have used stimuli where speaker variability was either completely absent, through the use of a single bilingual speaker (Mehler et al., 1988; Moon et al., 1993), or at least strongly attenuated through the use of low-pass ﬁltering (Nazzi et al., 1998).”
Rhythm and reading development in school-age children: a longitudinal study (2007, unknown): “(i.e., English, Dutch [stress-based] vs Japanese [mora-based], Nazzi, Bertoncini & Mehler, 1998 ).”
Infants Perception of Rhythmic Patterns (2006, background): “They also differentiate stress-timed English and Dutch utterances from syllable-timed Spanish and Italian utterances, but they show no such differentiation of languages that are stress-timed (Nazzi et al., 1998).”