A precursor of language acquisition in young infants.

By Jacques Mehler, Peter W. Jusczyk, G. Lambertz, Nilofar Halsted, J. Bertoncini, C. Amiel‐Tison. 1988

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Early Experience & Multisensory Perceptual Narrowing (2014, background): “It is known that infants can distinguish between languages on the basis of their prosody starting at birth (Mehler et al., 1988; Nazzi, Bertoncini, & Mehler, 1998) and that this early and broad sensitivity becomes refined and attuned to the specific prosodic characteristics of their native language…”
Language Discrimination by English-Learning 5-Month-Olds: Effects of Rhythm and Familiarity (2000, methodology): “Although both newborns and 5-month-olds discriminate pairs of foreign languages from different rhythmic classes, both Mehler et al. (1988) and Christophe and Morton (1998) were unable to establish that Englishlearning 2-month-olds discriminated such pairs (French‐Russian, French‐Japanese, and Dutc”
The role of accentual pattern in early lexical representation (2004, background): “With respect to the recognition of familiar speech patterns, however, infants have been found to be responsive to native language prosodic patterns from soon after birth (Mehler et al., 1988), but to respond differentially to native vs.”
Amplitude envelope perception, phonology and prosodic sensitivity in children with developmental dyslexia (2010, unknown): “…rhythm is carried in particular by the onsets of amplitude envelopes or rise times, amplitude depth and fundamental frequency, and it is known that awareness of the basic rhythm type of the ambient language arises early in infancy (Mehler et al., 1988; de Boysson-Bardies, Sagart, & Durand, 1984).”
The processing of German word stress: evidence for the prosodic hierarchy* (2008, background): “For instance, it has been shown that prosodic information plays a crucial role in word segmentation in early language acquisition (e.g. Mehler et al. 1988, Nazzi et al. 1998) and in spoken word recognition in adults (the Metrical Segmentation Strategy: Cutler & Clifton 1984, Cutler & Norris 1988,…”
Neural network processing of natural language: I. Sensitivity to serial, temporal and abstract structure of language in the infant (2000, background): “Already within the rst days after birth, human infants are capable of discriminating between unfamiliar languages from different rhythm classes based on prosodic information (Mehler et al., 1988; Nazzi et al., 1998).”
Deaf children need language, not (just) speech (2019, unknown): “For these children, language acquisition begins at birth, and even before (e.g., DeCasper & Fifer, 1980; Mehler et al., 1988).”
Developmental changes in perception of nonnative vowel contrasts. (1994, methodology): “In addition, variations of this procedure have been used successfully to test speech discrimination in infants from 2 months ( Mehler et al., 1988 ) to 14 months of age (Best et al., 1988).”
Speech perception as a window for understanding plasticity and commitment in language systems of the brain. (2005, background): “…showing a preference for speech over nonspeech that is not easily explained by prenatal experience (Vouloumanos & Werker, 2004b), and are able to discriminate language from different rhythmical classes (Mehler et al., 1988)—but only if the speech is played forwards (Ramus, Nespor, & Mehler, 1999).”