When does native language input affect phonetic perception? The precocious case of lexical tone

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Infants' Perception of Intonation: Is It a Statement or a Question? (2014, background): “It is known that phonetic salience plays a role in the development of perceptual sensitivity (Narayan et al., 2010; Yeung et al., 2013), and pitch contrasts seem to be especially salient to infants and are detected earlier than other sound features (Bion, Benavides-Varela, & Nespor, 2011; He, Hotson”
Critical periods in speech perception: new directions. (2015, background): “Similarly, although the ability to discriminate between nonnative lexical tones appears to narrow only between 6–8 and 8–10 months of life (Mattock et al. 2008, Yeung et al. 2013), familiaritybased changes in preference are evident months earlier (Yeung et al. 2013).”
Perceptual beginnings to language acquisition (2018, background): “…are apparent, for example, on the internal structure of native phonetic vowel categories (Kuhl, 1991), in preference for syllables containing native lexical tones among tone-language learning infants (see Yeung et al., 2013), and even for vowels heard in utero (Moon, Lagerkrantz, & Kuhl, 2013).”