?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Perception+of+linguistic+rhythm+by+newborn+infants&rft.creator=Ramus%2C+Franck&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Developmental+Psychology&rft.subject=Phonology&rft.subject=Perceptual+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Psycholinguistics&rft.description=Previous+studies+have+shown+that+newborn+infants+are+able+to+discriminate+between+certain+languages%2C+and+it+has+been+suggested+that+they+do+so+by+categorizing+varieties+of+speech+rhythm.+However%2C+in+order+to+confirm+this+hypothesis%2C+it+is+necessary+to+show+that+language+discrimination+is+still+performed+by+newborns+when+all+speech+cues+other+than+rhythm+are+removed.+Here%2C+we+conducted+a+series+of+experiments+assessing+discrimination+between+Dutch+and+Japanese+by+newborn+infants%2C+using+a+speech+resynthesis+technique+to+progressively+degrade+non-rhythmical+properties+of+the+sentences.+When+the+stimuli+are+resynthesized+using+identical+phonemes+and+artificial+intonation+contours+for+the+two+languages%2C+thereby+preserving+only+their+rhythmic+structure%2C+newborns+are+still+able+to+discriminate+the+languages.+We+conclude+that+new-borns+are+able+to+classify+languages+according+to+their+type+of+rhythm%2C+and+that+this+ability+may+help+them+bootstrap+other+phonological+properties+of+their+native+language.&rft.date=2000&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F872%2F3%2Fnewborns01.pdf&rft.identifier=++Ramus%2C+Franck++(2000)+Perception+of+linguistic+rhythm+by+newborn+infants.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F872%2F