Talk:Kitten/@comment-24947466-20150815204648

Prosody also seems to explain infants' preference for their mother's voice (Mehler, Bertoncini, Barfi~re, & Jassik-Gerschenfeld, 1978)

from Nazzi, T., Bertoncini, J., & Mehler, J. (1998). Language discrimination by newborns: toward an understanding of the role of rhythm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human perception and performance,  24(3), 756.