Publications

Cristia, A., Lavechin, M., Scaff, C., Soderstrom, M., Rowland , C., Räsänen, O., Bunce , J. & Bergelson, E. (2020). A thorough evaluation of the Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system. Behavior Research Methods, 53, 467-486. doi:10.3758/s13428-020-01393-5

Cristia, A., Farabolini, G. , Scaff, C., Havron, N. & Stieglitz, J. (2020). Infant-directed input and literacy effects on phonological processing: Non-word repetition scores among the Tsimane. PLoS ONE . doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0237702

Havron, N. & Arnon, I. (2020). Starting Big: The Effect of Unit Size on Language Learning in Children and Adults. Journal of Child Language. doi:10.31234/osf.io/pj7tg

Havron, N., Bergmann, C. & Tsuji, S. (2020). Preregistration in infant research—A primer. Infancy. doi:10.1111/infa.12353

The ManyBabies Consortium, .., Havron, N., Cristia, A. & Carbajal, J. (2020). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, .

Cristia, A. (2020). Language input and outcome variation as a test of theory plausibility: The case of early phonological acquisition. Developmental Review. doi:10.31219/osf.io/8pnhr

Cychosz, M. , Romeo, R. , Soderstrom, M. , Scaff, C., Ganek, H. , Cristia, A., Casillas , M., de Barbaro, K. , Bang, J. & Weisleder, A. (2020). Longform recordings of everyday life: Ethics for best practices. Behavior Research Methods. doi:10.3758/s13428-020-01365-9

Tsuji, S., Cristia, A., Franck , M. & Bergmann, C. (2020). Addressing Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis: Empirical Findings From Community-Augmented Meta-Analyses of Infant Language Development. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 228(1), 50-61. doi:10.1027/2151-2604/a000393

Tsuji, S., Jincho, N. , Mazuka, R. & Cristia, A. (2020). Communicative cues in the absence of a human interaction partner enhance 12-month-old infants’ word learning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 191, 104740. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104740

Wang, X., Du, J., Cristia, A., Sun, L. & Lee, C. (2020). A Study of Child Speech Extraction Using Joint Speech Enhancement and Separation in Realistic Conditions. In ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, 7304-7308. doi:10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9053875

Cristia, A., Bulgarelli, F. & Bergelson, E. (2020). Accuracy of the Language Environment Analysis System Segmentation and Metrics: A Systematic Review. , 1-13. doi:10.1044/2020_JSLHR-19-00017

Balsa, A. , López Boo, F. , Bloomfield, J. , Cristia, A., Cid, A. , de la Paz Ferro, M. , Valdés, R. & del Luján González, M. (2021). Effect of Crianza Positiva e-messaging program on adult–child language interactions. Behavioural Public Policy, 1-37. doi:10.1017/bpp.2021.25

Semenzin, C. , Hamrick, L., Seidl, A., Kelleher, B. & Cristia, A. (2021). Towards Large-Scale Data Annotation of Audio from Wearables: Validating Zooniverse Annotations of Infant Vocalization Types. In 2021 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), Shenzhen, China: IEEE, 1079-1085. doi:10.1109/SLT48900.2021.9383511

Piot, L. , Havron, N. & Cristia, A. (2021). Socioeconomic status correlates with measures of Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system: A meta-analysis. . Journal of Child Language, 1-15. doi:10.1017/S0305000921000441[Opens in a new window]

Tsuji, S., Cristia, A. & Dupoux, E. (2021). SCALa: A blueprint for computational models of language acquisition in social context. Cognition, 104779. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104779

Tsuji, S., Fiévet, A. & Cristia, A. (2021). Toddler word learning from contingent screens with and without human presence. Infant Behavior and Development , 63, 101553. doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101553

Räsänen, O., Seshadri, S., Lavechin, M., Cristia, A. & Casillas , M. (2021). ALICE: An open-source tool for automatic measurement of phoneme, syllable, and word counts from child-centered daylong recordings. Behav Res, 53, 818–835. doi:10.3758/s13428-020-01460-x

Semenzin, C. , Hamrick, L., Seidl, A., Kelleher, B. & Cristia, A. (2021). Theory evaluation in the age of cumulative science. In 2021 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), Shenzhen, China, 1079-1085. doi:10.1109/SLT48900.2021.9383511

Semenzin, C. , Hamrick, L., Seidl, A., Kelleher, B. & Cristia, A. (2021). Describing Vocalizations in Young Children: A Big Data Approach Through Citizen Science Annotation. . doi:10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00661

Wang, Y., Seidl, A. & Cristia, A. (2021). Infant speech perception and cognitive skills as predictors of later vocabulary Author links open overlay panel. Infant Behavior and Development, 62, 101524. doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101524

Cychosz, M. & Cristia, A. (2022). Using big data from long-form recordings to study development and optimize societal impact. Advances in child development and behavior, 62, 1-36. doi:10.1016/bs.acdb.2021.12.001

Gautheron, L., Rochat, N. & Cristia, A. (2022). Managing, storing, and sharing long-form recordings and their annotations. Lang Resources & Evaluation. doi:10.1007/s10579-022-09579-3

Loukatou, G., Stoll, S., Blasi, D. & Cristia, A. (2022). Does morphological complexity affect word segmentation? Evidence from computational modeling. Cognition, 220, 104960. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104960

Scaff, C., Fibla, L. & Cristia, A. (2022). Factors structuring lexical development in toddlers: The effects of parental education, language exposure, and age. . Journal of Child Language, 1-2. doi:10.1017/S0305000922000186

Cristia, A. (2022). A systematic review suggests marked differences in the prevalence of infant-directed vocalization across groups of populations. Developmental Science. doi:10.1111/desc.13265

Ludusan, B., Cristia, A., Mazuka, R. & Dupoux, E. (2022). How much does prosody help word segmentation? A simulation study on infant-directed speech. Cognition, 219(104961). doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104961

Léon, M. , Meera, S. , Fiévet, A. & Cristia, A. (2023). Long-form recordings in low- and middle-income countries: recommendations to achieve respectful research. Research Ethics. doi:10.1177/17470161231199382

Andrea Cruz Blandón, M., Cristia, A. & Räsänen, O. (2023). Introducing Meta-analysis in the Evaluation of Computational Models of Infant Language Development. Cognitive science, 47(7), e13307. doi:10.1111/cogs.13307

Cristia, A., Gautheron, L. & Colleran, H. (2023). Vocal input and output among infants in a multilingual context: Evidence from long-form recordings in Vanuatu. Developmental science, e13375. doi:10.1111/desc.13375

Cristia, A., Foushee, R., Aravena-Bravo, P., Cychosz, M. , Scaff, C. & Casillas , M. (2023). Combining observational and experimental approaches to the development of language and communication in rural samples: Opportunities and challenges. Journal of child language, 50(3), 495-517. doi:10.1017/S0305000922000617