Publications

Van Heugten, M., Bergmann, C. & Cristia, A. (2015). The effects of talker voice and accent on young children’s speech perception. In Fuchs, S., Petrone, C., Pape, D. & Perrier, P. (Eds.), Speech Production and Perception (Vol. 3, pp. 57-88).Berlin: Peter Lang. . doi:10.1111/infa.12232

Wang, Y., Seidl, A. & Cristia, A. (2016). Acoustic modifications in infant-directed speech as a function of stress typology. In J. Heinz, R. Goedemans, & H. van der Hulst (Eds.), Dimensions of stress (pp. 311-326).Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316212745.012

Willems, M. & Cristia, A. (2017). Hemodynamic methods: fMRI and fNIRS. In A. de Groot & P. Hagoort (Eds.), Research Methods in Psycholinguistics and the Neurobiology of Language.Boston: Wiley

Cristia, A. & Peperkamp, S. (2012). Generalizing without encoding specifics: Infants infer phonotactic patterns on sound classes. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 126-138.

Seidl, A., Warlaumont, A. & Cristia, A. (2019). Towards detection of canonical babbling by citizen scientists: Performance as a function of clip length. In Proceedings of Interspeech, Graz, Austria.

Schuller, B., Batliner, A., Bergler, C., Pokorny, F., Krajewski, J., Cychosz, M., Vollmann, R., Roelen, S., Schnieder, S., Bergelson, E. & Cristia, A. (2019). The INTERSPEECH 2019 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: Styrian Dialects, Continuous Sleepiness, Baby Sounds & Orca Activity. In Proceedings of Interspeech, Graz, Austria.

Ryant, N., Church, K., Cieri, C., Cristia, A., Ganapathy, S. & Liberman, M. (2019). Second DIHARD Diarization Challenge: Dataset, task, and baselines. In Proceedings of Interspeech, Graz, Austria.

Loukatou, G., Moran, S., Blasi, D., Stoll, S. & Cristia, A. (2019). Is word segmentation child’s play in all languages? In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Loukatou, G., Le Normand, M. & Cristia, A. (2019). Is it easier to segment words from infant-directed speech? Modeling evidence from an ecological French corpus. In Proceedings of the 41st Conference of Cognitive Science Society..

Havron, N., Babineau, M., Fiévet, A., de Carvalho, A. & Christophe, A. (2019). Young Children Build Syntactic Predictions During Language Processing and Use Them to Learn Novel-Word Meanings. In The 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA.

Futaisi Al, N., Zhang, Z., Cristia, A., Warlaumont, A. & Schuller, B. (2019). VCMNet: Weakly Supervised Learning for Automatic Infant Vocalisation Maturity Analysis. In 2019 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 205-209.

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

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

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

Futaisi Al, N., Cristia, A. & Schuller, B. (2023). Hearttoheart: The Arts of Infant Versus Adult-Directed Speech Classification. In ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, Greece, 1-5. doi:10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10096728

Seidl, A. & Cristia, A. (2008). Developmental changes in the weighting of prosodic cues. Developmental science, 11(4), 596-606. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00704.x

Schmale, R., Cristia, A. & Seidl, A. (2010). Infants’ word segmentation across dialects. Infancy, 15(6), 650-652

Cristia, A. (2010). Phonetic enhancement of sibilants in infant-directed speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128(1), 424-34. doi:10.1121/1.3436529

Skoruppa, K., Cristia, A., Peperkamp, S. & Seidl, A. (2011). English-learning infants’ perception of word stress patterns. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130(1), EL50-55. doi:10.1121/1.3590169

Minagawa-Kawai, Y., Cristia, A., Vendelin, I., Cabrol, D. & Dupoux, E. (2011). Assessing signal-driven mechanisms in neonates: Brain responses to temporally and spectrally different sounds. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 2, 135. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00135

Minagawa-Kawai, Y., Cristia, A. & Dupoux, E. (2011). Cerebral lateralization and early speech acquisition: A developmental scenario. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 1(3), 217-232. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2011.03.005

Cristia, A., Mcguire, G., Seidl, A. & Francis, A. (2011). Effects of the distribution of acoustic cues on infants' perception of sibilants. Journal of Phonetics, 39(3), 388-402. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2011.02.004

Cristia, A. (2011). Fine-grained variation in caregivers' /s/ predicts their infants' /s/ category. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129(5), 3271-3280. doi:10.1121/1.3562562

Seidl, A. & Cristia, A. (2012). Infants' learning of phonological status. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 448. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00448

Schmale, R., Cristia, A. & Seidl, A. (2012). Toddlers recognize words in an unfamiliar accent after brief exposure. Developmental Science, 15(6), 732-738. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01175.x

Cristia, A., Seidl, A., Vaughn, C., Schmale, R., Bradlow, A. & Floccia, C. (2012). Linguistic processing of accented speech across the lifespan. Frontiers in Cognition, 3, 479. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00479

Tsuji, S. & Cristia, A. (2013). Fifty years of infant vowel discrimination research: What have we learned? Journal of the Japanese Acoustical Society, 17(3), 1-11

Minagawa-Kawai, Y., Cristia, A., Long, B., Vendelin, I., Hakuno, Y., Dutat, M., Filippin, L., Cabrol, D. & Dupoux, E. (2013). Insights on NIRS sensitivity from a cross-linguistic study on the emergence of phonological grammar. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 4, 170. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00170

Cristia, A., Dupoux, E., Hakuna, Y., Lloyd-Fox, S., Schuetze, M., Kivits, J., Bergvelt, T., Van Gelder, M., Filippin, L., Charron, S. & Minagawa-Kawai, Y. (2013). An online database of infant functional Near InfraRed Spectroscopy studies: A community-augmented systematic review. PLoS One, 8(3), e58906. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058906

Cristia, A. (2013). Input to language: The phonetics and perception of infant-directed speech. Language and Linguistics Compass, 7, 157-170. doi:10.1111/lnc3.12015