Publications

Lavechin, M., De Seyssel, M., Titeux, A. , Wisniewski, G., Bredin, H., Cristia, A. & Dupoux, E. (2025). Simulating Early Phonetic and Word Learning Without Linguistic Categories. Developmental science, 28(2), e13606. doi:10.1111/desc.13606

Laudańska, Z., Caunt, A., Cristia, A., Warlaumont, A., Patsis, K., Tomalski, P., Warreyn, P., H Abney, D., I Borjon, J., Airaksinen, M., Jh Jones, E., Bölte, S., Dall, M., Holzinger, D., Poustka, L., Roeyers, H., Wass, S., Zhang, D. & B Marschik, P. (2025). From data to discovery: Technology propels speech-language research and theory-building in developmental science. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 174, 106199. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106199

Cao, A., Lewis, M., Tsuji, S., Bergmann, C., Cristia, A. & C Frank, M. (2025). Estimating Age-Related Change in Infants' Linguistic and Cognitive Development Using (Meta-)Meta-Analysis. Developmental science, 28(4), e70028. doi:10.1111/desc.70028

S Meera, S., Swaminathan, D., Ranjani Venkata Murali, S., Raju, R., Srikar, M., Shyam Sundar, S., Amudhan, S., Cristia, A., Pawar, R., Rao, A., P Vasuki, P., Volme, S. & Mysore, A. (2025). Validation of the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) Automated Speech Processing Algorithm Labels for Adult and Child Segments in a Sample of Families From India. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR, 68(1), 40-53. doi:10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00099

Scaff, C. & Cristia, A. (2025). A Meta-Analysis of the Correlation Between Socioeconomic Status and Direct Measures of Young Children's Word Comprehension. Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, 30(4), e70035. doi:10.1111/infa.70035

Scaff, C., Loukatou, G., Cristia, A. & Havron, N. (2025). Demographic Biases in Naturalistic Language Recordings in the CHILDES Database. Developmental science, 28(3), e70011. doi:10.1111/desc.70011

Cassar, A. , Cristia, A., A. Grosjean, P. & Walker, S. (2025). It makes a village: child care and prosociality. J Econ Growth. doi:10.1007/s10887-025-09254-6

Lavechin, M., de Seyssel, M., Metais, M., Metze, F., Mohamed, A., Bredin, H., Dupoux, E. & Cristia, A. (2024). Modeling early phonetic acquisition from child-centered audio data. Cognition, 245, 105734. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105734

Scaff, C., Casillas , M., Stieglitz, J. & Cristia, A. (2024). Characterization of children's verbal input in a forager-farmer population using long-form audio recordings and diverse input definitions. Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, 29(2), 196-215. doi:10.1111/infa.12568

Julia Hermida, M., Narea, M., Singh, L. & Cristia, A. (2024). Insights into infant behavior and development from Latin America. Infant behavior & development, 76, 101979. doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101979

Léon, M. , Meera, S. , Fiévet, A. & Cristia, A. (2024). Long-form recordings in low-and middle-income countries: recommendations to achieve respectful research. Research Ethics, 20(1), 96-111. doi:10.1177/17470161231199382

Coffey, J. & Snedeker, J. (2024). Disentangling the roles of age and knowledge in early language acquisition: A fine-grained analysis of the vocabularies of infant and child language learners. Cognitive Psychology, 153(101681). doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2024.101681

Issard, C., Tsuji, S. & Cristia, A. (2023). Infants' preference for speech is stable across the first year of life: Meta-analytic evidence. Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, Online version. doi:10.1111/infa.12529

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. (2023). A systematic review suggests marked differences in the prevalence of infant-directed vocalization across groups of populations. Developmental science, 26(1), e13265. doi:10.1111/desc.13265

Gainsburg, I., Pauer, S., Abboub, N. , T Aloyo, E., Mourrat, J. & Cristia, A. (2023). How Effective Altruism Can Help Psychologists Maximize Their Impact. Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 18(1), 239-253. doi:10.1177/17456916221079596

Thouzeau, V., Bollée, J. , Cristia, A. & Chevallier, C. (2023). Decades of Trivers-Willard research on humans: What conclusions can be drawn? Evolution and Human Behavior, 44(4). doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2023.03.005

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

de Seyssel, M., Lavechin, M. & Dupoux, E. (2023). Realistic and broad-scope learning simulations: first results and challenges. Journal of child language, ., 1-24. doi:10.1017/S0305000923000272

Singh, L., Cristia, A., B Karasik, L., J Rajendra, S. & M Oakes, L. (2023). Diversity and representation in infant research: Barriers and bridges toward a globalized science of infant development. Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, 28(4), 708-737. doi:10.1111/infa.12545

Panneton, R., Cristia, A., Taylor, C. & Moon, C. (2023). Positive Valence Contributes to Hyperarticulation in Maternal Speech to Infants and Puppies. Journal of child language, ., 1-11. doi:10.1017/S0305000923000296

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

Bernard, M., Poli, M. , Karadayi, J. & Dupoux, E. (2023). Shennong: A Python toolbox for audio speech features extraction. Behavior research methods, . doi:10.3758/s13428-022-02029-6

Nguyen, T. , Kharitonov, E., Copet, J. , Adi, Y. , Hsu, W. , Elkahky, A. , Tomasello, P. , Algayres, R., Sagot, B., Mohamed, A. & Dupoux, E. (2023). Generative Spoken Dialogue Language Modeling. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 11, 250–266. doi:10.1162/tacl_a_00545

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

Cassar, A. , Cristia, A., A. Grosjean, P. & Walker, S. (2023). It Makes a Village: Allomaternal Care and Prosociality. UNSW Economics Working Paper . doi:10.2139/ssrn.4285074

Cheng, S. , Du, J., Niu, S. , Cristia, A., Wang, X., Wang, Q. & Lee, C. (2023). Using iterative adaptation and dynamic mask for child speech extraction under real-world multilingual conditions. Speech Communication, 152, 102956. doi:10.1016/j.specom.2023.102956

Aravena-Bravo, P., Cristia, A., Garcia, R. , Kotera, H. , Kunene Nicolas, R., Laranjo, R. & et al., .. (2023). Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: The First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021. Journal of Cognition and Development, 25(2), 242–260. doi:10.1080/15248372.2023.2231083

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

Riad, R., Lunven, M., Titeux, H., Cao, X., Hamet Bagnou, J., Lemoine, L., Montillot, J., Sliwinski, A., Youssov, K., Cleret de Langavant, L., Dupoux, E. & Bachoud-Levi, A. (2022). Predicting clinical scores in Huntington’s disease: a lightweight speech test. J Neurol, . doi:10.1007/s00415-022-11148-1