Recent Publications

Lucca, K., Yuen, F., Wang, Y., Alessandroni, N., Allison, O., Alvarez, M., … Soderstrom, M, … Hamlin, J. K. (2025). Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study. Developmental science, 28(1), e13581. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13581

Bunce, J., Soderstrom, M., Bergelson, E., Rosemberg, C., Stein, A., Alam, F., … Casillas, M. (2025). A cross-linguistic examination of young children’s everyday language experiences. Journal of Child Language, 52(4), 786–814. doi:10.1017/S030500092400028X

Alessandroni, N., Altschul, D., Bazhydai, M., Byers-Heinlein, K., Elsherif, M., Gjoneska, B., Huber, L., Mazza, V., Miller, R., Nawroth, C., Pronizius, E., Qadri, M. A. J., Šlipogor, V., Soderstrom, M., Stevens, J. R., Visser, I., Williams, M., Zettersten, M., & Prétôt, L. (2024). Comparative cognition needs Big Team Science: How large-scale collaborations will unlock the future of the field. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 19, 67–72. https://doi.org/10.3819/CCBR.2024.190001

Soderstrom, M., Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Muñoz, L. E., Bochynska, A., Werker, J. F., Skarabela, B., … Tsui, A. S. M. (2024). Testing the relationship between preferences for infant-directed speech and vocabulary development: A multi-lab studyJournal of Child Language, 1–26. doi:10.1017/S0305000924000254

Schreiner, M. S., Zettersten, M., Bergmann, C., Frank, M. C., Fritzsche, T., Gonzalez‐Gomez, N., Hamlin, K., Kartushina, N., Kellier, D. J., Mani, N., Mayor, J., Saffran, J., Shukla, M., Silverstein, P., Soderstrom, M., & Lippold, M. (2024). Limited evidence of test‐retest reliability in infant‐directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment. Developmental Science, 27(6). https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13551

Zettersten, M., Cox, C., Bergmann, C., Tsui, A. S. M., Soderstrom, M., Mayor, J., Lundwall, R. A., Lewis, M., Kosie, J. E., Kartushina, N., Fusaroli, R., Frank, M. C., Byers-Heinlein, K., Black, A. K., & Mathur, M. B. (2024). Evidence for Infant-directed Speech Preference Is Consistent Across Large-scale, Multi-site Replication and Meta-analysis. Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science, 8, 439–461. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00134

Soderstrom, M., Casillas, M., Gornik, M., Bouchard, M., MacEwan, S., Shokrkon, A., Bunce, J. (2021). English-speaking Adults’ Labeling of Child-and Adult-directed speech across languages and its relationship to perception of affect. Frontiers in Psychology.

Soderstrom, M. (2021). Analysis of Children’s Everyday Language Experiences Using Longform Audio: Promises and pitfalls. Journal for the Study of Education and Development (Infancia y Aprendizaje), 44(2), 477-501.

Soderstrom, M., Casillas, M., Bergelson, E., Rosemberg, C., Alam, F., Warlaumont, A., & Bunce, J. (2021). A cross-cultural annotation system and metacorpus for studying infants’ real world language experience. Collabra: Psychology, 7(1), 23445.

Byers-Heinlein, K., Tsui, A. S. M., Bergmann, C., Black, A. K., Brown, A., Carbajal, M. J., … & Wermelinger, S. (2021). A Multilab Study of Bilingual Infants: Exploring the Preference for Infant-Directed Speech. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science4(1), 2515245920974622.

Byers-Heinlein, K., Tsui, R. K., van Renswoude, D., Black, A. K., Barr, R., Brown, A., … & Singh, L. (2020). The development of gaze following in monolingual and bilingual infants: A multi-lab study.  Infancy26(1), 4-38.

Cristia, A., Lavechin, M., Scaff, C., Soderstrom, M., Rowland, C., Räsänen, O., Bunce, J., Warlaumont, A., Bergelson, E. (2021). A thorough evaluation of the Language Environment Analysis (LENATM) system. Behavior Research Methods, 53(2), 467-486.

Cychosz, M., Romeo, R., Soderstrom, M., … Cristia, A., Casillas, M.,… (2020). Longform recordings of everyday life: Ethics for best practices. Behavior Research Methods, 52(5), 1951-1969.

Henrikson, B., Seidl, A., & Soderstrom, M. (2020). Perception of sibilant-liquid phonotactic frequency in full term and preterm infants. Journal of Child Language, 47(4), 893-907

The ManyBabies Consortium (2020). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 3(1), 24 – 52.

Cychosz, M., Romeo, R., Soderstrom, M., … Cristia, A., Casillas, M.,… (2020). Longform recordings of everyday life: Ethics for best practices. Behavior Research Methods.

Byers-Heinlein, K., Bergmann, C., Davies C., … Soderstrom, M. (2020). Building a collaborative Psychological Science: Lessons from ManyBabies 1. Canadian Psychology, 61(4), 349-363.

Räsänen, O., Seshadri, S., Karadayi, J., Riebling, E., Bunce, J., Cristia, A., Metze, F., Casillas, M. Rosemberg, C., Bergelson, E., Soderstrom, M. (2019). Automatic word count estimation from daylong child-centered recordings in various language environments using language-independent syllabification of speech. Speech Communication, 113, 63-80.

Cristia, A., Dupoux, E., Bernstein Ratner, N., & Soderstrom, M. (2019). Segmentability differences between child-directed and adult-directed speech: A systematic test with an ecologically valid corpus. Open Mind, 3, 13-22.

Bergelson, E, Casillas, M., Soderstrom, M., Seidl, A., Warlaumont, A., Amatuni, A., (2019). What Do North American Babies Hear? A large-scale cross-corpus analysis. Developmental Science, 22(1), e12724.

Räsänen O, Kakouros S, & Soderstrom M. (2018). Is infant-directed speech interesting because it is surprising? – Linking properties of IDS to statistical learning and attention at the prosodic level. Cognition, 178, 193-206.

Bernier D, & Soderstrom M. (2018).Was that my name? Infants’ listening in conversational multi-talker backgrounds. Journal of Child Language, 45(6), 1439-1449.

Soderstrom, M., Grauer, E., Dufault, B., & McDivitt, K. (2018). Influences of Number of Adults and Adult:Child ratios on the Quantity of Adult Language Input Across Childcare Settings. First Language, 38(6), 563-581.

Seidl, A., Cristia, A., Soderstrom, M., Ko, E. S., Abel, E. A., Kellerman, A., & Schwichtenberg, A. J. (2018). Infant-Mother Acoustic-Prosodic Alignment and Developmental Risk. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61(6), 1369-1380.

Frank, M., Bergelson, E., Bergman, C., Cristia, A., Floccia, C., Gervain, J., Hamlin, J.K., Hannon, E.E., Kline, M., Levelt, C., Lew-Williams, C., Nazzi, T., Panneon, R., Rabagliati, H., Soderstrom, M., Sullivan, J., Waxman, S., Yurovsky, D. (2017). A collaborative approach to infant research: Promoting reproducibility, best practices, and theory-building. Infancy, 22(4,) 421-435.