Recent Publications

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

Soderstrom, M., Casillas, M., Gornik, M., Bouchard, M., MacEwan, S., Shokrkon, A., Bunce, J. (in press). 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.