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

Coffey, J. & Cristia, A. (2024). Long-Form Recordings to Study Children’s Language Input and Output in Under-Resourced Contexts. In Rooweither Mabuya, Muzi Matfunjwa, Mmasibidi Setaka, Menno van Zaanen (Eds.), In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages @ LREC-COLING 2024, Torino, Italia, ELRA and ICCL, 20–31.

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

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

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

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

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

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). Analysing the Impact of Audio Quality on the Use of Naturalistic Long-Form Recordings for Infant-Directed Speech Research. In M. Goldwater, F. K. Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.), Vol. 45: In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

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

Bordonaba Plou, D. , Castro, V. & Torices, J. (2022). The Political Turn in Analytic Philosophy: Reflections on Social Injustice and Oppression. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110612318