Welcome
Welcome to Dr. Yueyan Tang, who joins the lab as a postdoctoral researcher
Postdoctoral Researcher
Studying how children learn language from the world around them.
Latest from the Lab
Research update
Using eye-tracking glasses to measure children's sign language exposure in schools and homes
SFUSD · The Learning Tree Preschool · family homes
September
4–6
2026
Public talk
Speaking with families at the Northern California Hands & Voices Family Camp
September 2026 · Pine Grove, CA
New paper
Canonical babbling ratio development in infancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of methodological and ambient language influences
Cychosz & Long
Developmental Science · 2026
New paper
Child-directed speech and infant vocal development in rural, highland Bolivia and in immigrant families in urban United States
Cychosz, Villanueva & Weisleder
Child Development · 2026
Conference presentation
Fine-tuned speech representations track spoken language convergence to adult models in infants and children who are deaf/hard-of-hearing
Choy, Khan, Patrizi, Ye, Gross & Cychosz
CDL workshop at ACL · San Diego · 2026
Conference presentation
Infrequent child-directed speech is bursty and may draw infant vocalizations
Cychosz & Weisleder
IEEE ICDL · Kyoto, Japan · 2026
New paper
Connecting preschoolers' spontaneous speech patterns to future language skills: A 3-year concurrent and longitudinal cohort study of canonical proportion as a developmental index
Ott & Cychosz
JSLHR · 2026
October
24
2025
Public talk
Learning to Listen: LENA Recordings and Your Child’s Language
October 24, 2025 · John Tracy Center
Our Work
We combine computational and experimental techniques to study how children aged birth–6 years learn speech and language.
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Computational
Natural Language Processing
Modeling the language children hear and produce.
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Computational
Machine Learning
Finding structure in large recordings of speech.
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Experimental
Eye-tracking
Measuring what children attend to as they listen.
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Experimental
Acoustic & Auditory Phonetics
Analyzing the sounds of early speech in detail.
Our research and collaborations span 13 countries on five continents.
- Stanford, USA
- La Paz, Bolivia
- Amazon region, Peru
- Amazon region, Ecuador
- Amazon region, Brazil
- Paris, France
- Rome, Italy
- Ankara, Türkiye
- Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
- Bangalore, India
- Chengdu, China
- Singapore
- Tokyo, Japan
We maintain close clinical and community partnerships with
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