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Peer-reviewed work from the SPOG Lab on how children learn speech and language. For a complete list, visit Google Scholar.

Publications
23
Years active
2020–2026
Journals & venues
15
Peer-reviewed
21
Most recentMeta-Analysis

Canonical Babbling Ratio Development in Infancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Methodological and Ambient Language Influences

M Cychosz, HL Long

Developmental Science 29(3), e70139 · 2026

Read the paper DOI 10.1111/desc.70139

2026

2 papers
Infrequent Child-Directed Speech Is Bursty and May Draw Infant Vocalizations

M Cychosz, A Weisleder

arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.23797

Preprint
The Development of Canonical Proportion as a Function of Community, Multilingualism, and Target Language's Syllable Complexity

KJ Tey, S Walker, A Seidl, C Scaff, L Peurey, BL Kelleher, W Havard, ... M Cychosz

Journal of Child Language, 1-21

2025

9 papers
Employing self-supervised learning models for cross-linguistic child speech maturity classification

T Zhang, M Suresh, AS Warlaumont, K Hitczenko, A Cristia, M Cychosz

arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.08999

Preprint
Bilingual language input to infants in Bolivia and the United States

M Cychosz, A Villanueva, A Weisleder

Infancy 30(2), e70009

Cross-Cultural
Speech Maturity Dataset: A cross-cultural corpus of naturalistic child and adult vocalizations

K Hitczenko, L Peurey, WN Harvard, KJ Tey, A Seidl, ... M Cychosz

OSF Preprints

Dataset
Frequency and informativity of phonological input directed to children in the first four years of life

A Pawar, M Cychosz

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 47

Can automated vocal analyses over child-centered audio recordings be used to predict speech-language development?

CM Ott, M Cychosz

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 47

Computational
Bursty, irregular speech input to children predicts vocabulary size

M Cychosz, RR Romeo, JR Edwards, RS Newman

Developmental Science 28(1), e13590

Rapid increases in children's spontaneous and responsive speech vocalizations following cochlear implantation

M Cychosz, C Scarpelli, J Stephans, AM Sola, K Kolhede, R Ramirez, ...

Ear and Hearing 46(4), 1029-1043

Hearing Loss
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the development of coarticulation in child speech

A Boulom, C Cram, N Guymon, J McGahay, Z Metzler, E Montilla, V Shetty, ... M Cychosz

JASA 157(4_Supplement), A329-A330

Meta-Analysis

2024

4 papers
Establishing the reliability of metrics extracted from long-form recordings using LENA and the ACLEW pipeline

A Cristia, L Gautheron, Z Zhang, B Schuller, C Scaff, C Rowland, ... M Cychosz

Behavior Research Methods 56(8), 8588-8607

Towards diversifying early language development research: The first truly global international summer/winter school on language acquisition

P Aravena-Bravo, A Cristia, R Garcia, H Kotera, RK Nicolas, R Laranjo, ... M Cychosz

Journal of Cognition and Development 25(2), 242-260

Cross-Cultural
How to vocode: Using channel vocoders for cochlear-implant research

M Cychosz, M Winn, MJ Goupell

JASA 155(4), 2407-2437

Methods
The everyday speech environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants

M Cychosz, JR Edwards, B Munson, R Romeo, J Kosie, RS Newman

Journal of Child Language, 1-22

Hearing Loss

2021

3 papers
Cross-Cultural

2020

1 paper
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Dr. Cychosz's most recent CV is available on her personal website, and a complete publication list on Google Scholar.