Publications

Hitczenko, K., Peurey, L., Havard, W. N., Tey, K. J.*, Seidl, A., Semenzin, C., . . . Cychosz, M., . . . Cristia, A. (under review). Speech Maturity Dataset: A cross-cultural corpus of naturalistic child and adult vocalizations. [Preprint] [Code & data]

Cychosz, M. (under review). Syllables, not words, minutes, or utterances, to accurately characterize verbal input to children. [Preprint]

Cychosz, M., Patrizi, S., & Martinez, A. (under review). Beyond speed and beyond prediction: The multi-faceted nature of speech processing in preschoolers and how it relates to language development. [Preprint]

Cychosz, M., Patrizi, S., Ye, D., Gross, J., Montilla, E., Stephans, J., Romeo, R., & Chan, D. K. (under review). Day in the life: Mapping speech sound development from 2,000+ days of children's everyday lives. [Preprint]

Cychosz, M. (under review). Who talks to children? Some guidelines to more accurately characterize children's verbal input.

Coffey, J. R., Koziol, A., Scaff, C., Natovich, T., Cychosz, M., VanDam, M., Warlaumont, A. S., Cristia, A., & Havron, N. (under review). Looking beyond mother-child interactions: Multiparty speech is the norm across diverse cultural settings.

Sola, A. M.*, Stephans, J., Scarpelli, C., Cychosz, M., & Chan, D. K. (under review). Caregiver-child language interactions before cochlear implantation predict spoken language outcomes.

Cychosz, M., & Long, H. L. (2026). Canonical babbling ratio development in infancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of methodological and ambient language influences. Developmental Science, 29(3), e70139. 10.1111/desc.70139 [PDF] [Code & data]

Cychosz, M., & Weisleder, A. (2026). Infrequent child-directed speech is bursty and may draw infant vocalizations. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL). Kyoto, Japan. arXiv:2603.23797 [PDF]

Cychosz, M., Villanueva, A., & Weisleder, A. (2026). Child-directed speech and infant vocal development in rural, highland Bolivia and in immigrant families in urban United States. Child Development, 97(4), 1233–1254. 10.1093/chidev/aacag046 [PDF]

Choy, L.*†, Khan, A. S.*†, Patrizi, S., Ye, D. S., Gross, J., & Cychosz, M. (2026). Fine-tuned speech representations track spoken language convergence to adult models in infants and children who are deaf/hard-of-hearing. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Computational Developmental Linguistics (CDL) (pp. 27–36). Association for Computational Linguistics. 10.18653/v1/2026.cdl-1.8 [PDF] [Code & data]

Ott, C.*, & Cychosz, M. (2026). Connecting preschoolers' spontaneous speech patterns to future language skills: A 3-year concurrent and longitudinal cohort study of canonical proportion as a developmental index. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 69(9), 4232–4250. 10.1044/2026_jslhr-25-00938 [PDF] [Code & data]

Tey, K. J.*, Walker, S., Seidl, A., Scaff, C., Peurey, L., Kelleher, B. L., . . . Cychosz, M., . . . Cristia, A. (2026). The development of canonical proportion as a function of community, multilingualism, and target language's syllable complexity. Journal of Child Language, 1–21. 10.1017/S0305000926100476 [PDF] [Code & data]

Wong, E.*, Koeppe, K., Cychosz, M., & Munson, B. (2026). Gendered speech development in early childhood: Evidence from a longitudinal study of vowel and consonant acoustics. Journal of Child Language, 53(4), 759–786. 10.1017/S030500092500011x [PDF]

Zhang, T.*†, Suresh, M.*†, Warlaumont, A. S., Hitczenko, K., Cristia, A., & Cychosz, M. (2025). Employing self-supervised learning models for cross-linguistic child speech maturity classification. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2025 (pp. 2825–2829). International Speech Communication Association. 10.21437/interspeech.2025-1946 [PDF] [Code & data]

Cychosz, M.†, Villanueva, A.†, & Weisleder, A. (2025). Bilingual language input to infants in Bolivia and the United States. Infancy, 30(2), e70009. 10.1111/infa.70009 [PDF] [Code & data]

Pawar, A.*, & Cychosz, M. (2025). Frequency and informativity of phonological input directed to children in the first four years of life. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 47). [PDF]

Ott, C. M.*, & Cychosz, M. (2025). Can automated vocal analyses over child-centered audio recordings be used to predict speech-language development? In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 47). [PDF]

Cychosz, M., Romeo, R. R., Edwards, J. R., & Newman, R. S. (2025). Bursty, irregular speech input to children predicts vocabulary size. Developmental Science, 28(1), e13590. 10.1111/desc.13590 [PDF] [Code & data]

Cychosz, M., Scarpelli, C., Stephans, J., Sola, A. M., Kolhede, K., Ramirez, R., Christianson, E., Chan, V., & Chan, D. K. (2025). Rapid increases in children's spontaneous and responsive speech vocalizations following cochlear implantation. Ear and Hearing, 46(4), 1029–1043. 10.1097/aud.0000000000001646 [PDF]

Cychosz, M., Edwards, J. R., Munson, B., Romeo, R., Kosie, J., & Newman, R. S. (2025). The everyday speech environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants. Journal of Child Language, 52(2), 377–398. 10.1017/S0305000924000023 [PDF] [Code & data]

Hitczenko, K., Bergelson, E., Casillas, M., Colleran, H., Cychosz, M., Grosjean, P., . . . Cristia, A. (2024). A cross-linguistic study of the effect of early experience on vocal development. Developmental Science [Stage 1 registered report]. [OSF]

Cristia, A., Gautheron, L., Zhang, Z., Schuller, B., Scaff, C., Rowland, C., . . . Cychosz, M., . . . Soderstrom, M. (2024). Establishing the reliability of metrics extracted from long-form recordings using LENA and the ACLEW pipeline. Behavior Research Methods, 56(8), 8588–8607. 10.3758/s13428-024-02493-2 [PDF]

Aravena-Bravo, P., Cristia, A., Garcia, R., Kotera, H., Nicolas, R. K., Laranjo, R., . . . Cychosz, M., . . . Woon, F. T. (2024). Towards diversifying early language development research: The first truly global international summer/winter school on language acquisition. Journal of Cognition and Development, 25(2), 242–260. 10.1080/15248372.2023.2231083 [PDF]

Cychosz, M., Winn, M. B., & Goupell, M. J. (2024). How to vocode: Using channel vocoders for cochlear-implant research. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 155(4), 2407–2437. 10.1121/10.0025274 [PDF] [Code & data]

Cychosz, M., Mahr, T., Munson, B., Newman, R., & Edwards, J. R. (2023). Preschoolers rely on rich speech representations to process variable speech. Child Development, 94(4), e197–e214. 10.1111/cdev.13922 [PDF] [Code & data]

Cychosz, M., Xu, K., & Fu, Q.-J. (2023). Effects of spectral smearing on speech understanding and masking release in simulated bilateral cochlear implants. PLOS ONE, 18(11), e0287728. 10.1371/journal.pone.0287728 [PDF] [Code & data]

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. Journal of Child Language, 50(3), 495–517. 10.1017/S0305000922000617 [PDF]

Hitczenko, K., Bergelson, E., Casillas, M., Colleran, H., Cychosz, M., Grosjean, P., Hamrick, L. R., Kelleher, B. L., Scaff, C., Seidl, A., Walker, S., & Cristia, A. (2023). The development of canonical proportion continues past toddlerhood. In Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1210–1214). Prague, Czech Republic. [PDF]

Cychosz, M., Edwards, J. R., Munson, B., Romeo, R. R., Kosie, J., & Newman, R. S. (2023). The everyday speech environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants. In Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Prague, Czech Republic.

Cychosz, M. (2022). Language exposure predicts children's phonetic patterning: Evidence from language shift. Language, 98(3), 461–509. 10.1353/lan.0.0269 [PDF]

Cychosz, M., Cristia, A., Bergelson, E., Casillas, M., Baudet, G., Warlaumont, A. S., Scaff, C., Yankowitz, L., & Seidl, A. (2021). Vocal development in a large-scale crosslinguistic corpus. Developmental Science, 24(5), e13090. 10.1111/desc.13090 [PDF] [Code & data]

Cychosz, M., Villanueva, A., & Weisleder, A. (2021). Efficient estimation of children's language exposure in two bilingual communities. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(10), 3843–3866. 10.1044/2021_jslhr-20-00755 [PDF] [Code & data]

Cychosz, M., Munson, B., & Edwards, J. R. (2021). Practice and experience predict coarticulation in child speech. Language Learning and Development, 17(4), 366–396. 10.1080/15475441.2021.1890080 [PDF] [Code & data]

Cychosz, M., Munson, B., Newman, R. S., & Edwards, J. R. (2021). Auditory feedback experience in the development of phonetic production: Evidence from children with cochlear implants and their normal-hearing peers. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(3), 2256–2271. 10.1121/10.0005884 [PDF]

Cychosz, M., Edwards, J. R., Bernstein Ratner, N., Torrington Eaton, C., & Newman, R. S. (2021). Acoustic-lexical characteristics of child-directed speech between 7 and 24 months and their impact on toddlers' phonological processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 712647. 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.712647 [PDF]

Cychosz, M. (2021). The coarticulation-duration relationship in early Quechua speech. Journal of Phonetics, 87, 101052. 10.1016/j.wocn.2021.101052 [PDF]

Cychosz, M., Erskine, M., Munson, B., & Edwards, J. R. (2021). A lexical advantage in four-year-old children's word repetition. Journal of Child Language, 48(1), 31–54. 10.1017/S0305000920000094 [PDF]

Cychosz, M., Romeo, R., Soderstrom, M., Scaff, C., Ganek, H., Cristia, A., . . . Weisleder, A. (2020). Longform recordings of everyday life: Ethics for best practices. Behavior Research Methods, 52(5), 1951–1969. 10.3758/s13428-020-01365-9 [PDF]

Cychosz, M., Edwards, J. R., Munson, B., & Johnson, K. (2019). Spectral and temporal measures of coarticulation in child speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(6), EL516–EL522. 10.1121/1.5139201 [PDF]

Lin, S.†, Cychosz, M.†, Shen, A.†, & Cibelli, E. (2019). The effects of phonetic training and visual feedback on novel contrast production. In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 899–903). Melbourne, Australia. [PDF]

Schuller, B. W., Batliner, A., Bergler, C., Pokorny, F. B., Krajewski, J., Cychosz, M., . . . Schmitt, M. (2019). The INTERSPEECH 2019 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: Styrian dialects, continuous sleepiness, baby sounds & orca activity. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2019 (pp. 2378–2382). International Speech Communication Association. 10.21437/interspeech.2019-1122 [PDF]

Cychosz, M. (2018). Functional load and frequency as predictors of consonant emergence across five languages. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Cychosz, M., Gordon, A. S., Odimegwu, O., Connolly, O., Bellassai, J., & Roemmele, M. (2017). Effective scenario designs for free-text interactive fiction. In Interactive Storytelling: 10th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2017) (pp. 12–23). Springer. 10.1007/978-3-319-71027-3_2

Bellassai, J., Gordon, A. S., Roemmele, M., Cychosz, M., Odimegwu, O., & Connolly, O. (2017). Unsupervised text classification for natural language interactive narratives. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 13(2), 162–168. 10.1609/aiide.v13i2.12997 [PDF]

Boulom, A.*, Cram, C.*, Guymon, N.*, McGahay, J.*, Metzler, Z.*, Montilla, E.*, Shetty, V.*, Siah, J.-L.*, & Cychosz, M. (2025). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the development of coarticulation in child speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 157(4_Supplement), A329–A330. 10.1121/10.0038242

Gross, J., Cychosz, M., & Fu, Q.-J. (2023). Effects of frequency-to-place mismatch in children listening to simulated unilateral and bilateral cochlear implant configurations. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(3_supplement), A173–A173. 10.1121/10.0018565