For a look at what the lab is currently working on, check out our recent and upcoming publications and conference presentations.
Publications
Refereed journals
Cychosz, M., Winn, M., & Goupell, M. (accepted). How to vocode: using channel vocoders for cochlear implant research. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Cychosz, M., Edwards, J. R., Munson, B., Romeo, R., Kosie, J., & Newman, R. S. (2024). The everyday speech environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants. Journal of Child Language, 1–22. doi:10.1017/S0305000924000023. [paper]
Cychosz, M., Mahr, T., Munson, B., Newman, R., & Edwards, J. (2023). Preschoolers rely on rich speech representations to process variable speech. Child Development. [paper]
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. [paper]
Aravena-Bravo, P…Cychosz, M…Woon, F. T. (2023). Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: First Truly Global International Summer/ Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021. Journal of Cognition and Development. [pre-print]
Cychosz, M. & Newman, R. (2023). Perceptual normalization for speaking rate occurs below the level of the syllable. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153, 1486-1495. [paper]
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. Invited keynote submission to Journal of Child Language in celebration of the journal’s 50th anniversary, 50(3), 495-517. [paper]
Cychosz, M. (2022). Language exposure predicts children’s phonetic patterning: Evidence from language shift. Language, 93(3), 461-498. [paper]
Cychosz, M., Newman, R., Munson, B., & Edwards, J. (2021). Auditory feedback experience in the development of phonetic production: Evidence from children with cochlear implants and their normal-hearing peers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(3), 2256-2271. [paper]
Cychosz, M., Edwards, J., Bernstein Ratner, N., Torrington Eaton, C., & Newman, R. (2021). Acoustic-lexical characteristics of child-directed speech between 7 and 24 months and their impact on toddlers' phonological processing. Frontiers in Psychology: Developmental Psychology. 12, 712647. [paper]
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. [paper]
Cychosz, M., Munson, B., & Edwards, J. (2021). Practice and experience predict coarticulation in child speech. Language Learning and Development. 17(4), 366-396. [paper]
Cychosz, M. (2021). The coarticulation-duration relationship in early Quechua speech. Journal of Phonetics. 87, 101052. [paper]
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. [paper]
Cychosz, M., Erskine, M., Munson, B., & Edwards, J. (2021). A lexical advantage in four-year-old children’s word repetition. Journal of Child Language. 48(1), 31-54. [pubmed]
Cychosz, M.*, Romeo, R., Soderstrom, M., Scaff, C., Ganek, H., Cristia, A., Casillas, M., de Barbaro, K., Bang, J., & Weisleder, A.* (2020). Longform recordings of everyday life: Ethics for best practices. Behavior Research Methods. 52, 1951-1969. [paper]
Cychosz, M., Edwards, J., Munson, B., & Johnson, K. (2019). Spectral and temporal measures of coarticulation in child speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America-EL, 146(6), EL516-EL522.
Cychosz, M. (2018). Bilingual adolescent vowel production in the Parisian suburbs. International Journal of Bilingualism, 23(6), 1291-1315.
Manuscripts under review
Wong, E.,† Koeppe, K., Cychosz, M., & Munson, B. Gendered speech development in early childhood: Evidence from a longitudinal study of vowel and consonant acoustics.
Suresh, M.,*† Zhang, T.,*† Hitczenko, K., Cristia, A. & Cychosz, M. Employing self-supervised learning models for child speech maturity classification.
Cristia, A., Gautheron, L., Zhang, Z., Schuller, B., Scaff, C., Rowland, C., Räsänen , O., Peurey, L., Lavechin, M., Havard, W., Fausey, C., Cychosz, M., Bergelson, E., Anderson, H., Al Futaisi N., Soderstrom, M. (under review). Establishing the reliability of metrics extracted from long-form recordings using LENA and the ACLEW pipeline.
Cychosz, M., Romeo, R. R., PhD, CCC-SLP, Edwards, J., & Newman, R. S. (2024). Bursty, irregular speech input to preschoolers predicts vocabulary size. [pre-print]
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). A cross-linguistic study of the effect of early experience on vocal development. Stage I registered report.
Cychosz, M., Scarpelli, C., Stephans, J., Sola, A. M., Kolhede, K., Ramirez, R., Christinanson, E., Chan, V., & Chan, D. K. (2023). Cochlear implantation rapidly increases spontaneous and responsive speech vocalizations in children who are deaf. PsyArXiv. [pre-print]
Book Chapters
Cychosz, M.*, & Cristia, A.* (2022). Using big data from long-form recordings to study development and optimize societal impact. In Advances in Child Development and Behavior, ed. J.J. Lockman & R. Gilmore. Vol. 62, pp. 1-36. Cambridge, MA: Academic Press. [pubmed]
Fully peer-reviewed conference proceedings
Cychosz, M., Edwards, J., Munson, B., Romeo, R. R., Kosie, J., & Newman, R. (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.
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. Melbourne, Australia.
Schuller, B. W. Batliner, A. Bergler, C., Pokorny, F. B., Krajewski, J., Cychosz, M., Vollmann, R., Roelen, S., Schnieder, S., Bergelson, E., Cristia, A., Seidl, A., Warlaumont, A., Yankowitz, L., Noth, E., Amiriparian, S., Hantke, S., & Schmitt, M. (2019). The INTERSPEECH 2019 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: Styrian Dialects, Continuous Sleepiness, Baby Sounds & Orca Activity. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria.
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., Odimegwu, O.,Connolly, O., Bellassai, J., & Roemmele, M. (2017). Effective Scenario Designs for Free-text Interactive Fiction. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS). Madeira, Portugal.
Bellassai, J., Gordon, A., Roemmele, M., Cychosz, M., Odimegwu, O., & Connolly, O. (2017). Unsupervised Text Classification for Natural Language Interactive Narratives. Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT10). Snowbird, Utah.
Other conference proceedings
Cychosz, M., & Kalt, S. (2018). The contribution of functional load on children's vocalic development. In Gallagher, G., Gouskova, M., and Yin, S. (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America.
Cychosz, M., & Kalt, S. (2018). Language-specific sources of acoustic stability. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.
Cheng, A., Faytak, M., & Cychosz, M. (2016). Language, race, and vowel space: Contemporary California English, Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. (Vol. 42). Berkeley, California.
Datasets and corpora
Cychosz, M.*, Romeo, R., Soderstrom, M., Scaff, C., Ganek, H., Cristia, A., Casillas, M., de Barbaro, K., Bang, J., & Weisleder, A.* (2020). Daylong Audio Recordings of Children’s Linguistic Environments (DARCLE) Ethics Repository. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/U3TFV.
Cychosz, M., Cristia, A, Bergelson, E., Casillas, M., Baudet, G., Warlaumont, A. S., Scaff, C., Yankowitz, L., & Seidl, A. (2019). BabbleCor: A Crosslinguistic Corpus of Babble Development in Five Languages. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/RZ4TX.
Cychosz, M. (2018). Cychosz HomeBank Corpus, DOI 10.21415/YFYW-HE74. (2000+ hours of naturalistic daylong recordings of bilingual South Bolivian Quechua and Spanish speech)
Escobar, E., Cychosz, M. Hayes, D., Lapierre, M., Raskit, T. L., Michael, L., Nee, J. E., & Remirez, E. (2016). Berkeley Field Methods: South Bolivian Quechua, SCL 2016-13, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. University of California, Berkeley. DOI: 10.7297/X2T72FMM.
Published repositories (scripts + tutorials)
Cychosz, M. (2020). Categorize app. GitHub Repository. github.com/megseekosh/Categorize_app_v2
Cychosz, M. (2020). Triple formant tracker. Github Repository. github.com/megseekosh/vocal_tract_vowel
Recent and Upcoming Conference Presentations
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Cychosz, M., Edwards, J., Munson, B., Romeo, R. R., Kosie, J., & Newman, R. (2023). “How do the everyday speech-language environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants predict their vocal maturity outcomes?” Talk given at the Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses (CIAP). Lake Tahoe, CA.
Cychosz, M., Sola, A. M., Scarpelli, C., Stephans, J., Kolhede, K., & Chan, D.K. (2023). ”Changes in infants’ and toddlers’ vocal activity before and immediately after cochlear implant activation.” Poster given at the Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses (CIAP). Lake Tahoe, CA.
Scarpelli, C.††…Cychosz, M., & Chan, D.K. (2023). “Clinical utility of Language Environment Analysis (LENA) for caregiver coaching of children with cochlear implants.” Talk to be given at the Society of Ear, Nose, and Throat Advancement in Children. Charleston, SC.
Scarpelli, C.††…Cychosz, M. (2023). “Vocal activity development before and after cochlear implant activation in infants and toddlers.” Talk to be given at the Society of Ear, Nose, and Throat Advancement in Children. Charleston, SC.
Cychosz, M., Edwards, J., Munson, B., Romeo, R. R., Kosie, J., & Newman, R. (2023). “Using Naturalistic Language Samples to Understand the Link between Language Input and Speech-Language Development in Preschoolers with Cochlear Implants.” Poster to be given at the 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Cychosz, M., Edwards, J., Munson, B., Romeo, R. R., Kosie, J., & Newman, R. (2023). “The everyday speech environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants.” Talk given at the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Prague, Czech Republic.
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.” Poster given at the 184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Chicago, IL.
Bowler, C. † & Cychosz, M. (2023). “Exposure to electronic noise and the impact on language development in 3 & 4 year olds.” Poster given at the University of Maryland, College Park Undergraduate Research Day. College Park, MD
Cychosz, M., Xu, K., & Fu, Q.-J. (2022). "Effects of spectral smearing on speech understanding and masking release in simulated bilateral cochlear implants.” Poster given at the 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Nashville, TN.
Ahmed, F.†, Newman, R., & Cychosz, M. (2022). “Syllable complexity in 24 month-old infants resulting from spontaneous mother-child vocal interactions.” Poster given at the 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Nashville, TN.
Hitczenko, K.,… Cychosz, M.,…Cristia, A. (2022). “The development of canonical proportion continues through 6 years of age.” Talk given at the 47th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Cychosz, M., Munson, B., Newman, R., & Edwards, J. (2022). “The everyday speech soundscapes of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants.” Talk given at the Mid-Atlantic Symposium on Hearing (MASH). College Park, MD.
Garcia, R…Cychosz, M….Woon, F. (2022). “Running a truly international school on early language development.” Poster given as part of thematic poster session on Western Biases in Infant Research: The state of the field and strategies for change. International Congress for Infant Studies. Ottawa, Canada.
Garcia, R…Cychosz, M….Woon, F. (2022). “Running a truly international school on early language development.” Poster given as part of thematic poster session on Western Biases in Infant Research: The state of the field and strategies for change. International Congress for Infant Studies. Ottawa, Canada.
Cychosz, M., & Cristia, A. (2022). “Using big data from long-form recordings to study development and optimize societal impact.” Poster given as part of thematic poster session on Western Biases in Infant Research: The state of the field and strategies for change. International Congress for Infant Studies. Ottawa, Canada.
Garg, R.†, Edwards, J., & Cychosz, M. (2022). “Effect of Everyday Speech Exposure on Children’s Lexical and Phonological Development.” Poster presented at the Society for Research on Child Language Development, Madison, WI.
Villanueva, A.†, Cychosz, M., & Weisleder, A. (2022). “Dual Language Input from Adults and Older Children in Two Communities.” Poster given at the Special Topic Meeting: Construction of the ‘Other’: Development, Consequences, and Applied Implications of Prejudice and Discrimination. Society for Research in Child Development. Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.
Villanueva, A.†, Cychosz, M., & Weisleder, A. (2022). “Do bilingual infants experience each language in distinct interactional contexts?” Presented as part of symposium Children's exposure to and use of socially meaningful variation in language. Cognitive Development Society. Madison, WI.
Cychosz, M. (2022). Language exposure and phonological working memory development. Talk given at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Washington, D.C.
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