Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
+Bulgarelli, F. and Bergelson, E. (2022). Talker variability shapes early word representations in English-learning 8-month-olds. Infancy . doi: 10.1111/infa.12452
+Dailey, S., & Bergelson, E. (2021). Language input to infants of different socioeconomic statuses: A quantitative meta-analysis. Developmental Science. doi: 10.1111/desc.13192
+Bulgarelli, F., Mielke, J., and Bergelson, E. (2021). Quantifying Talker Variability in North-American Infants’ Daily Input. Cognitive Science . doi: 10.1111/cogs.13075
+Meylan, S.C. and Bergelson, E. (2021). Learning through processing: Towards an integrated approach to early word learning. Accepted with revisions at Annual Review of Linguistics.
Sheskin, M., Scott, K., Mills, C., Bergelson, E. , Bonawitz, E., Spelke, E., Fei-Fei, L., Keil, F., Gweon, H., Tenenbaum, J., Jara-Ettinger, J., Adolph, K., Rhodes, M., Frank, M., Mehr, S., Schulz, L. (2020). Online Developmental Science to Foster Innovation, Access, and Impact. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24 (9): 675-678. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.06.004
Bergelson, E. (2020). Why do older infants understand words better? Leveraging lab studies and home recordings to build and test theories of early word comprehension. Child Development Perspectives, 14 (3), 142-149. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12373
Cristia, A., Lavechin, M., Scaff, C., Soderstrom, M., Rowland, C., Räsänen, O., Bunce, J., Bergelson, E. (2020). A thorough evaluation of the Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01393-5
+Laing, C. & Bergelson, E. (2020). From babble to words: Infants’ early productions match words and objects in their environment. Cognitive Psychology , 122, 101308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2020.101308
+*Garrison, H., +*Baudet, G., +Breitfeld, E., +Aberman, A., Bergelson, E. (2020). Familiarity Plays a Small Role in Noun Comprehension at 12-18 months. Infancy, 25 (4), 458–477. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12333
Cristia, A., +Bulgarelli, F., Bergelson, E. (2020). Systematic review of LENA evaluations. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63 (4), 1093-1105. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_JSLHR-19-00017
ManyBabies Consortium, Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference. (2020). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245919900809
Räsänen, O., Seshadri,S, Karaday, J, Riebling, E.,Bunce, J., Cristia, A. Metze, F., Casillas, M., Rosemberg, C., Bergelson, E., Soderstrom, M. (2019). Automatic word count estimation from daylong child-centered recordings in various language environments using language-independent syllabification of speech. Speech Communication, 113, 63-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2019.08.005.
+Bulgarelli, F., & Bergelson, E. (2019). Look who’s talking: A comparison of automated and human-generated speaker tags in naturalistic day-long recordings . Behavior Research Methods . doi:10.3758/s13428-019-01265-7
+*Moore, C., +*Dailey, S., +Garrison, H., +Amatuni, A., & Bergelson, E. (2019). Point, walk, talk: Links between three early milestones, from observation and parental report . Developmental Psychology . doi: 10.1037/dev0000738 *co-first authors
+Laing, C. & Bergelson, E. (2018). Mothers’ work status and 17‐month‐olds’ productive vocabulary . Infancy . doi: 10.1111/infa.12265
Bergelson, E. , +Amatuni, A., +Dailey, S., +Koorathota, S., & +Tor, S. (2018). Day by day, hour by hour: Naturalistic language input to infants . Developmental Science . doi: 10.1111/desc.12715
Bergelson, E. , Casillas, M., Soderstrom, M., Seidl, A., Warlaumont, A. S., & Amatuni, A. (2018). What do North American babies hear? A large-scale cross-corpus analysis . Developmental Science .
Bergelson, E. , & Aslin, R. (2017). Nature and origins of the lexicon in 6-mo-olds . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 114 , 12916-12921.
Bergelson, E. , & Swingley, D. (2017). Young infants’ word comprehension given an unfamiliar talker or altered pronunciations . Child Development , Advance online publication.
Bergelson, E. , & Aslin, R. (2017). Semantic specificity in one-year-olds’ word comprehension . Language Learning and Development, 13 , 481-501.
Frank, M., Bergelson, E. , Bergmann, C., Cristia, A., Floccia, C., Gervain, J., Hamlin, J., Hannon, E., Kline, M., Levelt, C., Lew-Williams, C., Nazzi, T., Panneton, R., Rabagliati, H., Soderstrom, M., Sullivan, J., Waxman, S., & Yurovsky, D. (2017). A collaborative approach to infant research: Promoting reproducibility, best practices, and theory building . Infancy, 22 , 421-435.
VanDam, M., Warlaumont, A., Bergelson , E., Cristia, A., Soderstrom, M., De Palma, P., & MacWhinney, B. (2016). HomeBank, an online repository of daylong child-centered audio recordings . Seminars in Speech and Language, 37 , 128-142.
Bergelson, E. , & Swingley, D. (2015). Early word comprehension in infants: Replication and extension . Language Learning and Development, 11 , 369-380.
Bergelson, E. , Shvartsman, M., & Idsardi, W. (2013). Differences in mismatch responses to vowels and musical intervals: MEG Evidence . PloS One, 8 , e76758.
Bergelson, E. , & Swingley, D. (2013). Young toddlers' word comprehension is flexible and efficient . PloS One, 8 , e73359.
Bergelson, E. , & Swingley, D. (2013). The acquisition of abstract words by young infant s. Cognition, 127 , 391-397.
Bergelson, E. , & Swingley, D. (2012). At 6 to 9 months, human infants know the meanings of many common nouns . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 109 , 3253-3258.
Bergelson, E. , & Idsardi, W. (2009). A neurophysiological investigation into the foundations of tonal harmony. Neuroreport , (20), 239-244.
Conference Proceedings and Commentaries
+Meylan, S.C., Foushee, R., Bergelson, E. , and Levy, R.P. (2021). Child-directed Listening: How Caregiver Inference Enables Children's Early Verbal Communication. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
+Amatuni, A., +He, E., & Bergelson, E. (2018). Preserved structure across vector space representations . Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society .
+Amatuni, A., & Bergelson, E. (2017). Semantic networks generated from early linguistic input . Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society .
+Laing, C., & Bergelson, E. (2017). More siblings means lower input quality in early language development . Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society .
Metze, F., Riebling, E., Warlaumont, A., & Bergelson, E. (2016). Virtual machines and containers as a platform for experimentation . Interspeech.
Bergelson, E. (2016). Workshop on corpus collection, (semi)-automated analysis, and modeling of large-scale naturalistic language acquisition data . Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society .
Bergelson, E. , & Swingley, D. (2013). Social and environmental contributors to infant word learning . In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society , 187-192. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Bergelson , E., & Idsardi, W. (2009). Structural biases in phonology: Infant and adult evidence from artificial language learning . Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development , 85-96.
Poeppel, D. & Bergelson , E. (2008). How music speaks to us . Nature, 452 (7188): 695-696. (book review of Ani Patel's Music, Language, and the Brain)