Journal Papers

in progress

Cristia, A., Tsuji, S., & Bergmann, C. (2020). "Theory evaluation in the age of cumulative science." Preprint

Lewis, M.L., Braginsky, M., Tsuji, S., Bergmann, C., Piccinini, P.E., Cristia, A., & Frank, M.C. "A Quantitative Synthesis of Early Language Acquisition Using Meta-Analysis." Preprint; The MetaLab project


accepted Stage 1 Registered Reports

Bergmann, C., Rabagliati, H., & Tsuji, S. (2019). "What's in a looking-time preference?" Registered report with in principle acceptance pending data collection. Preprint

Soderstrom, M., et al. "Testing the Relationship Between Preferences for Infant-Directed Speech and Vocabulary Development: A Multi-Lab Study." Registered report with in principle acceptance pending data collection. Journal of Child Language. The ManyBabies Project


2021

Von Holzen, K., & Bergmann, C. (2021). The development of infants’ responses to mispronunciations: A meta-analysis. Developmental Psychology, 57(1), 1–18. DOI: 10.1037/dev0001141. Preprint


2020

Egger, J., Rowland, C., & Bergmann, C. (2020). "Improving the robustness of infant lexical processing speed measures." Behavior Research Methods. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.3758/s13428-020-01385-5. Preprint.

The ManyBabies Consortium. (2020). "Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference." Registered report, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS) 3(1), 24–52 . DOI: 10.1177/2515245919900809. Preprint; The ManyBabies Project

Tsuji, S., Cristia, A., Frank, M., & Bergmann, C. (2020). "Addressing publication bias in meta-analysis: Empirical findings from community-augmented meta-analyses of infant language development." Zeitschrift für Psychologie 228(1), 50–61. DOI: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000393. Preprint

Byers-Heinlein, K., et al. "A multi-lab study of bilingual infants: Exploring the preference for infant-directed speech." Accepted for publication in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS). Preprint. The ManyBabies Project

Byers-Heinlein, K., Bergmann, C., Davies, C., Frank, M.C., Hamlin, K., Kline, M., Kominsky, J., Kosie, J., Lew-Williams, C., Liu, L., Mastroberardino, M., Singh, L., Waddell, C.P.G., Zettersten, M., & Soderstrom, M. (in press). "Building a collaborative Psychological Science: Lessons learned from ManyBabies 1." Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne DOI: 10.1037/cap0000216 . Preprint

Havron, N., Bergmann, C., & Tsuji, S. (2020). "Preregistration in infant research - a primer." Infancy, 25(5), 734-754. DOI: 10.1111/infa.12353 . Preprint.


2018

Bergmann, C., Tsuji, S., Piccinini, P.E., Lewis, M.L., Braginsky, M., Frank, M.C., & Cristia, A. (2018). Promoting replicability in developmental research through meta-analyses: Insights from language acquisition research. Child Development, 89, 1996-2009 . DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13079. Preprint. Additional materials.

Bergmann, C. & Cristia, A. (2018). Environmental influences on infants' native vowel discrimination: The case of talker number in daily life. Infancy, 23(4), 484-501. DOI: 10.1111/infa.12232. Preprint. Supplementary materials.


2017

Frank, M.C., Bergelson, E., Bergmann, C., Cristia, A., Floccia, C., Gervain, J., Hamlin, J.K., Hannon, E.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(4), 421-435. DOI: 10.1111/infa.12182. Preprint. The ManyBabies Project


2016

Bergmann, C. & Cristia, A. (2016). Development of infants’ segmentation of words from native speech: A meta-analytic approach. Developmental Science, 19(6),901-917. DOI: 10.1111/desc.12341. Supplementary materials.


2015

Bergmann, C., ten Bosch, L., Fikkert, P., & Boves, L. (2015). Modelling the Noise-Robustness of Infants' Word Representations: The Impact of Previous Experience. PLOS One 10(7): e0132245. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132245 (open access). Speech materials (available upon request). Scripts and raw data.

2014

Tsuji, S., Bergmann, C., & Cristia, A. (2014). Community-augmented meta-analyses: Toward cumulative data assessment. Perspectives on Psychological Science (Special Section on Moving Toward a Cumulative Science: Maximizing What Our Research Can Tell Us). 9(6), 661-665. DOI: 10.1177/1745691614552498 (open access). Supplementary materials


2013

Bergmann, C., ten Bosch, L., Fikkert, P., & Boves, L. (2013). A computational model to investigate assumptions in the headturn preference procedure. Frontiers in Psychology, Volume 4. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00676 (open access). Speech materials (available upon request).


2012

Bergmann, C., Paulus, M., & Fikkert, P. (2012). Preschoolers' comprehension of pronouns and reflexives: The impact of the task. Journal of Child Language, 39(4), 777-803. DOI: 10.1017/S0305000911000298. Supplementary materials