Publications
Publications
Below is a list of published or accepted papers. Preprint versions of all publications are accessible via Psyarxiv.
Under Review
Coffey, J. & Spelke, E. (under review). Developing direct cognitive testing measures for young children in rural Ghana. Dissertation Chapter. [pdf]
Published
Coffey, J., Spelke, E., & Snedeker, J. (accepted). Examining the lexical development of multilingual children in Ghana using a caregiver reported checklist. First Language. [pdf]
Scaff, C., Coffey, J., & Cristia, A. (accepted). A meta-analysis of the correlation between socioeconomic status and direct measures of young children's word comprehension. Infancy. [pdf]
Coffey, J. & Scaff, C. (accepted). "Making peer culture audible: Long-form recordings and the case for early child-to-child input." In S. Lew-Levy & D. Amir (2024). Children as agents of cultural change. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [pdf]
Kunze, T., Métais, M., Titeux, H., Elbert, H., Gautherson, L., Coffey, J., Dupoux, E., Cristia, A., & Lavechin, M. (2025). Challenges in automated processing of speech from child wearables: the case of Voice Type Classifier. Interspeech 2025. [pdf]
Coffey, J. & Snedeker, J. (2025). How strong is the relationship between caregiver speech and language development? A meta-analysis. Journal of Child Language. [pdf]
Coffey, J., Rasanen, O., Scaff, C., & Cristia, A. (2024). The difficulty and importance of estimating the lower and upper bounds of infant speech exposure. Interspeech 2024. [pdf]
Coffey, J. & Snedeker, J. (2024). Disentangling the roles of age and knowledge in early language acquisition: a fine-grained analysis of the vocabularies of infant and child language learners. Cognitive Psychology. [pdf]
Coffey, J. & Cristia, A. (2024). Long-form recordings to study children’s language input and output in under-resourced contexts. Resources for African Indigenous Languages @ LREC-COLING 2024. [pdf]
Coffey, J., Zeitlin, M., Crawford, J., & Snedeker, J. (2024). It's all in the interaction: early acquired words are both frequent and highly imageable. Open Mind. [pdf]
Coffey, J., Shafto, C. L., Geren, J. C., & Snedeker, J. (2022). The effects of maternal input on language in the absence of genetic confounds: Vocabulary development in internationally adopted children. Child Development. [pdf]
Buerkin-Pontrelli, A., Coffey, J., & Swingley, D. (2018). Outputs as inputs: Sequential models of the products of infant statistical learning of language. CogSci 2018.
Popular Press
Coffey, J. & Tsuji, S. (2024). How well do you understand your child's development? for BOLD