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. [pdf]
Accepted
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 adaptation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [pdf]
2025
Coffey, J., Spelke, E., & Snedeker, J. (2025). Examining the lexical development of multilingual children in Ghana using a caregiver reported checklist. First Language. [pdf]
Scaff, C., Coffey, J., & Cristia, A. (2025). A meta-analysis of the correlation between socioeconomic status and direct measures of young children's word comprehension. Infancy. [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]
2024
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]
Pre-2023
Coffey, J. (2023). Examining the Robustness of Input-Outcome Associations in Children’s Language Development and Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Novel Assessment in Rural Ghana. Doctoral Dissertation, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. [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.
Coffey, J. (2017). Effects of Atypical White Matter Development and Lateralization on Language in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Undergraduate Honors Thesis, University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences. [pdf]
Popular Press
Coffey, J. & Tsuji, S. (2024). How well do you understand your child's development? for BOLD