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Casillas, M., Jin, Y., & Levinson, S. C. (accepted). Charting new paths in the study of kin term acquisition. Topics in Cognitive Sciences.
Casey, K., Elliott, M., Mickiewicz, E., Bergelson, E., & Casillas, M. (accepted). Daylong patterns of object-centric interaction in two subsistence societies. Infant Behavior and Development.
Hellwig, B., Sarvasy, H., & Casillas, M. (in press). Language acquisition. In N. Evans & S. Fedden (Eds.), The Oxford Guide to Papuan Languages. [ms]
Hitczenko, K., Bergelson, E., Casillas, M., Colleran, H., Cychosz, M., Grosjean, P., Hamrick, L. R., Kelleher, B., Scaff, C., Seidl, A., Walker, S., & Cristia, A. (accepted Stage 1 registered report) A cross-linguistic study of the effect of early experience on vocal development. Developmental Science. Stage 1 Registered Report. [ms]
2026
Lammertink, I., Rowland, C., & Casillas, M. (2026). Who’s next? Turn anticipation in Dutch preschoolers with and without Developmental Language Disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-18. [ms]
Lammertink, I., de Vries, M., Rowland, C., & Casillas, M. (2026). From age two, children use pronouns to predict who will speak next in conversation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 261, 106358. [ms]
Bohn, M., & Casillas, M. (2026). Language learning as ontogenetic adaptation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1-13. [ms]
Tey, K. J., Walker, S., Seidl, A., Scaff, C., Peurey, L., Kelleher, B. L., Havard, W., Hamrick, L., Grosjean, P., Cychosz, M., Colleran, H., Casillas, M., Bergelson, E., Hitczenko, K. & Cristia, A. (2026). The Development of Canonical Proportion as a Function of Community, Multilingualism, and Target Language’s Syllable Complexity. Journal of Child Language, 1–21. [ms]
2025
Casillas, M., Foushee, R., Gómez Pérez, H., Méndez Girón, J., Polian, G., Casey, K., & Brown, P. (2025). A vocabulary checklist for early lexical development in Tseltal. Language Development Research, 5(3), 245–275. [ms]
Bergey, C. A., Casillas, M., Messinger, D., & Sparks, R. Z. (2025). Naturalistic observation of language development outside the home. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2025), pp.38-39. [ms]
Bunce, J., Soderstrom, M., Bergelson, E., Rosemberg, C., Stein, A., Alam, F., Migdalek, M. J., & Casillas, M. (2025). A cross-linguistic examination of young children’s everyday language experiences. Journal of Child Language, 52(4), 786–814. [ms]
Kempe, V., & Casillas, M. (2025). Studying child-directed speech. In L. Raviv & C. Boeckx (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution. [ms]
Brown, P., & Casillas, M. (2025). Childrearing through social interaction on Rossel Island, PNG. In A. J. Fentiman, & M. Goody (Eds.), Esther Goody revisited: Exploring the legacy of an original inter-disciplinarian. New York, NY: Berghahn. [ms]
2024
Casillas, M., Foushee, R., Méndez Girón, J., Polian, G., & Brown, P. (2024). Little evidence for a noun bias in Tseltal spontaneous speech. First Language, 44(6), 600-628. [ms] [Español]
Casillas, M., Ferjan Ramírez, N., Leong, V., & Romeo, R. (2024). Becoming a conversationalist: Questions, challenges, and new directions in the study of child interactional development. Infant behavior & development, 76, 101956. [ms]
Casillas, M., & Casey, K. (2024). Daylong egocentric recordings in small- and large-scale language communities: A practical introduction. In C. Yu, & J. J. Lockman (Eds.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 66, 29-53. [ms]
Lutzenberger, H., Casillas, M., Fikkert, P., Crasborn, O., de Vos, C. (2024) More than looks: Exploring methods to test phonological discrimination in the sign language Kata Kolok. Language Learning and Development, 20(4), 297-323. [ms]
2023
Bergelson, E., Soderstrom, M., Schwarz, I.C., Rowland, C., Ramirez-Esparza, N., Rague Hamrick, L., Marklund, E., Kalashnikova, M., Guez, A., Casillas, M., Benetti, L., van Alphen, P., Cristia, A. (2023). Everyday language input and production in 1001 children from 6 continents. PNAS, 120(52), e2300671120 [ms]
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. Journal of Child Language 13, 1-23. [ms]
Casillas, M. (2023). Learning language in vivo. Child Development Perspectives 17(1), 10-17. [ms]
Scaff, C., Casillas, M., Stieglitz, J., & Cristia, A. (2023). Characterization of children’s verbal input in a forager-farmer population using long-form audio recordings and diverse input definitions. Infancy, EarlyView, 1–20. [ms]
2022
Casey, K., Elliott, M., Mickiewicz, E., Silva Mandujano, A., Shorter, K., Duquette, M., Bergelson, E., & Casillas, M. (2022). Sticks, leaves, buckets, and bowls: Distributional patterns of children’s at-home object handling in two subsistence societies. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2022), pp. 927-933. [ms] [gh] [data visualization tool]
Casey, K., & Casillas, M. (2022). From doggy to dog: Developmental shifts in children’s use of register-specific words. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2022), pp. 49-56. [ms] [gh]
Cristia, A. & Casillas, M. (2022). Nonword repetition in children learning Yélî Dnye. Language Development Research 2(1), 69–104. [ms] [osf]
De Vos, C., Casillas, M., Uittenbogert, T., Crasborn, O., & Levinson, S. C. (2022). Signers’ and non-signers’ sensitivity to language-specific and globally accessible cues in conversational turn prediction. Language 98(1), 35–62. [ms] [resultaten video (NGT)]
Elmlinger, S. L., Goldstein, M., & Casillas, M. (2022). Immature vocalizations simplify the speech of Tseltal Mayan and US caregivers. Topics in Cognitive Science, 15(2), 315-328. [ms] * Expanded version of Elmlinger et al. (2022) as part of the CogSci 2022 Disciplinary Diversity & Integration Award in Cognitive Science
Elmlinger, S. L., Goldstein, M., & Casillas, M. (2022). Immature vocalizations simplify the speech of Tseltal Mayan and US caregivers. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2022), pp. 1256-1262. [ms]
Foushee, R., Byrne, D., Casillas, M., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2022). Getting to the Root of Linguistic Alignment: Tree Comparison as a Measure of Syntactic Alignment and Index of Language Development in Children Who are Typically Developing and Children with Early Brain Injury. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2022), pp. 1389-1394. [ms]
Foushee, R. & Casillas, M. (2022). What ‘Diversity’ Means Depends on Your Perspective: A Commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022). First Language, 42(6),760-764. [ms]
Li, J., Casillas, M., Tsuji, S., & Nagai, Y. Multi-scale analysis of vocal coordination in infant-caregiver daily interaction. In Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), pp. 164–169. [ms]
Peute, A. A. K. & Casillas, M.. (Non-)effects of linguistic environment on early stable consonant production: A crosscultural case study. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 7(1). [ms] [gh]
2021
Soderstrom, M., Casillas, M., Gornik, M., Bouchard, A., MacEwan, S., Shokrkon, A., & Bunce, J. (2021). English-speaking adults’ labeling of child- and adult-directed speech across languages and its relationship to perception of affect. Frontiers in Psychology 12, 708887. [ms]
Vilà‐Giménez, I., Dowling, N., Demir‐Lira, Ö. E., Prieto, P., & Goldin‐Meadow, S. (2021). The Predictive Value of Non‐Referential Beat Gestures: Early Use in Parent–Child Interactions Predicts Narrative Abilities at 5 Years of Age. Child Development, 92(6), 2335-2355. [ms]
Soderstrom, M. Casillas, M., Bergelson, E., Rosemberg, C., Alam, F., Warlaumont, A. S., & Bunce, J. (2021) Developing a cross-cultural annotation system and MetaCorpus for studying infants’ real-world language experience. Collabra, 7(1). [ms]
Casillas, M. & Scaff, C. (2021). Analyzing contingent interactions in R with chattr. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Virtual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2021), pp. 2540-2546. [ms] [gh]
Casillas, M., Brown, P., & Levinson, S. C. (2021). Early language experience in a Papuan community. Journal of Child Language 48(4), 792–814. [ms] [sm] [gh]
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, e13090. [ms] [osf]
Frost, R. L. A. & Casillas, M. (2021). Investigating statistical learning of nonadjacent dependencies: Running statistical learning tasks in non-WEIRD populations. SAGE Methods Case Studies. [ms]
2020
Casillas, M., Brown, P., & Levinson, S. C. (2020). Early language experience in a Tseltal Mayan village. Child Development, 91(5), 1819–1835. [ms] [sm] [gh]
Casillas, M., & Hilbrink, E. (2020). Communicative act development. In K. P. Schneider, & E. Ifantidou (Eds.), Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics (pp. 61-88). Berlin, DE: De Gruyter Mouton. [ms]
Cychosz, M., Romeo, R., Soderstrom, M., Scaff, C., Ganek, H., Cristia, A., Casillas, M., De Barbaro, K., Bang, J. Y., & Weisleder, A. (2020). Longform recordings of everyday life: Ethics for best practices. Behavior Research Methods, 52, 1951–1969. [ms]
MacDonald, K., Rasanen, O., Casillas, M., & Warlaumont, A. S. (2020). Measuring prosodic predictability in children’s home language environments. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Virtual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2020), pp. 695-701. [ms] [gh]
Räsänen, O., Seshadri, S., Lavechin, M., Cristia, A., & Casillas, M. (2020). ALICE: An open-source tool for automatic measurement of phoneme, syllable, and word counts from child-centered daylong recordings. Behavior Research Methods, 53, 818–835. [ms] [gh]
Roete, I., Frank, S., Fikkert, P., & Casillas, M. (2020). Modeling the influence of language input statistics on children’s speech production. Cognitive Science, 44: e12924. [ms] [sm] [gh]
2019
Bergelson, E.*, Casillas, M.*, Soderstrom, M., Seidl, A., Warlaumont, A. S., & Amatuni, A. (2019). What Do North American Babies Hear? A large-scale cross-corpus analysis. Developmental Science, 22(1): e12724. (* Joint first authorship) [ms] [sm] [osf] [gh] [gh for associated tool]
Casillas, M., & Cristia, A. (2019). A step-by-step guide to collecting and analyzing long-format speech environment (LFSE) recordings. Collabra, 5(1), 24. [ms] [sm]
Casillas, M., Rafiee, A., & Majid, A. (2019). Iranian herbalists, but not cooks, are better at naming odors than laypeople. Cognitive Science, 43(6): e12763. [ms] [sm] [gh]
Räsänen, O., Seshadri, S., Karadayi, 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. [ms] [gh]
Bunce, J., Bergelson, E., Warlaumont, A., & Casillas, M. (2019). Daylong data: Raw audio to transcript via automated & manual open-science tools Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2019), pp. 15-16. [ms]
2018
Bögels, S., Casillas, M., & Levinson, S. C. (2018). Planning versus comprehension in turn-taking: Fast responders show reduced anticipatory processing of the question. Neuropsychologia, 109, 295-310. [ms] [sm]
Cristia, A., Ganesh, S., Casillas, M., & Ganapathy, S. (2018). Talker diarization in the wild: The case of child-centered daylong audio-recordings. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2018, pp. 2583-2587. [ms]
Räsänen, O., Seshadri, S., & Casillas, M. (2018). Comparison of syllabification algorithms and training strategies for robust word count estimation across different languages and recording conditions. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2018, pp. 1200-1204.[ms]
2017
Casillas, M., Bergelson, E., Warlaumont, A. S., Cristia, A., Soderstrom, M., VanDam, M., & Sloetjes, H. (2017). A New Workflow for Semi-automatized Annotations: Tests with Long-Form Naturalistic Recordings of Childrens Language Environments. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2017, pp. 2098-2102. [ms] [osf]
Casillas, M., Amatuni, A., Seidl, A., Soderstrom, M., Warlaumont, A., & Bergelson, E. (2017). What do Babies hear? Analyses of Child- and Adult-Directed Speech. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2017, pp. 2093-2097. [ms] [osf] [gh for associated tool]
Casillas, M., & Frank, M. C. (2017). The development of children’s ability to track and predict turn structure in conversation. Journal of Memory and Language, 92, 234-253. [ms] [sm] [gh]
Schuller, B., Steidl, S., Batliner, A., Bergelson, E., Krajewski, J., Janott, C., Amatuni, A., Casillas, M., Seidl, A., Soderstrom, M., Warlaumont, A. S., Hidalgo, G., Schnieder, S., Heiser, C., Hohenhorst, W., Herzog, M., Schmitt, M., Qian, K., Zhang, Y., Trigeorgis, G., Tzirakis, P., & Zafeiriou, S. (2017). The INTERSPEECH 2017 computational paralinguistics challenge: Addressee, cold & snoring. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2017, pp. 3442-3446. [ms]
2016
Casillas, M., Bobb, S. C., & Clark, E. V. (2016). Turn taking, timing, and planning in early language acquisition. Journal of Child Language, 43(6), 1310-1337. [ms] [sm]
Clark, E. V., & Casillas, M. (2016). First language acquisition. In K. Allen (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics (pp. 311-328). London, UK: Routledge. [ms]
Holler, J., Kendrick, K. H., Casillas, M., & Levinson, S. C. (Eds.). (2016). Turn-Taking in Human Communicative Interaction. Lausanne: Frontiers Media. [full special issue]
2015
Casillas, M., De Vos, C., Crasborn, O., & Levinson, S. C. (2015). The perception of stroke-to-stroke turn boundaries in signed conversation. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2015), pp. 315-320. [ms]
Holler, J., Kendrick, K. H., Casillas, M., & Levinson, S. C. (2015). Editorial: Turn-taking in human communicative interaction. Frontiers in Psychology, 6: 1919. [ms] [full special issue]
Lammertink, I., Casillas, M., Benders, T., Post, B., & Fikkert, P. (2015). Dutch and English toddlers’ use of linguistic cues in predicting upcoming turn transitions. Frontiers in Psychology, 6: 495. [ms]
2014
Arnon, I., Casillas, M., Kurumada, C., & Estigarribia, B. (Eds.). (2014). Language in interaction: Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark. Amsterdam, NL: John Benjamins.
Casillas, M. (2014). Taking the floor on time: Delay and deferral in children’s turn taking. In I. Arnon, M. Casillas, C. Kurumada, & B. Estigarribia (Eds.), Language in Interaction: Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark, pp. 101-114. Amsterdam, NL: John Benjamins. [ms]
Casillas, M. (2014). Turn-taking. In D. Matthews (Ed.), Pragmatic development in first language acquisition, pp. 53-70. Amsterdam, NL: John Benjamins. [ms]
2013
Casillas, M., Hilbrink, E., Bobb, S. C., Clark, E. V., Gattis, M., Levinson, S. C. (2013). Turn-timing in naturalistic mother-child interactions: A longitudinal perspective. Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2013). [ms]
Casillas, M., & Frank, M. C. (2013). The development of predictive processes in children’s discourse understanding. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2013), pp. 299-304. [ms]
Sumner, M., Kurumada, C., Gafter, R., & Casillas, M. (2013). Phonetic variation and the recognition of words with pronunciation variants. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2013), pp. 3486-3492. [ms]
2012
Casillas, M., & Frank, M. C. (2012). Cues to turn boundary prediction in adults and preschoolers. Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SeineDial 2012), pp. 61-69. [ms]
2011
Casillas, M., & Amaral, P. (2011). Learning cues to category membership: Patterns in children’s acquisition of hedges. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 37th Annual Meeting, pp. 33-45. [ms]
Tice (Casillas), M., Bobb, S. C., & Clark, E. V. (2011). Timing in turn-taking: Children’s responses to their parents’ questions. Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2011), pp. 21-23. [ms]
Tice (Casillas), M., & Henetz, T. K. (2011). The eye gaze of 3rd party observers reflects turn-end boundary projection Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2011), pp. 204-205. [ms]
Tice (Casillas), M., & Henetz, T. K. (2011). Turn-boundary projection: Looking ahead. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2011), pp. 838–843. [ms]
de Marneffe, M.-C., Tomlinson Jr., J., Tice (Casillas), M., & Sumner, M. (2011). The interaction of lexical frequency and phonetic variation in the perception of accented speech. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2011), pp. 3575–3580. [ms]