Publications

*denotes trainee, + denotes joint first authorship

Bulgarelli, F., Barry, S., Bergelson, E. (2024). Attending to talker characteristics: Word learning and recognition in monolingually- and multilingually- raised infants. Cognitive Development. [preprint] [osf]

Bulgarelli, F., Bergelson, E. (2024). Linking acoustic variability in the infants’ input to their early word production. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13545 [preprint]

Bulgarelli, F. (2024). Connecting environmental and genetic explanations for nonlinear language development in infancy and toddlerhood. Biological Psychiatry. [download]

Bulgarelli, F., Potter, C.E. (2024). Stability and change in young children’s linguistic experience during the COVID-19 pandemic: insight from a citizen-science sample in the United States. Multilingua43(2), 191-212.[preprint] [osf]

Bulgarelli, F., Bergelson, E. (2023). Talker variability is not always the right noise: 14-month-olds struggle to learn dissimilar word-object pairs under talker variability conditions. Journal of Experiment Child Psychology. [preprint] [osf]

Bulgarelli, F., Bergelson, E. (2022). Talker variability shapes early word representations in 8-month-olds. ​Infancy.  [preprint] [osf]

Bulgarelli, F.,
 Mielke, J., Bergelson, E., (2021). Quantifying talker variability in North-American infant’s input. Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13075 [preprint] [osf]

Bulgarelli, F., Weiss, D. J. (2021). Desirable difficulties in statistical learning? How talker variability impacts artificial grammar learning. Language Learning. [preprint] [osf]​

Koranda, M. J., Bulgarelli, F., Weiss, D. J., MacDonald, M. C. (2020). Is language production planning emergent from action planning? A preliminary investigation. Frontiers in Psychology 11, 1193 [download]

Bulgarelli, F., Weiss, D. J., Dennis, N. A. (2020). Cross-situational statistical learning in younger and older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2020.1759502 [preprint]

Cristia, A., Bulgarelli, F., & Bergelson, E. (2020). Accuracy of the Language Environment Analysis System Segmentation and Metrics: A Systematic Review. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-13. [preprint] [osf]

+Benitez, V., +Bulgarelli, F., Saffran, J., Byers-Heinlein, K., Weiss, D. J. (2020). Statistical Learning of Multiple Speech Streams: A challenge for monolingual infants. Developmental Science. [preprint] [osf]

Bulgarelli, F., Bergelson, E. (2019). Look who’s talking: A comparison of automated and human-generated speaker tags in naturalistic daylong recordings. Behavioral Research Methods, 1-13. [github]

George, N. R., Bulgarelli, F., Roe, M.D., Weiss, D. J. (2019).  Stacking the evidence: Parents’ use of acoustic packaging with preschoolers. Cognition. 191 103956 [osf]

Bulgarelli, F., Weiss, D. J. (2019) The more the merrier? The impact of talker variability on artificial grammar learning in preschoolers and adults Proceedings of the 43rd Boston University Conference on Language Development. [download]

​Bulgarelli, F., Bosch, L., Weiss, D. J. (2019). Multi-pattern visual statistical learning in monolinguals and bilinguals.​ Frontiers in Psychology. 10, 204 [download]

Bulgarelli, F., Lebkuecher, A. L., Weiss, D. J. (2018). Statistical learning and bilingualismLanguage, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools. 49(3S), 740-753.  

Bulgarelli, F., Benitez, V., Saffran, J., Byers-Heinlein, K., Weiss, D. J. (2017). Statistical Learning of Multiple Structures by 8-month-old Infants. Proceedings of the 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA. [download]

Weiss, D. J., Bulgarelli, F., Navarro-Torres, C., & Morales, J., (2017). Translating research to practice in the language sciences. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 3(1), 1.

Bulgarelli, F., & Weiss, D. J. (2016). Anchors Aweigh: The Impact of Overlearning on Entrenchment Effects in Statistical Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 42(10), 1621. [download

Karuza, E., Li, P., Weiss, D.J., Bulgarelli, F., Zinszer, B., Aslin, R.N. (2016) Sampling over Non-uniform Distributions: A Neural Efficiency Account of the Primacy Effect in Statistical Learning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience28(10), 1484-1500.