Faculty profile
Melanie Soderstrom
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Research
Latest papers
ManyBabies 3: A Multi-Lab Study of Infant Algebraic Rule Learning.
Developmental science · 2026
Cross-Linguistic and Socioeconomic Differences in the Use of Variation Sets in Children's Communicative Environments.
Journal of child language · 2026 · senior author
What 5000 babies can tell us about developing minds and how to study them.
Communications psychology · 2026
Latest funding
- $20,000
Building a Network of Networks in the Big Team Social Sciences
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $78,000
Factors in the perception and processing of infant-directed speech: Universality and context effects
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $158,500
Infants' Everyday Language Experiences: Exploring similaries and differences within and across cultural contexts
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
26 publications.
ManyBabies 3: A Multi-Lab Study of Infant Algebraic Rule Learning.
Visser I, Geambasu A, Kachergis G, Oliveira CM, Rocha-Hidalgo J, Zettersten M, Ahamat T, Alessandroni N, Althaus N, Arunachalam S, Aussems S, Axelsson EL, Aydin Z, Baumgartner HA, Bergmann C, Bettoni R, Black AK, Bulf H, Byers-Heinlein K, Capparini C, Carroll L, Carstensen A, Cebulla R, Chen X, Chládková K, Colavolpe B, Constantine RR, Cortes EE, Doyle FL, Exner A, Forbes SH, Franchin L, Geraci A, Gervain J, Gonzalez-Gomez N, Hagelund S, Hannon EE, Havron N, Jaffe-Dax S, Johnson SP, Jędryczka W, Kartushina N, Struhl MK, Koleini A, Kona A, Kong SP, Kosie JE, Kuc̆erová M, Cook K, Leslie JW, Lew-Williams C, Li SWY, Livne R, Marklund E, Mayor J, Misiak M, Moreau D, Mueller JL, Muhinyi A, Quinn AA, Raijmakers MEJ, Rosslund A, Schwarz IC, Shinskey JL, Shukla M, Sirois S, Sorokowski P, Sowan B, Tauzin T, Tsui ASM, Turconi M, Urizar RC, Wagner L, Wermelinger S, Westermann G, Weyers I, Yuan LSB, Zaharieva MS, Zamuner TS, Zapiór B, Zasso S, Zhou JG, Soderstrom M, Levelt CC
Cross-Linguistic and Socioeconomic Differences in the Use of Variation Sets in Children's Communicative Environments.
Rosemberg CR, Alam F, Garber L, Migdalek MJ, Stein A, Sie T, Bunce J, Soderstrom M
What 5000 babies can tell us about developing minds and how to study them.
McMillan BTM, Baumgartner HA, Bergmann C, Frank MC, Hamlin JK, Kampis D, Kline Struhl M, Ko ES, Kosie JE, Lew-Williams C, Lucca K, Schuwerk T, Soderstrom M, Visser I, Yuen FL, Zettersten M, Byers-Heinlein K
A cross-linguistic examination of young children's everyday language experiences.
Bunce J, Soderstrom M, Bergelson E, Rosemberg C, Stein A, Alam F, Migdalek MJ, Casillas M
Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study.
Lucca K, Yuen F, Wang Y, Alessandroni N, Allison O, Alvarez M, Axelsson EL, Baumer J, Baumgartner HA, Bertels J, Bhavsar M, Byers-Heinlein K, Capelier-Mourguy A, Chijiiwa H, Chin CS, Christner N, Cirelli LK, Corbit J, Daum MM, Doan T, Dresel M, Exner A, Fei W, Forbes SH, Franchin L, Frank MC, Geraci A, Giraud M, Gornik ME, Wiesmann CG, Grossmann T, Hadley IM, Havron N, Henderson AME, Matzner EH, Immel BA, Jankiewicz G, Jędryczka W, Kanakogi Y, Kominsky JF, Lew-Williams C, Liberman Z, Liu L, Liu Y, Loeffler MT, Martin A, Mayor J, Meng X, Misiak M, Moreau D, Nencheva ML, Oña LS, Otálora Y, Paulus M, Pepe B, Pickron CB, Powell LJ, Proft M, Quinn AA, Rakoczy H, Reschke PJ, Roth-Hanania R, Rothmaler K, Schlegelmilch K, Schlingloff-Nemecz L, Schmuckler MA, Schuwerk T, Seehagen S, Şen HH, Shainy MR, Silvestri V, Soderstrom M, Sommerville J, Song HJ, Sorokowski P, Stutz SE, Su Y, Taborda-Osorio H, Tan AWM, Tatone D, Taylor-Partridge T, Tsang CKA, Urbanek A, Uzefovsky F, Visser I, Wertz AE, Williams M, Wolsey K, Wong TT, Woodward AM, Wu Y, Zeng Z, Zimmer L, Hamlin JK
Establishing the reliability of metrics extracted from long-form recordings using LENA and the ACLEW pipeline.
Cristia A, Gautheron L, Zhang Z, Schuller B, Scaff C, Rowland C, Räsänen O, Peurey L, Lavechin M, Havard W, Fausey CM, Cychosz M, Bergelson E, Anderson H, Al Futaisi N, Soderstrom M
Limited evidence of test-retest reliability in infant-directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment.
Schreiner MS, Zettersten M, Bergmann C, Frank MC, Fritzsche T, Gonzalez-Gomez N, Hamlin K, Kartushina N, Kellier DJ, Mani N, Mayor J, Saffran J, Shukla M, Silverstein P, Soderstrom M, Lippold M
Comparing apples to manzanas and oranges to naranjas: A new measure of English-Spanish vocabulary for dual language learners.
Tamis-LeMonda CS, Kachergis G, Masek LR, Gonzalez SL, Soska KC, Herzberg O, Xu M, Adolph KE, Gilmore RO, Bornstein MH, Casasola M, Fausey CM, Frank MC, Goldin-Meadow S, Gros-Louis J, Hirsh-Pasek K, Iverson J, Lew-Williams C, MacWhinney B, Marchman VA, Naigles L, Namy L, Perry LK, Rowe M, Sheya A, Soderstrom M, Song L, Walle E, Warlaumont AS, Yoshida H, Yu C, Yurovsky D
How to build up big team science: a practical guide for large-scale collaborations.
Baumgartner HA, Alessandroni N, Byers-Heinlein K, Frank MC, Hamlin JK, Soderstrom M, Voelkel JG, Willer R, Yuen F, Coles NA
Correction: Building Emotional Awareness and Mental Health (BEAM): study protocol for a phase III randomized controlled trial of the BEAM app-based program for mothers of children 18-36 months.
Xie EB, Simpson KM, Reynolds KA, Giuliano RJ, Protudjer JLP, Soderstrom M, Sauer-Zavala S, Giesbrecht GF, Lebel C, Mackinnon AL, Rioux C, Penner-Goeke L, Freeman M, Salisbury MR, Tomfohr-Madsen L, Roos LE
Building a Network of Networks in the Big Team Social Sciences
Keywords: Social Science; Big Team Science; Open Science; Best Practice; Inclusivity
Factors in the perception and processing of infant-directed speech: Universality and context effects
Principal investigators: Soderstrom, Melanie
Keywords: infant-directed speech; infant speech perception
Infants' Everyday Language Experiences: Exploring similaries and differences within and across cultural contexts
Principal investigators: Soderstrom, Melanie
Keywords: child language development; maternal speech; child language environment
Infants' Everyday Language Experiences: Exploring similaries and differences within and across cultural contexts
Principal investigators: Soderstrom, Melanie
Keywords: child language development; maternal speech; child language environment
Promoting Children's Emotional Well-Being in the Context of COVID-19: The SPACE Family Program SSHRC Insight Development Grant
Principal investigators: Roos, Leslie
Keywords: Parenting; Family; Child Development; Emotions; Mental Health; Stress; Social Support; Online Intervention
Building large-scale collaborative networks in infant and behavioural research
Principal investigators: Hamlin, J. Kiley
Keywords: open science; collaborative research networks; behavioural research; infancy
Factors Influencing Infant Perception of Infant-directed Speech
Principal investigators: Soderstrom, Melanie
Analyzing Child Language Experiences Around the World (ACLEW)
Principal investigators: Soderstrom, Melanie
Keywords: language acquisition; linguistics; psychology; cognitive science; computer science; speech processing
Similarities and differences in language environment within and across childcare settings
Principal investigators: Soderstrom, Melanie
Keywords: language development; childcare; LENA; language environment
Understanding the effect of child care on the language environment
Principal investigators: Soderstrom, Melanie
Keywords: daycare environment; language environment; child care; early language development; early childhood
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Catherine Lebel and Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen: 15 shared papers
- Krista Byers-Heinlein and Melanie Soderstrom: 5 shared papers
- Kristin Reynolds and Ryan Giuliano: 4 shared papers
- Catherine Lebel and Kristin Reynolds: 3 shared papers
- Catherine Lebel and Charlie Rioux: 3 shared papers
- Catherine Lebel and Melanie Soderstrom: 3 shared papers
- Charlie Rioux and Melanie Soderstrom: 3 shared papers
- Catherine Lebel and Ryan Giuliano: 2 shared papers
- Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen and Charlie Rioux: 2 shared papers
- Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen and Melanie Soderstrom: 2 shared papers
- Hillary Ganek and Melanie Soderstrom: 1 shared paper
- Kristin Reynolds and Charlie Rioux: 1 shared paper
- Kristin Reynolds and Melanie Soderstrom: 1 shared paper
- Charlie Rioux and Ryan Giuliano: 1 shared paper
- Kiley Hamlin and Melanie Soderstrom: 1 shared paper
- Krista Byers-Heinlein and John Corbit: 1 shared paper
- Krista Byers-Heinlein and Jessica Sommerville: 1 shared paper
- Ryan Giuliano and Melanie Soderstrom: 1 shared paper
- John Corbit and Melanie Soderstrom: 1 shared paper
- John Corbit and Jessica Sommerville: 1 shared paper
- Melanie Soderstrom and Jessica Sommerville: 1 shared paper
- Child and Adolescent Psychology
- Psychology
- Other Library and Information Science
- Department of Radiology
- Radiology
- Department of Pediatrics
- Rehabilitation Science
- Other
Co-authors at University of Manitoba, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Krista Byers-Heinlein
Other Library and Information Science
5 shared papers, latest 2026
Catherine Lebel
Department of Radiology
3 shared papers, latest 2022
Charlie Rioux
Radiology
3 shared papers, latest 2022
Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen
Department of Pediatrics
2 shared papers, latest 2022
Jessica Sommerville
Child and Adolescent Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Hillary Ganek
Rehabilitation Science
1 shared papers, latest 2020
John Corbit
Child and Adolescent Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Kristin Reynolds
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Kiley Hamlin
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Ryan Giuliano
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2022
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