OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language and Speech is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
F0 and Voice Quality of Coarticulated Mandarin Tones	19
Effects of Spectral Envelope and Fundamental Frequency Shifts on the Perception of Foreign-Accented Speech	11
Violations of Lab-Learned Phonological Patterns Elicit a Late Positive Component	11
Pronunciation of Vowel Digraphs in Nonwords: A Replication and Extension	10
Effects of Systematicity on Word Learning in Preschool Children: The Case of Semitic Morpho-Phonology	9
The Effects of Phonological Complexity on Word Production in French-Speaking Children	9
No, No One Had Fun. Individual Differences in Nonliteral Language Perception	8
Do Diacritics Entail an Early Processing Cost in the Absence of Abstract Representations? Evidence from Masked Priming in English	7
Fluency-related Temporal Features and Syllable Prominence as Prosodic Proficiency Predictors for Learners of English with Different Language Backgrounds	6
How Different Types of Linguistic Information Impact Voice Perception: Evidence From the Language-Familiarity Effect	6
Building a Grammatical Network: Form and Function in the Development of Hebrew Prepositions	6
Phonetic and Lexical Encoding of Tone in Cantonese Heritage Speakers	5
Computational Modeling of an Auditory Lexical Decision Experiment Using DIANA	5
Piecewise Structural Equation Modeling of the Quantity Implicature in Child Language	5
Fast-Speech-Induced Hypoarticulation Does Not Considerably Affect the Diachronic Reversal of Complementary Length in Central Bavarian	5
Perceptual Sensitivity to Tonal Alignment in Nuer	5
Social Priming: Exploring the Effects of Speaker Race and Ethnicity on Perception of Second Language Accents	4
Acoustic and Kinematic Correlates of Heterosyllabicity in Different Phonological Contexts	4
Form-Meaning Relations in Russian Confirmative and Surprise Declarative Questions	4
Bilinguals Produce Pitch Range Differently in Their Two Languages to Convey Social Meaning	4
Importance of Visual Support Through Lipreading in the Identification of Words in Spanish Language	4
The Attractiveness of Average Speech Rhythms: Revisiting the Average Effect From a Crosslinguistic Perspective	4
The Syntactic Pasts of Nouns Shape Their Prosodic Future: Lexico-Syntactic Effects on Position and Duration	4
Aptitude, Anxiety, and Success in L2 Speech Development: A Longitudinal Study of Chinese EFL College-Level Learners	4
Bilingual Children Shift and Relax Second-Language Phoneme Categorization in Response to Accented L2 and Native L1 Speech Exposure	4

Elliptical Responses to Direct and Indirect Requests for Information	4
Processing of English Coda Laterals in L2 Listeners: An Eye-Tracking Study	3
Increased Breathiness in Adolescent Kiezdeutsch Speakers: A Marker of Multiethnolectal Group Affiliation?	3
Cross-Linguistic Phonetic Variation in Bilingual Speech: Cantonese /n/ > [l] Merger in Early Cantonese–English Bilinguals	3
Preference for Distinct Variants in Learning Sound Correspondences During Dialect Acquisition	3
Sociolectal and Dialectal Variation in Prosody	3
The Non-Coalescence of /h/ and Incomplete Neutralization in South Jeolla Korean	3
Investigation of Mandarin Word Production in Children and Adults: Evidence from Phonological Priming with Non-words	3
English Vowel Discrimination and Perceptual Assimilation by Japanese Listeners	3
The Language-Specificity of Phonetic Adaptation to Talkers	3
The dual status of filled pauses: Evidence from genre, proficiency and co-occurrence	3
The Prosody of Two-Syllable Words in French-Speaking Monolingual and Bilingual Children: A Focus on Initial Accent and Final Accent	3
Modeling Lexical Tones for Speaker Discrimination	3
Focus Attracts Attachment	3
Kinect-ing the Dots: Using Motion-Capture Technology to Distinguish Sign Language Linguistic From Gestural Expressions	3
Reciprocity in Instant Messaging Conversations	3
Intraspeaker Priming across the New Zealand English Short Front Vowel Shift	3
N400 Evidence That the Early Stages of Lexical Access Ignore Knowledge About Phonological Alternations	3
Production and Perception Evidence of a Merger: [l] and [n] in Fuzhou Min	3
Why Aren’t All Cantonese Tones Equally Confusing to English Listeners?	2
Individual Differences in Categorical Judgment of L2 Stops: A Link to Proficiency and Acoustic Cue-Weighting	2
Effects of Speaking Rate Changes on Speech Motor Variability in Adults	2
Sleep Soundly! Sleep Deprivation Impairs Perception of Spoken Sentences in Challenging Listening Conditions	2
A Corpus Study on the Difference of Turn-Taking in Online Audio, Online Video, and Face-to-Face Conversation	2
Exploring Variability in Compound Tensification in Seoul Korean	2
Prosodic Prominence – A Cross-Linguistic Perspective	2
Adaptation at the Syntax–Semantics Interface: Evidence From a Vernacular Structure	2
The Effects of Language Contact on Non-Native Vowel Sequences in Lexical Borrowings: The Case of Media Lengua	2
Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Effects in Estonian Spontaneous Speech	2
Towards a Native OPERA Hypothesis: Musicianship and English Stress Perception	2
The “Starting-Small” Effect in Phonology: Evidence From Biased Learning of Opaque and Transparent Vowel Harmony	2
Erratum	2
Phonological Preparation in Korean: Phoneme, or Syllable or Another Unit?	2
Prosodic Cues for Broad, Narrow, and Corrective Focus in Persian	2
Processing of Grammatical Agreement in the Face of Variation in Lexical Stress: A Mismatch Negativity Study	2
What Makes Iconic Pitch Associations “Natural”: The Effect of Age on Affective Meanings of Uptalk and Creak	2
Using Network Science and Psycholinguistic Megastudies to Examine the Dimensions of Phonological Similarity	2
Phonetic Development of an L2 Vowel System and Tandem Drift in the L1: A Residence Abroad and L1 Re-Immersion Study	1
Phonetic Effects of Tonal Crowding in Persian Polar Questions	1
A Reanalysis of the Voicing Effect in English: With Implications for Featural Specification	1
Impact of Japanese L1 Rhythm on English L2 Speech	1
Individual Differences in Early Disambiguation of Prosodic Grouping	1
Sociolinguistic Variation in Mouthings in British Sign Language: A Corpus-Based Study	1
Relating Tabooness to Humor and Arousal Ratings in American English: What the F*** Is so Funny?	1
Phonetic Accommodation on the Segmental and the Suprasegmental Level of Speech in Native–Non-Native Collaborative Tasks	1
Acoustic and Articulatory Visual Feedback in Classroom L2 Vowel Remediation	1
Prosodic Disambiguation in First and Second Language Production: English and Korean	1
How Complex Verbs Acquire Their Idiosyncratic Meanings	1
Factors Affecting the Writing Performance in Hearing and Deaf Children: An Insight into Regularities and Irregularities of the Arabic Orthographic System	1
The Effect of Habitual Speech Rate on Speaker-Specific Processing in English Stop Voicing Perception	1

Bridging Inferences and Reference Management: Evidence from an Experimental Investigation in Catalan and Russian	1
Speech Fluency Production and Perception in L1 (Slovak) and L2 (English) Read Speech	1
Prosodic Structural Effects on Non-Contrastive Coarticulatory Vowel Nasalization in L2 English by Korean Learners	1
Interaction between Phrasal Structure and Vowel Tenseness in German: An Acoustic and Articulatory Study	1
Range in the Use and Realization of BIN in African American English	1
Phonetic Dissimilarity and L2 Category Formation in L2 Accommodation	1
Audiovisual Perception of Lexical Stress: Beat Gestures and Articulatory Cues	1
A New System of Cantonese Tones? Tone Perception and Production in Hong Kong South Asian Cantonese	1
Language Dependency of /s/ Production: Native Dutch Versus Non-Native English	1
Assessing the Specificity and Accuracy of Accent Judgments by Lay Listeners	1