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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The Effects of Phonological Complexity on Word Production in French-Speaking Children	15
Aptitude, Anxiety, and Success in L2 Speech Development: A Longitudinal Study of Chinese EFL College-Level Learners	13
Acoustic and Kinematic Correlates of Heterosyllabicity in Different Phonological Contexts	10
English Vowel Discrimination and Perceptual Assimilation by Japanese Listeners	9
Kinect-ing the Dots: Using Motion-Capture Technology to Distinguish Sign Language Linguistic From Gestural Expressions	9
Individual Differences in Categorical Judgment of L2 Stops: A Link to Proficiency and Acoustic Cue-Weighting	8
Impact of Japanese L1 Rhythm on English L2 Speech	7
Phonetic Effects of Tonal Crowding in Persian Polar Questions	7
A Reanalysis of the Voicing Effect in English: With Implications for Featural Specification	7
Processing of Grammatical Agreement in the Face of Variation in Lexical Stress: A Mismatch Negativity Study	7
Effects of Speaking Rate Changes on Speech Motor Variability in Adults	7
Prosodic Modifications to Challenging Communicative Environments in Preschoolers	6
How Templatic Is Arabic Input to Children? The Role of Child-Directed-Speech in the Acquisition of Semitic Morpho-Phonology	6
Factors Affecting the Writing Performance in Hearing and Deaf Children: An Insight into Regularities and Irregularities of the Arabic Orthographic System	6
Phrasal Synchronization of Gesture With Prosody and Information Structure	6
Acoustic and Articulatory Visual Feedback in Classroom L2 Vowel Remediation	6
The Role of Prominence in Activating Focused Words and Their Alternatives in Mandarin: Evidence from Lexical Priming and Recognition Memory	6
Segmental Influences on the Perception of High Pitch Accent Scaling in American English	6
Assessing the Specificity and Accuracy of Accent Judgments by Lay Listeners	6
Corrigendum to “Sources of Intelligibility of Distant Languages: An Empirical Study”	5
Perceptually Easy Second-Language Phones Are Not Always Easy: The Role of Orthography and Phonology in Schwa Realization in Second-Language French	5
Learnability Advantage of Segmental Repetitions in Word Learning	5
An Investigation of Language-Specific and Orthographic Effects in L2 Arabic geminate production by Advanced Japanese- and English-speaking learners	5
Flexibility and Stability in Lexical Tone Recalibration: Evidence from Tone Perceptual Learning	4
Social Priming: Exploring the Effects of Speaker Race and Ethnicity on Perception of Second Language Accents	4

The Role of Prosody in Disambiguating English Indirect Requests	4
Development of Vowel Intrusion in Spanish Heritage Speakers	4
Pronunciation of Vowel Digraphs in Nonwords: A Replication and Extension	4
Perceptual Style-Shifting Across Singing and Speech: Music Activates Pop Song English for NZ Listeners	4
The Relationship between Non-Native Perception and Phonological Patterning of Implosive Consonants	4
Does Orkish Sound Evil? Perception of Fantasy Languages and Their Phonetic and Phonological Characteristics	4
Bilinguals Produce Pitch Range Differently in Their Two Languages to Convey Social Meaning	3
Form-Meaning Relations in Russian Confirmative and Surprise Declarative Questions	3
Phonetic Development of an L2 Vowel System and Tandem Drift in the L1: A Residence Abroad and L1 Re-Immersion Study	3
Individual Differences in Early Disambiguation of Prosodic Grouping	3
The Non-Coalescence of /h/ and Incomplete Neutralization in South Jeolla Korean	3
Preference for Distinct Variants in Learning Sound Correspondences During Dialect Acquisition	3
A Corpus Study on the Difference of Turn-Taking in Online Audio, Online Video, and Face-to-Face Conversation	3
Investigation of Mandarin Word Production in Children and Adults: Evidence from Phonological Priming with Non-words	3
Processing of English Coda Laterals in L2 Listeners: An Eye-Tracking Study	3
Prosodic Structural Effects on Non-Contrastive Coarticulatory Vowel Nasalization in L2 English by Korean Learners	3
Predictability Associated With Reduction in Phonetic Signals Without Semantics—The Case of Glossolalia	3
The Effects of Perceived Ethnicity and Prosodic Accuracy on Intelligibility, Comprehensibility, and Accentedness in L2 Mandarin Chinese	2
The Perception of Lexical Pitch Accent in South Kyungsang Korean: The Relevance of Accent Shape	2
The Role of Phonological Factors in the Processing of Polish Phonotactics	2
Cross-Linguistic Trends in Speech Errors: An Analysis of Sub-Lexical Errors in Cantonese	2
Production of the English /ɹ/ by Mandarin–English Bilingual Speakers	2
The Attractiveness of Average Speech Rhythms: Revisiting the Average Effect From a Crosslinguistic Perspective	2
Phonetic and Lexical Encoding of Tone in Cantonese Heritage Speakers	2
Echoes of Past Contact: Venetian Influence on Cretan Greek Intonation	2
Language Attitudes and Stereotypes Condition the Processing of Contact-Induced Linguistic Variants	2
Contrastive Alveolar/Retroflex Phonemes in Singapore Mandarin Bilinguals: Comprehension Rates for Articulations in Different Accents, and Acoustic Analysis of Productions	2
Speaking Rate, Oro-Laryngeal Timing, and Place of Articulation Effects on Burst Amplitude: Evidence From English and Tamil	2
Fast-Speech-Induced Hypoarticulation Does Not Considerably Affect the Diachronic Reversal of Complementary Length in Central Bavarian	2
Elliptical Responses to Direct and Indirect Requests for Information	2
Perceptual Sensitivity to Tonal Alignment in Nuer	2
Aspiring to Aspirate: L2 Acquisition of English Word-Initial /p/ Over 10 Years	2
Language Dependency of /s/ Production: Native Dutch Versus Non-Native English	2
Sociophonetic Variation in Vowel Categorization of Australian English	2
Violations of Lab-Learned Phonological Patterns Elicit a Late Positive Component	2
Bridging Inferences and Reference Management: Evidence from an Experimental Investigation in Catalan and Russian	1
Phonetic Cues in Auditory Identification of Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, and Russian Language of Origin	1
Accommodation and Language Contact	1
Acoustic and Perceptual Differences of Aegyo Speaking Style Across Gender in Seoul Korean	1
How Different Types of Linguistic Information Impact Voice Perception: Evidence From the Language-Familiarity Effect	1
Rhythm Is a Marker of Ethnicity in Modern Hebrew: Evidence from a Perception Study and Actors’ Ethnicized Portrayals	1
Graded Sensitivity to Vowel Mispronunciations in Newly Learned Words	1
Articulatory Methods for the Study of Second Language Speech	1
Relationships Between Acoustic Characteristics and Intelligibility Scores: A Reanalysis of Japanese Speakers’ Productions of American English Liquids	1
Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Effects in Estonian Spontaneous Speech	1
Cross-Linguistic Phonetic Variation in Bilingual Speech: Cantonese /n/ > [l] Merger in Early Cantonese–English Bilinguals	1
Learning Accurate Onset Clusters: Perception Lags Behind Production	1
Biases for Vowel Harmony Over Disharmony in Phoneme Monitoring	1
Gestural Timing Patterns of Nasality in Highly Proficient Spanish Learners of English: Aerodynamic Evidence	1
The Effect of Distributional Restrictions in Speech Perception: A Case Study From Korean and Taiwanese Southern Min	1

Bilingual Acquisition of Morphology: Norwegian and Russian Influence on Children’s Sentence Repetition in Estonian	1
Just How Contrastive Is Word-Initial Consonant Length? Exploring the Itunyoso Triqui Spontaneous Speech Corpus	1
Importance of Visual Support Through Lipreading in the Identification of Words in Spanish Language	1
Sociolinguistic Variation in Mouthings in British Sign Language: A Corpus-Based Study	1
Playing With Fire Compounds: The Tonal Accents of Compounds in (North) Norwegian Preschoolers’ Role-Play Register	1
Language Contact, Language Ecology, and Intonational Variation in the Yami Community	1
The “Starting-Small” Effect in Phonology: Evidence From Biased Learning of Opaque and Transparent Vowel Harmony	1
Prosodic Cues for Broad, Narrow, and Corrective Focus in Persian	1
Apparent Talker Variability and Speaking Style Similarity Can Enhance Comprehension of Novel L2-Accented Talkers	1
How Aging and Age-Related Hearing Loss Affect the Recognition of Emotion in Whispered Speech	1
Systematicity Over the Course of Early Development: An Analysis of Phonological Networks	1
Second Dialect Acquisition by North Korean Refugee Speakers: Acquiring Seoul Korean Stops	1
Computational Modeling of an Auditory Lexical Decision Experiment Using DIANA	1
Articulatory Insights into the L2 Acquisition of English-/l/ Allophony	1
Piecewise Structural Equation Modeling of the Quantity Implicature in Child Language	1
Often Overlooked Aspects of Sound Symbolism: The Influence of Participants’ Characteristics on Size Ratings	1
Relative Contributions of Social, Contextual, and Lexical Factors in Speech Processing	1
Audiovisual Perception of Lexical Stress: Beat Gestures and Articulatory Cues	1
The Effect of Habitual Speech Rate on Speaker-Specific Processing in English Stop Voicing Perception	1
Second-Language Acquisition and First-Language Attrition of Speech: The Production of Arabic and English Short Vowels	1