OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language and Speech is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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	9
English Vowel Discrimination and Perceptual Assimilation by Japanese Listeners	8
The Effects of Phonological Complexity on Word Production in French-Speaking Children	8
Individual Differences in Categorical Judgment of L2 Stops: A Link to Proficiency and Acoustic Cue-Weighting	8
Kinect-ing the Dots: Using Motion-Capture Technology to Distinguish Sign Language Linguistic From Gestural Expressions	7
Effects of Speaking Rate Changes on Speech Motor Variability in Adults	7
The Prosody of Two-Syllable Words in French-Speaking Monolingual and Bilingual Children: A Focus on Initial Accent and Final Accent	7
Prosodic Disambiguation in First and Second Language Production: English and Korean	6
A Reanalysis of the Voicing Effect in English: With Implications for Featural Specification	6
Processing of Grammatical Agreement in the Face of Variation in Lexical Stress: A Mismatch Negativity Study	6
Phonetic Effects of Tonal Crowding in Persian Polar Questions	6
Factors Affecting the Writing Performance in Hearing and Deaf Children: An Insight into Regularities and Irregularities of the Arabic Orthographic System	6
Impact of Japanese L1 Rhythm on English L2 Speech	6
Phrasal Synchronization of Gesture With Prosody and Information Structure	5
The Role of Prominence in Activating Focused Words and Their Alternatives in Mandarin: Evidence from Lexical Priming and Recognition Memory	5
Assessing the Specificity and Accuracy of Accent Judgments by Lay Listeners	5
How Templatic Is Arabic Input to Children? The Role of Child-Directed-Speech in the Acquisition of Semitic Morpho-Phonology	5
Acoustic and Articulatory Visual Feedback in Classroom L2 Vowel Remediation	5
Prosodic Modifications to Challenging Communicative Environments in Preschoolers	5
Learnability Advantage of Segmental Repetitions in Word Learning	4
The Role of Prosody in Disambiguating English Indirect Requests	4
The Relationship between Non-Native Perception and Phonological Patterning of Implosive Consonants	4
Perceptually Easy Second-Language Phones Are Not Always Easy: The Role of Orthography and Phonology in Schwa Realization in Second-Language French	4
Does Orkish Sound Evil? Perception of Fantasy Languages and Their Phonetic and Phonological Characteristics	4

Segmental Influences on the Perception of High Pitch Accent Scaling in American English	4
An Investigation of Language-Specific and Orthographic Effects in L2 Arabic geminate production by Advanced Japanese- and English-speaking learners	4
Flexibility and Stability in Lexical Tone Recalibration: Evidence from Tone Perceptual Learning	4
Form-Meaning Relations in Russian Confirmative and Surprise Declarative Questions	3
Individual Differences in Early Disambiguation of Prosodic Grouping	3
A Corpus Study on the Difference of Turn-Taking in Online Audio, Online Video, and Face-to-Face Conversation	3
Predictability Associated With Reduction in Phonetic Signals Without Semantics—The Case of Glossolalia	3
Development of Vowel Intrusion in Spanish Heritage Speakers	3
Bilinguals Produce Pitch Range Differently in Their Two Languages to Convey Social Meaning	3
Processing of English Coda Laterals in L2 Listeners: An Eye-Tracking Study	3
Phonetic Development of an L2 Vowel System and Tandem Drift in the L1: A Residence Abroad and L1 Re-Immersion Study	3
Contrastive Alveolar/Retroflex Phonemes in Singapore Mandarin Bilinguals: Comprehension Rates for Articulations in Different Accents, and Acoustic Analysis of Productions	3
Preference for Distinct Variants in Learning Sound Correspondences During Dialect Acquisition	3
Social Priming: Exploring the Effects of Speaker Race and Ethnicity on Perception of Second Language Accents	3
Fluency-related Temporal Features and Syllable Prominence as Prosodic Proficiency Predictors for Learners of English with Different Language Backgrounds	3
Investigation of Mandarin Word Production in Children and Adults: Evidence from Phonological Priming with Non-words	3
Prosodic Structural Effects on Non-Contrastive Coarticulatory Vowel Nasalization in L2 English by Korean Learners	3
Language Dependency of /s/ Production: Native Dutch Versus Non-Native English	3
The Non-Coalescence of /h/ and Incomplete Neutralization in South Jeolla Korean	3
Pronunciation of Vowel Digraphs in Nonwords: A Replication and Extension	3