OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Phonetics is 2. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Lexical representations can rapidly be updated in the early stages of second-language word learning	35
Editorial Board	30
On the target of phonetic convergence: Acoustic and linguistic aspects of pitch accent imitation	21
Towards a dynamical account of inter-segmental coordination	19
Editorial Board	18
Systematic co-variation of monophthongs across speakers of New Zealand English	18
Editorial Board	17
Editorial Board	17
A dual mechanism for intrinsic f0	16
Editorial Board	16
Exposure to speech via foreign film and its effects on non-native vowel production and perception	15
Investigating interlanguages beyond categorical analyses: Prosodic marking of information status in Italian learners of German	14
Effects of native language and habituation in phonetic accommodation	14
Simultaneous bilingualism and speech style as predictors of variation in allophone production: Evidence from Finland-Swedish	13
Normalization, essentialization, and the erasure of social and linguistic variation	13
Acoustic characteristics of non-native Lombard speech in the DELNN corpus	12
Theoretical achievements of phonetics in the 21st century: Phonetics of voice quality	12
Loss of unreleased final stops among Mandarin-Min bilinguals: Structural convergence of languages in contact	12
Flexibility and stability of speech sounds: The time course of lexically-driven recalibration	11
Dipping and Falling as competing strategies for maintaining the distinctiveness of the low tone in the four-tone system of Kaifeng Mandarin	11
A non-contrastive cue in spontaneous imitation: Comparing mono- and bilingual imitators	10
Code-switching experience as a mitigating factor for cross-linguistic phonetic interference	10
Editorial Board	9
The supralaryngeal articulation of stress and accent in Greek	9
Cognitive factors in nonnative phonetic learning: Impacts of inhibitory control and working memory on the benefits and costs of talker variability	9

Special issue: Vocal accommodation in speech communication	8
The contribution of the visual modality to vowel perception in native and non-native speakers	8
The relation between musical abilities and speech prosody perception: A meta-analysis	8
Domain-initial effects on C-to-V and V-to-V coarticulation in French: A corpus-based study	8
An acoustic study on age-related changes in vowel production of Chinese	8
Measured and perceived speech tempo: Comparing canonical and surface articulation rates	8
The production of ejectives in German and Georgian	8
Phonological and phonetic contributions to perception of non-native lexical tones by tone language listeners: Effects of memory load and stimulus variability	7
Spelling provides a precise (but sometimes misplaced) phonological target. Orthography and acoustic variability in second language word learning	7
The change in breathy voice after tone split: A production study of Suzhou Wu Chinese	7
Same vowels but different contrasts: Mandarin listeners’ perception of English /ei/-/iː/ in unfamiliar phonotactic contexts	7
Challenges with the kinematic analysis of neurotypical and impaired speech: Measures and models	7
Contextually-relevant enhancement of non-native phonetic contrasts	7
Noise-based acoustic features of Polish retroflex fricatives in children with normal pronunciation and speech disorder	7
Phonetic implementation and the interpretation of downstepping in Mainstream US English	7
Phonetics–phonology mapping in the generalization of perceptual learning	7
The relation between perceptual retuning and articulatory restructuring: Individual differences in accommodating a novel phonetic variant	7
Contribution of F0 and phonation to tone perception in the Zaiwa language	7
Prosodic phrasing mediates listeners’ perception of temporal cues: Evidence from the Korean Accentual Phrase	6
Phonetic naturalness in the reanalysis of Samoan thematic consonant alternations	6
Phonetic accommodation of tone: Reversing a tone merger-in-progress via imitation	6
Theorizing positive transfer in cross-linguistic speech perception: The Acoustic-Attentional-Contextual hypothesis	6
Variation in fine phonetic detail can modulate the outcome of sound change: The case of stop gradation and laryngeal contrast implementation in Jutland Danish	6
The online effect of clash is durational lengthening, not prominence shift: Evidence from Italian	6
Articulatory consequences of lexical stress on post-tonic velar plosives in Italian	6
Formant-based articulatory strategies: Characterisation and inter-speaker variability analysis	6
Acoustic-phonetic properties of Siri- and human-directed speech	5
Phonetic convergence across dialect boundaries in first and second language speakers	5
Homophone discrimination based on prior exposure	5
Diachronic phonological asymmetries and the variable stability of synchronic contrast	5
Corrigendum to “Towards a dynamical account of inter-segmental coordination” [J. Phon. 109 (2025) 101392]	5
Stop voicing perception in the societal and heritage language of Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers: The role of age, input quantity and input diversity	5
Compensatory effects of foot structure in segmental durations of Soikkola Ingrian disyllables and trisyllables	5
Language-specific and individual variation in anticipatory nasal coarticulation: A comparative study of American English, French, and German	5
Dynamic multi-cue weighting in the perception of Spanish intonation: Differences between tonal and non-tonal language listeners	5
Inaccurate but predictable: Vocal-tract length estimation and gender stereotypes in height perception	4
Sound change in Western Andalusian Spanish: Investigation into the actuation and propagation of post-aspiration	4
Phonetic and phonological cues to prediction: Neurophysiology of Danish stød	4
Editorial Board	4
Prosodic marking of information status in Italian	4
Reactive feedback control and adaptation to perturbed speech timing in stressed and unstressed syllables	4
Use of segmental detail as a cue to prosodic structure in reference to information structure in German	4
Voicing and frication at the phonetics-phonology interface: An acoustic study of Greek, Serbian, Russian, and English	4
Second dialect acquisition and phonetic vowel reduction in the American Midwest	4
Processing pronunciation variation with independently mappable allophones	4
Thai speakers time lexical tones to supralaryngeal articulatory events	4
What are you sinking about? Experience with unfamiliar accent produces both inhibition and facilitation during lexical processing	4
The production of English syllable-level timing patterns by bilingual English- and Spanish-speaking children with cochlear implants and their peers with normal hearing	4
Artificial vocal learning guided by speech recognition: What it may tell us about how children learn to speak	4
Constituent durations in English NNN compounds: A case of strategic speaker behavior?	3

An investigation of functional relations between speech rate and phonetic variables	3
Do adults produce phonetic variants of /t/ less often in speech to children?	3
Contextual and paradigmatic effects on suspended contrast across generations: The case of Cantonese pinjam revisited	3
Advancement of phonetics in the 21st century: Exemplar models of speech production	3
Editorial Board	3
Sub-band cepstral distance as an alternative to formants: Quantitative evidence from a forensic comparison experiment	3
Relating pronunciation distance metrics to intelligibility across English accents	3
Phonetic imitation of the acoustic realization of stress in Spanish: Production and perception	3
Planning for the future and reacting to the present: Proactive and reactive F0 adjustments in speech	3
Looking within events: Examining internal temporal structure with local relative rate	3
The phonetics of sociophonetics: Validating acoustic approaches to Spanish /s/	3
The influence of expectations on tonal cues to prominence	3
The influence of preceding speech and nonspeech contexts on Mandarin tone identification	3
Effects of individual aptitude on ultrasound biofeedback in non-native vowel production	3
Towards a dynamical model of English vowels. Evidence from diphthongisation	3
Editorial Board	3
Discriminative segmental cues to vowel height and consonantal place and voicing in whispered speech	3
Effects of word position and flanking vowel on the implementation of glottal stop: Evidence from Hawaiian	3
Spatial location does not consistently constrain perceptual learning in speech	3
Speaker-specificity in speech production: The contribution of source and filter	3
Responses to time pressure on phrase-final melodies in varieties of Dutch and West Frisian	2
Analysis and computational modelling of Emirati Arabic intonation – A preliminary study	2
Phonetic adaptation in interlocutors with mismatched language backgrounds: A case for a phonetic synergy account	2
Reconceptualizing VOT: Further contributions to marking 50 years of research on voice onset time	2
The coarticulation-duration relationship in early Quechua speech	2
Coarticulation and coordination in phonological development: Insights from children’s and adults’ production of complex–simplex stop contrasts in Gã	2
Perception of ambiguous rhoticity in Glasgow	2
Extreme stop allophony in Mixtec spontaneous speech: Data, word prosody, and modelling	2
Individual uniformity in phonetic imitation: Assessing the stability of individual variability across features and tasks	2
Voicing in Qaqet: Prenasalization and language contact	2
The role of L2 experience in L1 and L2 perception and production of voiceless stops by English learners of Spanish	2
Phonetic detail is used to predict a word’s morphological composition	2
Acoustic cue sensitivity in the perception of native category and their relation to nonnative phonological contrast learning	2
Pitch variability in spontaneous speech production and its connection to usage-based grammar	2
Analysing the relationship between L2 production and different stages of L2 processing: Eye-tracking and acoustic evidence for a novel contrast	2
Being clear about clear speech: Intelligibility of hard-of-hearing-directed, non-native-directed, and casual speech for L1- and L2-English listeners	2