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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	44
On the target of phonetic convergence: Acoustic and linguistic aspects of pitch accent imitation	43
Towards a dynamical account of inter-segmental coordination	34
Phonetic information in the vowel spectrum: the meaning of Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients	22
Effects of native language and habituation in phonetic accommodation	18
Editorial Board	18
The role of prior knowledge in second-language learners’ overnight consolidation of Cantonese tones	17
Editorial Board	16
Exposure to speech via foreign film and its effects on non-native vowel production and perception	16
Normalization, essentialization, and the erasure of social and linguistic variation	14
Acoustic characteristics of non-native Lombard speech in the DELNN corpus	14
Investigating interlanguages beyond categorical analyses: Prosodic marking of information status in Italian learners of German	14
Loss of unreleased final stops among Mandarin-Min bilinguals: Structural convergence of languages in contact	13
Theoretical achievements of phonetics in the 21st century: Phonetics of voice quality	12
The Interplay of Planning and Prosody: Investigating the Bidirectional Influences of Planning and Prosody in Speech Production	12
Flexibility and stability of speech sounds: The time course of lexically-driven recalibration	12
Editorial Board	12
Dipping and Falling as competing strategies for maintaining the distinctiveness of the low tone in the four-tone system of Kaifeng Mandarin	12
Cognitive factors in nonnative phonetic learning: Impacts of inhibitory control and working memory on the benefits and costs of talker variability	11
Special issue: Vocal accommodation in speech communication	10
Editorial Board	10
Code-switching experience as a mitigating factor for cross-linguistic phonetic interference	10
An acoustic study on age-related changes in vowel production of Chinese	10
The relation between musical abilities and speech prosody perception: A meta-analysis	9
Advancements in phonetics in the 21st century: Infant speech development	9

The contribution of the visual modality to vowel perception in native and non-native speakers	9
Measured and perceived speech tempo: Comparing canonical and surface articulation rates	9
Same vowels but different contrasts: Mandarin listeners’ perception of English /ei/-/iː/ in unfamiliar phonotactic contexts	8
The relation between perceptual retuning and articulatory restructuring: Individual differences in accommodating a novel phonetic variant	8
Phonological and phonetic contributions to perception of non-native lexical tones by tone language listeners: Effects of memory load and stimulus variability	8
Noise-based acoustic features of Polish retroflex fricatives in children with normal pronunciation and speech disorder	8
Phonetics–phonology mapping in the generalization of perceptual learning	8
Challenges with the kinematic analysis of neurotypical and impaired speech: Measures and models	8
Spelling provides a precise (but sometimes misplaced) phonological target. Orthography and acoustic variability in second language word learning	8
Phonetic implementation and the interpretation of downstepping in Mainstream US English	8
Speaking rate effects on Japanese vowel and consonant length contrasts	8
Prosodic phrasing mediates listeners’ perception of temporal cues: Evidence from the Korean Accentual Phrase	7
Contribution of F0 and phonation to tone perception in the Zaiwa language	7
Phonetic naturalness in the reanalysis of Samoan thematic consonant alternations	7
The change in breathy voice after tone split: A production study of Suzhou Wu Chinese	7
Quantitative evidence of complex metrical prosody in Chugach Alutiiq	7
Formant-based articulatory strategies: Characterisation and inter-speaker variability analysis	7
Articulatory consequences of lexical stress on post-tonic velar plosives in Italian	7
Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: Quantitative data analysis	7
Variation in fine phonetic detail can modulate the outcome of sound change: The case of stop gradation and laryngeal contrast implementation in Jutland Danish	7
Diachronic phonological asymmetries and the variable stability of synchronic contrast	7
Corrigendum to “Towards a dynamical account of inter-segmental coordination” [J. Phon. 109 (2025) 101392]	7
Compensatory effects of foot structure in segmental durations of Soikkola Ingrian disyllables and trisyllables	6
Language-specific and individual variation in anticipatory nasal coarticulation: A comparative study of American English, French, and German	6
Dynamic multi-cue weighting in the perception of Spanish intonation: Differences between tonal and non-tonal language listeners	6
Perceived cross-linguistic similarity of retroflexes in trilingual, bilingual and native listener groups	6
Stop voicing perception in the societal and heritage language of Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers: The role of age, input quantity and input diversity	6
The perception of accented English by Mandarin learners of English: Revisiting the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit	6
Inaccurate but predictable: Vocal-tract length estimation and gender stereotypes in height perception	5
Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: Phonetic universals, language variation, and phonetic grammar	5
Voicing and frication at the phonetics-phonology interface: An acoustic study of Greek, Serbian, Russian, and English	5
Phonetic and phonological cues to prediction: Neurophysiology of Danish stød	5
The production of English syllable-level timing patterns by bilingual English- and Spanish-speaking children with cochlear implants and their peers with normal hearing	5
Processing pronunciation variation with independently mappable allophones	5
Imitation of F0 tone contours by Mandarin and English speakers is both categorical and continuous	5
Artificial vocal learning guided by speech recognition: What it may tell us about how children learn to speak	5
Cross-linguistic similarity in L2 suprasegmental learning: evidence from Chinese learners’ perception of Japanese pitch accents	5
Thai speakers time lexical tones to supralaryngeal articulatory events	5
Second dialect acquisition and phonetic vowel reduction in the American Midwest	5
Homophone discrimination based on prior exposure	5
Sound change in Western Andalusian Spanish: Investigation into the actuation and propagation of post-aspiration	5
Prosodic marking of information status in Italian	5
Use of segmental detail as a cue to prosodic structure in reference to information structure in German	5
Looking within events: Examining internal temporal structure with local relative rate	5
Planning for the future and reacting to the present: Proactive and reactive F0 adjustments in speech	5
What are you sinking about? Experience with unfamiliar accent produces both inhibition and facilitation during lexical processing	4
Contextual and paradigmatic effects on suspended contrast across generations: The case of Cantonese pinjam revisited	4
Editorial Board	4
Context-dependent coupling and dissociation between speech production and perception in Mandarin tones	4
Towards a dynamical model of English vowels. Evidence from diphthongisation	4

Discriminative segmental cues to vowel height and consonantal place and voicing in whispered speech	4
Phonetic imitation of the acoustic realization of stress in Spanish: Production and perception	4
An investigation of functional relations between speech rate and phonetic variables	4
Constituent durations in English NNN compounds: A case of strategic speaker behavior?	3
Advancement of phonetics in the 21st century: Exemplar models of speech production	3
Sub-band cepstral distance as an alternative to formants: Quantitative evidence from a forensic comparison experiment	3
Spatial location does not consistently constrain perceptual learning in speech	3
Effects of individual aptitude on ultrasound biofeedback in non-native vowel production	3
Editorial Board	3
Dynamic formant trajectories in L2 English: evidence from Arabic-speaking adolescent learners	3
Responses to time pressure on phrase-final melodies in varieties of Dutch and West Frisian	3
Relating pronunciation distance metrics to intelligibility across English accents	3
The influence of preceding speech and nonspeech contexts on Mandarin tone identification	3
Being clear about clear speech: Intelligibility of hard-of-hearing-directed, non-native-directed, and casual speech for L1- and L2-English listeners	3
Speaker-specificity in speech production: The contribution of source and filter	2
Analysis and computational modelling of Emirati Arabic intonation – A preliminary study	2
Cascading activation in spoken word production drives incomplete neutralization: An internet-based study of Mandarin 3rd tone sandhi	2
Individual uniformity in phonetic imitation: Assessing the stability of individual variability across features and tasks	2
Analyzing time-varying spectral characteristics of speech with function-on-scalar regression	2
The effect of rhythm on inter-gestural coupling of onset and vowel gestures and predictive timing in stuttering	2
The influence of expectations on tonal cues to prominence	2
Exploring phonetics–morphology interaction: prosodic encoding of covert case marking in Korean	2
Acoustic cue sensitivity in the perception of native category and their relation to nonnative phonological contrast learning	2
Phonological mediation effects in imitation of the Mandarin flat-falling tonal continua	2
Improved measurement of lateral parasagittal articulation integrating three-dimensional palate shape	2
Extreme stop allophony in Mixtec spontaneous speech: Data, word prosody, and modelling	2
Coarticulation and coordination in phonological development: Insights from children’s and adults’ production of complex–simplex stop contrasts in Gã	2
Editorial Board	2
Reconceptualizing VOT: Further contributions to marking 50 years of research on voice onset time	2
Pitch variability in spontaneous speech production and its connection to usage-based grammar	2
Perception of ambiguous rhoticity in Glasgow	2