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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A Contribution to the Role of the Putamen–Claustrum–Insular Region in Speech Motor Control Processes	20
The Impact of Respectfulness on Causal Inference During Discourse Processing	13
The Effects of Phonological Complexity on Word Production in French-Speaking Children	10
Word Learning Through Eye-Gaze Cues at Ages 12 and 18 Months	9
Aptitude, Anxiety, and Success in L2 Speech Development: A Longitudinal Study of Chinese EFL College-Level Learners	9
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
Effects of Speaking Rate Changes on Speech Motor Variability in Adults	8
Individual Differences in Categorical Judgment of L2 Stops: A Link to Proficiency and Acoustic Cue-Weighting	8
Factors Affecting the Writing Performance in Hearing and Deaf Children: An Insight into Regularities and Irregularities of the Arabic Orthographic System	7
A Reanalysis of the Voicing Effect in English: With Implications for Featural Specification	7
Phonetic Effects of Tonal Crowding in Persian Polar Questions	7
Processing of Grammatical Agreement in the Face of Variation in Lexical Stress: A Mismatch Negativity Study	7
Impact of Japanese L1 Rhythm on English L2 Speech	6
Assessing the Specificity and Accuracy of Accent Judgments by Lay Listeners	6
Acoustic and Articulatory Visual Feedback in Classroom L2 Vowel Remediation	6
External Vowel Sandhi in Castilian Spanish: An Acoustic Study of Vowel Sequences Across Word Junctures	6
Prosodic Modifications to Challenging Communicative Environments in Preschoolers	5
Perceptually Easy Second-Language Phones Are Not Always Easy: The Role of Orthography and Phonology in Schwa Realization in Second-Language French	5
Phrasal Synchronization of Gesture With Prosody and Information Structure	5
A Cross-Language Comparison of Length Perception in Italian-Learning Adults	5
The Role of Prominence in Activating Focused Words and Their Alternatives in Mandarin: Evidence from Lexical Priming and Recognition Memory	5
Learnability Advantage of Segmental Repetitions in Word Learning	5
Allophonic Variation in L1 and L2 English Laterals: Evidence from L1 Japanese-L2 English Speakers	5
How Templatic Is Arabic Input to Children? The Role of Child-Directed-Speech in the Acquisition of Semitic Morpho-Phonology	5

An Investigation of Language-Specific and Orthographic Effects in L2 Arabic geminate production by Advanced Japanese- and English-speaking learners	5
Does Orkish Sound Evil? Perception of Fantasy Languages and Their Phonetic and Phonological Characteristics	4
Perceptual Style-Shifting Across Singing and Speech: Music Activates Pop Song English for NZ Listeners	4
Segmental Influences on the Perception of High Pitch Accent Scaling in American English	4
Development of Vowel Intrusion in Spanish Heritage Speakers	4
The Relationship between Non-Native Perception and Phonological Patterning of Implosive Consonants	4
Effects of Native Language and Exposure to Foreign Language on Categorization and Discrimination of Vowel Duration and Lexical Tone	4
Flexibility and Stability in Lexical Tone Recalibration: Evidence from Tone Perceptual Learning	4
Corrigendum to “Sources of Intelligibility of Distant Languages: An Empirical Study”	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
Pronunciation of Vowel Digraphs in Nonwords: A Replication and Extension	3
Cross-Linguistic Influences on the Production of Third Language German Vowel Length Contrasts by Cantonese–English Bilingual Learners	3
Preference for Distinct Variants in Learning Sound Correspondences During Dialect Acquisition	3
Processing of English Coda Laterals in L2 Listeners: An Eye-Tracking Study	3
Social Priming: Exploring the Effects of Speaker Race and Ethnicity on Perception of Second Language Accents	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
Aspiring to Aspirate: L2 Acquisition of English Word-Initial /p/ Over 10 Years	2
The Role of Phonological Factors in the Processing of Polish Phonotactics	2
The Role of Production in Prediction: Bidirectional Causal Evidence From Articulatory Suppression and Speech Shadowing	2
Is “Intrinsic Vowel Duration” Bio-Mechanical or More? Preliminary Results from Northwestern Italian	2
Sociophonetic Variation in Vowel Categorization of Australian English	2
Production of the English /ɹ/ by Mandarin–English Bilingual Speakers	2
Violations of Lab-Learned Phonological Patterns Elicit a Late Positive Component	2
The Attractiveness of Average Speech Rhythms: Revisiting the Average Effect From a Crosslinguistic Perspective	2
Predictability Associated With Reduction in Phonetic Signals Without Semantics—The Case of Glossolalia	2
Prosodic Structural Effects on Non-Contrastive Coarticulatory Vowel Nasalization in L2 English by Korean Learners	2
A Corpus Study on the Difference of Turn-Taking in Online Audio, Online Video, and Face-to-Face Conversation	2
Speaking Rate, Oro-Laryngeal Timing, and Place of Articulation Effects on Burst Amplitude: Evidence From English and Tamil	2
Prosodic Cues for Broad, Narrow, and Corrective Focus in Persian	2
Perceptual Sensitivity to Tonal Alignment in Nuer	2
The Effects of Perceived Ethnicity and Prosodic Accuracy on Intelligibility, Comprehensibility, and Accentedness in L2 Mandarin Chinese	2
Language Attitudes and Stereotypes Condition the Processing of Contact-Induced Linguistic Variants	2
Building Linguistic Systems: Introduction	2
Contrastive Alveolar/Retroflex Phonemes in Singapore Mandarin Bilinguals: Comprehension Rates for Articulations in Different Accents, and Acoustic Analysis of Productions	2
Language Dependency of /s/ Production: Native Dutch Versus Non-Native English	2
How Do Ukrainian Learners of German Process Lexical Stress? Evidence from Production and Perception	2
Fast-Speech-Induced Hypoarticulation Does Not Considerably Affect the Diachronic Reversal of Complementary Length in Central Bavarian	2
Cross-Linguistic Phonetic Variation in Bilingual Speech: Cantonese /n/ > [l] Merger in Early Cantonese–English Bilinguals	2
Phonetic and Lexical Encoding of Tone in Cantonese Heritage Speakers	2
Elliptical Responses to Direct and Indirect Requests for Information	2
How Aging and Age-Related Hearing Loss Affect the Recognition of Emotion in Whispered Speech	1
Articulatory Insights into the L2 Acquisition of English-/l/ Allophony	1
Language Contact, Language Ecology, and Intonational Variation in the Yami Community	1
Relative Contributions of Social, Contextual, and Lexical Factors in Speech Processing	1
Articulatory Methods for the Study of Second Language Speech	1
Apparent Talker Variability and Speaking Style Similarity Can Enhance Comprehension of Novel L2-Accented Talkers	1

The Relationship Between Semantic Memory Network and Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon: Evidence From a Large-Scale Diffusion MRI Dataset	1
Phonetic Cues in Auditory Identification of Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, and Russian Language of Origin	1
The Language-Specificity of Phonetic Adaptation to Talkers	1
Just How Contrastive Is Word-Initial Consonant Length? Exploring the Itunyoso Triqui Spontaneous Speech Corpus	1
Disfluencies in Public and Private Speech	1
Acoustic and Perceptual Differences of Aegyo Speaking Style Across Gender in Seoul Korean	1
Computational Modeling of an Auditory Lexical Decision Experiment Using DIANA	1
The Perception of Lexical Pitch Accent in South Kyungsang Korean: The Relevance of Accent Shape	1
Sociolectal and Dialectal Variation in Prosody	1
Audiovisual Perception of Lexical Stress: Beat Gestures and Articulatory Cues	1
Speech Timing and the Perception of Foreign Accent: The Case of Arabic-Accented English	1
Accommodation and Language Contact	1
Playing With Fire Compounds: The Tonal Accents of Compounds in (North) Norwegian Preschoolers’ Role-Play Register	1
Systematicity Over the Course of Early Development: An Analysis of Phonological Networks	1
Sociolinguistic Variation in Mouthings in British Sign Language: A Corpus-Based Study	1
Learning Accurate Onset Clusters: Perception Lags Behind Production	1
Gestural Timing Patterns of Nasality in Highly Proficient Spanish Learners of English: Aerodynamic Evidence	1
The “Starting-Small” Effect in Phonology: Evidence From Biased Learning of Opaque and Transparent Vowel Harmony	1
Bilingual Acquisition of Morphology: Norwegian and Russian Influence on Children’s Sentence Repetition in Estonian	1
Bridging Inferences and Reference Management: Evidence from an Experimental Investigation in Catalan and Russian	1
How Different Types of Linguistic Information Impact Voice Perception: Evidence From the Language-Familiarity Effect	1
Multivariate Analyses of Tongue Contours from Ultrasound Tongue Imaging	1
Perception of Vowel and Consonant Quantity Contrasts by Cantonese, English, French, and Japanese Listeners	1
Biases for Vowel Harmony Over Disharmony in Phoneme Monitoring	1
Rhythm Is a Marker of Ethnicity in Modern Hebrew: Evidence from a Perception Study and Actors’ Ethnicized Portrayals	1
Second Dialect Acquisition by North Korean Refugee Speakers: Acquiring Seoul Korean Stops	1
Often Overlooked Aspects of Sound Symbolism: The Influence of Participants’ Characteristics on Size Ratings	1
Graded Sensitivity to Vowel Mispronunciations in Newly Learned Words	1
Crossing the Boundaries: Perception of Voice Onset Time in Word-Initial Stops by Multilingual Learners	1
The Effect of Distributional Restrictions in Speech Perception: A Case Study From Korean and Taiwanese Southern Min	1
The Effect of Habitual Speech Rate on Speaker-Specific Processing in English Stop Voicing Perception	1
Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Effects in Estonian Spontaneous Speech	1
How Perceptual Learning Extends Across Vowels	1
Cumulative Enhancement in Naïve L3 Tone Perception: The Perception of Pitch and Phonation Type	1
Importance of Visual Support Through Lipreading in the Identification of Words in Spanish Language	1
Second-Language Acquisition and First-Language Attrition of Speech: The Production of Arabic and English Short Vowels	1
Relationships Between Acoustic Characteristics and Intelligibility Scores: A Reanalysis of Japanese Speakers’ Productions of American English Liquids	1