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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A Contribution to the Role of the Putamen–Claustrum–Insular Region in Speech Motor Control Processes	26
The Impact of Respectfulness on Causal Inference During Discourse Processing	12
The Effects of Phonological Complexity on Word Production in French-Speaking Children	10
Information Structural Expectations in the Perception of Prosodically Modulated Cues: Testing Vowel Duration as a Cue to Coda Obstruent Voicing in American English	9
Aptitude, Anxiety, and Success in L2 Speech Development: A Longitudinal Study of Chinese EFL College-Level Learners	9
Frequency Effects in the L2 Acquisition of French Liaison: A Corpus-Based Adaptation of Gradient Symbolic Representations	8
Word Learning Through Eye-Gaze Cues at Ages 12 and 18 Months	8
English Vowel Discrimination and Perceptual Assimilation by Japanese Listeners	8
Impact of Japanese L1 Rhythm on English L2 Speech	7
Effects of Speaking Rate Changes on Speech Motor Variability in Adults	7
The Impact of Long-Term Chinese Dialect Use on Mandarin Tone Production and Perception: Evidence from Late Middle-Aged Puxian Min Speakers	7
Kinect-ing the Dots: Using Motion-Capture Technology to Distinguish Sign Language Linguistic From Gestural Expressions	7
A Cross-Language Comparison of Length Perception in Italian-Learning Adults	6
A Reanalysis of the Voicing Effect in English: With Implications for Featural Specification	6
Allophonic Variation in L1 and L2 English Laterals: Evidence from L1 Japanese-L2 English Speakers	6
How Templatic Is Arabic Input to Children? The Role of Child-Directed-Speech in the Acquisition of Semitic Morpho-Phonology	6
Phonetic Effects of Tonal Crowding in Persian Polar Questions	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
Perceptually Easy Second-Language Phones Are Not Always Easy: The Role of Orthography and Phonology in Schwa Realization in Second-Language French	5
The Role of Prominence in Activating Focused Words and Their Alternatives in Mandarin: Evidence from Lexical Priming and Recognition Memory	5
Corrigendum to “Sources of Intelligibility of Distant Languages: An Empirical Study”	5
Prosodic Modifications to Challenging Communicative Environments in Preschoolers	5
Phrasal Synchronization of Gesture With Prosody and Information Structure	5
An Investigation of Language-Specific and Orthographic Effects in L2 Arabic geminate production by Advanced Japanese- and English-speaking learners	4

Does Orkish Sound Evil? Perception of Fantasy Languages and Their Phonetic and Phonological Characteristics	4
Learnability Advantage of Segmental Repetitions in Word Learning	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
Segmental Influences on the Perception of High Pitch Accent Scaling in American English	4
Development of Vowel Intrusion in Spanish Heritage Speakers	4
Flexibility and Stability in Lexical Tone Recalibration: Evidence from Tone Perceptual Learning	4
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
Cross-Linguistic Influences on the Production of Third Language German Vowel Length Contrasts by Cantonese–English Bilingual Learners	3
Investigation of Mandarin Word Production in Children and Adults: Evidence from Phonological Priming with Non-words	3
A Corpus Study on the Difference of Turn-Taking in Online Audio, Online Video, and Face-to-Face Conversation	3
The Non-Coalescence of /h/ and Incomplete Neutralization in South Jeolla Korean	3
Form-Meaning Relations in Russian Confirmative and Surprise Declarative Questions	3
Processing of English Coda Laterals in L2 Listeners: An Eye-Tracking Study	3
Individual Differences in Early Disambiguation of Prosodic Grouping	3
Language Dependency of /s/ Production: Native Dutch Versus Non-Native English	3
Pronunciation of Vowel Digraphs in Nonwords: A Replication and Extension	3
Effects of Native Language and Exposure to Foreign Language on Categorization and Discrimination of Vowel Duration and Lexical Tone	3
Phonetic Development of an L2 Vowel System and Tandem Drift in the L1: A Residence Abroad and L1 Re-Immersion Study	3
The Role of Production in Prediction: Bidirectional Causal Evidence From Articulatory Suppression and Speech Shadowing	3
Is “Intrinsic Vowel Duration” Bio-Mechanical or More? Preliminary Results from Northwestern Italian	2
Speaking Rate, Oro-Laryngeal Timing, and Place of Articulation Effects on Burst Amplitude: Evidence From English and Tamil	2
Contrastive Alveolar/Retroflex Phonemes in Singapore Mandarin Bilinguals: Comprehension Rates for Articulations in Different Accents, and Acoustic Analysis of Productions	2
Biases for Vowel Harmony Over Disharmony in Phoneme Monitoring	2
Prosodic Cues for Broad, Narrow, and Corrective Focus in Persian	2
Violations of Lab-Learned Phonological Patterns Elicit a Late Positive Component	2
Cross-Linguistic Phonetic Variation in Bilingual Speech: Cantonese /n/ > [l] Merger in Early Cantonese–English Bilinguals	2
Sociophonetic Variation in Vowel Categorization of Australian English	2
Does the Majority Language Shape the Pragmatic Relevance of Prosody? Evidence From Heritage Speakers of Turkish in Germany	2
Building Linguistic Systems: Introduction	2
The Role of Phonological Factors in the Processing of Polish Phonotactics	2
Phonetic and Lexical Encoding of Tone in Cantonese Heritage Speakers	2
Second-Language Acquisition and First-Language Attrition of Speech: The Production of Arabic and English Short Vowels	2
Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Effects in Estonian Spontaneous Speech	2
Perceptual Sensitivity to Tonal Alignment in Nuer	2
Language Attitudes and Stereotypes Condition the Processing of Contact-Induced Linguistic Variants	2
Aspiring to Aspirate: L2 Acquisition of English Word-Initial /p/ Over 10 Years	2
Predictability Associated With Reduction in Phonetic Signals Without Semantics—The Case of Glossolalia	2
The Attractiveness of Average Speech Rhythms: Revisiting the Average Effect From a Crosslinguistic Perspective	2
Elliptical Responses to Direct and Indirect Requests for Information	2
The Perception of Lexical Pitch Accent in South Kyungsang Korean: The Relevance of Accent Shape	2
The Effects of Perceived Ethnicity and Prosodic Accuracy on Intelligibility, Comprehensibility, and Accentedness in L2 Mandarin Chinese	2
Fast-Speech-Induced Hypoarticulation Does Not Considerably Affect the Diachronic Reversal of Complementary Length in Central Bavarian	2
Production of the English /ɹ/ by Mandarin–English Bilingual Speakers	2
How Do Ukrainian Learners of German Process Lexical Stress? Evidence from Production and Perception	2
Acoustic and Perceptual Differences of Aegyo Speaking Style Across Gender in Seoul Korean	1
Often Overlooked Aspects of Sound Symbolism: The Influence of Participants’ Characteristics on Size Ratings	1
Differential Cue Weighting in Mandarin Sibilant Production	1
Comparing Prosodic Timing Effects in Hadari and Bedouin Dialects of Kuwaiti Arabic: A Speech Cycling Study	1

The Language-Specificity of Phonetic Adaptation to Talkers	1
Gestural Timing Patterns of Nasality in Highly Proficient Spanish Learners of English: Aerodynamic Evidence	1
Disfluencies in Public and Private Speech	1
Perception of Vowel and Consonant Quantity Contrasts by Cantonese, English, French, and Japanese Listeners	1
Accommodation and Language Contact	1
Relationships Between Acoustic Characteristics and Intelligibility Scores: A Reanalysis of Japanese Speakers’ Productions of American English Liquids	1
Phonetic Cues in Auditory Identification of Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, and Russian Language of Origin	1
Speech Timing and the Perception of Foreign Accent: The Case of Arabic-Accented English	1
Cumulative Enhancement in Naïve L3 Tone Perception: The Perception of Pitch and Phonation Type	1
The Effect of Habitual Speech Rate on Speaker-Specific Processing in English Stop Voicing Perception	1
Bridging Inferences and Reference Management: Evidence from an Experimental Investigation in Catalan and Russian	1
An Investigation of the Phonetic Variation of the Word-Initial /l/ and /n/ Across Regional Varieties of Mandarin	1
Rhythm Is a Marker of Ethnicity in Modern Hebrew: Evidence from a Perception Study and Actors’ Ethnicized Portrayals	1
Politeness and Prosody: The Effect of Power, Distance, and Imposition on Pitch Contours in Spanish	1
A Multi-CEFR-Level Learner Corpus Study to Quantify Fluency and Accuracy in Speech	1
Language Contact, Language Ecology, and Intonational Variation in the Yami Community	1
Bilingual Acquisition of Morphology: Norwegian and Russian Influence on Children’s Sentence Repetition in Estonian	1
The Relationship Between Semantic Memory Network and Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon: Evidence From a Large-Scale Diffusion MRI Dataset	1
Sociolectal and Dialectal Variation in Prosody	1
Computational Modeling of an Auditory Lexical Decision Experiment Using DIANA	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
Second Dialect Acquisition by North Korean Refugee Speakers: Acquiring Seoul Korean Stops	1
How Different Types of Linguistic Information Impact Voice Perception: Evidence From the Language-Familiarity Effect	1
Crossing the Boundaries: Perception of Voice Onset Time in Word-Initial Stops by Multilingual Learners	1
Multivariate Analyses of Tongue Contours from Ultrasound Tongue Imaging	1
Just How Contrastive Is Word-Initial Consonant Length? Exploring the Itunyoso Triqui Spontaneous Speech Corpus	1
Apparent Talker Variability and Speaking Style Similarity Can Enhance Comprehension of Novel L2-Accented Talkers	1
Prominence and Grouping in Papuan Malay Prosody Perception	1
Phonetic Dissimilarity and L2 Category Formation in L2 Accommodation	1
Perceptual Tuning to Structure: Integrating the Phonetic Detail of Coarticulatory Vowel Nasalization With Prosodic and Information Structure	1
The Effect of Distributional Restrictions in Speech Perception: A Case Study From Korean and Taiwanese Southern Min	1
How Perceptual Learning Extends Across Vowels	1
How Aging and Age-Related Hearing Loss Affect the Recognition of Emotion in Whispered Speech	1
Importance of Visual Support Through Lipreading in the Identification of Words in Spanish Language	1
Articulatory Insights into the L2 Acquisition of English-/l/ Allophony	1
Graded Sensitivity to Vowel Mispronunciations in Newly Learned Words	1
Articulatory Methods for the Study of Second Language Speech	1
Learning Accurate Onset Clusters: Perception Lags Behind Production	1
The “Starting-Small” Effect in Phonology: Evidence From Biased Learning of Opaque and Transparent Vowel Harmony	1
Audiovisual Perception of Lexical Stress: Beat Gestures and Articulatory Cues	1