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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Effects of Phonological Complexity on Word Production in French-Speaking Children	13
Aptitude, Anxiety, and Success in L2 Speech Development: A Longitudinal Study of Chinese EFL College-Level Learners	9
Acoustic and Kinematic Correlates of Heterosyllabicity in Different Phonological Contexts	9
English Vowel Discrimination and Perceptual Assimilation by Japanese Listeners	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
A Reanalysis of the Voicing Effect in English: With Implications for Featural Specification	7
Effects of Speaking Rate Changes on Speech Motor Variability in Adults	7
Impact of Japanese L1 Rhythm on English L2 Speech	7
Acoustic and Articulatory Visual Feedback in Classroom L2 Vowel Remediation	6
Prosodic Disambiguation in First and Second Language Production: English and Korean	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
Assessing the Specificity and Accuracy of Accent Judgments by Lay Listeners	6
Phrasal Synchronization of Gesture With Prosody and Information Structure	5
Prosodic Modifications to Challenging Communicative Environments in Preschoolers	5
The Role of Prominence in Activating Focused Words and Their Alternatives in Mandarin: Evidence from Lexical Priming and Recognition Memory	5
How Templatic Is Arabic Input to Children? The Role of Child-Directed-Speech in the Acquisition of Semitic Morpho-Phonology	5
The Role of Prosody in Disambiguating English Indirect Requests	4
Perceptually Easy Second-Language Phones Are Not Always Easy: The Role of Orthography and Phonology in Schwa Realization in Second-Language French	4
Segmental Influences on the Perception of High Pitch Accent Scaling in American English	4
Perceptual Style-Shifting Across Singing and Speech: Music Activates Pop Song English for NZ Listeners	4
Does Orkish Sound Evil? Perception of Fantasy Languages and Their Phonetic and Phonological Characteristics	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
Development of Vowel Intrusion in Spanish Heritage Speakers	4
The Relationship between Non-Native Perception and Phonological Patterning of Implosive Consonants	4
Learnability Advantage of Segmental Repetitions in Word Learning	4
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
Prosodic Structural Effects on Non-Contrastive Coarticulatory Vowel Nasalization in L2 English by Korean Learners	3
A Corpus Study on the Difference of Turn-Taking in Online Audio, Online Video, and Face-to-Face Conversation	3
Form-Meaning Relations in Russian Confirmative and Surprise Declarative Questions	3
Social Priming: Exploring the Effects of Speaker Race and Ethnicity on Perception of Second Language Accents	3
Individual Differences in Early Disambiguation of Prosodic Grouping	3
Preference for Distinct Variants in Learning Sound Correspondences During Dialect Acquisition	3
The Non-Coalescence of /h/ and Incomplete Neutralization in South Jeolla Korean	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
Language Dependency of /s/ Production: Native Dutch Versus Non-Native English	3
Phonetic Development of an L2 Vowel System and Tandem Drift in the L1: A Residence Abroad and L1 Re-Immersion Study	3
Pronunciation of Vowel Digraphs in Nonwords: A Replication and Extension	3
Dialect Effects on Mandarin Tone Perception Development	2
Aspiring to Aspirate: L2 Acquisition of English Word-Initial /p/ Over 10 Years	2
Speaking Rate, Oro-Laryngeal Timing, and Place of Articulation Effects on Burst Amplitude: Evidence From English and Tamil	2
Production of the English /ɹ/ by Mandarin–English Bilingual Speakers	2
Echoes of Past Contact: Venetian Influence on Cretan Greek Intonation	2
Predictability Associated With Reduction in Phonetic Signals Without Semantics—The Case of Glossolalia	2
The Role of Phonological Factors in the Processing of Polish Phonotactics	2
Sociophonetic Variation in Vowel Categorization of Australian English	2
Perceptual Sensitivity to Tonal Alignment in Nuer	2
Contrastive Alveolar/Retroflex Phonemes in Singapore Mandarin Bilinguals: Comprehension Rates for Articulations in Different Accents, and Acoustic Analysis of Productions	2
Cross-Linguistic Trends in Speech Errors: An Analysis of Sub-Lexical Errors in Cantonese	2
Language Attitudes and Stereotypes Condition the Processing of Contact-Induced Linguistic Variants	2
Phonetic and Lexical Encoding of Tone in Cantonese Heritage Speakers	2
Phonetic Cues in Auditory Identification of Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, and Russian Language of Origin	1
How Different Types of Linguistic Information Impact Voice Perception: Evidence From the Language-Familiarity Effect	1
Relationships Between Acoustic Characteristics and Intelligibility Scores: A Reanalysis of Japanese Speakers’ Productions of American English Liquids	1
Systematicity Over the Course of Early Development: An Analysis of Phonological Networks	1
Playing With Fire Compounds: The Tonal Accents of Compounds in (North) Norwegian Preschoolers’ Role-Play Register	1
How Aging and Age-Related Hearing Loss Affect the Recognition of Emotion in Whispered Speech	1
Bridging Inferences and Reference Management: Evidence from an Experimental Investigation in Catalan and Russian	1
Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Effects in Estonian Spontaneous Speech	1
Fast-Speech-Induced Hypoarticulation Does Not Considerably Affect the Diachronic Reversal of Complementary Length in Central Bavarian	1
The Effect of Distributional Restrictions in Speech Perception: A Case Study From Korean and Taiwanese Southern Min	1
Articulatory Insights into the L2 Acquisition of English-/l/ Allophony	1
Rhythm Is a Marker of Ethnicity in Modern Hebrew: Evidence from a Perception Study and Actors’ Ethnicized Portrayals	1
The Influence of Negative Orthographic Neighborhood in the Lexical Decision Task: Valence and Arousal Contributions	1
Language Contact, Language Ecology, and Intonational Variation in the Yami Community	1
Second Dialect Acquisition by North Korean Refugee Speakers: Acquiring Seoul Korean Stops	1
Audiovisual Perception of Lexical Stress: Beat Gestures and Articulatory Cues	1
The Effect of Habitual Speech Rate on Speaker-Specific Processing in English Stop Voicing Perception	1
Elliptical Responses to Direct and Indirect Requests for Information	1
The Attractiveness of Average Speech Rhythms: Revisiting the Average Effect From a Crosslinguistic Perspective	1

Cross-Linguistic Phonetic Variation in Bilingual Speech: Cantonese /n/ > [l] Merger in Early Cantonese–English Bilinguals	1
Gestural Timing Patterns of Nasality in Highly Proficient Spanish Learners of English: Aerodynamic Evidence	1
Sociolinguistic Variation in Mouthings in British Sign Language: A Corpus-Based Study	1
Often Overlooked Aspects of Sound Symbolism: The Influence of Participants’ Characteristics on Size Ratings	1
Accommodation and Language Contact	1
Relative Contributions of Social, Contextual, and Lexical Factors in Speech Processing	1
The “Starting-Small” Effect in Phonology: Evidence From Biased Learning of Opaque and Transparent Vowel Harmony	1
Prosodic Cues for Broad, Narrow, and Corrective Focus in Persian	1
Second-Language Acquisition and First-Language Attrition of Speech: The Production of Arabic and English Short Vowels	1
Violations of Lab-Learned Phonological Patterns Elicit a Late Positive Component	1