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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The dual status of filled pauses: Evidence from genre, proficiency and co-occurrence	19
Word Segmentation Cues in German Child-Directed Speech: A Corpus Analysis	12
To What Extent is Collocation Knowledge Associated with Oral Proficiency? A Corpus-Based Approach to Word Association	9
Towards a Native OPERA Hypothesis: Musicianship and English Stress Perception	9
Reciprocity in Conversation	8
Can filled pauses be represented as linguistic items? Investigating the effect of exposure on the perception and production of um	7
Reciprocity in Instant Messaging Conversations	7
Voice and Emphasis in Arabic Coronal Stops: Evidence for Phonological Compensation	7
Using Network Science and Psycholinguistic Megastudies to Examine the Dimensions of Phonological Similarity	7
An Overview of Audiovisual Input as a Means for Foreign Language Acquisition in Different Contexts	6
First-language influence on second language speech perception depends on task demands	6
The Trini Sing-Song: Sociophonetic variation in Trinidadian English prosody and differences to other varieties	6
Comparing Phonetic Convergence in Children and Adults	6
Phonological Preparation in Korean: Phoneme, or Syllable or Another Unit?	5
What, Where, When and How of Visual Word Recognition: A Bibliometrics Review	5
The Role of Segmental Information in Syntactic Processing Through the Syntax–Prosody Interface	5
Individual Differences in Categorical Judgment of L2 Stops: A Link to Proficiency and Acoustic Cue-Weighting	5
Cross-Linguistic Trends in Speech Errors: An Analysis of Sub-Lexical Errors in Cantonese	5
Fluency-related Temporal Features and Syllable Prominence as Prosodic Proficiency Predictors for Learners of English with Different Language Backgrounds	5
Phonetic Accommodation on the Segmental and the Suprasegmental Level of Speech in Native–Non-Native Collaborative Tasks	4
Piecewise Structural Equation Modeling of the Quantity Implicature in Child Language	4
Intonational Structure Influences Perception of Contrastive Vowel Length: The Case of Phrase-Final Lengthening in Tokyo Japanese	4
No, No One Had Fun. Individual Differences in Nonliteral Language Perception	4
Inhibition and Reading Comprehension in Adolescents with and without Histories of Language Difficulties	4
Do Diacritics Entail an Early Processing Cost in the Absence of Abstract Representations? Evidence from Masked Priming in English	4

The Role of Prosody in Disambiguating English Indirect Requests	4
Learning Exceptions in Phonological Alternations	3
Using Mahalanobis Distances to Investigate Second Dialect Acquisition: A Study on Quebec French	3
The influence of inter-dialect contact on the Korean three-way laryngeal distinction: An acoustic comparison among Seoul Korean speakers and Gyeongsang speakers with limited and extended residence in	3
Acoustic and Perceptual Characteristics of Mandarin Speech in Gay and Heterosexual Male Speakers	3
Assessing the Specificity and Accuracy of Accent Judgments by Lay Listeners	3
Transposition Effects in an Aksharic Writing System: The Case of Hindi	3
Exploring the Similarity Between Implicit and Explicit Prosody: Prosodic Phrasing and Individual Differences	3
Language Experience and Subjective Word Familiarity on the Multimodal Perception of Non-native Vowels	3
The Effects of Acoustic and Semantic Enhancements on Perception of Native and Non-Native Speech	3
The Role of Prominence in Activating Focused Words and Their Alternatives in Mandarin: Evidence from Lexical Priming and Recognition Memory	3
Factors Affecting the Writing Performance in Hearing and Deaf Children: An Insight into Regularities and Irregularities of the Arabic Orthographic System	3
A New System of Cantonese Tones? Tone Perception and Production in Hong Kong South Asian Cantonese	3
Kinect-ing the Dots: Using Motion-Capture Technology to Distinguish Sign Language Linguistic From Gestural Expressions	3
Bilinguals Produce Pitch Range Differently in Their Two Languages to Convey Social Meaning	3
Focus Effects on Immediate and Delayed Recognition of Referents in Samoan	3
Sorry, Not Sorry: The independent role of multiple phonetic cues in signaling the difference between two word meanings	3
Phonetic Cues in Auditory Identification of Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, and Russian Language of Origin	3
Prosodic Structural Effects on Non-Contrastive Coarticulatory Vowel Nasalization in L2 English by Korean Learners	3
Prosodic Prominence – A Cross-Linguistic Perspective	3
Phonetic and Lexical Encoding of Tone in Cantonese Heritage Speakers	3
Range in the Use and Realization of BIN in African American English	2
Interaction between Phrasal Structure and Vowel Tenseness in German: An Acoustic and Articulatory Study	2
The Prosody of Two-Syllable Words in French-Speaking Monolingual and Bilingual Children: A Focus on Initial Accent and Final Accent	2
The Influence of Negative Orthographic Neighborhood in the Lexical Decision Task: Valence and Arousal Contributions	2
The Processing of Spanish Article–Noun Gender Agreement by Monolingual and Bilingual Toddlers	2
The Sociolectal and Stylistic Variability of Rhythm in Stockholm	2
Phrasal Synchronization of Gesture With Prosody and Information Structure	2
Phonetic Effects of Tonal Crowding in Persian Polar Questions	2
Sociolectal and Dialectal Variation in Prosody	2
N400 Evidence That the Early Stages of Lexical Access Ignore Knowledge About Phonological Alternations	2
Sociophonetic Variation in Vowel Categorization of Australian English	2
Simulating Speech Error Patterns Across Languages and Different Datasets	2
Evidence For Selective Adaptation and Recalibration in the Perception of Lexical Stress	2
Relative Difficulty in the Acquisition of the Phonetic Parameters of Obstruent Coda Voicing: Evidence from Mandarin-Speaking Learners of French	2
Segmenting Speech by Mouth: The Role of Oral Prosodic Cues for Visual Speech Segmentation	2
Phonetic Development of an L2 Vowel System and Tandem Drift in the L1: A Residence Abroad and L1 Re-Immersion Study	2
Why Aren’t All Cantonese Tones Equally Confusing to English Listeners?	2
Intraspeaker Priming across the New Zealand English Short Front Vowel Shift	2
Circumflex Nuclear Configurations in Yucatecan Spanish as a Supraregional Feature: The Roles of Bilingualism and Gender	2
Speaking Rate, Oro-Laryngeal Timing, and Place of Articulation Effects on Burst Amplitude: Evidence From English and Tamil	2
Acoustic Characteristics of Pre- and Post-vocalic /l/: Patterns from One Southern White Vernacular English	2
Disentangling the Role of Biphone Probability From Neighborhood Density in the Perception of Nonwords	2
In Search of Salience: Focus Detection in the Speech of Different Talkers	1
Does Orkish Sound Evil? Perception of Fantasy Languages and Their Phonetic and Phonological Characteristics	1
Gestural Timing Patterns of Nasality in Highly Proficient Spanish Learners of English: Aerodynamic Evidence	1
Speech Fluency Production and Perception in L1 (Slovak) and L2 (English) Read Speech	1
Task Effects in Irony Comprehension in English as a Foreign Language	1
How Complex Verbs Acquire Their Idiosyncratic Meanings	1
Phonetic and Phono-Lexical Accuracy of Non-Native Tone Production by English-L1 and Mandarin-L1 Speakers	1

Context Matters for Tone and Intonation Processing in Mandarin	1
Accuracy and Stability in English Speakers’ Production of Japanese Pitch Accent	1
Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Effects in Estonian Spontaneous Speech	1
Effects of Spectral Envelope and Fundamental Frequency Shifts on the Perception of Foreign-Accented Speech	1
On the Impact of Case and Prosody on Thematic Role Disambiguation: An Eye-Tracking Study on Hungarian	1
Production of the English /ɹ/ by Mandarin–English Bilingual Speakers	1
Intonational Variation in the North-West of England: The Origins of a Rising Contour in Liverpool	1
Individual Differences in Early Disambiguation of Prosodic Grouping	1
Dialect Effects on Mandarin Tone Perception Development	1
Articulatory Evidence for the Syllable-final Nasal Merging in Taiwan Mandarin	1
Language Contact, Language Ecology, and Intonational Variation in the Yami Community	1
Focus Attracts Attachment	1
Adaptation at the Syntax–Semantics Interface: Evidence From a Vernacular Structure	1
Sociolinguistic Variation in Mouthings in British Sign Language: A Corpus-Based Study	1
The Interaction Effect of Pronunciation and Lexicogrammar on Comprehensibility: A Case of Mandarin-Accented English	1
It’s Mine, . . . It’s Mine: Unsolicited Repetitions Are Reduced in Toddlers	1
The “Starting-Small” Effect in Phonology: Evidence From Biased Learning of Opaque and Transparent Vowel Harmony	1
Sociophonetic Variation and Change in Heritage Languages: Lexical Effects in Heritage Italian Aspiration of Voiceless Stops	1
The Effect of Habitual Speech Rate on Speaker-Specific Processing in English Stop Voicing Perception	1
Relative Contributions of Social, Contextual, and Lexical Factors in Speech Processing	1
Prosodic Disambiguation in First and Second Language Production: English and Korean	1
Front Is High and Back Is Low: Sound-Space Iconicity in Finnish	1
Investigation of Mandarin Word Production in Children and Adults: Evidence from Phonological Priming with Non-words	1
Elliptical Responses to Direct and Indirect Requests for Information	1