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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Acoustic and Kinematic Correlates of Heterosyllabicity in Different Phonological Contexts	21
The Effects of Phonological Complexity on Word Production in French-Speaking Children	12
English Vowel Discrimination and Perceptual Assimilation by Japanese Listeners	11
Aptitude, Anxiety, and Success in L2 Speech Development: A Longitudinal Study of Chinese EFL College-Level Learners	11
The Prosody of Two-Syllable Words in French-Speaking Monolingual and Bilingual Children: A Focus on Initial Accent and Final Accent	9
Kinect-ing the Dots: Using Motion-Capture Technology to Distinguish Sign Language Linguistic From Gestural Expressions	9
Prosodic Prominence – A Cross-Linguistic Perspective	8
Individual Differences in Categorical Judgment of L2 Stops: A Link to Proficiency and Acoustic Cue-Weighting	7
Effects of Speaking Rate Changes on Speech Motor Variability in Adults	7
Phonetic Effects of Tonal Crowding in Persian Polar Questions	6
A Reanalysis of the Voicing Effect in English: With Implications for Featural Specification	6
Impact of Japanese L1 Rhythm on English L2 Speech	6
Acoustic and Articulatory Visual Feedback in Classroom L2 Vowel Remediation	6
Assessing the Specificity and Accuracy of Accent Judgments by Lay Listeners	5
Processing of Grammatical Agreement in the Face of Variation in Lexical Stress: A Mismatch Negativity Study	5
Factors Affecting the Writing Performance in Hearing and Deaf Children: An Insight into Regularities and Irregularities of the Arabic Orthographic System	5
The Role of Prominence in Activating Focused Words and Their Alternatives in Mandarin: Evidence from Lexical Priming and Recognition Memory	5
Prosodic Disambiguation in First and Second Language Production: English and Korean	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	4
Learnability Advantage of Segmental Repetitions in Word Learning	4
The Relationship between Non-Native Perception and Phonological Patterning of Implosive Consonants	4
Phrasal Synchronization of Gesture With Prosody and Information Structure	4
Segmental Influences on the Perception of High Pitch Accent Scaling in American English	4
Does Orkish Sound Evil? Perception of Fantasy Languages and Their Phonetic and Phonological Characteristics	4

The Role of Prosody in Disambiguating English Indirect Requests	4
Prosodic Modifications to Challenging Communicative Environments in Preschoolers	4
Perceptually Easy Second-Language Phones Are Not Always Easy: The Role of Orthography and Phonology in Schwa Realization in Second-Language French	4
Flexibility and Stability in Lexical Tone Recalibration: Evidence from Tone Perceptual Learning	4
Development of Vowel Intrusion in Spanish Heritage Speakers	4
Form-Meaning Relations in Russian Confirmative and Surprise Declarative Questions	3
Bilinguals Produce Pitch Range Differently in Their Two Languages to Convey Social Meaning	3
Preference for Distinct Variants in Learning Sound Correspondences During Dialect Acquisition	3
Phonological Preparation in Korean: Phoneme, or Syllable or Another Unit?	3
Phonetic Development of an L2 Vowel System and Tandem Drift in the L1: A Residence Abroad and L1 Re-Immersion Study	3
The Non-Coalescence of /h/ and Incomplete Neutralization in South Jeolla Korean	3
Social Priming: Exploring the Effects of Speaker Race and Ethnicity on Perception of Second Language Accents	3
Pronunciation of Vowel Digraphs in Nonwords: A Replication and Extension	3
Focus Attracts Attachment	3
Investigation of Mandarin Word Production in Children and Adults: Evidence from Phonological Priming with Non-words	3
Individual Differences in Early Disambiguation of Prosodic Grouping	3
Effects of Spectral Envelope and Fundamental Frequency Shifts on the Perception of Foreign-Accented Speech	3
Fluency-related Temporal Features and Syllable Prominence as Prosodic Proficiency Predictors for Learners of English with Different Language Backgrounds	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
Fast-Speech-Induced Hypoarticulation Does Not Considerably Affect the Diachronic Reversal of Complementary Length in Central Bavarian	2
Language Dependency of /s/ Production: Native Dutch Versus Non-Native English	2
Cross-Linguistic Trends in Speech Errors: An Analysis of Sub-Lexical Errors in Cantonese	2
Language Experience and Subjective Word Familiarity on the Multimodal Perception of Non-native Vowels	2
Production of the English /ɹ/ by Mandarin–English Bilingual Speakers	2
Violations of Lab-Learned Phonological Patterns Elicit a Late Positive Component	2
Elliptical Responses to Direct and Indirect Requests for Information	2
Aspiring to Aspirate: L2 Acquisition of English Word-Initial /p/ Over 10 Years	2
Dialect Effects on Mandarin Tone Perception Development	2
Echoes of Past Contact: Venetian Influence on Cretan Greek Intonation	2
Perceptual Sensitivity to Tonal Alignment in Nuer	2
The Attractiveness of Average Speech Rhythms: Revisiting the Average Effect From a Crosslinguistic Perspective	2
Sociophonetic Variation in Vowel Categorization of Australian English	2
Contrastive Alveolar/Retroflex Phonemes in Singapore Mandarin Bilinguals: Comprehension Rates for Articulations in Different Accents, and Acoustic Analysis of Productions	2
Predictability Associated With Reduction in Phonetic Signals Without Semantics—The Case of Glossolalia	2
Speaking Rate, Oro-Laryngeal Timing, and Place of Articulation Effects on Burst Amplitude: Evidence From English and Tamil	2
Evidence For Selective Adaptation and Recalibration in the Perception of Lexical Stress	2
Phonetic and Lexical Encoding of Tone in Cantonese Heritage Speakers	2
The Effect of Habitual Speech Rate on Speaker-Specific Processing in English Stop Voicing Perception	1
Cross-Linguistic Phonetic Variation in Bilingual Speech: Cantonese /n/ > [l] Merger in Early Cantonese–English Bilinguals	1
Articulatory Insights into the L2 Acquisition of English-/l/ Allophony	1
The Influence of Negative Orthographic Neighborhood in the Lexical Decision Task: Valence and Arousal Contributions	1
Relationships Between Acoustic Characteristics and Intelligibility Scores: A Reanalysis of Japanese Speakers’ Productions of American English Liquids	1
Language Contact, Language Ecology, and Intonational Variation in the Yami Community	1
The Effect of Distributional Restrictions in Speech Perception: A Case Study From Korean and Taiwanese Southern Min	1
The “Starting-Small” Effect in Phonology: Evidence From Biased Learning of Opaque and Transparent Vowel Harmony	1
Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Effects in Estonian Spontaneous Speech	1
Bridging Inferences and Reference Management: Evidence from an Experimental Investigation in Catalan and Russian	1
Accommodation and Language Contact	1

Acoustic Characteristics of Pre- and Post-vocalic /l/: Patterns from One Southern White Vernacular English	1
Inhibition and Reading Comprehension in Adolescents with and without Histories of Language Difficulties	1
Playing With Fire Compounds: The Tonal Accents of Compounds in (North) Norwegian Preschoolers’ Role-Play Register	1
Sociolinguistic Variation in Mouthings in British Sign Language: A Corpus-Based Study	1
How Aging and Age-Related Hearing Loss Affect the Recognition of Emotion in Whispered Speech	1
Prosodic Cues for Broad, Narrow, and Corrective Focus in Persian	1
Phonetic Cues in Auditory Identification of Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, and Russian Language of Origin	1
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	1
Often Overlooked Aspects of Sound Symbolism: The Influence of Participants’ Characteristics on Size Ratings	1
Relative Contributions of Social, Contextual, and Lexical Factors in Speech Processing	1
Audiovisual Perception of Lexical Stress: Beat Gestures and Articulatory Cues	1
Gestural Timing Patterns of Nasality in Highly Proficient Spanish Learners of English: Aerodynamic Evidence	1