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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Iconicity in Word Learning and Beyond: A Critical Review	44
French Pupils’ Lexical and Grammatical Spelling from Sixth to Ninth Grade: A Longitudinal Study	14
The dual status of filled pauses: Evidence from genre, proficiency and co-occurrence	14
Activation of Literal Word Meanings in Idioms: Evidence from Eye-tracking and ERP Experiments	12
Word Segmentation Cues in German Child-Directed Speech: A Corpus Analysis	11
Individual Differences in the Adoption of Sound Change	11
Voice and Emphasis in Arabic Coronal Stops: Evidence for Phonological Compensation	7
To What Extent is Collocation Knowledge Associated with Oral Proficiency? A Corpus-Based Approach to Word Association	7
Towards a Native OPERA Hypothesis: Musicianship and English Stress Perception	7
Articulatory Variability is Reduced by Repetition and Predictability	6
The Reliability of Individual Differences in VOT Imitation	6
First-language influence on second language speech perception depends on task demands	5
Cross-Linguistic Trends in Speech Errors: An Analysis of Sub-Lexical Errors in Cantonese	5
Using Network Science and Psycholinguistic Megastudies to Examine the Dimensions of Phonological Similarity	5
Reciprocity in Conversation	5
Can filled pauses be represented as linguistic items? Investigating the effect of exposure on the perception and production of um	5
Comparing Phonetic Convergence in Children and Adults	5
The Trini Sing-Song: Sociophonetic variation in Trinidadian English prosody and differences to other varieties	5
The Role of Segmental Information in Syntactic Processing Through the Syntax–Prosody Interface	5
Japanese Perceptual Epenthesis is Modulated by Transitional Probability	5
What, Where, When and How of Visual Word Recognition: A Bibliometrics Review	5
Language Experience and Subjective Word Familiarity on the Multimodal Perception of Non-native Vowels	4
An Overview of Audiovisual Input as a Means for Foreign Language Acquisition in Different Contexts	4
Phonological Preparation in Korean: Phoneme, or Syllable or Another Unit?	4
Intonational Structure Influences Perception of Contrastive Vowel Length: The Case of Phrase-Final Lengthening in Tokyo Japanese	4

Disentangling the Effects of Position and Utterance-Level Declination on the Production of Complex Tones in Yoloxóchitl Mixtec	4
No, No One Had Fun. Individual Differences in Nonliteral Language Perception	4
Aren’t Prosody and Syntax Marking Bias in Questions?	4
Reciprocity in Instant Messaging Conversations	4
Focus Effects on Immediate and Delayed Recognition of Referents in Samoan	3
The Role of Prominence in Activating Focused Words and Their Alternatives in Mandarin: Evidence from Lexical Priming and Recognition Memory	3
Phonetic and Lexical Encoding of Tone in Cantonese Heritage Speakers	3
Sorry, Not Sorry: The independent role of multiple phonetic cues in signaling the difference between two word meanings	3
Phonetic Accommodation on the Segmental and the Suprasegmental Level of Speech in Native–Non-Native Collaborative Tasks	3
Piecewise Structural Equation Modeling of the Quantity Implicature in Child Language	3
The Role of Prosody in Disambiguating English Indirect Requests	3
The Homogenization of Ethnic Differences in Singapore English? A Consonantal Production Study	3
Acoustic and Perceptual Characteristics of Mandarin Speech in Gay and Heterosexual Male Speakers	3
Exploring the Similarity Between Implicit and Explicit Prosody: Prosodic Phrasing and Individual Differences	3
The Dual-route Account of Writing-to-Dictation in Chinese: A Short Report	2
N400 Evidence That the Early Stages of Lexical Access Ignore Knowledge About Phonological Alternations	2
Transposition Effects in an Aksharic Writing System: The Case of Hindi	2
Phonological Production in Young Speakers of Cantonese as a Heritage Language	2
Fluency-related Temporal Features and Syllable Prominence as Prosodic Proficiency Predictors for Learners of English with Different Language Backgrounds	2
Circumflex Nuclear Configurations in Yucatecan Spanish as a Supraregional Feature: The Roles of Bilingualism and Gender	2
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	2
Adaptation to an Unfamiliar Accent by Child L2 Listeners	2
Assessing the Specificity and Accuracy of Accent Judgments by Lay Listeners	2
Prosodic Prominence – A Cross-Linguistic Perspective	2
The Prosody of Two-Syllable Words in French-Speaking Monolingual and Bilingual Children: A Focus on Initial Accent and Final Accent	2
Fundamental Frequency and Regional Variation in Lifou French	2
Do Diacritics Entail an Early Processing Cost in the Absence of Abstract Representations? Evidence from Masked Priming in English	2
Acoustic Characteristics of Pre- and Post-vocalic /l/: Patterns from One Southern White Vernacular English	2
Inhibition and Reading Comprehension in Adolescents with and without Histories of Language Difficulties	2
A New System of Cantonese Tones? Tone Perception and Production in Hong Kong South Asian Cantonese	2
Individual Differences in Categorical Judgment of L2 Stops: A Link to Proficiency and Acoustic Cue-Weighting	2
The Entanglement of Dialectal Variation and Speaker Normalization	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
Evidence For Selective Adaptation and Recalibration in the Perception of Lexical Stress	2
Learning Exceptions in Phonological Alternations	2
Relative Difficulty in the Acquisition of the Phonetic Parameters of Obstruent Coda Voicing: Evidence from Mandarin-Speaking Learners of French	2
Sociolinguistic Variation in Mouthings in British Sign Language: A Corpus-Based Study	1
The Influence of Negative Orthographic Neighborhood in the Lexical Decision Task: Valence and Arousal Contributions	1
Phonetic Development of an L2 Vowel System and Tandem Drift in the L1: A Residence Abroad and L1 Re-Immersion Study	1
Sociophonetic Variation and Change in Heritage Languages: Lexical Effects in Heritage Italian Aspiration of Voiceless Stops	1
Range in the Use and Realization ofBINin African American English	1
Language Contact, Language Ecology, and Intonational Variation in the Yami Community	1
Prosodic Disambiguation in First and Second Language Production: English and Korean	1
Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Effects in Estonian Spontaneous Speech	1
Scaling Laws for Phonotactic Complexity in Spoken English Language Data	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
It’s Mine, . . . It’s Mine: Unsolicited Repetitions Are Reduced in Toddlers	1
Speaking Rate, Oro-Laryngeal Timing, and Place of Articulation Effects on Burst Amplitude: Evidence From English and Tamil	1

In Search of Salience: Focus Detection in the Speech of Different Talkers	1
The Processing of Spanish Article–Noun Gender Agreement by Monolingual and Bilingual Toddlers	1
Factors Affecting the Writing Performance in Hearing and Deaf Children: An Insight into Regularities and Irregularities of the Arabic Orthographic System	1
Simulating Speech Error Patterns Across Languages and Different Datasets	1
Individual Differences in Early Disambiguation of Prosodic Grouping	1
Phonetic and Phono-Lexical Accuracy of Non-Native Tone Production by English-L1 and Mandarin-L1 Speakers	1
Articulatory Evidence for the Syllable-final Nasal Merging in Taiwan Mandarin	1
Context Matters for Tone and Intonation Processing in Mandarin	1
The Impact of Alcohol on L1 versus L2	1
Effects of Spectral Envelope and Fundamental Frequency Shifts on the Perception of Foreign-Accented Speech	1
Durational Patterns of Recurrent Multiword Combinations in Mandarin Spontaneous Speech Production	1
Intonational Variation in the North-West of England: The Origins of a Rising Contour in Liverpool	1
Task Effects in Irony Comprehension in English as a Foreign Language	1
How Complex Verbs Acquire Their Idiosyncratic Meanings	1
Using Mahalanobis Distances to Investigate Second Dialect Acquisition: A Study on Quebec French	1
Interaction between Phrasal Structure and Vowel Tenseness in German: An Acoustic and Articulatory Study	1
Disentangling the Role of Biphone Probability From Neighborhood Density in the Perception of Nonwords	1
Prosodic Structural Effects on Non-Contrastive Coarticulatory Vowel Nasalization in L2 English by Korean Learners	1
Relative Contributions of Social, Contextual, and Lexical Factors in Speech Processing	1
The Language-Specificity of Phonetic Adaptation to Talkers	1
Sociolectal and Dialectal Variation in Prosody	1
Focus Attracts Attachment	1
Bilinguals Produce Pitch Range Differently in Their Two Languages to Convey Social Meaning	1
Dialect Effects on Mandarin Tone Perception Development	1
Sociophonetic Variation in Vowel Categorization of Australian English	1