OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language and Speech is 2. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The Effects of Phonological Complexity on Word Production in French-Speaking Children	15
Aptitude, Anxiety, and Success in L2 Speech Development: A Longitudinal Study of Chinese EFL College-Level Learners	12
Kinect-ing the Dots: Using Motion-Capture Technology to Distinguish Sign Language Linguistic From Gestural Expressions	9
Acoustic and Kinematic Correlates of Heterosyllabicity in Different Phonological Contexts	9
Individual Differences in Categorical Judgment of L2 Stops: A Link to Proficiency and Acoustic Cue-Weighting	8
English Vowel Discrimination and Perceptual Assimilation by Japanese Listeners	8
Processing of Grammatical Agreement in the Face of Variation in Lexical Stress: A Mismatch Negativity Study	7
Effects of Speaking Rate Changes on Speech Motor Variability in Adults	7
Impact of Japanese L1 Rhythm on English L2 Speech	7
A Reanalysis of the Voicing Effect in English: With Implications for Featural Specification	7
Prosodic Modifications to Challenging Communicative Environments in Preschoolers	6
Factors Affecting the Writing Performance in Hearing and Deaf Children: An Insight into Regularities and Irregularities of the Arabic Orthographic System	6
How Templatic Is Arabic Input to Children? The Role of Child-Directed-Speech in the Acquisition of Semitic Morpho-Phonology	6
Assessing the Specificity and Accuracy of Accent Judgments by Lay Listeners	6
Acoustic and Articulatory Visual Feedback in Classroom L2 Vowel Remediation	6
The Role of Prominence in Activating Focused Words and Their Alternatives in Mandarin: Evidence from Lexical Priming and Recognition Memory	6
Phonetic Effects of Tonal Crowding in Persian Polar Questions	6
Phrasal Synchronization of Gesture With Prosody and Information Structure	5
Perceptually Easy Second-Language Phones Are Not Always Easy: The Role of Orthography and Phonology in Schwa Realization in Second-Language French	5
Segmental Influences on the Perception of High Pitch Accent Scaling in American English	5
Development of Vowel Intrusion in Spanish Heritage Speakers	4
Flexibility and Stability in Lexical Tone Recalibration: Evidence from Tone Perceptual Learning	4
The Role of Prosody in Disambiguating English Indirect Requests	4
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

The Relationship between Non-Native Perception and Phonological Patterning of Implosive Consonants	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
Social Priming: Exploring the Effects of Speaker Race and Ethnicity on Perception of Second Language Accents	4
The Non-Coalescence of /h/ and Incomplete Neutralization in South Jeolla Korean	3
Pronunciation of Vowel Digraphs in Nonwords: A Replication and Extension	3
Investigation of Mandarin Word Production in Children and Adults: Evidence from Phonological Priming with Non-words	3
Preference for Distinct Variants in Learning Sound Correspondences During Dialect Acquisition	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
Prosodic Structural Effects on Non-Contrastive Coarticulatory Vowel Nasalization in L2 English by Korean Learners	3
Bilinguals Produce Pitch Range Differently in Their Two Languages to Convey Social Meaning	3
Individual Differences in Early Disambiguation of Prosodic Grouping	3
A Corpus Study on the Difference of Turn-Taking in Online Audio, Online Video, and Face-to-Face Conversation	3
Production of the English /ɹ/ by Mandarin–English Bilingual Speakers	2
Elliptical Responses to Direct and Indirect Requests for Information	2
Speaking Rate, Oro-Laryngeal Timing, and Place of Articulation Effects on Burst Amplitude: Evidence From English and Tamil	2
Aspiring to Aspirate: L2 Acquisition of English Word-Initial /p/ Over 10 Years	2
Language Dependency of /s/ Production: Native Dutch Versus Non-Native English	2
Perceptual Sensitivity to Tonal Alignment in Nuer	2
Violations of Lab-Learned Phonological Patterns Elicit a Late Positive Component	2
Fast-Speech-Induced Hypoarticulation Does Not Considerably Affect the Diachronic Reversal of Complementary Length in Central Bavarian	2
Phonetic Development of an L2 Vowel System and Tandem Drift in the L1: A Residence Abroad and L1 Re-Immersion Study	2
The Role of Phonological Factors in the Processing of Polish Phonotactics	2
Cross-Linguistic Trends in Speech Errors: An Analysis of Sub-Lexical Errors in Cantonese	2
Echoes of Past Contact: Venetian Influence on Cretan Greek Intonation	2
The Attractiveness of Average Speech Rhythms: Revisiting the Average Effect From a Crosslinguistic Perspective	2
Language Attitudes and Stereotypes Condition the Processing of Contact-Induced Linguistic Variants	2
Predictability Associated With Reduction in Phonetic Signals Without Semantics—The Case of Glossolalia	2
Contrastive Alveolar/Retroflex Phonemes in Singapore Mandarin Bilinguals: Comprehension Rates for Articulations in Different Accents, and Acoustic Analysis of Productions	2
Sociophonetic Variation in Vowel Categorization of Australian English	2