OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Phonetics 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards a dynamical account of inter-segmental coordination	38
Editorial Board	29
Phonetic information in the vowel spectrum: the meaning of Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients	23
On the target of phonetic convergence: Acoustic and linguistic aspects of pitch accent imitation	20
Exposure to speech via foreign film and its effects on non-native vowel production and perception	14
Effects of native language and habituation in phonetic accommodation	13
Editorial Board	13
Editorial Board	12
The role of prior knowledge in second-language learners’ overnight consolidation of Cantonese tones	12
Acoustic characteristics of non-native Lombard speech in the DELNN corpus	12
Loss of unreleased final stops among Mandarin-Min bilinguals: Structural convergence of languages in contact	12
Editorial Board	12
Normalization, essentialization, and the erasure of social and linguistic variation	11
Investigating interlanguages beyond categorical analyses: Prosodic marking of information status in Italian learners of German	11
Theoretical achievements of phonetics in the 21st century: Phonetics of voice quality	10
Dipping and Falling as competing strategies for maintaining the distinctiveness of the low tone in the four-tone system of Kaifeng Mandarin	10
Cognitive factors in nonnative phonetic learning: Impacts of inhibitory control and working memory on the benefits and costs of talker variability	10
Code-switching experience as a mitigating factor for cross-linguistic phonetic interference	10
Measured and perceived speech tempo: Comparing canonical and surface articulation rates	9
Flexibility and stability of speech sounds: The time course of lexically-driven recalibration	9
Special issue: Vocal accommodation in speech communication	9
The relation between musical abilities and speech prosody perception: A meta-analysis	9
Editorial Board	9
An acoustic study on age-related changes in vowel production of Chinese	9
Challenges with the kinematic analysis of neurotypical and impaired speech: Measures and models	8

Spelling provides a precise (but sometimes misplaced) phonological target. Orthography and acoustic variability in second language word learning	8
Phonetic implementation and the interpretation of downstepping in Mainstream US English	8
Phonological and phonetic contributions to perception of non-native lexical tones by tone language listeners: Effects of memory load and stimulus variability	8
The production of ejectives in German and Georgian	8
Noise-based acoustic features of Polish retroflex fricatives in children with normal pronunciation and speech disorder	8
The contribution of the visual modality to vowel perception in native and non-native speakers	8
Advancements in phonetics in the 21st century: Infant speech development	8
Phonetics–phonology mapping in the generalization of perceptual learning	8
The relation between perceptual retuning and articulatory restructuring: Individual differences in accommodating a novel phonetic variant	7
Same vowels but different contrasts: Mandarin listeners’ perception of English /ei/-/iː/ in unfamiliar phonotactic contexts	7
Contribution of F0 and phonation to tone perception in the Zaiwa language	7
Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: Quantitative data analysis	7
The change in breathy voice after tone split: A production study of Suzhou Wu Chinese	7
Articulatory consequences of lexical stress on post-tonic velar plosives in Italian	6
Prosodic phrasing mediates listeners’ perception of temporal cues: Evidence from the Korean Accentual Phrase	6
Formant-based articulatory strategies: Characterisation and inter-speaker variability analysis	6
Variation in fine phonetic detail can modulate the outcome of sound change: The case of stop gradation and laryngeal contrast implementation in Jutland Danish	6
Corrigendum to “Towards a dynamical account of inter-segmental coordination” [J. Phon. 109 (2025) 101392]	6
Theorizing positive transfer in cross-linguistic speech perception: The Acoustic-Attentional-Contextual hypothesis	6
Phonetic naturalness in the reanalysis of Samoan thematic consonant alternations	6
Diachronic phonological asymmetries and the variable stability of synchronic contrast	6
Dynamic multi-cue weighting in the perception of Spanish intonation: Differences between tonal and non-tonal language listeners	5
Language-specific and individual variation in anticipatory nasal coarticulation: A comparative study of American English, French, and German	5
Sound change in Western Andalusian Spanish: Investigation into the actuation and propagation of post-aspiration	5
Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: Phonetic universals, language variation, and phonetic grammar	5
The online effect of clash is durational lengthening, not prominence shift: Evidence from Italian	5
Compensatory effects of foot structure in segmental durations of Soikkola Ingrian disyllables and trisyllables	5
The perception of accented English by Mandarin learners of English: Revisiting the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit	5
Perceived cross-linguistic similarity of retroflexes in trilingual, bilingual and native listener groups	5
Acoustic-phonetic properties of Siri- and human-directed speech	5
Phonetic convergence across dialect boundaries in first and second language speakers	5
Processing pronunciation variation with independently mappable allophones	5
Inaccurate but predictable: Vocal-tract length estimation and gender stereotypes in height perception	4
Thai speakers time lexical tones to supralaryngeal articulatory events	4
Voicing and frication at the phonetics-phonology interface: An acoustic study of Greek, Serbian, Russian, and English	4
Looking within events: Examining internal temporal structure with local relative rate	4
Use of segmental detail as a cue to prosodic structure in reference to information structure in German	4
Homophone discrimination based on prior exposure	4
Artificial vocal learning guided by speech recognition: What it may tell us about how children learn to speak	4
What are you sinking about? Experience with unfamiliar accent produces both inhibition and facilitation during lexical processing	4
The production of English syllable-level timing patterns by bilingual English- and Spanish-speaking children with cochlear implants and their peers with normal hearing	4
Reactive feedback control and adaptation to perturbed speech timing in stressed and unstressed syllables	4
Stop voicing perception in the societal and heritage language of Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers: The role of age, input quantity and input diversity	4
Phonetic and phonological cues to prediction: Neurophysiology of Danish stød	4
Planning for the future and reacting to the present: Proactive and reactive F0 adjustments in speech	4
Prosodic marking of information status in Italian	4
Second dialect acquisition and phonetic vowel reduction in the American Midwest	3
The phonetics of sociophonetics: Validating acoustic approaches to Spanish /s/	3
Editorial Board	3
Relating pronunciation distance metrics to intelligibility across English accents	3

Discriminative segmental cues to vowel height and consonantal place and voicing in whispered speech	3
Contextual and paradigmatic effects on suspended contrast across generations: The case of Cantonese pinjam revisited	3
Effects of individual aptitude on ultrasound biofeedback in non-native vowel production	3
Constituent durations in English NNN compounds: A case of strategic speaker behavior?	3
Towards a dynamical model of English vowels. Evidence from diphthongisation	3
Editorial Board	3
An investigation of functional relations between speech rate and phonetic variables	3
Editorial Board	3
Phonetic imitation of the acoustic realization of stress in Spanish: Production and perception	3
Responses to time pressure on phrase-final melodies in varieties of Dutch and West Frisian	2
Being clear about clear speech: Intelligibility of hard-of-hearing-directed, non-native-directed, and casual speech for L1- and L2-English listeners	2
Analysis and computational modelling of Emirati Arabic intonation – A preliminary study	2
Advancement of phonetics in the 21st century: Exemplar models of speech production	2
The influence of preceding speech and nonspeech contexts on Mandarin tone identification	2
Speaker-specificity in speech production: The contribution of source and filter	2
The influence of expectations on tonal cues to prominence	2
Spatial location does not consistently constrain perceptual learning in speech	2
Sub-band cepstral distance as an alternative to formants: Quantitative evidence from a forensic comparison experiment	2
Coarticulation and coordination in phonological development: Insights from children’s and adults’ production of complex–simplex stop contrasts in Gã	2
Editorial Board	1
Post-adolescent changes in the perception of regional sub-phonemic variation	1
The Gesture-Field-Register (GFR) framework for modeling F0 control	1
The final lengthening of pre-boundary syllables turns into final shortening as boundary strength levels increase	1
Analysing the relationship between L2 production and different stages of L2 processing: Eye-tracking and acoustic evidence for a novel contrast	1
Acoustic cue sensitivity in the perception of native category and their relation to nonnative phonological contrast learning	1
Voicing in Qaqet: Prenasalization and language contact	1
Reconceptualizing VOT: Further contributions to marking 50 years of research on voice onset time	1
Production and perception of prevelar merger: Two-dimensional comparisons using Pillai scores and confusion matrices	1
Articulatory and acoustic variation in Polish palatalised retroflexes compared with plain ones	1
Where we are at: Impact, special collections, open science and registered report at the Journal of Phonetics	1
The role of gestural timing in non-coronal fricative mergers in Southwestern Mandarin: Acoustic evidence from a dialect island	1
Relative importance of stress correlates in native listeners’ identification of Spanish lexical stress produced by monolingual and bilingual speakers	1
The effect of rhythm on inter-gestural coupling of onset and vowel gestures and predictive timing in stuttering	1
Analyzing time-varying spectral characteristics of speech with function-on-scalar regression	1
Pitch variability in spontaneous speech production and its connection to usage-based grammar	1
Extreme stop allophony in Mixtec spontaneous speech: Data, word prosody, and modelling	1
Speakers coarticulate less in response to both real and imagined communicative challenges: An acoustic analysis of the LUCID corpus	1
The effect of age on English /r/-/l/ perceptual training outcomes for Japanese speakers	1
Revisiting the nasal continuum hypothesis: A study of French nasals in continuous speech	1
Editorial Board	1
Corrigendum to “Homophone discrimination based on prior exposure” [J. Phonet. 95 (2022) 101182]	1
The perceptual center in Mandarin Chinese syllables	1
Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: A critical appraisal of time and space in Articulatory Phonology	1
Phonological mediation effects in imitation of the Mandarin flat-falling tonal continua	1
Individual uniformity in phonetic imitation: Assessing the stability of individual variability across features and tasks	1
Cascading activation in spoken word production drives incomplete neutralization: An internet-based study of Mandarin 3rd tone sandhi	1
Editorial Board	1
Perception of ambiguous rhoticity in Glasgow	1
Achieving perceptual constancy with context cues in second language speech perception	1