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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
L2 cross-linguistic influence on L1 perception: Evidence from heritage speakers and long-term immigrants	27
Perception and production of Mandarin-Accented English: The effect of degree of Accentedness on the Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit for Listeners (ISIB-L) and Talkers (ISIB-T)	23
Do adults produce phonetic variants of /t/ less often in speech to children?	15
Examining the implications of speech accommodation for forensic speaker comparison casework: A case study of the West Yorkshire face vowel	13
Editorial Board	12
Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: A critical appraisal of time and space in Articulatory Phonology	12
Editorial Board	12
Editorial Board	11
Theorizing positive transfer in cross-linguistic speech perception: The Acoustic-Attentional-Contextual hypothesis	11
Prosodic phrasing mediates listeners’ perception of temporal cues: Evidence from the Korean Accentual Phrase	10
Discriminative segmental cues to vowel height and consonantal place and voicing in whispered speech	9
The final lengthening of pre-boundary syllables turns into final shortening as boundary strength levels increase	9
It’s alignment all the way down, but not all the way up: Speakers align on some features but not others within a dialogue	8
A minimal dynamical model of Intonation: Tone contrast, alignment, and scaling of American English pitch accents as emergent properties	8
Your “VOORnaam” is not my “VOORnaam”: An acoustic analysis of individual talker differences in word stress in Dutch	8
Final Lengthening and vowel length in 25 languages	8
Gestural characterisation of vowel length contrasts in Australian English	8
Systematic co-variation of monophthongs across speakers of New Zealand English	8
Voicing and register in Ngãi Giao Chrau: Production and perception studies	8
The effects of production training on speech perception in L2 learners of German	7
Exposure to speech via foreign film and its effects on non-native vowel production and perception	7
The impact of orthographic forms on speech production and perception: An artificial vowel-learning study	7
Contrast enhancement and the distribution of vowel duration in Japanese	7
Vocal reaction times to speech offsets: Implications for processing models of conversational turn-taking	7
Lexical representations can rapidly be updated in the early stages of second-language word learning	7

On the target of phonetic convergence: Acoustic and linguistic aspects of pitch accent imitation	7
Lexically-guided perceptual recalibration from acoustically unambiguous input in second language learners	7
Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: Theoretical issues in sociophonetics	7
Neural representations for modeling variation in speech	6
Phonetic accommodation of tone: Reversing a tone merger-in-progress via imitation	6
Age-based perceptions of a reversing regional sound change	6
Coarticulation as synchronised CV co-onset – Parallel evidence from articulation and acoustics	6
The online effect of clash is durational lengthening, not prominence shift: Evidence from Italian	6
Articulatory consequences of lexical stress on post-tonic velar plosives in Italian	6
A kinematic study of phonetic reduction in a young sign language	6
Theoretical achievements of phonetics in the 21st century: Phonetics of voice quality	6
Editorial Board	6
Investigating interlanguages beyond categorical analyses: Prosodic marking of information status in Italian learners of German	6
Editorial Board	5
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Phonetic variation in English infant-directed speech: A large-scale corpus analysis	5
Simultaneous bilingualism and speech style as predictors of variation in allophone production: Evidence from Finland-Swedish	5
Loss of unreleased final stops among Mandarin-Min bilinguals: Structural convergence of languages in contact	5
Leveraging the temporal dynamics of anticipatory vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in linguistic prediction: A statistical modeling approach	5
Editorial Board	5
Diachronic phonological asymmetries and the variable stability of synchronic contrast	4
Is talker variability a critical component of effective phonetic training for nonnative speech?	4
Prominence and intonation in Singapore English	4
An investigation of functional relations between speech rate and phonetic variables	4
The phonetics of sociophonetics: Validating acoustic approaches to Spanish /s/	4
Speakers coarticulate less in response to both real and imagined communicative challenges: An acoustic analysis of the LUCID corpus	4
Acoustic characteristics of non-native Lombard speech in the DELNN corpus	4
Editorial Board	3
Post-adolescent changes in the perception of regional sub-phonemic variation	3
Erratum to: “F0 timing in Luganda: Effects of phrase position and tone category” [J. Phonet. 85 (2021) 101027]	3
Native language experience with tones influences both phonetic and lexical processes when acquiring a second tonal language	3
Formant-based articulatory strategies: Characterisation and inter-speaker variability analysis	3
Phonetic naturalness in the reanalysis of Samoan thematic consonant alternations	3
Variation in fine phonetic detail can modulate the outcome of sound change: The case of stop gradation and laryngeal contrast implementation in Jutland Danish	3
Lenition and fortition of /r/ in utterance-final position, an ultrasound tongue imaging study of lingual gesture timing in spontaneous speech	3
Red and blue bananas: Time-series f0 analysis of contrastively focused noun phrases in Papuan Malay and Dutch	3
Effects of native language and habituation in phonetic accommodation	3
Phonetic accommodation in interaction with a virtual language learning tutor: A Wizard-of-Oz study	3
On (and off) ramps in intonational phonology: Rises, falls, and the Tonal Center of Gravity	3
Effects of syllable position and place of articulation on secondary dorsal contrasts: An ultrasound study of Irish	3
Phonetic imitation of the acoustic realization of stress in Spanish: Production and perception	3
Dynamic multi-cue weighting in the perception of Spanish intonation: Differences between tonal and non-tonal language listeners	3
Who is Fu? – Perception of L2 sounds that are partially neutralized in L1	3
Phonetic convergence across dialect boundaries in first and second language speakers	3
Production and perception of prevelar merger: Two-dimensional comparisons using Pillai scores and confusion matrices	3
Individual variation in the realisation and contrast of Swedish children’s word-initial voiceless fricatives	3
Towards a dynamical model of English vowels. Evidence from diphthongisation	3
A dual mechanism for intrinsic f0	3
“Hama”? Reduced pronunciations in non-native natural speech obstruct high-school students’ comprehension at lower processing levels	3
Advancement of phonetics in the 21st century: Exemplar models of speech production	2

Effects of individual aptitude on ultrasound biofeedback in non-native vowel production	2
Acoustic unit discovery using transient and steady-state regions in speech and its applications	2
Intonational categories and continua in American English rising nuclear tunes	2
The role of segment rate in speech tempo perception by English listeners	2
Acoustic-phonetic properties of Siri- and human-directed speech	2
F0 timing in Luganda: Effects of phrase position and gone category	2
Compensatory effects of foot structure in segmental durations of Soikkola Ingrian disyllables and trisyllables	2
Editorial Board	2
An acoustic study of rhythmic synchronization with natural English speech	2
Code-switching experience as a mitigating factor for cross-linguistic phonetic interference	2
An acoustic and articulatory study of rhotic and rhotic-nasal vowels of Kalasha	2
Flexibility and stability of speech sounds: The time course of lexically-driven recalibration	2
Focus-induced tonal distribution in Seoul Korean as an edge-prominence language	2
Working memory differences in prosodic imitation	2
Language-specific and individual variation in anticipatory nasal coarticulation: A comparative study of American English, French, and German	2
Effects of dialect-specific features and familiarity on cross-dialect phonetic convergence	2
The supralaryngeal articulation of stress and accent in Greek	2
Relating pronunciation distance metrics to intelligibility across English accents	2
Cognitive factors in nonnative phonetic learning: Impacts of inhibitory control and working memory on the benefits and costs of talker variability	2
The role of gestural timing in non-coronal fricative mergers in Southwestern Mandarin: Acoustic evidence from a dialect island	2
Editorial Board	2
Constituent durations in English NNN compounds: A case of strategic speaker behavior?	2
Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: Theoretical and empirical issues of spoken word recognition in phonetic research	2
A non-contrastive cue in spontaneous imitation: Comparing mono- and bilingual imitators	2
Effects of word position and flanking vowel on the implementation of glottal stop: Evidence from Hawaiian	2
Corrigendum to “Homophone discrimination based on prior exposure” [J. Phonet. 95 (2022) 101182]	2
Spatial location does not consistently constrain perceptual learning in speech	1
Editorial Board	1
Schwa’s duration and acoustic position in American English	1
The boundary-induced modulation of obstruents and tones in Thai	1
Probabilistic reduction and mental accumulation in Japanese: Frequency, contextual predictability, and average predictability	1
An acoustic study on age-related changes in vowel production of Chinese	1
Phonetic differences between nouns and verbs in their typical syntactic positions in a tonal language: Evidence from disyllabic noun–verb ambiguous words in Standard Mandarin Chinese	1
L1 vowel perceptual boundary shift as a result of L2 vowel learning	1
Stop voicing perception in the societal and heritage language of Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers: The role of age, input quantity and input diversity	1
Inaccurate but predictable: Vocal-tract length estimation and gender stereotypes in height perception	1
The coarticulation-duration relationship in early Quechua speech	1
Sound change in Western Andalusian Spanish: Investigation into the actuation and propagation of post-aspiration	1
Where we are at: Impact, special collections, open science and registered report at the Journal of Phonetics	1
The perceptual center in Mandarin Chinese syllables	1
Evidence for active control of tongue lateralization in Australian English /l/	1