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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Phonetic information in the vowel spectrum: the meaning of Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients	39
Editorial Board	30
Towards a dynamical account of inter-segmental coordination	23
On the target of phonetic convergence: Acoustic and linguistic aspects of pitch accent imitation	20
Investigating interlanguages beyond categorical analyses: Prosodic marking of information status in Italian learners of German	14
Normalization, essentialization, and the erasure of social and linguistic variation	13
Loss of unreleased final stops among Mandarin-Min bilinguals: Structural convergence of languages in contact	13
Editorial Board	13
Editorial Board	12
The role of prior knowledge in second-language learners’ overnight consolidation of Cantonese tones	12
Effects of native language and habituation in phonetic accommodation	12
Exposure to speech via foreign film and its effects on non-native vowel production and perception	12
Acoustic characteristics of non-native Lombard speech in the DELNN corpus	12
Editorial Board	11
Theoretical achievements of phonetics in the 21st century: Phonetics of voice quality	11
Editorial Board	10
Code-switching experience as a mitigating factor for cross-linguistic phonetic interference	10
The relation between musical abilities and speech prosody perception: A meta-analysis	10
Cognitive factors in nonnative phonetic learning: Impacts of inhibitory control and working memory on the benefits and costs of talker variability	10
Flexibility and stability of speech sounds: The time course of lexically-driven recalibration	10
Dipping and Falling as competing strategies for maintaining the distinctiveness of the low tone in the four-tone system of Kaifeng Mandarin	10
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	9
Special issue: Vocal accommodation in speech communication	9
The production of ejectives in German and Georgian	9

Measured and perceived speech tempo: Comparing canonical and surface articulation rates	9
The contribution of the visual modality to vowel perception in native and non-native speakers	9
Phonetic implementation and the interpretation of downstepping in Mainstream US English	8
Same vowels but different contrasts: Mandarin listeners’ perception of English /ei/-/iː/ in unfamiliar phonotactic contexts	8
Advancements in phonetics in the 21st century: Infant speech development	8
The relation between perceptual retuning and articulatory restructuring: Individual differences in accommodating a novel phonetic variant	8
The change in breathy voice after tone split: A production study of Suzhou Wu Chinese	8
Phonological and phonetic contributions to perception of non-native lexical tones by tone language listeners: Effects of memory load and stimulus variability	8
Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: Quantitative data analysis	8
Phonetics–phonology mapping in the generalization of perceptual learning	7
Noise-based acoustic features of Polish retroflex fricatives in children with normal pronunciation and speech disorder	7
Contribution of F0 and phonation to tone perception in the Zaiwa language	7
Spelling provides a precise (but sometimes misplaced) phonological target. Orthography and acoustic variability in second language word learning	7
Prosodic phrasing mediates listeners’ perception of temporal cues: Evidence from the Korean Accentual Phrase	6
Phonetic naturalness in the reanalysis of Samoan thematic consonant alternations	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
Theorizing positive transfer in cross-linguistic speech perception: The Acoustic-Attentional-Contextual hypothesis	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
Diachronic phonological asymmetries and the variable stability of synchronic contrast	6
Corrigendum to “Towards a dynamical account of inter-segmental coordination” [J. Phon. 109 (2025) 101392]	6
Acoustic-phonetic properties of Siri- and human-directed speech	5
Dynamic multi-cue weighting in the perception of Spanish intonation: Differences between tonal and non-tonal language listeners	5
Homophone discrimination based on prior exposure	5
Inaccurate but predictable: Vocal-tract length estimation and gender stereotypes in height perception	5
Language-specific and individual variation in anticipatory nasal coarticulation: A comparative study of American English, French, and German	5
Compensatory effects of foot structure in segmental durations of Soikkola Ingrian disyllables and trisyllables	5
Sound change in Western Andalusian Spanish: Investigation into the actuation and propagation of post-aspiration	5
Processing pronunciation variation with independently mappable allophones	5
Phonetic convergence across dialect boundaries in first and second language speakers	5
The perception of accented English by Mandarin learners of English: Revisiting the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit	5
Reactive feedback control and adaptation to perturbed speech timing in stressed and unstressed syllables	5
Perceived cross-linguistic similarity of retroflexes in trilingual, bilingual and native listener groups	5
Stop voicing perception in the societal and heritage language of Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers: The role of age, input quantity and input diversity	4
Thai speakers time lexical tones to supralaryngeal articulatory events	4
Use of segmental detail as a cue to prosodic structure in reference to information structure in German	4
Looking within events: Examining internal temporal structure with local relative rate	4
Discriminative segmental cues to vowel height and consonantal place and voicing in whispered speech	4
Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: Phonetic universals, language variation, and phonetic grammar	4
Phonetic and phonological cues to prediction: Neurophysiology of Danish stød	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
Cross-linguistic similarity in L2 suprasegmental learning: evidence from Chinese learners’ perception of Japanese pitch accents	4
Prosodic marking of information status in Italian	4
Artificial vocal learning guided by speech recognition: What it may tell us about how children learn to speak	4
Voicing and frication at the phonetics-phonology interface: An acoustic study of Greek, Serbian, Russian, and English	4
Planning for the future and reacting to the present: Proactive and reactive F0 adjustments in speech	4
Second dialect acquisition and phonetic vowel reduction in the American Midwest	4
Editorial Board	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
Editorial Board	3
Responses to time pressure on phrase-final melodies in varieties of Dutch and West Frisian	3
An investigation of functional relations between speech rate and phonetic variables	3
Phonetic imitation of the acoustic realization of stress in Spanish: Production and perception	3
Advancement of phonetics in the 21st century: Exemplar models of speech production	3
Spatial location does not consistently constrain perceptual learning in speech	3
Relating pronunciation distance metrics to intelligibility across English accents	3
The phonetics of sociophonetics: Validating acoustic approaches to Spanish /s/	3
Towards a dynamical model of English vowels. Evidence from diphthongisation	3
Constituent durations in English NNN compounds: A case of strategic speaker behavior?	3
Being clear about clear speech: Intelligibility of hard-of-hearing-directed, non-native-directed, and casual speech for L1- and L2-English listeners	3
Editorial Board	3
Coarticulation and coordination in phonological development: Insights from children’s and adults’ production of complex–simplex stop contrasts in Gã	2
Speaker-specificity in speech production: The contribution of source and filter	2
Analysis and computational modelling of Emirati Arabic intonation – A preliminary study	2
Perception of ambiguous rhoticity in Glasgow	2
The influence of preceding speech and nonspeech contexts on Mandarin tone identification	2
The influence of expectations on tonal cues to prominence	2
Extreme stop allophony in Mixtec spontaneous speech: Data, word prosody, and modelling	2
Voicing in Qaqet: Prenasalization and language contact	2
Sub-band cepstral distance as an alternative to formants: Quantitative evidence from a forensic comparison experiment	2
Cascading activation in spoken word production drives incomplete neutralization: An internet-based study of Mandarin 3rd tone sandhi	2
Acoustic cue sensitivity in the perception of native category and their relation to nonnative phonological contrast learning	2
Analyzing time-varying spectral characteristics of speech with function-on-scalar regression	1
Editorial Board	1
An acoustic analysis of rhoticity in Lancashire, England	1
Editorial Board	1
The perceptual center in Mandarin Chinese syllables	1
Editorial Board	1
Editorial Board	1
Phonological mediation effects in imitation of the Mandarin flat-falling tonal continua	1
Reconceptualizing VOT: Further contributions to marking 50 years of research on voice onset time	1
The effect of rhythm on inter-gestural coupling of onset and vowel gestures and predictive timing in stuttering	1
Post-adolescent changes in the perception of regional sub-phonemic variation	1
The effect of breathy voice on tone identification by listeners of different ages in Suzhou Wu Chinese	1
The effect of age on English /r/-/l/ perceptual training outcomes for Japanese speakers	1
Effects of minimal pair competitors on voice onset time and pitch accent production in South Swedish	1
Gestural restructuring beyond coarticulation in Korean /w/-vowel sequences: Evidence from phonetic, dialectal, and gender variation	1
Speakers coarticulate less in response to both real and imagined communicative challenges: An acoustic analysis of the LUCID corpus	1
Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century: A critical appraisal of time and space in Articulatory Phonology	1
Individual uniformity in phonetic imitation: Assessing the stability of individual variability across features and tasks	1
Pitch variability in spontaneous speech production and its connection to usage-based grammar	1
Corrigendum to “Homophone discrimination based on prior exposure” [J. Phonet. 95 (2022) 101182]	1
The role of gestural timing in non-coronal fricative mergers in Southwestern Mandarin: Acoustic evidence from a dialect island	1
Articulatory and acoustic variation in Polish palatalised retroflexes compared with plain ones	1
Achieving perceptual constancy with context cues in second language speech perception	1
Where we are at: Impact, special collections, open science and registered report at the Journal of Phonetics	1
Revisiting the nasal continuum hypothesis: A study of French nasals in continuous speech	1
Relative importance of stress correlates in native listeners’ identification of Spanish lexical stress produced by monolingual and bilingual speakers	1
Production and perception of prevelar merger: Two-dimensional comparisons using Pillai scores and confusion matrices	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
The Gesture-Field-Register (GFR) framework for modeling F0 control	1