OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Phonetics is 5. 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
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	12
Theoretical achievements of phonetics in the 21st century: Phonetics of voice quality	11
Editorial Board	11
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
Editorial Board	10
Code-switching experience as a mitigating factor for cross-linguistic phonetic interference	10
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

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
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
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
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
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
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