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Holger Mitterer

Holger Mitterer

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Psychology

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33
Citations
4883
World Ranking
10518
National Ranking
1

Overview

Holger Mitterer is affiliated with the University of Malta in Malta and contributes research primarily within the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their work intersects multiple subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, linguistics and language, language and linguistics, artificial intelligence, and developmental and educational psychology.

The main topics in Holger Mitterer's research portfolio encompass phonetics and phonology research, linguistic variation and morphology, syntax, semantics, and linguistic variation, as well as speech recognition and synthesis, speech and dialogue systems, language, metaphor, and cognition, and neurobiology of language and bilingualism.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • My English sounds better than yours: Second-language learners perceive their own accent as better than that of their peers (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • The Role of Segmental Information in Syntactic Processing Through the Syntax-Prosody Interface (2020, Language and Speech)

Holger Mitterer frequently collaborates with several coauthors, most notably Eva Reinisch, Sahyang Kim, Taehong Cho, Gil Verbeke, and Jessica Nieder.

The scientist's work is often published in venues such as PLoS ONE, Language and Speech, Bilingualism Language and Cognition, Journal of Phonetics, and Cognitive Science.

  • PLoS ONE (2 publications)
  • Language and Speech (2 publications)
  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition (2 publications)
  • Journal of Phonetics (2 publications)
  • Cognitive Science (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • Projecting the End of a Speaker's Turn: A Cognitive Cornerstone of Conversation

    Jan Peter De Ruiter;Holger Mitterer;N. J. Enfield

  • Novel second-language words and asymmetric lexical access

    Paola Escudero;Rachel Hayes-Harb;Holger Mitterer

  • Foreign subtitles help but native-language subtitles harm foreign speech perception.

    Holger Mitterer;James M. McQueen

  • The link between speech perception and production is phonological and abstract: evidence from the shadowing task.

    Holger Mitterer;Mirjam Ernestus

  • Coping with phonological assimilation in speech perception: evidence for early compensation.

    Holger Mitterer;Leo Blomert

  • Listeners recover /t/s that speakers reduce: Evidence from /t/-lenition in Dutch

    Holger Mitterer;Mirjam Ernestus

  • On the causes of compensation for coarticulation: evidence for phonological mediation.

    Holger Mitterer

  • What sound symbolism can and cannot do: Testing the iconicity of ideophones from five languages

    Mark Dingemanse;Will Schuerman;Eva Maria Reinisch;Sylvia Tufvesson

  • The fragile nature of the speech-perception deficit in dyslexia: natural vs synthetic speech.

    Leo Blomert;Holger Mitterer

  • Auditory cortical tuning to statistical regularities in phonology.

    Milene L. Bonte;Holger Mitterer;Nadia Zellagui;Hanne Poelmans

  • Individual differences in late bilinguals' L2 phonological processes: From acoustic-phonetic analysis to lexical access

    Begoña Díaz;Holger Mitterer;Mirjam Broersma;Núria Sebastián-Gallés

  • Processing reduced word-forms in speech perception using probabilistic knowledge about speech production

    Holger Mitterer;James M. McQueen

  • The perception of English front vowels by North Holland and Flemish listeners: Acoustic similarity predicts and explains cross-linguistic and L2 perception

    Paola Escudero;Ellen Simon;Holger Mitterer

  • In search of the auditory, phonetic, and/or phonological problems in dyslexia: context effects in speech perception.

    Leo Blomert;Holger Mitterer;Christiaan Paffen

  • Listeners Retune Phoneme Categories across Languages.

    Eva Reinisch;Eva Reinisch;Andrea Weber;Holger Mitterer

  • Phonetic category recalibration: What are the categories?

    Eva Reinisch;David R. Wozny;Holger Mitterer;Lori L. Holt

  • Phonological abstraction without phonemes in speech perception

    Holger Mitterer;Odette Scharenborg;James M. McQueen

  • Speech reductions change the dynamics of competition during spoken word recognition

    Susanne Brouwer;Holger Mitterer;Falk Huettig

  • The influence of memory on perception: it's not what things look like, it's what you call them.

    Holger Mitterer;Jörn M. Horschig;Jochen Müsseler;Asifa Majid

  • The Recognition of Phonologically Assimilated Words Does Not Depend on Specific Language Experience

    Holger Mitterer;Valéria Csépe;Ferenc Honbolygo;Leo Blomert

  • Phonological Abstraction in Processing Lexical‐Tone Variation: Evidence From a Learning Paradigm

    Holger Mitterer;Holger Mitterer;Yiya Chen;Xiaolin Zhou

  • Recalibrating color categories using world knowledge.

    Holger Mitterer;Jan Peter de Ruiter

Frequent Co-Authors

James M. McQueen
James M. McQueen Radboud University
Anne Cutler
Anne Cutler Western Sydney University
Ludo Verhoeven
Ludo Verhoeven Radboud University
Valéria Csépe
Valéria Csépe Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Núria Sebastián-Gallés
Núria Sebastián-Gallés Pompeu Fabra University
Asifa Majid
Asifa Majid University of York
Peter Hagoort
Peter Hagoort Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Lori L. Holt
Lori L. Holt Carnegie Mellon University
Sven L. Mattys
Sven L. Mattys University of York
Xiaolin Zhou
Xiaolin Zhou Peking University

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