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Paola Escudero publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Paola Escudero sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 172 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Paola Escudero D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Paola Escudero sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Paola Escudero is affiliated with Western Sydney University in Australia and has contributed research primarily in the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including developmental and educational psychology, linguistics and language, experimental and cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their research focuses extensively on topics such as phonetics and phonology research, linguistic variation and morphology, language development and disorders, reading and literacy development, multilingual education and policy, child and animal learning development, and speech and dialogue systems.

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include Frontiers in Psychology, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Languages, Frontiers in Communication, and Language Learning.

Among notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Paola Escudero are:

  • Probability of Heritage Language Use at a Supportive Early Childhood Setting in Australia, 2020, Frontiers in Education
  • Four-Year-Old's Online Versus Face-to-Face Word Learning via eBooks, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Cross-Situational Word Learning in Two Foreign Languages: Effects of Native Language and Perceptual Difficulty, 2020, Frontiers in Communication
  • The Role of Acoustic Similarity and Non-Native Categorisation in Predicting Non-Native Discrimination: Brazilian Portuguese Vowels by English vs. Spanish Listeners, 2021, Languages
  • Evidence-Based Design Principles for Spanish Pronunciation Teaching, 2021, Frontiers in Communication

They have collaborated frequently with co-authors including Jaydene Elvin, Weicong Li, Kakeru Yazawa, Alba Tuninetti, and Gloria Pino Escobar. These collaborations reflect ongoing engagement with researchers active in related domains.

The combination of publication venues, research topics, and collaborative network highlights a research profile centered on language acquisition, phonetics, and cognitive processes related to language and communication development, particularly in multilingual and educational settings.

Best Publications

  • BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN L2 SPEECH PERCEPTION RESEARCH AND PHONOLOGICAL THEORY

    Paola Escudero;Paul Boersma

  • Novel second-language words and asymmetric lexical access

    Paola Escudero;Rachel Hayes-Harb;Holger Mitterer

  • A cross-dialect acoustic description of vowels: Brazilian and European Portuguese

    Paola Escudero;Paul Boersma;Andréia Schurt Rauber;Ricardo A. H. Bion

  • Learning to perceive and recognize a second language: the L2LP model revised.

    Jan-Willem van Leussen;Paola Escudero

  • Native, non-native and L2 perceptual cue weighting for Dutch vowels: The case of Dutch, German, and Spanish listeners

    Paola Escudero;Titia Benders;Silvia C. Lipski

  • The Effect of L1 Orthography on Non-Native Vowel Perception.

    Paola Escudero;Karin Wanrooij

  • Learning abstract phonological from auditory phonetic catergories: an integrated model for the acquisition of language-specific sound categories

    P. Boersma;P. Escudero;R. Hayes

  • The linguistic perception of SIMILAR L2 sounds

    Paola Escudero

  • The subset problem in L2 perceptual development: Multiple-category assimilation by Dutch learners of Spanish

    Paola Escudero;Paul Boersma

  • Second language phonology at the interface between acoustic and orthographic input

    Bene Bassetti;Paola Escudero;Rachel Hayes-Harb

  • Weighting of vowel cues explains patterns of word-object associative learning.

    Suzanne Curtin;Christopher Fennell;Paola Escudero

  • Enhanced bimodal distributions facilitate the learning of second language vowels

    Paola Escudero;Titia Benders;Karin Wanrooij

  • Modelling the perceptual development of phonological contrasts with Optimality Theory and the Gradual Learning Algorithm.

    Paola Escudero;Paul Boersma

  • Context-specific acoustic differences between Peruvian and Iberian Spanish vowels.

    Kateřina Chládková;Paola Escudero;Paul Boersma

  • 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

  • Learning words in a new language: orthography doesn't always help

    Paola Escudero;Ellen Simon;Karen E. Mulak

  • A cross-dialectal acoustic comparison of vowels in Northern and Southern British English.

    Daniel Williams;Paola Escudero

  • Dynamic acoustic properties of monophthongs and diphthongs in Western Sydney Australian English

    Jaydene Elvin;Daniel Williams;Paola Escudero

  • Spanish listeners' perception of American and Southern British English vowels.

    Paola Escudero;Kateřina Chládková

  • The Interrelation between the Perception and Production of English Vowels by Native Speakers of Brazilian Portuguese

    Andréia S. Rauber;Paola Escudero;Ricardo Augusto Hoffmann Bion;Barbara O. Baptista

  • Developmental patterns in the adult L2 acquisition of new contrasts: the acoustic cue weighting in the perception of Scottish tense/lax vowels by Spanish speakers

    Paola Escudero

  • The linguistic perception of similar L2 sounds

    P. Escudero;P. Boersma;S. Hamann

Frequent Co-Authors

Denis K Burnham
Denis K Burnham Western Sydney University
Scott P. Johnson
Scott P. Johnson University of California, Los Angeles
John Hajek
John Hajek University of Melbourne
Carel ten Cate
Carel ten Cate Leiden University
Holger Mitterer
Holger Mitterer University of Malta
Catherine T. Best
Catherine T. Best Haskins Laboratories
Richard N. Aslin
Richard N. Aslin Yale University
Niels O. Schiller
Niels O. Schiller Leiden University
Evan Kidd
Evan Kidd Australian National University
Linda Polka
Linda Polka McGill University

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