Peer-reviewed journal articles
Mitterer, H. (2022). A "names-as-fixed-effect fallacy" in studies of name-based racial discrimination.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, e2209603119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2209603119 (free access)
Sciberras, C., & Mitterer, H. (2022). Limits of audience design: Epenthetic glottal stops in Maltese.
Laboratory Phonology, 13, . doi:10.16995/labphon.6441 (free access)
Mitterer, H. (2021). The role of orthography in learning a second language: Evidence from Maltese English.
Xjenza, 9, 162-172. doi:10.7423/XJENZA.2021.3.09 (free access)
Mitterer, H., Kim, S., & Cho, T. (2021). Glottal stops do not constrain lexical access as do oral stops.
PLoS ONE, 16, e0259573. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0259573 (free access)
Mitterer, H., Kim, S., & Cho, T. (2021). The role of segmental information in syntactic processing through the syntax-prosody interface.
Language and Speech, 64, 962-979. doi:10.1177/0023830920974401 (local pdf here)
Nieder, J., van de Vijver, R.., & Mitterer, H. (2021). Priming Maltese Plurals: Representation of sound and broken plurals in the mental lexicon.
The Mental Lexicon, 16, 69-97. doi:10.1075/ml.20008.nie (free access)
Nieder, J., van de Vijver, R.., & Mitterer, H. (2021). Knowledge of Maltese singular-plural mappings Analogy explains it best
Morphology, 31, 147-170. doi:10.1007/s11525-020-09353-7 (free access)
Mitterer, H., Kim, S., & Cho, T. (2020). Datasets on the production and perception of underlying and epenthetic glottal stops in Maltese.
Data in Brief, 30, 105543. doi:10.1016/J.DIB.2020.105543 (free access)
Mitterer, H., Eger, N.A., & Reinisch, E. (2020). My English sounds better than yours: Second-language learners perceive their own accent as better than that of their peers.
PLOS ONE, 15, e0227643. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0227643 (free access)
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Eger, N.A., Mitterer, H., & Reinisch, E. (2019). Learning a new sound pair in a second language: Italian learners and German glottal consonants.
Journal of Phonetics, 77, 100917. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2019.100917 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., Kim, S., & Cho, T. (2019). The glottal stop between segmental and suprasegmental processing: The case of Maltese.
Journal of Memory and Language, 108, 104034. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2019.104034 (free access)
Mitterer, H., & Clopper, C. (2019). Editorial.
Language and Speech, 62, 3-4. doi:10.1177/0023830919835236 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H. (2018). The singleton-geminate distinction can be rate dependent: Evidence from Maltese.
Laboratory Phonology, 9, 6. doi:10.5334/labphon.66 (free access)
Mitterer, H. (2018). Not all geminates are created equal: Evidence from Maltese glottal consonants.
Journal of Phonetics, 66, 28-44. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2017.09.003 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., Reinisch, E., & McQueen, J.M. (2018). Allophones, not phonemes in spoken-word recognition
Journal of Memory and Language, 98, 77-92. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2017.09.005 (local pdf here)
Kim, S., Mitterer, H., & Cho, T. (2018). A time course of prosodic modulation in phonological inferencing: The case of Korean post-obstruent tensing.
PLoS ONE, 13, 1-28. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0202912 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., & Reinisch, E. (2017). Surface forms trump underlying representations in functional generalisations in speech perception: the case of German devoiced stops.
Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 32, 1133-1147. doi:10.1080/23273798.2017.1286361 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., & Reinisch, E. (2017). Visual speech influences speech perception immediately but not automatically.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79, 660-678. doi:10.3758/s13414-016-1249-6 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., & Mattys, S.L. (2017). How does cognitive load influence speech perception? An encoding hypothesis.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79, -351. doi:10.3758/s13414-016-1195-3 (local pdf here)
Diaz, B., Mitterer, H., Broersma, M., Escera, C., & Sebastian-Gallés, N. (2016). Variability in L2 phonemic learning originates from speech-specific capabilities: An MMN study on late bilinguals.
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19, 955-970. doi:10.1017/S1366728915000450 (local pdf here)
Dingemanse, M., Schuerman, W., Reinisch, E., Tufvesson, S., & Mitterer, H. (2016). What sound symbolism can and cannot do: Testing the iconicity of Ideophones from five languages.
Language, 92, e117-e133. doi:10.1353/lan.2016.0034 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., Cho, T., & Kim, S. (2016). What are the letters of speech? Testing the role of phonological specification and phonetic similarity in perceptual learning.
Journal of Phonetics, 56, 110-123. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2016.03.001 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., Cho, T., & Kim, S. (2016). How does prosody influence speech categorization?
Journal of Phonetics, 54, 68-79. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2015.09.002 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., & Mattys, S.L. (2016). How does cognitive load influence speech perception? An encoding hypothesis.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79, 344-351. doi:10.3758/s13414-016-1195-3 (local pdf here)
Reinisch, E., & Mitterer, H. (2016). Exposure modality, input variability and the categories of perceptual recalibration.
Journal of Phonetics, 55, 96-108. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2015.12.004 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., & Reinisch, E. (2015). Letters don't matter: No effect of orthography on the perception of conversational speech.
Journal of Memory and Language, 85, 116-134. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2015.08.005 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H. (2014). Agreeing to disagree: Constant non-alignment of speech gestures in dialogue.
Xjenza (Science), 2, 8-14. doi:NA (local pdf here)
Poellmann, K., Bosker, H.R., McQueen, J.M., & Mitterer, H. (2014). Perceptual adaptation to segmental and syllabic reductions in continuous spoken Dutch.
Journal of Phonetics, 46, 101-127. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2014.06.004 (local pdf here)
Poellmann, K., Mitterer, H., & McQueen, J.M. (2014). Use what you can: storage, abstraction processes, and perceptual adjustments help listeners recognize reduced forms.
Frontiers in Psychology, 5, . doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00437 (local pdf here)
Reinisch, E., Wozny, D., Mitterer, H., & Holt, L.L. (2014). Phonetic category recalibration: What are the categories?
Journal of Phonetics, 45, 91-105. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2014.04.002 (local pdf here)
Tuinman, A., Mitterer, H., & Cutler, A. (2014). Use of syntax in perceptual compensation for phonological reduction.
Language and Speech, 57, 68-85. doi:10.1177/0023830913479106 (local pdf here)
Brouwer, S., Mitterer, H., & Huettig, F. (2013). Discourse context and the recognition of reduced and canonical spoken words.
Applied Psycholinguistics, 34, 519-539. doi:10.1017/S0142716411000853 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., Kim, S., & Cho, T. (2013). Compensation for complete assimilation in speech perception: The case of Korean labial-to-velar assimilation.
Journal of Memory and Language, 69, 59-83. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2013.02.001 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., & Müsseler, J. (2013). Regional accent variation in the shadowing task: Evidence for a loose perception-action coupling in speech.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 75, 557-575. doi:10.3758/s13414-012-0407-8 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., & Reinisch, E. (2013). No delays in application of perceptual learning in speech recognition: evidence from eye tracking.
Journal of Memory and Language, 69, 527-545. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2013.07.002 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., & Russell, K. (2013). How phonological reductions sometimes help the listener.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39, 977-984. doi:10.1037/a0029196 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., Scharenborg, O., & McQueen, J.M. (2013). Phonological abstraction without phonemes in speech perception.
Cognition, 129, 356-361. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2013.07.011 (local pdf here)
Noordenbos, M.W., Segers, E., Serniclaes, W., Mitterer, H., & Verhoeven, L. (2013). Deviant neural processing of phonotactic probabilities in adults with dyslexia.
Neuroreport, 24, 746-750. doi:10.1097/WNR.0b013e328364b67c
Reinisch, E., Weber, A., & Mitterer, H. (2013). Listeners retune phoneme categories across languages.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39, 75-86. doi:10.1037/a0027979 (local pdf here)
Sjerps, M., McQueen, J.M., & Mitterer, H. (2013). Evidence for precategorical extrinsic vowel normalization.
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 75, 576-587. doi:10.3758/s13414-012-0408-7 (local pdf here)
Brouwer, S., Mitterer, H., & Huettig, F. (2012). Can hearing puter activate pupil? Phonological competition and the processing of reduced spoken words in spontaneous conversations.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 2193-2220. doi:10.1080/17470218.2012.693109 (local pdf here)
Brouwer, S., Mitterer, H., & Huettig, F. (2012). Speech reductions change the dynamics of competition during spoken word recognition.
Language and Cognitive Processes, 27, 539-571. doi:10.1080/01690965.2011.555268 (local pdf here)
Diaz, B., Mitterer, H., Broersma, M., & Sebastian-Gallés, N. (2012). Individual differences in late bilinguals' L2 phonological processes: From acoustic-phonetic analysis to lexical access.
Learning and Individual Differences, 22, 680-689. doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2012.05.005
Escudero, P., Simon, E., & Mitterer, H. (2012). The perception of English front vowels by North Holland and Flemish listeners: Acoustic similarity predicts and explains cross-linguistic and L2 perception.
Journal of Phonetics, 40, 280-288. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2011.11.004
Mitterer, H., & Tuinman, A. (2012). The role of native-language knowledge in the perception of casual speech in a second language.
Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 249. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00249 (local pdf here)
Noordenbos, M.W., Segers, E., Serniclaes, W., Mitterer, H., & Verhoeven, L. (2012). Allophonic mode of speech perception in children at risk for dyslexia: a longitudinal study.
Research in Developmental Disabilities, 83, 1469-1483. doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2012.03.021 (local pdf here)
Noordenbos, M.W., Segers, E., Serniclaes, W., Mitterer, H., & Verhoeven, L. (2012). Neural evidence of allophonic perception in children at risk for dyslexia.
Neuropsychologia, 50, 2010-2017. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.04.026 (local pdf here)
Oliver, G., Gullberg, M., Hellwig, F., Mitterer, H., & Indefrey, P. (2012). Acquiring L2 sentence comprehension: A longitudinal study of word monitoring in noise.
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 15, 841-857. doi:10.1017/S1366728912000089 (local pdf here)
Sjerps, M., Mitterer, H., & McQueen, J.M. (2012). Hemispheric differences in the effects of context on vowel perception.
Brain and Language, 120, 401-405. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2011.12.012 (local pdf here)
Tuinman, A., Mitterer, H., & Cutler, A. (2012). Resolving ambiguity in familiar and unfamiliar casual speech.
Journal of Memory and Language, 66, 530-544. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2012.02.001. (local pdf here)
Davids, N., Segers, E., van den Brink, D., Mitterer, H., van Balkom, H., Hagoort, P., & Verhoeven, L. (2011). The nature of auditory discrimination problems in children with specific language impairment: An MMN study.
Neuropsychologia, 49, 19-28. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.11.001 (local pdf here)
Hanulikova, A., Mitterer, H., & McQueen, J.M. (2011). Effects of first and second language on segmentation of non-native speech.
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 14, 506-521. doi:10.1017/S1366728910000428 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H. (2011). Recognizing reduced forms: Different processing mechanisms for similar reductions.
Journal of Phonetics, 39, 298-303. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2010.11.009 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H. (2011). The mental lexicon is fully specified: Evidence from eye-tracking.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37, 496-513. doi:10.1037/a0020989 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., Chen, Y., & Zhou, X.L. (2011). Phonological abstraction in processing lexical-tone variation: Evidence from a learning paradigm.
Cognitive Science, 35, 184-197. doi:10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01140.x (local pdf here)
Sjerps, M., Mitterer, H., & McQueen, J.M. (2011). Constraints on the processes responsible for the extrinsic normalization of vowels.
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 73, 1195-1215. doi:10.3758/s13414-011-0096-8 (local pdf here)
Sjerps, M.J., McQueen, J.M., & Mitterer, H. (2011). Listening to different speakers: On the time-course of perceptual compensation for vocal-tract characteristics.
Neuropsychologia, 49, 3831-3846. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.09.044 (local pdf here)
Tuinman, A., Mitterer, H., & Cutler, A. (2011). Perception of intrusive /r/ in English by native, cross-language and cross-dialect listeners.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130, 1643-1652. doi:10.1121/1.3619793 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., & Jesse, A. (2010). Correlation versus causation in multisensory perception.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 329-334. doi:10.3758/PBR.17.3.329 (local pdf here)
Brouwer, S., Mitterer, H., & Huettig, F. (2010). Shadowing reduced speech and alignment.
Journal of The Acoustical Society of America, 128, EL32-EL37. doi:10.1121/1.3448022 (local pdf here)
Hanulikova, A., McQueen, J.M., & Mitterer, H. (2010). Possible words and fixed stress in the segmentation of Slovak speech.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 555-579. doi:10.1080/17470210903038958 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., & McQueen, J.M. (2009). Foreign subtitles help but native-language subtitles harm foreign speech perception.
PLoS One, 4, A146-A150. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007785 (free access)
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Mitterer, H., Horschig, J.M., Müsseler, J., & Majid, A. (2009). The influence of memory on perception: It's not what things look like, it's what you call them.
Journal of Experimental Psychology:Learning Memory and Cognition, 35, 1557-1562. doi:10.1037/a0017019 (local pdf here)
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Davids, N., van den Brink, D., van Turennout, M., Mitterer, H., & Verhoeven, L. (2009). Towards neurophysiological assessment of phonemic discrimination: Context effects of the mismatch negativity.
Clinical Neurophysiology, 120, 1078-1086. doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2009.01.018 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., & McQueen, J.M. (2009). Processing reduced word-forms in speech perception using probabilistic knowledge about speech production.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 244-263. doi:10.1037/a0012730 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., & Ernestus, M. (2008). The link between speech perception and production is phonological and abstract: Evidence from the shadowing task.
Cognition, 109, 168-173. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2008.08.002 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., & de Ruiter, J.P. (2008). Recalibrating color categories using world knowledge.
Psychological Science, 19, 629-634. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02133.x (local pdf here)
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Mitterer, H., Yoneyama, K., & Ernestus, M. (2008). How we hear what is hardly there: Mechanisms underlying compensation for /t/-reduction in speech comprehension.
Journal of Memory and Language, 59, 133-152. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2008.02.004 (local pdf here)
Escudero, P., Hayes-Harb, R., & Mitterer, H. (2008). Novel second-language words and asymmetric lexical access.
Journal of Phonetics, 36, 345-360. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2007.11.002 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H. (2006). On the causes of compensation for coarticulation: Evidence for phonological mediation.
Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 1227-1240. doi:10.3758/BF03193723 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H. (2006). Is vowel normalization independent of lexical processing?
Phonetica, 63, 209-229. doi:10.1159/000097306 (local pdf here)
De Ruiter, J.P., Mitterer, H., & Enfield, N.J. (2006). Projecting the end of a speaker's turn: A cognitive cornerstone of conversation.
Language, 82, 515-535. doi:10.1353/lan.2006.0130 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., Csépe, V., & Blomert, L. (2006). The role of perceptual integration in the recognition of assimilated word forms.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 1395-1424. doi:10.1080/17470210500198726 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., Csépe, V., Honbolygo, F., & Blomert, L. (2006). The recognition of phonologically assimilated words does not depend on specific language experience.
Cognitive Science, 30, 451-479. doi:10.1207/s15516709cog0000_57 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., & Ernestus, M. (2006). Listeners recover /t/s that speakers reduce: Evidence from /t/-lenition in Dutch.
Journal of Phonetics, 34, 73-103. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2005.03.003 (local pdf here)
Bonte, M.L., Mitterer, H., Zellagui, N., Poelmans, H., & Blomert, L. (2005). Auditory cortical tuning to statistical regularities in phonology.
Clinical Neurophysiology, 116, 2765-2774. doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2005.08.012 (local pdf here)
Blomert, L., Mitterer, H., & Paffen, C. (2004). In search of the auditory, phonetic, and/or phonological problems in dyslexia: Context effects in speech perception.
Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 47, 1030-1047. doi:10.1044/1092-4388(2004/077) (local pdf here)
Blomert, L., & Mitterer, H. (2004). The fragile nature of the speech-perception deficit in dyslexia: Natural vs. synthetic speech.
Brain and Language, 89, 21-26. doi:10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00305-5 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., & Blomert, L. (2003). Coping with phonological assimilation in speech perception: Evidence for early compensation.
Perception & Psychophysics, 65, 956-969. doi:10.3758/BF03194826 (local pdf here)
Mitterer, H., La Heij, W., & Van der Heijden, A.H.C. (2003). Stroop dilution but not word-processing dilution: evidence for attention capture.
Psychological Research, 67, 30-42. doi:10.1007/s00426-002-0108-3 (local pdf here)