Publications and Presentations

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

  • Eger, N. A., & Reinisch, E. (in press). The impact of one's own voice and production skills on word recognition in a second language. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000599 pdf
  • Eger, N. A., & Reinisch, E. (in press). The role of acoustic cues and listener proficiency in the perception of accent in non-native sounds. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. doi: 10.1017/S0272263117000377 pdf
  • Llompart, M. & Reinisch, E. (2018). Acoustic cues, not phonological features, drive vowel perception: Evidence from height, position and tenseness contrasts in German vowels. Journal of Phonetics, 67, 34-48. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2017.12.001 pdf
  • 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 pdf
  • Bosker, H.-R., & Reinisch, E. (2017). Foreign languages sound fast: evidence from implicit rate normalization. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences, 8. Article 1063. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01063. open access
  • Bosker, H.-R., Reinisch, E. & Sjerps, M. J. (2017). Cognitive load makes speech sound fast, but does not modulate acoustic context effects. Journal of Memory and Language, 94, 166-176. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2016.12.002
  • Llompart, M. & Reinisch, E. (2017). Articulatory information helps encode lexical contrasts in a second language. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43, 1040-1056. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000383 pdf
  • Mitterer, H. & Reinisch, E. (2017). Surface forms trump underlying representations in functional generalizations in speech perception: the case of German devoiced stops. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 32. 1133-1147. doi: 10.1080/23273798.2017.1286361 pdf
  • 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 pdf
  • Reinisch, E. (2016). Speaker-specific processing and local context information: the case of speaking rate. Applied Psycholinguistics, 37, 1397-1415. doi: 10.1017/S0142716415000612 pdf
  • Reinisch, E. (2016). Natural fast speech is perceived as faster than linearly time-compressed speech. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics,78, 1203-1217. doi: 10.3758/s13414-016-1067-x pdf
  • 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 pdf
  • Dingemanse, M., Schuerman, W. L., Reinisch, E., Tufvesson, S., & Mitterer, H. (2016). What sound symbolism can and cannot do: testing the iconicity of ideophones from five languages. Language, 62, e117-133. doi: 10.1353/lan.2016.0034 pdf
  • 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 pdf
  • Sjerps, M. J. & Reinisch, E. (2015). Divide and conquer: how perceptual contrast sensitivity and perceptual learning cooperate in reducing input variation in speech perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41, 710-722. doi: 10.1037/a0039028 pdf
  • 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 pdf
  • Reinisch, E. & Holt, L. L. (2014). Lexically-guided phonetic retuning of foreign-accented speech and its generalization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40,539-555. doi: 10.1037/a0034409 pdf
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  • Korecky-Kröll, K., Dressler, W. U., Freiberger, E., Reinisch, E., Mörth, K. & Libben, G. (2014). Morphonotactic and phonotactic processing in German-speaking adults. Language Sciences, 46, 48-58. doi: 10.1016/j.langsci.2014.06.006
  • 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 pdf
  • Reinisch, E., & Sjerps, M. J. (2013). The uptake of spectral and temporal cues in vowel perception is rapidly influenced by context. Journal of Phonetics, 41,101-116. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2013.01.002 pdf
  • 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 pdf
  • Reinisch, E., Jesse, A., & Nygaard, L. C. (2013). Tone of voice guides word learning in informative referential contexts. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 1227-1240. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2012.736525 pdf
  • Reinisch, E., & Weber, A., (2012). Adapting to suprasegmental lexical stress errors in foreign-accented speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132, 1165-1176. doi: 10.1121/1.4730884 pdf
  • Korecky-Kröll, K., Libben, G., Stempfer, N., Wiesinger, J., Reinisch, E., Bertl, J. & Dressler, W. U. (2012). Helping a crocodile to learn German plurals: Children's online judgment of actual, potential, and illegal plural forms. Morphology, 22, 35-65. doi: 10.1007/s11525-011-9191-8
  • Reinisch, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2011). Speaking rate from proximal and distal contexts is used during word segmentation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37, 978-996. doi: 10.1037/a0021923
  • Reinisch, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2011). Speaking rate affects the perception of duration as suprasegmental lexical-stress cue. Language and Speech, 54, 147-166. doi: 10.1177/0023830910397489
  • Reinisch, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2010). Early use of phonetic information in spoken word recognition: Lexical stress drives eye-movements immediately. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 772-783. doi: 10.1080/17470210903104412

Published Conference Proceedings Papers

  • Wolfswinkler, K. & Reinisch, E. (2016). The impact of accent familiarity on the perception of difficult sound contrasts for German learners of English. in: Draxler, C. & Kleber, F. (eds.) Proceedings of the 12. Conference on Phonetics and Phonology in the German Speaking Countries. Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany. (pp. 232-236). pdf
  • Reinisch, E. & Mitterer, H. (2015). Perceptual learning in speech is phonetic, not phonological: evidence from final consonant devoicing. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK. pdf
  • Schindler, C. & Reinisch, E. (2015). Tracking the temporal relation between speaker recognition and processing of phonetic information. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK. pdf
  • Bosker, H. R. & Reinisch, E. (2015). Normalization for speechrate in native and nonnative speech. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK. pdf
  • Reinisch, E. & Weber, A. (2011). Adapting to lexical stress in a foreign accent. in: Lee, Wai-Sum & Zee, Eric (eds.) Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Hong Kong, China: Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong (pp. 1678-1681). pdf
  • Reinisch, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J.M. (2008). The strength of stress-related lexical competition depends on the presence of first-syllable stress. Proceedings of Interspeech 2008 (p. 1954). Brisbane, Australia.
  • Reinisch, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2008). Lexical stress information modulates the time-course of spoken-word recognition. Proceedings of Acoustics'08 (pp. 3183-3188). Paris: Société Française d'Acoustique. pdf

Other Publications

  • Reinisch, E. (2010). Processing the fine temporal structure of spoken words. Ede, The Netherlands: Ponsen and Looijen. (Dissertation to obtain the degree of doctor in Social Sciences at Radboud University, Nijmegen)
  • Reinisch, E. (2005). What we (don't) perceive as foreign accent. Grazer Linguistische Studien 64, 69-85. (Based on MA thesis, University of Vienna)

Invited Talks

  • Reinisch, E. The role of acoustic cues and articulatory feedback in recognizing words in a second language. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; 02.11.2016
  • Reinisch, E. Second language listening: sounds, the lexicon, and speech production. Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea; 19.08.2016
  • Reinisch, E. Is perceptual learning in speech phonetic or phonological? Workshop on Phonetic Processing and Learning, Eberhard-Karls-Univerisät Tübingen; 26.06.2015
  • Reinisch, E. How adaptation to accents may reveal the units of speech perception Linguistics Circle Seminar Series, Institute of Linguistics, University of Malta. 27.02.2015
  • Reinisch, E. What foreign-accented speech can tell us about the units of speech perception Guest Lecture Series, Institute for Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart. 24.11.2014
  • Reinisch, E. Do you hear beer or deer? Flexibility of speech categories Lunchtime Talk Series, Department of Psychology, LMU Munich. 17.04.2013
  • Reinisch, E. Phonetic category retuning: What are listeners adapting to? "Phonatics" group, Northwestern University. 05.11.2012
  • Mitterer, H. & Reinisch, E. Perceptual learning in speech is a rudimentary and robust process. Department of Psychology, Ohio State University. 20.08.2012
  • Reinisch, E. How acoustic variability helps and hot harms spoken word recognition. Institut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München. 27.01.2011
  • Reinisch, E. Speech is fast and hot: acoustic variability in spoken word recognition and word learning. Courant Lecture Series, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. 19.01.2011
  • Reinisch, E. Speaking rate context affects online word segmentation: Evidence from eye tracking. Summer Workshop of the Dutch Phonetic Society, Leiden, The Netherlands. 05.06.2009
  • Reinisch, E. Speaking rate affects online speech perception. Experimental Linguistics Talks in Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 27.10.2008

Conference Presentations

  • Bosker, H.-R., Reinisch, E. & Sjerps, M. J. (accepted, 2018). Selective attention to a specific talker does not change the effect of surrounding acoustic context. LabPhon16, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Llompart, M. & Reinisch, E. (accepted, 2018). Imitation is not usage: L2 learners can imitate sound contrasts even if they do not use them. LabPhon16, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Gabay Y., Najjar I.J., & Reinisch, E. (2018). Normalization for Speech Rate in Individuals with Developmental Dyslexia. The Fifth Conference on Cognition Research of the Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology, Akko, Israel.
  • Llompart, M. & Reinisch, E. (2017). The robustness of lexical encoding in a second language is related to phonetic flexibility. 23rd Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Lancaster, UK, September 2017.
  • Reinisch, E., Eger, N., & Hoole, P. (2017). Lexical effects in speech motor control do not trigger perceptual learning. 23rd Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Lancaster, UK, September 2017.
  • Wolfswinkler, K. & Reinisch, E. (2016). Does accent familiarity help recognizing words in a second language? Speech Research 2016, Zagreb, Croatia, December 2016.
  • Reinisch, E. & Bosker, H.-R. (2016). Does foreign language speech sound faster than one's native language? Workshop on Second Language Prosody, Graz, Austria, November 2016.
  • Reinisch, E., Nowack, D., Eger, N. & Hoole, P. (2016). Articulatory compensation for perturbation of online-auditory feedback in a first and second language. 2nd Workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions (PASRAC), Nijmegen, The Netherlands, October 2016.
  • Eger, N. & Reinisch, E. (2016). The role of acoustic cues, production skills, and one's own voice in recognition of foreign-accented speech. 2nd Workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions (PASRAC), Nijmegen, The Netherlands, October 2016.
  • Bosker, H.-R. & Reinisch, E. (2016). Testing the 'Gabbling Foreigner Illusion': do foreign languages sound fast? 2nd Workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions (PASRAC), Nijmegen, The Netherlands, October 2016.
  • Bosker, H.-R., Reinisch, E. & Sjerps, M. J. (2016). Time flies when you're having fun: cognitive load makes speech sound fast. 2nd Workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions (PASRAC), Nijmegen, The Netherlands, October 2016.
  • Eger, N. & Reinisch, E. (2016). German learner's productions of English sound contrasts: The role of acoustic properties on accent ratings. 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, Munich, Germany, October 2016.
  • Wolfswinkler, K. & Reinisch, E. (2016). The impact of accent familiarity on the perception of difficult sound contrasts for German learners of English. 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, Munich, Germany, October 2016.
  • Fischbacher, M. & Reinisch, E. (2016). The temporal relation between talker and word recognition. 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, Munich, Germany, October 2016.
  • Llompart, M. & Reinisch, E. (2016). The role of articulatory information in establishing lexical contrasts in a second language. 22nd Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Bilbao, Spain, September 2016.
  • Eger, N. A. & Reinisch, E. (2016). Is accent represented in the learners' lexicon? New Sounds 2016, Aarhus, Denmark. June 2016.
  • Llompart, M. & Reinisch, E. (2016). Audiovisual feedback modulates lexical competition in a second language. New Sounds 2016, Aarhus, Denmark. June 2016.
  • Siddins, J. & Reinisch, E. (2016). Intrinsic pitch of diphthongs in lexical tone perception. LabPhon15, Ithaca, NY, USA, July 2016. (poster)
  • Bosker H.-R., Reinisch, E. & Sjerps, M. J. (2016). Listening under cognitive load makes a sentence sound fast. Workshop on Speech Processing in Realistic Environments (SPIRE), Groningen, The Netherlands, January 2016.
  • Reinisch, E. & Schindler, C. (2015). Tracking the time-course of speaker recognition relative to phonetic processing. 21st Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Valletta, Malta, September 2015. (talk)
  • Bosker, H. R. & Reinisch, E. (2015). Nonnative speech sounds fast: evidence from speechrate normalization. 21st Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Valletta, Malta, September 2015.
  • Mitterer, H. & Reinisch, E. (2014). No role for orthography in recognizing connected speech. 55th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA, USA, November 2014.
  • Reinisch, E. & Mitterer, H. (2014). Input variability and the specificity of perceptual recalibration. 20th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Edinburgh, UK, September 2014. (talk)
  • Mitterer, H. & Reinisch, E. (2014). The role of orthography in recognizing connected speech. 20th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Edinburgh, UK, September 2014. (poster)
  • Schindler, C., Reinisch, E. & Harrington, J. (2014). Perceptual speaker discrimination based on German consonants. Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA), Zurich, Switzerland, August 2014.
  • Reinisch, E. (2014). What kinds of units are used in speech perception? LabPhon14, Tokyo, Japan, July 2014. (poster)
  • Reinisch, E., Wozny, D. R., Mitterer, H., & Holt, L. L. (2013). Visually-guided perceptual recalibration is phoneme-, cue-, and context-specific. Workshop on Current Issues and Methods in Speaker Adaptation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, April 2013. poster
  • Reinisch, E., Wozny, D. R., Mitterer, H., & Holt, L. L. (2013). Visual recalibration of auditory speech affects specific acoustic cues to phonemes. Special Session "Still learning after all these years: Plasticity in adult language processing" at the Conference of Experimental Psychologists (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, TEAP), Vienna, Austria, March 2013.
  • Mitterer, H., & Reinisch, E. (2013). No delays in application of perceptual learning in speech recognition. Special Session "Still learning after all these years: Plasticity in adult language processing" at the Conference of Experimental Psychologists (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, TEAP), Vienna, Austria, March 2013.
  • Reinisch, E. & Holt, L. L. (2012). Listening situation modulates lexical and acoustic context effects in phonetic categorization. Abstract book of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (p. 210). Minneapolis, MN, USA. poster
  • Mitterer, H. & Reinisch, E. (2012). Category retuning affects early stages of speech processing. Abstract book of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (p. 208). Minneapolis, MN, USA.
  • Reinisch, E. & Holt, L. L. (2012). Lexically-guided category retuning affects low-level acoustic processing. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132, 2053.
  • Holt, L. L. & Reinisch, E.(2012). Influence of lexical and acoustic context on phonetic categorization depends on listening situation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132, 1967.
  • Reinisch, E., Weber, A., & Mitterer, H. (2012). Second language phonemes can be retuned by lexical knowledge. Special Session "L2 Speech Perception in Richly Informative Environments" at the 31st Second Language Research Forum, Pittsbrugh, PA, USA, October 2012.
  • Mitterer, H., Schuerman, W., Reinisch, E., Tufvesson, S. & Dingemanse, M. (2012). The limited power of sound symbolism. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. (p.27). Riva des Garda, Italy.
  • Dressler, W. U., Freiberger, E., Korecky-Kröll, K., Reinisch, E. & Libben, G. (2012). Morphonotactic and phonotactic processing in German-speaking adults. Workshop on Phonotactic grammar: theories and models. Scuola Normale Superiore, Arezzo, Italy.
  • Reinisch, E., Weber, A., & Mitterer, H. (2011). Cross-language flexibility of phoneme boundaries. Proceedings of the 13th Winter Conference on Cognition, Brain, and Behaviour. (p. 68). Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.
  • Reinisch, E., Weber, A., & Mitterer, H. (2011). Listeners retune phoneme boundaries across languages (A). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130, 2032.
  • Reinisch, E. & Weber, A. (2011). Adapting to lexical stress errors in foreign-accented speech. in: Rönneberg, J., Johansson, H. & Westerberg, B. (eds.). Abstract book of the First International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Sciences for Communication, Linköping, Sweden: LiU-Tryck. (p. 103).
  • Reinisch, E. & Sjerps, M. J. (2011). Listeners adjust to speaking rate and spectral voice-characteristics at a single processing level. in: Rönneberg, J., Johansson, H. & Westerberg, B. (eds.). Abstract book of the First International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Sciences for Communication, Linköping, Sweden: LiU-Tryck. (p. 102).
  • Reinisch, E., Jesse, A., & Nygaard, L. C. (2011). Tone of voice as a cue to word learning. In: Bittrich, K., Blankenberger, S., & Lukas, J. (Eds.). Beiträge zur 53. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Lengerich, Germany: Pabst Science Publishers. (p. 138).
  • Jesse, A., Reinisch, E., & Nygaard, L. C. (2010). Learning of adjectival word meaning through tone of voice (A). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128, 2475.
  • Reinisch, E., Jesse, A., & Nygaard, L. C. (2010). Tone of voice helps learning the meaning of novel adjectives. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. (p. 114). York, UK.
  • Sjerps, M. J., & Reinisch, E. (2009). Speaking rate and spectral context affect the perception of the Dutch "a"-"aa" contrast. Proceedings of the 12th Winter Conference of the Dutch Psychonomic Society. (p. 41). Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.
  • Reinisch, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2009). Speaking rate modulates the perception of durational cues to lexical stress. Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (p. 172). Boston, MA, USA.
  • Reinisch, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J.M. (2009). Speaking rate modulates lexical competition in online speech perception (A). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125, 2657.
  • Reinisch, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J.M. (2008). Speaking rate affects the perception of word boundaries in online speech perception. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (p. 28). Cambridge, UK.
  • Reinisch, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2008). Lexical stress information modulates the time-course of spoken-word recognition (A). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, 3425.
  • Korecky-Kröll, K., Stempfer, N., Wiesinger, J., Reinisch, E., Bertl, J., Libben G., & Dressler, W.U. (2008). Potential vs. illegal German noun plurals in online tests and language acquisition. 13th International Morphology Meeting: Variation and Change in Morphology. Vienna, Austria.
  • Reinisch, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J.M. (2007). Tracking over time how lexical stress information modulates spoken word recognition. Proceedings of the 11th Winter Conference of the Dutch Psychonomic Society (p. 34). Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.
  • Reinisch, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J.M. (2007) Lexical stress information rapidly modulates spoken-word recognition. Dag van de Fonetiek ("Phonetics Day" of the Dutch Phonetic Society), Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  • Reinisch, E. (2007). The use of word stress in spoken-word recognition. Max Planck Society PhD-Net Workshop. Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
  • Reinisch, E. (2005). Muttersprachler oder nicht? - Die Wahrnehmung von polnischem Akzent in österreichischem Deutsch. 33. österreichische Linguistiktagung. Graz, Austria.