Leigh Lisker

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Leigh Lisker is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics and Language and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Leigh Lisker has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 19 papers in Linguistics and Language and 19 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Leigh Lisker's work include Phonetics and Phonology Research (42 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (19 papers) and Speech Recognition and Synthesis (18 papers). Leigh Lisker is often cited by papers focused on Phonetics and Phonology Research (42 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (19 papers) and Speech Recognition and Synthesis (18 papers). Leigh Lisker collaborates with scholars based in United States. Leigh Lisker's co-authors include Arthur S. Abramson, Alvin M. Liberman, D. H. Whalen, Maria Mody, Franklin S. Cooper, F. S. Cooper, Katherine S. Harris, Peter D. Eimas, Pierre Delattre and Frances Ingemann and has published in prestigious journals such as PEDIATRICS, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and Language.

In The Last Decade

Leigh Lisker

51 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

A Cross-Language Study of Voicing in Initial Stops: Acous... 1964 2026 1984 2005 1964 500 1000 1.5k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A Cross-Language Study of Voicing in Initial Stops: Acoustical Measurements
    1964 1.8k citations Leigh Lisker, Arthur S. Abramson WORD profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leigh Lisker United States 20 3.2k 1.7k 1.6k 717 640 59 3.7k
Arthur S. Abramson United States 24 3.3k 1.0× 1.6k 1.0× 1.5k 1.0× 821 1.1× 728 1.1× 72 3.8k
John J. Ohala United States 30 3.3k 1.0× 1.5k 0.9× 1.7k 1.1× 453 0.6× 463 0.7× 104 4.1k
Ilse Lehiste United States 23 2.7k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 1.2k 0.8× 1.4k 2.0× 690 1.1× 109 3.9k
Winifred Strange United States 32 4.3k 1.3× 1.7k 1.0× 2.0k 1.3× 1.3k 1.9× 1.4k 2.2× 119 4.9k
Allard Jongman United States 33 3.2k 1.0× 1.2k 0.7× 1.4k 0.9× 1.3k 1.9× 1.0k 1.6× 117 4.0k
Stefanie Shattuck‐Hufnagel United States 26 3.0k 0.9× 1.5k 0.9× 1.3k 0.8× 908 1.3× 1.0k 1.6× 144 3.8k
Catherine P. Browman United States 13 2.6k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 426 0.6× 669 1.0× 30 3.0k
Vincent J. van Heuven Netherlands 25 2.1k 0.7× 987 0.6× 1.0k 0.6× 736 1.0× 607 0.9× 199 2.9k
D. Β. Fry United Kingdom 15 1.4k 0.4× 544 0.3× 452 0.3× 679 0.9× 439 0.7× 28 1.9k
William J. Hardcastle United Kingdom 27 1.4k 0.5× 693 0.4× 461 0.3× 348 0.5× 610 1.0× 75 2.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lisker, Leigh. (1999). Perceiving Final Voiceless Stops without Release: Effects of Preceding Monophthongs versus Nonmonophthongs. Phonetica. 56(1-2). 44–55. 24 indexed citations
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Whalen, D. H., Arthur S. Abramson, Leigh Lisker, & Maria Mody. (1990). Gradient Effects of Fundamental Frequency on Stop Consonant Voicing Judgments. Phonetica. 47(1-2). 36–49. 28 indexed citations
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Lisker, Leigh & Thomas Baer. (1984). Laryngeal Management At Utterance-Internal Word Boundary in American English. Language and Speech. 27(2). 163–171. 5 indexed citations
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Lisker, Leigh. (1980). On generalizing the rabid-rapid distinction based on silent gap duration. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 67(S1). S52–S52. 2 indexed citations
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Collier, René, Leigh Lisker, Hajime Hirose, & Tatsujiro Ushijima. (1979). Voicing in intervocalic stops and fricatives in Dutch. Journal of Phonetics. 7(4). 357–373. 11 indexed citations
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Lisker, Leigh. (1976). Introduction to phonetics . By L. F. Brosnahan and Bertil Malmberg. Cambridge: Heffer, 1970. Pp. ix, 243.. Language. 52(2). 506–508. 25 indexed citations
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Lisker, Leigh. (1975). Is it VOT or a first-formant transition detector?. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 57(6). 1547–1551. 119 indexed citations
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Lisker, Leigh. (1975). Stop voicing production and perception: Natural outputs and synthesized inputs. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 58(S1). S91–S92.
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Abramson, Arthur S. & Leigh Lisker. (1973). Voice-timing perception in Spanish word-initial stops. Journal of Phonetics. 1(1). 1–8. 112 indexed citations
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Lisker, Leigh & Arthur S. Abramson. (1971). Distinctive Features and Laryngeal Control. Language. 47(4). 767–767. 83 indexed citations
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Lisker, Leigh. (1970). Supraglottal Air Pressure in the Production of English Stops. Language and Speech. 13(4). 215–230. 29 indexed citations
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Abramson, Arthur S. & Leigh Lisker. (1968). Voice Timing: Cross-Language Experiments in Identification and Discrimination. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 44(1_Supplement). 377–377. 9 indexed citations
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Lisker, Leigh & Ernst Pulgram. (1963). Introduction to the Spectrography of Speech. Language. 39(1). 154–154. 9 indexed citations
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Lisker, Leigh, Franklin S. Cooper, & Alvin M. Liberman. (1962). The Uses of Experiment in Language Description. WORD. 18(1-3). 82–106. 12 indexed citations
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Liberman, Alvin M., et al.. (1961). An Effect of Learning on Speech Perception: The Discrimination of Durations of Silence with and without Phonemic Significance. Language and Speech. 4(4). 175–195. 62 indexed citations
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Lisker, Leigh & M. B. Emeneau. (1961). Kolami, a Dravidian Language. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 81(3). 312–312. 2 indexed citations
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Lisker, Leigh. (1957). Closure Duration and the Intervocalic Voiced-Voiceless Distinction in English. Language. 33(1). 42–42. 185 indexed citations
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Lisker, Leigh. (1957). Linguistic Segments, Acoustic Segments, and Synthetic Speech. Language. 33(3). 370–370. 5 indexed citations
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Harris, T. N., Herbert A. Saltzman, Herbert L. Needleman, & Leigh Lisker. (1957). SPECTROGRAPHIC COMPARISON OF RANGES OF VIBRATION FREQUENCY AMONG SOME INNOCENT CARDIAC MURMURS IN CHILDHOOD AND SOME MURMURS OF VALVULAR INSUFFICIENCY. PEDIATRICS. 19(1). 57–67. 7 indexed citations
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Lisker, Leigh, et al.. (1954). Evolution of Malayalam. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 74(4). 274–274. 4 indexed citations

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