Ortega-LLebaria, M & Nagao, J. (2025). When Pitch Falls Sort: Reinforcing Prosodic Boundaries to Signal Focus in Japanese. Languages, 10 (9), 242. Article
Ortega-LLebaria, M & Nagao, J. (2024). Reconsidering the Phonetic Expression of Focus in Pitch-Accent Languages: Insights from Tokyo Japanese. Speech Prosody. Intonation at the Crossroads Workshop. (July 6, Leiden). POSTER
Nagao, J., & Ortega-Llebaria, M. (2024). Beyong pitch: Exploring Duration, Intensity and Silence in Japanese Focus Marking. Phonica, 20, 1-17. PDF
Hernández, A. & Ortega-Llebaria, M. (to appear). Voicing of Plosives in Murcian Spanish: Current State of /d t g k/ in the Region of Murcia, Spain. Journal of Experimental Phonetics. PDF
Leal-Arenas, S., & Ortega-Llebaria, M. (2024). The Prosody of Theticity and Focus in Beginner L2 Spanish. In Proc. Speech Prosody 2024 (pp. 722-726). PDF
Ortega-Llebaria, M. (2024). L2 Word Stress. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. John Wiley Co. PDF
Ortega-Llebaria, M. (2024). Acquistion of suprasegmental phonology in adult bilingualism. In Mark amengual (Ed.). The Hanbook of bilingual phonology. Cambridge University Press. PDF
Ortega-Llebaria, M., Silva, L., Nagao, J. (2023). Macro- and micro-rhythm in L2 English: Exploration and refinement of measures. Proceedings of the International Conference of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, August 7-11 2023. PDF_Article PDF_Poster
*Quique, Y. M., Evans, W. S., Ortega-Llebaria, M., Zipse, L., & Dickey, M. W. (2022). Get in Sync: Active Ingredients and Patient Profiles in Scripted-Sentence Learning in Spanish Speakers With Aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-16.PDF
Ortega-Llebaria, M., *Chu, C., & Demmans Epp, C. (2021). Do proficient Mandarin speakers of English exhibit an Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit when tested with complex sound-meaning mapping tasks? In Wayland Ratree (Ed.) Second Language Speech Learning: Theoretical and Empirical Progress, Cambridge University Press.PDF
Ortega-Llebaria, M. and *Wu, Z. (2021). “Chinese-English speakers’ perception of pitch in their non-tonal language: reinterpreting English as a tonal-like language.” Language & Speech. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830919894606 PDF
Nagao, J. & Ortega-Llebaria, M. (2021). “The interaction of micro- and macro-rhythm measures in English and Japanese as first and second languages: A case study of two Japanese EFL students.” Proceedings of the First International on Tone and Intonation Conference, Denmark 6-9 December 2021. PDF
*Bhide, A., Ortega-Llebaria, M., Fraundorf, S. H., & Perfetti, C. A. (2020). The contribution of orthographic input, phonological skills, and rise time discrimination to the learning of non-native phonemic contrasts. Applied Psycholinguistics, 41(3), 481-516. PDF
Ortega-Llebaria, M., Olson, D., Tuninetti, A. (2019). “Explaining cross-language asymmetries in prosodic processing: The Cue-Driven Window Length hypothesis.” Language and Speech, https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830918808823 PDF
Zhang, J., *Meng,Y., *Fan, X., Ortega-Llebaria, M., Ieong, S.L (2018). “Stress Typicality Effect in Chinese Advanced and Intermediate ESL Learners.” Educational Psychology (37), pp. 1-16. PDF
*Wu, Z. and Ortega-Llebaria, M. (2017). “Pitch shape modulates the time course of tone vs. pitch accent processing in Mandarin Chinese.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 141 (3),pp. 2263-2276. PDF
*Terán, V. and Ortega-Llebaria, M. (2017). “A description of Tucumán Spanish intonation.” Open Linguistics 3 (1), pp. 456-490. PDF
Ortega-Llebaria, M, *Nemoga, M., Presson, N. (2017). “Long-term experience with a tonal language shapes the perception of intonation in English words: How Chinese–English bilinguals perceive “Rose?” vs.“Rose”.” Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 20(2), pp. 367-383. PDF
Ortega-Llebaria, M. and Bosch, L. (2015). “Cues to dialectal discrimination in early infancy: A look at prosodic, rhythmic and segmental properties”. In Joaquin Romero and Maria Riera (Eds.), The Phonetics-Phonology Interface. Representations and methodologies. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. 2015: Amsterdam/Philadelphia, pp. 55-71. PDF
Ortega-Llebaria, M. and Colantoni, L. (2014). “The L2 acquisition of English intonation: form-meaning associations and maintenance of auditory resolution to acoustic cues.” Studies in Second Language Acquisition 36, pp. 331-353. PDF
Ortega-Llebaria, M., *Hong, G., *Fan, Y. (2013). “English speakers’ perception of Spanish lexical stress: Context-driven L2 stress perception.” Journal of Phonetics 41 (3-4), pp. 186-197. PDF
Ortega-Llebaria, M. and Prieto, P. (2011). “Acoustic correlates of stress in Central Catalan and Castilian Spanish.” Language and Speech 54(1), pp. 1-25. PDF
Ortega-Llebaria, M., Prieto, P. and *Vanrell, M. (2010). “Catalan speakers’ perception of word stress in unaccented contexts.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 127(1), pp. 462-471. PDF
*Olson, Daniel and Ortega-Llebaria, M. (2010). “Perceptual relevance of code switching and intonation in creating narrow focus.” In Marta Ortega-Llebaria (Ed.) Selected Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Cascadilla Press, Sommerville, MA., pp. 57-68. PDF
Ortega-Llebaria, M. and Prieto, P. (2009a). “Perception of word stress in Castilian Spanish. The effects of sentence intonation and vowel type.” In M. Vigário, S. Frota and M.J. Freitas. (Eds). Interactions in Phonetics and Phonology, John Benjamins: Amst./Philad., pp. 35-50. PDF
Prieto, P. and Ortega-Llebaria, M. (2009b). “Do complex pitch gestures induce syllable lengthening in Catalan and Spanish.” In M. Vigário, S. Frota and M.J. Freitas. (Eds.). Interactions in Phonetics and Phonology, John Benjamins: Amste. /Philadelphia, pp. 51-70. PDF
*Manolescu, A., *Olson, D., Ortega-Llebaria, M. (2009) “Cues to contrastive focus in Romanian.” In M. Vigário, S. Frota and M.J. Freitas. (Eds.). Interactions in Phonetics and Phonology, John Benjamins: Amsterdam/Philadelphia, pp. 71-90. PDF
Ortega-Llebaria, M. (2008) “Comparing the ‘magnifying lens’ effect of stress to that of contrastive focus in Spanish.”In Laura Colantoni and Jeffrey Steele (Eds.) Selected Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Cascadilla Press, Sommerville, MA., pp. 155-166. PDF
Ortega-Llebaria, M., Prieto, P. and *Vanrell, M. (2007) “Perceptual evidence for direct acoustic correlates of stress in Spanish.” In Jürgen Trouvain and William J. Barry (Eds.) Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, (p.155-166), Saarbrücken, Germany, 6-10 August 2007. PDF
Ortega-Llebaria, M. and Prieto, P. (2007) “Disentangling stress from accent in Spanish: Production patterns of the stress contrast in de-accented syllables.” In Prieto, Pilar, Joan Mascaró & Maria-Josep Solé (Eds.) Segmental and prosodic issues in Romance Phonology2. (Series: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory), John Benjamins, pp. 155-176. PDF
Prieto, P., & Ortega-Llebaria, M. (2006). Stress and Accent in Catalan and Spanish: Patterns of duration, vowel quality, overall intensity, and spectral balance. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody pp. 337-340. PDF
Ortega-Llebaria, M. (2006) “Phonetic cues to stress and accent in Spanish.” In Manuel Diaz-Campos (Ed.) Selected Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Cascadilla Press, Sommerville, MA., pp. 104-118. PDF
Hazan, V., Sennema, A, Faulkner, A., Ortega-Llebaria, M., Iba, M., Chung, Y. (2006) “The use of visual cues in the perception of nonnative consonants.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119(3), pp. 1740-1751. PDF
Ortega-Llebaria, M. (2003) “Effects of phonetic and inventory constraints in the spirantization of intervocalic voiced stops: Comparing two different measurements of energy change.” In M.-J. Solé, D. Recasens & J. Romero (Eds.), Proceedings of the XVth International Conference of Phonetic Sciences (volume 2, pp. 767-770). Causal Productions: Barcelona. PDF
Ortega-Llebaria, M., Faulkner, A., Hazan, V. (2001) “Auditovisual L2 speech perception: for Spanish learners of English.” Proceedings of the International Conference of Auditory- Visual Speech Processing(pp. 149-154) Aalborg, Denmark. PDF
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