[These are not up to date. For an up-to-date list of my publications, please see my ResearchGate website]
Journal Articles
Mennen, I., Kelly, N., Mayr, R. & Morris, J. (2020). The effects of home language and bilingualism on the realisation of lexical stress in Welsh and Welsh English. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.03038, first published 22 January 2020, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.03038. (click on DOI for full paper)
Mayr, Robert, Roberts, Llian & Morris, Jonathan (2019). Can you tell by their English if they can speak Welsh? Accent perception in a language contact situation. International Journal of Bilingualism, published 29 October 2019, for full paper, see https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1367006919883035; for pre-print version, see below.
Journal Articles
Mennen, I., Kelly, N., Mayr, R. & Morris, J. (2020). The effects of home language and bilingualism on the realisation of lexical stress in Welsh and Welsh English. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.03038, first published 22 January 2020, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.03038. (click on DOI for full paper)
Mayr, Robert, Roberts, Llian & Morris, Jonathan (2019). Can you tell by their English if they can speak Welsh? Accent perception in a language contact situation. International Journal of Bilingualism, published 29 October 2019, for full paper, see https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1367006919883035; for pre-print version, see below.
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Mayr, Robert, López-Bueno, Laura, Vázquez Fernández, Martín & Tomé Lourido, Gisela (2019). The role of early experience and continued language use in bilingual speech production: A study of Galician and Spanish mid vowels by Galician-Spanish bilinguals. Journal of Phonetics, published 22 November 2018, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2018.10.007, for full paper see https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Y5q0LixzZweP, © Elsevier.
Montanari, Simona, Mayr, Robert & Subrahmanyam, Kaveri (2018). Bilingual speech sound development during the preschool years: The role of language proficiency and cross-linguistic relatedness. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, doi:10.1044/2018_JSLHR-S-17-0393, published online 18 September 2018; see: https://jslhr.pubs.asha.org/ (link here to pre-publication version)
Mayr, Robert & Siddika, Aysha (2018). Inter-generational transmission in a minority language setting: Stop consonant production by Bangladeshi heritage children and adults. International Journal of Bilingualism, 22 (3), 255-284, DOI: 10.1177/1367006916672590 (link here to pre-publication version, © SAGE).
Mayr, Robert, Morris, Jonathan, Mennen, Ineke & Williams, Daniel (2017). Disentangling the effects of long-term language contact and individual bilingualism: The case of monophthongs in Welsh and English. International Journal of Bilingualism 21 (3), 245-267. DOI: 10.1177/1367006915614921 (DOI links to pre-publication version, © SAGE).
Montanari, Simona, Mayr, Robert & Subrahmanyam, Kaveri (2018). Bilingual speech sound development during the preschool years: The role of language proficiency and cross-linguistic relatedness. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, doi:10.1044/2018_JSLHR-S-17-0393, published online 18 September 2018; see: https://jslhr.pubs.asha.org/ (link here to pre-publication version)
Mayr, Robert & Siddika, Aysha (2018). Inter-generational transmission in a minority language setting: Stop consonant production by Bangladeshi heritage children and adults. International Journal of Bilingualism, 22 (3), 255-284, DOI: 10.1177/1367006916672590 (link here to pre-publication version, © SAGE).
Mayr, Robert, Morris, Jonathan, Mennen, Ineke & Williams, Daniel (2017). Disentangling the effects of long-term language contact and individual bilingualism: The case of monophthongs in Welsh and English. International Journal of Bilingualism 21 (3), 245-267. DOI: 10.1177/1367006915614921 (DOI links to pre-publication version, © SAGE).
Mayr, Robert & Montanari, Simona (2015). Cross-linguistic interaction in trilingual phonological development: The role of the input in the acquisition of the voicing contrast, Journal of Child Language 42: 1006-1035 (© Cambridge University Press).
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Mayr, Robert, Howells, Gwennan & Lewis, Rhonwen (2015). Asymmetries in phonological development: The case of word-final cluster acquisition in Welsh-English bilingual children. Journal of Child Language 42: 146-179. (© Cambridge University Press).
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Mayr, Robert, Price, Sacha & Mennen, Ineke (2012). First language attrition in the speech of Dutch-English bilinguals: the case of monozygotic twin sisters. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 15 (4): 687-700 (© Cambridge University Press).
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Mayr, Robert & Davies, Hannah (2011). A cross-dialectal acoustic study of the monophthongs and diphthongs of Welsh, Journal of the International Phonetic Association 41 (1): 1-25 (© Cambridge University Press).
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Mayr, Robert & Escudero, Paola (2010). Explaining individual variation in L2 perception: Rounded vowels in English learners of German, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 13 (3): 279-297 (© Cambridge University Press).
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Mayr, Robert (2010). What exactly is a front rounded vowel? An acoustic and articulatory investigation of the NURSE vowel in South Wales English, Journal of the International Phonetic Association 40 (1): 93-112 (© Cambridge University Press).
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Conference Papers
Mayr, R. & Montanari, S. (2015). Differentiation and interaction in the vowel productions of trilingual children, Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), 10-14 August 2015, Glasgow.
Mayr, R. & Montanari, S. (2015). Differentiation and interaction in the vowel productions of trilingual children, Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), 10-14 August 2015, Glasgow.
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Mennen, I., Mayr, R. & Morris, J. (2015). Influences of language contact and linguistic experience on the production of lexical stress in Welsh and Welsh English, Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), 10-14 August 2015, Glasgow.
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Mayr, R. & Davies, H. (2009). The monophthongs and diphthongs of North-eastern Welsh: an acoustic study, Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2009), 6-10 September, Brighton, pp 2315-2318.
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Mayr, R. (2004). The perception and production of German monophthongs by British learners of German. Proceedings of the University of Cambridge Second Postgraduate Conference in Language Research (CamLing 2004), Cambridge, 19 March 2004, pp. 153-160.
Invited contributions
Mayr, Robert (2019). Jitter and shimmer. In Damico, Jack & Ball, Martin
J. (eds.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders. Los Angeles et al.: SAGE Publishing.
Morris, Jonathan, Mayr, Robert & Mennen, Ineke (2016). The role of linguistic background on sound variation in Welsh and Welsh English. In Durham, M. & Morris, J. (eds.) Sociolinguistics in Wales. London: Palgrave MacMillan. For book URL, see http://www.palgrave.com/br/book/9781137528964#aboutBook.
Mayr, Robert (2019). Jitter and shimmer. In Damico, Jack & Ball, Martin
J. (eds.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders. Los Angeles et al.: SAGE Publishing.
Morris, Jonathan, Mayr, Robert & Mennen, Ineke (2016). The role of linguistic background on sound variation in Welsh and Welsh English. In Durham, M. & Morris, J. (eds.) Sociolinguistics in Wales. London: Palgrave MacMillan. For book URL, see http://www.palgrave.com/br/book/9781137528964#aboutBook.
Mayr, Robert, Jones, Danna & Mennen, Ineke (2014). Speech learning in bilinguals: consonant cluster acquisition, In: Thomas, Enlli & Mennen, Ineke (eds.) Advances in the Study of Bilingualism. pp. 3-24, Bristol: Multilingual Matters. For book URL, see http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783091706
Plumpton, Hannah & Mayr, Robert (2014). Morphology. In Whitworth, Nicole & Knight, Rachel-Anne (eds.) Methods in Teaching Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. J & R Press, pp. 101-125.
Thomas, Enlli Mon & Mayr, Robert (2010). Children’s acquisition of Welsh in a bilingual setting: a psycholinguistic perspective, In: Morris, D. (ed.) Welsh in the 21st Century. Cardiff: Cardiff University Press, pp. 99-117.
Müller, Torsten & Mayr, Robert (2007). Speech rate, time pressure and emotion in English and German football commentary, In: Weinert, R. (ed.) Spoken language pragmatics: an analysis of form-function relations, Continuum, pp. 160-181.
Book reviews
Mayr, Robert (2005) Review of Dörnyei, Zoltán (2005) The psychology of the language learner: individual differences in second language acquisition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, LinguistList 16.3459, 4 December 2005.
Book reviews
Mayr, Robert (2005) Review of Dörnyei, Zoltán (2005) The psychology of the language learner: individual differences in second language acquisition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, LinguistList 16.3459, 4 December 2005.