Journal of the International Phonetic Association

Aims & Scope

The Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JIPA) is a forum for work in the fields of phonetic theory and description.

As well as including papers on laboratory phonetics/phonology and related topics, the journal encourages submissions on practical applications of phonetics to areas such as phonetics teaching and speech therapy, as well as the analysis of speech phenomena in relation to computer speech processing.

It is especially concerned with the theory behind the International Phonetic Alphabet and discussions of the use of symbols for illustrating the phonetic structures of a wide variety of languages.

JIPA now publishes online audio files to supplement written articles Published for the International Phonetic Association

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Standard Chinese (Beijing)

  Citation: 140

  Authors: Wai-Sum, Eric

• A cross-linguistic acoustic study of voiceless fricatives

  Citation: 138

  Authors: Matthew, Paul, Kathy

• To ‘errrr’ is human: ecology and acoustics of speech disfluencies

  Citation: 124

  Authors: Elizabeth

• The Formants of Monophthong Vowels in Standard Southern British English Pronunciation

  Citation: 122

  Authors: David

• Australian English

  Citation: 110

  Authors: Felicity, Sallyanne

• Turn transition, creak and glottal stop in Finnish talk-in-interaction

  Citation: 106

  Authors: Richard

• Formant frequencies of RP monophthongs in four age groups of speakers

  Citation: 97

  Authors: Sarah, Jonathan

• Monophthongal vowel changes in Received Pronunciation: an acoustic analysis of the Queen's Christmas broadcasts

  Citation: 91

  Authors: Jonathan, Sallyanne, Catherine

• The sound pattern of Standard Italian, as compared with the varieties spoken in Florence, Milan and Rome

  Citation: 91

  Authors: Pier Marco, Michele

• British English: Received Pronunciation

  Citation: 90

  Authors: Peter