Holtz, A., Smith, K., & Ota, M. (in press). The impact of similar place avoidance on novel word learning in adults. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47.
Ota, M. (in press). Child consonant harmony revisited: The role of lexical memory constraints and segment repetition. Language and Speech.
Soderstrom, M., Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Muñoz, L. E., Bochynska, A., Werker, J. F., Skarabela, B., … Ota, M., … Tsui, A. S. M. (in press). Testing the relationship between preferences for infant-directed speech and vocabulary development: A multi-lab study. Journal of Child Language.
Kempe, V., Ota, M., & Schaeffler, S. (2024). Does child-directed speech facilitate language development in all domains? A study space analysis of the existing evidence. Developmental Review, 72, 101121.
Basnak, J., & Ota, M. (2024). Learnability advantage of segmental repetitions in word learning. Language and Speech, 67, 1093–1120.
Vihman, M., Ota, M., Keren-Portnoy, T., Choo, R. Q., & Lou, S. (2023). A challenge to Whole-word Phonology? A study of Japanese and Mandarin.. Language Learning and Development, 19, 480-500.
Vihman, M., Ota, M., Keren-Portnoy, T., Lou, S., & Choo, R. Q. (2023). Child phonological responses to variegation in adult words: A cross-linguistic study. Journal of Child Language, 50, 1459-1486.
Liu, J., & Ota, M. (2023). The effect of learning context on Mandarin listeners’ perception of English vowels. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volím (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2572-2575. Prague: Guarant Intenational.
Arunachalam, S., Deen, K. U., Huang, Y. T., Lidz, J., Miller, K., Ota, M., & Szendroi, K. (2022). Some concrete steps for journal editorial boards: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022). First Language, 42, 736–739.
Skarabela, B., Ota, M., O’Connor, R., & Arnon, I. (2021). ‘Clap your hands’ or ‘take your hands’? One-year-olds distinguish between frequent and infrequent multiword phrases. Cognition, 211, 104612.
Ota, M., San José, A., & Smith, K. (2021). The emergence of word-internal repetition through iterated learning: Explaining the mismatch between learning biases and language design. Cognition, 210, 104585.
Fikkert, P., Liu, L., & Ota, M. (2020). The acquisition of word prosody. In C. Gussenhoven & A. Chen (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of language prosody (pp. 541-555). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Stewart, M. E., Grube, M., & Ota, M. (2020). Autistic traits and auditory discrimination skills. In F. Volkmar (Ed.), Encyclopedia of autism spectrum disorders. 2nd Ed. New York: Springer.
ManyBabies Consortium. (2020). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed-speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3, 24-52.
Ota, M., Davies-Jenkins, N., & Skarabela, B. (2018). Why choo-choo is better than train: The role of register-specific words in early vocabulary development. Cognitive Science, 42, 1974-1999.
Ota, M., Yamane, N. & Mazuka, R. (2018). The effects of lexical pitch accent on infant word recognition in Japanese. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 2354.
Ota, M., & Skarabela, B. (2018). Reduplication facilitates early word segmentation. Journal of Child Language, 45, 204-218.
Stewart, M. E., Petrou, A. M., & Ota, M. (2018). Categorial speech perception in adults with autism spectrum conditions. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48, 72-82.
Ota, M., & Skarabela, B (2016). Reduplicated words are easier to learn. Language Learning and Development, 12, 380-397.
Ota, M., Stewart, M. E., Petrou, A., & Dickie, C. (2015). Lexical effects on children’s speech processing: Individual differences reflected in the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ). Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58, 422-433.
Nakai, S., Lindsay, S., & Ota, M. (2015). A prerequisite to L1 homophone effects in L2 spoken-word recognition. Second Language Research, 31, 29-52.
Ota, M., & Green, S. J. (2013). Input frequency and lexical variability in phonological development: A survival analysis of word-initial cluster production. Journal of Child Language, 40, 539-566.
Dickie, C., Ota, M., & Clark, A. (2013). Revisiting the phonological deficit in dyslexia: Are implicit non-orthographic representations impaired? Applied Psycholinguistics, 34, 649-672.
Stewart, M. E., McAdam, C., Ota, M., Peppé, S., & Cleland, J. (2013). Emotional recognition in Autism Spectrum Conditions from voices and faces. Autism, 17, 6-14.
Ota, M., Hartsuiker, R. J., & Haywood, S. L. (2010). Is a FAN always FUN? Phonological and orthographic effects in bilingual visual word recognition. Language and Speech, 53, 383-403.
Ota, M., Hartsuiker, R. J., & Haywood, S. L. (2009). The KEY to the ROCK: Near-homophony in nonnative visual word recognition. Cognition, 111, 263-269.
Stewart, M. E. & Ota, M. (2008). Lexical effects on speech perception in individuals with "autistic" traits. Cognition, 109, 157-162.
Ota, M. (2006). Children’s production of word accents in Swedish revisited. Phonetica, 63, 230-246.
Ota, M. (2006). Input frequency and word truncation in child Japanese: Structural and lexical effects. Language and Speech, 49, 261-295.
Ota, M. (2004). The learnability of a stratified lexicon. Journal of Japanese Linguistics, 20, 19-40.
Ota, M. (2003). The development of lexical pitch accent systems: An autosegmental analysis. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 48, 357-383.
Ota, M. (2003). The development of prosodic structure in early words: Continuity, divergence and change. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Ota, M. (2001). Phonological theory and the development of prosodic structure: Evidence from child Japanese. Annual Review of Language Acquisition, 1, 65-118.