Recent publications
Kempe, V., Ota, M., & Schaeffler, S. (in press). Does child-directed speech facilitate language development in all domains? A study space analysis of the existing evidence. Developmental Review.
Basnak, J., & Ota, M. (in press). Learnability advantage of segmental repetitions in word learning. Language and Speech.
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.
Selected publications (before 2020)
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. Postprint
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. Postprint
Ota, M., & Skarabela, B (2016). Reduplicated words are easier to learn. Language Learning and Development, 12, 380-397. Postprint
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. Postprint
Nakai, S., Lindsay, S., & Ota, M. (2015). A prerequisite to L1 homophone effects in L2 spoken-word recognition. Second Language Research, 31, 29-52. Postprint
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. Postprint
Dickie, C., Ota, M., & Clark, A. (2013). Revisiting the phonological deficit in dyslexia: Are implicit non-orthographic representations impaired? Applied Psycholinguistics, 34, 649-672. Postprint
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. Postprint
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. Preprint
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. Postprint
Ota, M. (2003). The development of lexical pitch accent systems: An autosegmental analysis. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 48, 357-383.
Ota, M. (2001). Phonological theory and the development of prosodic structure: Evidence from child Japanese. Annual Review of Language Acquisition, 1, 65-118.