Publications

This page contains a list of our lab's publications, as well as the dissertations completed in the lab (scroll waaaaay down!).

We're not allowed to post the published pdf version of some (in fact, most) journal articles on the open internet. When you click the link next to the article (doi or [link]), this will take you to either the abstract or the journal's webpage for the full-length article. If you are not able to access a specific article, please email Prof. Darcy or any member of the lab. We will be happy to send you our own copy. For selected publications in each of our research areas, please go to Research Projects.

You can also try the following:

For a full list, consult Isabelle's CV here. (pdfs on request if not available here)

Books and Edited Volumes

Journal Articles (selected)

(* indicates student co-author)

  • *Brakovec, H.  & Darcy, I. (in revision) Awareness of orthographic transparency benefits the lexical encoding of L2 vowels. Manuscript under revision.
  • *Chen, B., & Darcy, I. (accepted) Effects of Sentential Context on Nonnative Recognition of Reduced Speech: Does Meaning Explain It All? Journal of Phonetics
  • Darcy, Isabelle; Llompart, Miquel; Hayes-Harb, Rachel; Mora, Joan C.; *Adrian, Miren; Cook, Svetlana; Ernestus, Mirjam (2025) Phonological processing and the L2 mental lexicon: Looking back and moving forward. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 47(1), 361–387. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263124000482
  • Gordon, J., & Darcy, I. (2024). Pedagogical decisions in the teaching of segmentals and suprasegmentals. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 10(1), 110-125. https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.23046.gor
  • *Rocca, B., Llompart, M. and Darcy, I. (2024). Phonological neighborhood density, phonetic categorization, and vocabulary size differentially affect the phonolexical encoding of easy and difficult L2 segmental contrasts. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728924000865
  • Mora, J.-C., & Darcy, I. (2023). Individual differences in attention control and the processing of phonological contrasts in a second language. Phonetica, 80(3-4), 153-184. https://doi.org/10.1515/phon-2022-0020
  • Scott, J. H. G., & Darcy, I. (2023). Prosodic location modulates listeners’ perception of novel German sounds. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 24(1), pp. 1–42. https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.6428
  • Darcy, I., & *Rocca, B. (2022). Comprehensibility improvements in integrated pronunciation instruction: A comparison of instructional methods and task effects. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 8(3), 328-362. https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.21035.dar
  • Gordon, J., & Darcy, I. (2022). Teaching segmentals and suprasegmentals: Effects of explicit pronunciation instruction on comprehensibility, fluency, and accentedness. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 8(2), 168-195. https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.21042.gor
  • Simonchyk, A. & Darcy, I. (2021) Development of production skills in the absence of precise phonolexical representations. Second Language Research (online first). https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583211066291
  • Daidone, D., & Darcy, I. (2021). Vocabulary Size Is a Key Factor in Predicting Second Language Lexical Encoding Accuracy. Frontiers in Psychology, 12(2769). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.688356
  • Darcy, I., *Rocca, B., & *Hancock, Z. (2021) A window into the classroom: How teachers integrate pronunciation instruction. RELC Journal 52(1), 110-127.https://doi.org/10.1177/0033688220964269
  • Darcy, I., *Rocca, B., *Hancock, Z., and *Lee, S. (2020). Do individual differences in stress perception and in selective attention relate to improvements in spontaneous speech? Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen (FLuL) 49(2), 28-45. https://doi.org/10.2357/FLuL-2020-0017
  • Schaefer, V., & Darcy, I. (2020). Applying a newly learned second language dimension to the unknown: The influence of second language Mandarin tones on the naïve perception of Thai tones. Psychology of Language and Communication, 24(1), 90-123. https://doi.org/10.2478/plc-2020-0007
  • Darcy, I., & Fontaine, N. (2020) The Hoosier Vocal Emotions Corpus: A validated set of North American English pseudo-words for evaluating emotion processing. Behavior Research Methods 52, 901-917. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01288-0
  • Schaefer, V., & Darcy, I. (2019). Fried persimmons and dried oysters or why teaching pitch accent matters: A practical guide for teachers of Japanese as a foreign language. The Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 26, 127-159. http://ncolctl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/fried-persimmons-and-dried-oysters.pdf
  • Darcy, I., & *Thomas, T. (2019). When blue is a disyllabic word: Perceptual epenthesis in the mental lexicon of second language learners. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 22(5), 1141-1159. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728918001050
  • Schaefer V., Darcy I., Abe L. (2018) The distress in not stressing and destressing stress in English: Using wordplay to boost awareness, intelligibility, and communicative competence. TESOL Journal; e411. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesj.411
  • *Simonchyk, A., & Darcy, I. (2018). The Effect of Orthography on the Lexical Encoding of Palatalized Consonants in L2 Russian. Language and Speech, 61(4), 522-546. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830918761490
  • Darcy, I. (2018) Powerful and Effective Pronunciation Instruction: How Can We Achieve It? CATESOL Journal, 30, 13-45.https://doi.org/10.5070/B5.35963
  • Darcy, I., Tremblay, A., & Simonet, M. (2017). Editorial: Phonology in the Bilingual and Bidialectal Lexicon. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(507). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00507
  • Darcy, I., Mora, J. C. and *Daidone, D. (2016), The Role of Inhibitory Control in Second Language Phonological Processing. Language Learning, 66, 741–773. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12161 . Materials available on IRIS.
  • *Gordon, J. & Darcy, I. (2016). The development of comprehensible speech in L2 learners. A classroom study on the effects of short-term pronunciation instruction. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 2, 56-92. https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.2.1.03gor
  • Darcy, I., Park, H., & *Yang, C.-L. (2015). Individual differences in L2 acquisition of English phonology: The relation between cognitive abilities and phonological processing. Learning and Individual Differences, 40, 63-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2015.04.005
  • *Schaefer, V., Darcy, I. (2014) Functional prominence of lexically-contrastive pitch in L1 shapes cross-linguistic perception of Thai tones. Laboratory Phonology, 5, 489 – 522. https://doi.org/10.1515/lp-2014-0016
  • Darcy, I., *Daidone, D., & *Kojima, C. (2013). Asymmetric lexical access and fuzzy lexical representations in second language learners. The Mental Lexicon, 8, 372-420. https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.8.3.06dar
  • Darcy, I., & *Krüger, F. (2012). Vowel perception and production in Turkish children acquiring L2 German. Journal of Phonetics, 40, 568-581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2012.05.001
  • Darcy, I., Dekydtspotter, L., Sprouse, R. A., *Glover, J., *Kaden, C., *McGuire, M., & *Scott, J. H. G. (2012). Direct mapping of acoustics to phonology: On the lexical encoding of front rounded vowels in L1 English–L2 French acquisition. Second Language Research, 28, 1–36. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658311423455
  • Teichmann, M., Darcy, I., Bachoud-Lévi, A.-C., & Dupoux, E. (2009). The role of the striatum in phonological processing. Evidence from early stages of Huntington's disease. Cortex, 45, 839-849.

Selected Chapters in Peer-reviewed Edited Volumes

  • Phillips, S. & Darcy, I. (accepted). Perception of Second Language Speech. In Marnie Reed and John Levis (Eds.) The Handbook of Second Language Listening. Wiley-Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics Series.
  • Darcy, I., & Rothgerber, J. R. (2024). Phonological Processing and Lexical Encoding in Bilingual Speech. In M. Amengual (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology (pp. 426-447). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009105767.020.
  • Schaefer, V. & Darcy, I. (2022). Speak locally, listen globally: Training listeners to understand the diverse accents of Englishes around the world. In M. D. Devereaux, & C. C. Palmer (Eds.), Teaching English Language Variation in the Global Classroom: Models and Lessons from Around the World (pp. 113-122). New York: Routledge.

Selected Proceedings, Reviews, Commentaries, Summaries

  • Mora, J. C., Adrian, M., Darcy, I., Llompart, M., Hayes-Harb, R. & Ernestus, M. (2025). How do learners remember the pronunciation of words in their second language? OASIS Summary of Darcy, Llompart, Hayes-Harb, Mora, Adrian, Cook & Ernestus (2024) in Studies in Second Language Acquisition. https://www.oasis-database.org/details/fjgqzel2e
  • Scott, J. H. G., *Phillips, S. E., *Russell, C. B., *Lim, R. Z. J., & Darcy, I. (2024). Hearing and writing German sounds: Influences of phonetic training on L2 perception and spelling. In H. A. A. AlThagafi & J. Ray (Eds.), Proceedings of the 48th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, ISBN 978-1-57473-097-5, Boston, MA, November 2024 (pp. 467–480). Boston, MA: Boston University.
  • *Iwamoto, K. & Darcy, I. (2024). Native Speakers’ Redundant Acoustic Cue may be Learners’ Treasure: Can Pitch be Repurposed? In D. J. Olson, J. L. Sturm, O. Dmitrieva, & J. M. Levis (eds), Proceedings of 14th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference, (pp. 1-12). Purdue University, September 2023. https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.17555.
  • *Rocca, B., Martino, F., & Darcy, I. (2024). How misperception affects the structure of the L2 mental lexicon: A conceptual replication of Cutler (2005). Proceedings of the 14th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference, (pp. 1-12). Purdue University, September 2023. Retrieved 2024-09-16 from https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.17573
  • Llompart, M., *Rocca, B., & Darcy, I. (2023). Is the effect of L2 vocabulary size on lexical encoding modulated by L1-L2 similarity? In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2447-2451). International Phonetic Association. Prague, Czech Republic.
  • *Phillips, S., *Aguilar Perez, A., *Alt, H., & Darcy, I. (2022). Pause for thought (groups): non-native pausing behavior and ease of processing of L2 speech. In J. Levis & A. Guskaroska (eds.), Proceedings of the 12th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference, held June 2021 virtually at Brock University, St. Catharines, ON. https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.13355
  • Darcy, I. (2021). From fuzzy to fine-grained representations in the developing lexicon. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 25, 206-207. [peer commentary] https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728921000572
  • Darcy, I. & Holliday, J. J. (2019). Teaching an old work new tricks: Phonological updates in the L2 mental lexicon. In J. Levis, C. Nagle, & E. Todey (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference, ISSN 2380-9566, Ames, IA, September 2018 (pp. 10-26). Ames, IA: Iowa State University. https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/psllt/article/id/15362/
  • Gordon, J., & Darcy, I. (2019). Teaching segmentals vs. suprasegmentals: Different effects of explicit instruction on comprehensibility. In J. Levis, C. Nagle, & E. Todey (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference, ISSN 2380-9566, Ames, IA, September 2018 (pp. 116-126). Ames, IA: Iowa State University. https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/psllt/article/id/15369/

Dissertations completed in the lab

Links to be added soon (2025-07-14)

  • Brian Rocca (2025) ' The effects of lexical characteristics, phonetic categorization, and vocabulary size on language learners' phonolexical representations: A lexical friction account'. Defense date: March 2025 [Link]
  • Franziska Krüger (2024) 'From Bordeaux to Porto In Second Dialect Learning: The Acquisition Of A New Phonological Contrast By Upper Saxon German Speakers'. Defense date: December 2024   [Link]
  • Matthew Ajibade (2024) 'The effects of native language experience on the phonological perception of complex labial-velar stops'. Defense date: August 2024   [Link]
  • Ryan Lidster (2023) 'Investigating whether discriminability predicts lexical encoding accuracy for American English learners of phonemic length in second language Japanese'. Defense date: May 2023   [Link]
  • Danielle Daidone (2020) 'How learners remember words in their second language: The impact of individual differences in perception, cognitive abilities, and vocabulary size'. Defense date: April 2020   [Link]
  • John Rothgerber (2020) 'The Influence of Native Language Phonotactics on Second Language Lexical Representation in Japanese Learners of English'. Defense date: April 2020   [Link]
  • John H.G. Scott (2019) 'Phonemic and Phonotactic Inference in Early Interlanguage: Americans Learning German Fricatives in L2 Acquisition'. Defense date: May 2019.   [Link]  Full text available on ProQuest under the number #13878342.
  • Chisato Kojima (2019) 'Lexical Encoding of Length Contrasts in Learners of Japanese as a Second Language'. Defense date: March 2019   [Link]
  • Ala Simonchyk (2017) 'The interactions between perception, production, lexical encoding and orthography in the acquisition of palatalization in Russian'. Department of Second Language Studies, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures Indiana University. Defense date: May 2017   [Link]
  • Joshua Williams (2017). '"Modality Adaptation Hypothesis": Neurocognitive alterations to novel visuospatial components of sign language during initial acquisition in adulthood'. Co-Chair with Prof. Sharlene Newman, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Defense date: March 2017.   [Link]
  • Miguel Marquez-Martinez (2016). The Acquisition of French Nasal Vowels: From First Language Allophony To Second Language Phonological Contrast. (Co-Chair with Laurent Dekydtspotter). Departments of French and Italian, Second Language Studies, Indiana University. Defense date: October 2016   [Link]
  • Aaron Albin (2015). Typologizing native language influence on intonation in a second language: Three transfer phenomena in Japanese EFL learners. Defense Date: May 2015   [Link]
  • Rob Bedinghaus (2015). The effect of exposure to phonological variation on perceptual categorization and lexical access in second language Spanish: the case of /s/-aspiration in Western Andalusian Spanish. Defense date: May 4, 2015   [Link]
  • Vance Schaefer (2015). Influence of the first and second language on the perception of Thai tones. Department of Second Language Studies, Indiana University. Defense date: October 2015   [Link]
  • Chung-Lin Yang (2015). Phonological variations and L2 word learning: The role of orthography in word recognition and production. Department of Linguistics, Second Language Studies, Indiana University. Defense date: March 2015   [Link]
  • Joshua Gordon (2015). Teaching and Learning L2 pronunciation: A closer look at classroom and extra-classroom factors in the development of intelligibility in ESL learners. Department of Second Language Studies, Indiana University. Defense date: December 2014   [Link]
  • Terrin Tamati (2014). Individual and Group differences in the perception of regional dialect variation in a second language. Departments of Linguistics, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University. Defense date: June 2014   [Link]
  • ​ Lorenzo Garcia-Amaya (2012). Second language fluency and cognition: The study of Spanish second language development in an overseas immersion program and an at-home foreign language classroom. (Co-Chair with Kimberly Geeslin). Departments of Spanish and Portuguese, Second Language Studies, Indiana University. Defense date: April 2012    [Link]