Holger Mitterer


Holger Mitterer is a German cognitive scientist and linguist and associate professor at the University of Malta. He is known for his works on applied psycholinguistics.
Mitterer is co-editor-in-chief with Cynthia Clopper of Language and Speech.
He is a former associate editor of Laboratory Phonology and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Phonetics.

Select publications

  • Mitterer, H., & Reinisch, E., & McQueen, J.M.. Allophones, not phonemes in spoken-word recognition. Journal of Memory and Language. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2017.09.005
  • Mitterer, H.. Not all geminates are created equal: Evidence from Maltese glottal consonants. Journal of Phonetics, 66, 28–44. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2017.09.003
  • Mitterer, H., & Reinisch, E.. Letters don't matter: No effect of orthography on the perception of conversational speech. Journal of Memory and Language, 85, 116–134. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2015.08.005
  • Mitterer, H., Scharenborg, O., & McQueen, J.M.. Phonological abstraction without phonemes in speech perception. Cognition, 129, 356–361. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2013.07.011
  • Mitterer, H., & McQueen, J.M.. Foreign subtitles help but native-language subtitles harm foreign speech perception. PLoS One, 4, A146-A150. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007785
  • Escudero, P., Hayes-Harb, R., & Mitterer, H.. Novel second-language words and asymmetric lexical access. Journal of Phonetics, 36, 345–360. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2007.11.002
  • Ruiter, J.-P. de, Mitterer, H., & Enfield, N. J.. Projecting the End of a Speaker's Turn: A Cognitive Cornerstone of Conversation. Language, 82, 515–535. doi:10.1353/lan.2006.0130