Selected publications

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• Bohn, O.-S., 1986, Formulas, frame structures, and stereotypes in early syntactic development: Some new evidence from L2 acquisition. Linguistics 24, 185-202.
• Flege, J. E. & Bohn, O.-S., 1989, An instrumental study of vowel reduction and stress placement in Spanish-accented English. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 11, 35-62.
• Bohn, O.-S. & Flege, J. E., 1990, Interlingual identification and the role of foreign language experience in L2 vowel perception. Applied Psycholinguistics 11, 303-328.
• Bohn, O.-S. & Flege, J. E., 1992, The production of new and similar vowels by adult German learners of English. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 14, 131-158.
• Bohn, O.-S., Flege, J. E., Dagenais, P. A. & Fletcher, S. G., 1992, Differenzierung und Variabilität der Zungenpositionen bei der Artikulation deutscher Vokale. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik (Beihefte 72), 1-26.
• Bohn,O.-S. & Flege, J. E., 1993, Perceptual switching in Spanish/English bilinguals. Journal of Phonetics 21, 267-290.
• Bohn,O.-S., 1995, Cross-language speech perception in adults. In Strange, W., ed., Speech perception and linguisic experience. Timonium, MD: York Press, 275-300.
• Bohn, O.-S. & Polka, L., 1995, What determines vowel identity in prelingual infants? Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 1, 130-133.
• Polka, L. & Bohn, O.-S., 1996, A cross-language comparison of vowel perception in English-learning and German-learning infants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 100, 577-592.
• Bohn, O.-S.& Flege, J. E., 1997, Perception and production of a new vowel category by adult second language learners. In James, A. & Leather, J. eds., Second-language speech. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 53-73.
• Flege, J. E., Bohn, O.-S. & Jang, S., 1997, Effects of experience on non-native speakers' production and perception of English vowels. Journal of Phonetics 25, 437-470.
• Bohn, O.-S., 1998, Wahrnehmung fremdsprachlicher Laute: Wo ist das Problem? In: Wegener, Heide, ed., Eine zweite Sprache lernen: Empirische Untersuchungen zum Zweitspracherwerb. Tübingen: G. Narr, 1-20.
• Strange, W. & Bohn, O.-S., 1998, Dynamic specification of coarticulated German vowels: Perceptual and acoustic studies. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 104, 488-504.
• Bohn, O.-S., Strange, W. & Trent, S., 1999, On what it takes to predict perceptual difficulty in cross-language vowel perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 105, 1097.
• Steinlen, A. & Bohn, O.-S., 1999, Acoustic studies comparing Danish vowels, British English vowels, and Danish-accented British English vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 105, 1097.
• Bohn, O.-S., 2000, Linguistic relativity in speech perception: An overview of the influence of language experience on the perception of speech sounds from infancy to adulthood. In: Niemeier, S. & Dirven, R., eds., Evidence for Linguistic Relativity. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1-28.
• Bohn, O.-S. & Polka, L., 2001, Target spectral, dynamic spectral, and temporal cues in infant perception of German vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 110, 504-515.
• Bohn, O.-S., 2002, On phonetic similarity. In: Burmeister, P. Piske, T. & Rohde, A., Hrsg., An integrated view of language development: Papers in honor of Henning Wode. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 191-216.
• Steinlen, A. K. & Bohn, O.-S., 2002, Acquisition of British English tense-lax vowel contrasts by native speakers of Danish. In: James, A. & Leather, J., eds., New Sounds 2000: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second-Language Speech. University of Klagenfurt, 325-334.
• Trapp, N. L. & Bohn, O.-S., 2002, Training Danish listeners to identify English word-final /s/ and /z/: Generalization of training and its effect on production accuracy. In: James, A. & Leather, J., eds., New Sounds 2000: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second-Language Speech. University of Klagenfurt,  343-350.
• Best, C. T. & Bohn, O.-S., 2002, Perception of American English glide consonants by Danish listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 112, 2388.
• Gottfried, T.  L. & Bohn, O.-S., 2002, Duration and rate effects on American English vowel identification by native Danish listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 112, 2250.
• Polka, L. & Bohn, O.-S., 2003, Asymmetries in vowel perception. Speech Communication 41, 221-231.
• Bohn, O.-S. & Steinlen, A. K., 2003, Consonantal context affects cross-language perception of vowels. Proceedings of the 15^th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2289-2292.
• Best, C. T., Halle, P., Bohn, O.-S. & Faber, A., 2003, Cross-language perception of nonnative vowels: Phonological and phonetic effects of listeners' native languages. Proceedings of the 15^th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2889-2892.
• Strange, W., Bohn, O.-S., Trent, S. A. & Nishi, K., 2004, Acoustic and perceptual similarity of North German and American English vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 115, 1791-1807.
• Bohn, O.-S., 2004, Tosprogethed. Magasinet Humaniora 2-2004, 17-22.
• Bohn, O.-S., 2004, How to organize a fairly large vowel inventory: The vowels of Fering (North Frisian). Journal of the International Phonetic Association 34, 161-173.
• Kewley-Port, D., Bohn, O.-S. & Nishi, K., 2005, The influence of different native language vowel systems on vowel discrimination and identification. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 117, 2399.
• Polka, L., Bohn, O.-S. & Molnar, M., 2005, Natural referent vowels guide the development of vowel perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 117, 2398.
• Bohn, O.-S., 2005, A fond farewell to the Critical Period Hypothesis for non-primary language acquisition. In: Saleemi, A., Bohn, O-S. & Gjedde, A., eds., In search of a language for the mind-brain: Can multiple perspectives be unified? Aarhus University Press, 285-310.
• Saleemi, A., Bohn, O.-S. & Gjedde, A., eds., 2005, In search of a language for the mind-brain: Can multiple perspectives be unified? Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.
• Strange, W., Bohn, O.-S., Nishi, K. & Trent, S. A., 2005, Contextual variation in the acoustic and perceptual similarity of North German and American English vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 118, 1751-1762.
• Bohn, O.-S. & Munro, M. J., eds, 2007, Language experience in second language speech learning: In honor of James Emil Flege. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• Munro, M. J. & Bohn, O.-S., 2007, The study of second language speech: A brief overview. In: Bohn. O.-S. & Munro, M. J., eds., Language experience in second language speech learning: In honor of James Emil Flege. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 3-11.
• Bohn, O.-S., 2007, Exploring the Natural Referent Vowel hypothesis in infant perception experiments. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 121, 3187.
• Bohn, O.-S. & Polka, L., 2008, Maintenance vs. "loss" of the perceptual bias favoring natural reference vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123, 3879.
• Polka, L., Bohn, O.-S. & Kuhl, P., 2008, Encomium for Winifred Strange. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 124, 2539-2540.
• Bohn, O.-S., 2008, Universelle og sprogspecifikke træk i spædbørns perception af sproglyde. Psyke & Logos 29, 538-556.
• Avesani, C., Vayra, M., Best, C. T. & Bohn, O.-S., 2008, Fonologia e acquisizione. In che modo l'esperienza della lingua materna plasma la percezione dei suoni del linguaggio? In Marotta, G. & Costamagna, L., eds., Acquisizione linguistica e teorie fonologiche. Pisa: Pacini, 15-41.
• Bohn, O.-S. & Bundgaard-Nielsen, R. L., 2009, Second language speech learning with diverse inputs. In: Piske, T. & Young-Scholten, M., eds., Input matters in SLA. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, 207-218.
• Bohn, O.-S. & Polka, L., 2009, Accounting for the accented perception of vowels: Universal preferences and language-specific biases. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 125, 2758.
• Bohn, O.-S. & Best, C. T., 2010, Testing PAM and SLM: Perception of American English approximants by native German listeners. In: Dziubalska-Kolaczyk, K., Wrembel, M. & Kul, M., eds., Proceedings of the 6^th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, New Sounds 2010, 43-48.
• Polka, L. & Bohn, O.-S., 2010, Natural Referent Vowel (NRV) framework: An emerging view of early phonetic development. Journal of Phonetics, in press. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2010.08.007

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