Holger Mitterer

Holger Mitterer (born 4 January 1973) is a German cognitive scientist and linguist and associate professor at the University of Malta. He is known for his works on applied psycholinguistics.^[1][2][3] Mitterer is co-editor-in-chief with Cynthia Clopper of Language and Speech.^[4][5][6] He is a former associate editor of Laboratory Phonology (2013-2018) and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Phonetics.

Holger Mitterer
Born	(1973-01-04) 4 January 1973 (age 52) Hanau, Germany
Education	University of Maastricht (PhD) University of Bielefeld University of Leiden
Known for	computational architecture of spoken-word recognition, applied psycholinguistics
Awards	Excellence Initiative (2017) DFG grant
Scientific career
Fields	Cognitive neuroscience, linguistics, experimental psychology
Institutions	University of Malta Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics University of Tübingen
Thesis	Understanding 'gardem bench': Studies on the perception of assimilated words forms  (2003)
Academic advisors	Odmar Neumann Alexander van der Heijden
Website	http://www.holgermitterer.eu/

Select publications

• Mitterer, H., & Reinisch, E., & McQueen, J.M. (2018). Allophones, not phonemes in spoken-word recognition. Journal of Memory and Language. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2017.09.005
• Mitterer, H. (2018). 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. (2015). 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. (2013). Phonological abstraction without phonemes in speech perception. Cognition, 129, 356–361. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2013.07.011
• Mitterer, H., & McQueen, J.M. (2009). 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. (2008). Novel second-language words and asymmetric lexical access. Journal of Phonetics, 36(2), 345–360. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2007.11.002
• Ruiter, J.-P. de, Mitterer, H., & Enfield, N. J. (2006). Projecting the End of a Speaker's Turn: A Cognitive Cornerstone of Conversation. Language, 82(3), 515–535. doi:10.1353/lan.2006.0130