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Isabelle Darcy

Psychology · Indiana University

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Mid career · publishing since 2006Rising activity
Phonetics and Phonology ResearchReading and Literacy DevelopmentNeurobiology of Language and BilingualismSecond Language Acquisition and LearningEFL/ESL Teaching and Learning

Publications

93

Citations

1,405

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

21

Publishing since 2006

Research summary
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Isabelle Darcy studies how people perceive and process the sounds of a second language, including how learners recognize spoken words, encode vowels, and use acoustic cues like pitch. Her work also examines how spelling awareness and word-meaning context shape how non-native listeners understand speech, with applications to pronunciation teaching. She has additionally written about research methods and open science practices in second-language speech research.

Second language speech perceptionPhonetics and phonologyBilingualism and the mental lexiconPronunciation teachingResearch methods and open science

Publication activity has been steady at roughly three to four items per year across the decade, with a large one-year spike in 2024 (likely reflecting a book or edited volume with many chapters).

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

Funding
Public award records

No award with a current end date on record.

1 earlier award
  • NSF 2416110Aug 2024 – Mar 2026 · $14k awarded

    Doctoral Dissertation Research: Restoration of Unreduced Forms in Nonnative Perception of Reduced Speech

Matched to public NIH RePORTER and NSF records by name and institution. Awards from other agencies are not shown, and a match is not always found — this list may be incomplete.

In context
Among 494 mid career Psychology PIs within our index
Citations: 1,405cohort median 560
h-index: 20cohort median 11
Publications / year (recent): 6.4cohort median 3

Typically publishes in teams of ~2 · 88% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 25 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 6.4/year recently
2017: 4 publications172018: 4 publications182019: 2 publications192020: 3 publications202021: 4 publications212022: 3 publications222023: 4 publications232024: 22 publications22242025: 2 publications252026: 1 publication26
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 2 collaborators at the same institution2018: 1 collaborator at the same institution2019: 1 collaborator at the same institution2020: 2 collaborators at the same institution2021: 0 collaborators at the same institution2022: 4 collaborators at the same institution2023: 0 collaborators at the same institution2024: 1 collaborator at the same institution2025: 0 collaborators at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Journal of Second Language Pronunciation×5
  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition×4
  • Studies in Second Language Acquisition×2
  • Language Learning×2
  • Frontiers in Psychology×2
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Last updated Sep 1, 2026.

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