Everything about Native-language identification

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Native-language identificationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Native language identification for Indian-speakers by an ensemble of phoneme-specific, and text-independent convolutionsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The meaning of differenceThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Differential neural contributions to native- and foreign-language talker identification.Cited 33 times
5. Go sideways: Natural language processingA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Language identificationA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Differential neural contributions to native- and foreign-language talker identification.

  Tyler K. Perrachione, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Patrick C. M. Wong · 2009 · Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance · 33 citations

• Native Language Identification With Classifier Stacking and Ensembles

  Shervin Malmasi, Mark Dras · 2018 · Computational Linguistics · 27 citations

• Native Language Identification in Very Short Utterances Using Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Network

  Farah Adeeba, Sarmad Hussain · 2019 · IEEE Access · 24 citations

• Multilingual native language identification

  SHERVIN MALMASI, MARK DRAS · 2015 · Natural Language Engineering · 19 citations

• The native-language benefit for talker identification is robust in 7.5-month-old infants.

  Natalie Fecher, Elizabeth K. Johnson · 2018 · Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition · 17 citations

• Native Language Identification of Fluent and Advanced Non-Native Writers

  Raheem Sarwar, Attapol T. Rutherford, Saeed-Ul Hassan · 2020 · ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing · 16 citations

• Multitask deep learning for native language identification

  Vuk Habic, Alexander Semenov, Eduardo L. Pasiliao · 2020 · Knowledge-Based Systems · 16 citations

• Native language identification and writing proficiency

  Kristopher Kyle, Scott A. Crossley, YouJin Kim · 2015 · International Journal of Learner Corpus Research · 15 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Native language identification for Indian-speakers by an ensemble of phoneme-specific, and text-independent convolutions

  Mohammad Ali Humayun, Hayati Yassin, Pg Emeroylariffion Abas · 2022 · Speech Communication · 11 citations

• Negative Language Transfer Identification in the English Writing of Chinese and Farsi Native Speakers

  Mohammad Karimiabdolmaleki, Leticia Farias Wanderley, Maria Cutumisu · 2025 · International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education · 4 citations

• String Kernel-Based Techniques for Native Language Identification

  Vamshi Kumar Gurram, J. Sanil, V. S. Anoop · 2023 · Human-Centric Intelligent Systems · 3 citations

• Native language identification from text using a fine-tuned GPT-2 model

  Yuzhe Nie · 2025 · PeerJ Computer Science · 1 citations

• Identification of the native language of a person

  Kiev Taras Shevchenko National University, Yа.S. Lazorenko, I.P. Sinitsyn · 2022 · PROBLEMS IN PROGRAMMING · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The meaning of differenceKaren E. Rosenblum, Toni-Michelle Travis · 1995
• The Indian AntiquaryJames Burgess, Richard Carnac Temple · 1893
• Treaty Occupationay ToxicologySuelen Queiroz · 2010
• New trends & issues in teaching Japanese language & cultureKyoko Kijirida, Mildred Tahara · 1997
• Theoretical analyses on Romance languagesLinguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (26th 1996 Mexico City, Mexico) · 1998
• 📕Multicultural law enforcementRobert M. Shusta · 2011
• Essential Speech and Language Technology for DutchPeter Spyns · 2013
• Cross-Cultural Design. Methods, Practice, and Case StudiesP. L. Patrick Rau · 2013

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