Lingua

Papers
(The median citation count of Lingua is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board39
Spatial language production in Chinese preschoolers: Developmental patterns and associated predictors37
Is there a polarity-prominent language? A typological perspective on Dagaare verbal systems29
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Polarity metaphor in English: Definition, identification, and categorization23
Object preference in the interpretation of floating numeral quantifiers of Korean20
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Constructional variation, grammaticalization, and constructional network of extreme degree resultatives in Mandarin: A quantitative analysis14
Comparatives in Korean: A grammaticalization perspective12
Declarative intonation of Japanese-Spanish bilinguals in Spanish casual speech11
A corpus analysis of two by-passives in Japanese from the viewpoint of information structure11
Syntactic differences of the probabilistic valency of nouns in Chinese–English Code-switching10
Assessing structural language skills of autistic adults: Focus on sentence repetition10
Editorial Board9
The role of semantics and orthography in modulating conscious access to Chinese words9
A functional model for the tag question paradigm: The case of invariable tag questions in English and Portuguese8
Interpreter mediation as other-initiated self-repair in court: Effects on the defence in Chinese bilingual criminal trials8
Book Review8
Editorial Board8
Shocking projections: The rise of the [x-shock] construction complex in macroeconomics8
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Mediating linguistic diversity in the diaspora: An illustration from Haitian Canadians7
The development of VdeO clefts in Chinese: A diachronic constructionist approach7
Language contact and translation: dependency relations as a lens for source language influence in fiction7
Modality effect in interactive alignment: Differences between spoken and text-based conversation7
The difference intersubjective grammar makes in protactile DeafBlind communities7
A better or worse communicator? Comparing human and machine translation in source language shining through across registers7
Editorial Board7
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Pitch syntax as part of an ancient protolanguage7
How are neural machine-translated Chinese-to-English short stories constructed and cohered? An exploratory study based on theme-rheme structure6
Perception of foreign segments in loanword phonology6
Syntactic and typological properties of translational language: A comparative description of dependency treebank of academic abstracts6
Effects of frame-semantically (in)congruent food labels on taste in non-native English speakers6
Epistemological challenges in the study of alternating constructions6
Re-investigating the classification of definite CL-NP constructions in Chinese dialect: An empirical study based on semantic maps6
Syllable structure and syllabification in Maaloula Aramaic6
Book Review6
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Attentional semantics of deictic locatives5
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Effects of L2 experience on Mandarin listeners’ perception of Korean politeness5
Construal and impersonalization in German and English: Comparing impersonal pronouns in online hotel reviews5
The Chinese change-of-state token o in responsive units5
Brain activation in noun-based- and predicate-Eojeol processing during Korean visual word recognition5
Greek-Cypriot learners’ perception and production of L2 English vowels5
Introduction: Reimagining language and belonging in the diaspora5
A corpus-based study of phrasal and clausal temporal adjuncts at the left and right peripheries across genres of written English discourse5
Language interference in Mandarin Chinese-English simultaneous interpreting: insights from multi-dimensional syntactic complexity5
Understanding depiction in tactile Norwegian sign language interpreting5
Scalar pseudo-cleft constructions in Mandarin conversation: A multimodal approach5
Verbal group complexes in Norwegian5
Interaction in bilingual early speech acquisition: Acceleration in the bilingual acquisition of English liquids for English-Spanish bilinguals5
Towards a system of principles for identifying nominalizing metaphors5
The effectiveness of metaphors in Chinese video advertisements for depression: An experimental study5
Editorial Board5
Book Review4
Structural similarity in figurative language: A preliminary cognitive analysis4
Towards a description of palm-up in bidirectional signed language interpreting4
A multi-method approach to estimating subjectivity of causal connectives: The case of ‘poetomu’ and ‘tak chto’ in Russian4
Towards a speech-gesture profile of discourse markers: The case of ‘I mean’4
An intercultural analysis of metadiscourse in international mathematical contest papers: From research to EAP practice4
Pseudo-cleft constructions in Swedish talk-in-interaction: Turn projection and discourse organization4
An extensive analysis of blending in Contemporary Italian4
ERP evidence for the effect of rhythmic patterns on the semantic processing of Chinese trisyllabic NN compounds4
Frequency matters in second language acquisition too! Frequency effects in the production of preterit morphology with state verbs in Spanish second language learners and heritage speakers3
A multidimensional analysis of the Spanish reportative epistemic evidential dizque3
Editorial Board3
Formulaic expressions in Korean academic discourse: A corpus-based combinatoric morphemic analysis3
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Placeholders in written language: The case of Japanese kō and otsu3
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Mixtec negative existential cycles, standard negation and negative indefiniteness3
French V-N compounds: Plural marking, headedness endocentricity/exocentricity continuum3
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Definiteness in plural reference in Shaoxing Wu3
Animacy and agentivity of Subject Themes in English-German translation3
Exploring motion event construal: How much attention do speakers of different languages and cultures pay to context?3
Sequential order of antonym pairs in Modern Standard Arabic: A corpus-based analysis3
Editorial Board3
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The role of interactional and cognitive mechanisms in the evolution of (proto)language(s)3
Retrieval practice enhances learning and memory retention of French words in Chinese-English bilinguals3
Training non-native speech sounds results in long-lasting plastic changes – Hard-wiring new memory traces takes time3
How did language evolve in the lineage of higher primates?3
The semantic typology of expressive interjections: colexifications in pain, disgust and joy interjections across languages3
The effects of linguistic proximity on dependency distance and dependency direction of translated English from 35 languages3
Nativeness perceptions and speaker voice as predictors of (non-)native English speaker evaluations in four ELF contexts3
Verbal effect on the processing of complement coercion: Distinguishing between aspectual verbs and psych verbs3
L2 acquisition of classifier reduplication in Chinese3
A corpus-based analysis of the fortition of the word-initial /ʒ/ in French3
Gaplessness in Chinese relative clauses2
Anaphora resolution and age effects in Greek-Spanish bilingualism: Evidence from first-generation immigrants, heritage speakers, and L2 speakers2
Transitivity-ergativity perspectives on causation in legal texts: A contrastive study of Arabic and English website terms of service2
Editorial Board2
Modelability of WAR metaphors across time in cross-national COVID-19 news translation: An insight into ideology manipulation2
Textual functions of low confidence adverbs: The case of perhaps2
What do Chinese bidirectional Life–Xì (‘Drama’) similes/metaphors tell us about metaphorical bidirectionality?2
Book Review2
Bilingual influences and sources of variability in acceptability judgments: A case study of Chinese2
How effective is expressive? Consumer perceptions of new vernacular features in Facebook webcare responses2
Metaphors and trauma: An image schematic analysis of symptom-specific metaphors2
Conceptual metonymy and emotive-affective meaning at the interface: Examples from online medical consultations2
An empirical study on parameters affecting the recoverability of deictic null subjects in Korean2
Diachronic changes in lexical density of research article abstracts: A corpus-based study2
Variation in verbal negation in Jordanian Arabic: A corpus-based analysis2
Comparison-and-contrast in research articles of applied linguistics: A frame-based analysis2
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The motivations and limits of Mandarin contact-induced evolution: A case study of Xiaoling Junhua in contact with Min dialects in Hainan2
Explicit and implicit (im)politeness: A corpus-based study of the Chinese formulaic expression “Nikezhen+X”2
Cultural conceptualisations of karma in American, Indian, and Hong Kong varieties of English2
Proximity, polarity and scalarity: A semantic study of approximative sentence-final particles in Cantonese2
An investigation of nominal copular sentences in three reading paradigms: Acceptability judgments, self-paced reading, and eye-tracking2
Syntactic functions of words grammatically related to verbs in interlanguage: A valency perspective2
Acquisition of reflexive and reflexively used pronouns in Croatian and Austrian German: A corpus-based study2
Functional profile of the lexeme ot in contemporary Polish: A cross-linguistic examination2
Standard language dynamics in postcolonial Suriname2
Correlations of valency alternations and morphological types: A typological perspective2
Pseudo-cleft-like structures in Hebrew and French conversation: The syntax-lexicon-body interface2
Evidence for syntactic audience design from the production of active and passive relative clauses in Chinese2
“I agree!” empathetic head-nodding and its role in cultural competences development2
An acceptability study of triadic constructions in Hong Kong Cantonese2
Derivational zero affixes worldwide2
Verum shi, sentence-final de and the emphatic effects in Mandarin2
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Dynamics of scope ambiguities: comparative analysis of human and large language model performance in Korean2
Regional pragmatic variation in the use of conventional expressions at three Spanish-speaking sites2
The interface issue in second language acquisition research: An interdisciplinary perspective2
Looking for someone: The encoding of indefinite human reference in Chinese/English aligned translation2
5–9-year-olds categorisation of regional accents: The role of exposure to variation2
Coordinating individual actions in joint activities: The case of the German deictic so2
Afrikaans discourse-pragmatic features in South African English2
Form-function mismatches: The semantics of the definite article in Jordanian Arabic2
Referential choice in the narrative discourse of people with aphasia2
Reduplication in South African Englishes: A what-what borrowing gets a life of its own2
Intersubjective understanding in finger braille interpreter-mediated interaction: Two case studies of other-initiated repair2
Bound productivity in stem-formation and categorial separation2
Telic motion constructions in French and the notion of tendentiality2
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On the production of bare nouns and case marking in Korean heritage speakers in contact with English2
Face-saving strategies: The case of Hebrew SAY expressions2
Syntax, scope, and semantic identity: a genuine-sluicing approach to multiple sluicing in Mandarin Chinese2
Italian verbal groups: A systemic functional perspective2
What happened to the modal expressions? Modality in translating Chinese texts into English1
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Fitting in: Stylizing and (re)negotiating Congolese youth identity and multilingualism in Cape Town1
Perceptions of impoliteness in Twitter interactions: Evidence from Spanish Heritage speakers1
Psych verbs in Japanese: Inchoativity and boundary types1
Engaging social media users with attitudinal messages during health crisis communication1
Emotion and moral stance in evaluations of impoliteness in L1 and L2 from video clips of workplace interactions1
Pseudo-clefts in Italian talk-in-interaction and in interaction-as-represented1
Lexical use and social class: A study on lexical richness, word length, and word class in spoken English1
A cognitive psychological model of linguistic intuitions: Polysemy and predicate order effects in copredication sentences1
The acquisition of grammatical gender in German as an additional language: A comparison of L1 English and L1 Polish learners with and without knowledge of other gendered languages1
Complex interactions in the multilingual mind: Assessing metalinguistic abilities and their effects on decoding a new language system in trilingual learners1
‘What the X’ in Anglophone government meetings: Areal distribution, emotionality, and euphemism1
Predictive processing of grammatical gender: Using gender cues to facilitate processing in Spanish1
Characterizing natural interpreters’ attitudes towards interpreting: The effect of experimental contexts1
A labeling approach to the removal of island effects via head movement and its consequences1
The merger of falling tones: A perception study in Taiyuan Jin Chinese1
‘Jackpot!’: How social forces intertwine with language-internal mechanisms to turn Korean noun taypak into an interactive1
Unraveling the logical status of sentential relative clauses in English: Constructing a multifunctional framework1
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Gratitude for compliance: A developmental study on the speech act of thanking1
Implicit and explicit linguistic biases: The influence of social dominance orientation (SDO) upon hierarchical language attitudes1
From gestures to grammatical non-manuals in sign language: A case study of polar questions and negation in Hong Kong Sign Language1
Nostalgic diaspora or diasporic nostalgia? Discursive and identity constructions of Greeks in Qatar1
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Gender classification of Korean personal names: Deep neural networks versus human judgments1
Comparing Germanic, Romance and Slavic: Relationships among linguistic distances1
Developing local grammars of speech acts in Italian: The case of apology1
Metaphorical events in translation: Does language type matter?1
Introduction to Evolving (Proto)Language/s1
Projecting incongruity in turn and action: the TCU-medial particle ha in Chinese conversation1
The use of gender-fair language in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland: A contrastive, corpus-based study1
Pragmatics of second person address variation in New Zealand Sign Language1
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Chinese nouns are mass nouns: An information-theoretic computational proof1
Mandarin-speaking children’s acquisition of the additive particle ye ‘also’1
How labial and alveolar consonants evoke the images of softness and cuteness?: Experiments with Korean speakers1
Exploring the ‘languaging habitus’ of a diasporic community: Colombians in New Zealand1
SFL approaches to language dynamics and contrast1
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Socio-cognitive influences on translating forward causal connectives: A multivariate analysis of English translations of Tao Te Ching1
Final consonant clusters: A repair continuum1
Repair-by-deletion/insertion and the distribution of the copula in African American English1
Editorial Board1
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The typology of degree marking1
The role of phonological overlap and cognates in dual logographic bilinguals’ phonological processing1
Understanding spelling conflicts in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian: Insights from speakers’ attitudes and beliefs1
Lexical and sublexical effects on diachronic stability and instability of phonological systems1
Subjecthood and argument structure of synonymous Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verbs across German and Icelandic1
Book Review1
Dashing is faster than lumbering by sound: Speed sound symbolism in English motion verbs1
Dependencies between adverbs and sentence-final particles: A case of confirmative and non-confirmative modals in Cantonese1
Situation-bound utterances and constructional networks: The evolution of the Hebrew see-farewell family1
The role of phonetic radical information in compound character recognition during sentence reading1
Chinese is a discourse-configurational language: Miyagawa’s typology revisited1
Lexical creativity in modern Nahuatl: An analysis of multidialectal data1
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Three-layered hierarchical structure of Mandarin Chinese aspectual projections1
Emergence and evolution of language in multi-agent systems1
Syntactic simplification in interpreted English: Dependency distance and direction measures1
‘Did I repeat so many English words?’: Stability of L1 and L2 word association responses over time and across response positions1
Altered speech act indication: A contrastive pragmatic study of English and Chinese Thank and Greet expressions1
Figuratively used product names: From ergonyms to eponyms and paragons1
Regional variation in conventional expressions: a comparative study of Mandarin in Mainland China and Taiwan1
Salience-simplification strategy for markedness of causal subordinators: “Because” and “since” in argumentative essays1
Polyadic fronting does not exist in German (but crowded CPs do): Cyclic internal Merge and multiple external Merge in the left edge of the clause1
Dynamic modelling of context: Field, Tenor and Mode revisited1
From fear to grammar: The case of avoidives1
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(Non-)compositionality and complexity: A crosslinguistic investigation0
Do position and lexical knowledge matter in children’s second language speech perception?0
Vulgarity in online discourse around the English-speaking world0
Home and away – Implications of short-term sojourning of young Australian bilinguals0
Establishing a pseudo-cleft construction in Japanese: A perspective from everyday conversation0
Referent accessibility and referential choice in Mandarin mother–child conversation: The incremental effect of accessibility0
Nonverbal predication and SELF-assertive truth-conditionality in American Sign Language0
The developmental trajectory of contrast markers in children’s writing across four grade levels0
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Technical vocabulary in languages for special purposes: The corpus-based Russian economics word list0
Imageability norms for 90 English spatio-temporal prepositions and semantically similar expressions0
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Development of voice onset time in Arabic0
Knowledge structures for knowledge communication: Dominant semantic frames in research articles0
Semantic scope in Q-float constructions: An experimental investigation0
Adult heritage speakers of Spanish in the US and subject placement in presentational unaccusative sentences: How are their grammars constrained?0
Linguistic factors that condition the velarization of word final /n/ in Puerto Rican Spanish0
Variation in formant dynamics of L1 and L2 Spanish vowels0
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Guyanais vs. Gardiol: Broken transmission vs. grammatical continuity0
Offers in Nigerian English0
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Sundanese verbal groups: Towards a systemic functional linguistic description0
Argument structure of emotive interjections: Evidence from Polish0
L1 transfer and input demand in contact-driven syntactic change0
The Chinese character you (有): A functional approach0
An experimental study of Mandarin-speaking children’s acquisition of recursion under a formal definition/classification system for recursion0
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The V-Neg-V complex predicates, two types of negation, and grammaticalization in Japanese0
Visualizing prosodic structure: Manual gestures as highlighters of prosodic heads and edges in English academic discourses0
‘‘I’m the ghost hunter’’: Self-disclosure and its membership categorization in Chinese police interrogations of suspects0
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The interactions between factivity and politeness in Korean discourse: An experimental approach0
The natural history of negation phenomena0
Stance-taking and (inter)subjective roles of Mandarin zhende (ma/a)0
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