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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Object preference in the interpretation of floating numeral quantifiers of Korean44
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Spatial language production in Chinese preschoolers: Developmental patterns and associated predictors33
The architecture of absence: How nominal and clausal grounding illuminate profiling verb-noun compounds27
Is there a polarity-prominent language? A typological perspective on Dagaare verbal systems22
The role of diacritical dots in the early stages of lexical processing in Arabic19
Polarity metaphor in English: Definition, identification, and categorization17
Syntactic differences of the probabilistic valency of nouns in Chinese–English Code-switching15
Declarative intonation of Japanese-Spanish bilinguals in Spanish casual speech15
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Shocking projections: The rise of the [x-shock] construction complex in macroeconomics13
Assessing structural language skills of autistic adults: Focus on sentence repetition12
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The efficacy of names and their place in the lexicon11
Constructional variation, grammaticalization, and constructional network of extreme degree resultatives in Mandarin: A quantitative analysis11
Canonical and non-canonical roots: The diversity of roots in Mandarin Chinese11
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Interpreter mediation as other-initiated self-repair in court: Effects on the defence in Chinese bilingual criminal trials9
Modality effect in interactive alignment: Differences between spoken and text-based conversation9
A better or worse communicator? Comparing human and machine translation in source language shining through across registers8
Language contact and translation: dependency relations as a lens for source language influence in fiction8
A corpus-based study of phrasal and clausal temporal adjuncts at the left and right peripheries across genres of written English discourse8
Epistemological challenges in the study of alternating constructions7
Re-investigating the classification of definite CL-NP constructions in Chinese dialect: An empirical study based on semantic maps7
Effects of frame-semantically (in)congruent food labels on taste in non-native English speakers7
Greek-Cypriot learners’ perception and production of L2 English vowels7
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Towards a system of principles for identifying nominalizing metaphors7
Construal and impersonalization in German and English: Comparing impersonal pronouns in online hotel reviews7
Syllable structure and syllabification in Maaloula Aramaic7
Interaction in bilingual early speech acquisition: Acceleration in the bilingual acquisition of English liquids for English-Spanish bilinguals6
Language interference in Mandarin Chinese-English simultaneous interpreting: insights from multi-dimensional syntactic complexity6
Understanding depiction in tactile Norwegian sign language interpreting6
Verbal group complexes in Norwegian6
The effectiveness of metaphors in Chinese video advertisements for depression: An experimental study5
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Politeness as a participants’ matter: the interactive construction of apologies in Mandarin Chinese conversation5
Attentional semantics of deictic locatives5
ERP evidence for the effect of rhythmic patterns on the semantic processing of Chinese trisyllabic NN compounds5
Towards a description of palm-up in bidirectional signed language interpreting5
Brain activation in noun-based- and predicate-Eojeol processing during Korean visual word recognition5
Cross-linguistic variation in pragmatic inference: Anaphora resolution in Chinese and German5
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Adverb placement by Chinese EFL learners: A MuPDAR(F) approach4
Sequential order of antonym pairs in Modern Standard Arabic: A corpus-based analysis4
Structural similarity in figurative language: A preliminary cognitive analysis4
Towards a speech-gesture profile of discourse markers: The case of ‘I mean’4
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Definiteness in plural reference in Shaoxing Wu4
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The effects of linguistic proximity on dependency distance and dependency direction of translated English from 35 languages4
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A multi-method approach to estimating subjectivity of causal connectives: The case of ‘poetomu’ and ‘tak chto’ in Russian4
Nativeness perceptions and speaker voice as predictors of (non-)native English speaker evaluations in four ELF contexts4
Training non-native speech sounds results in long-lasting plastic changes – Hard-wiring new memory traces takes time4
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A corpus-based analysis of the fortition of the word-initial /ʒ/ in French4
The semantic typology of expressive interjections: colexifications in pain, disgust and joy interjections across languages4
The Chinese change-of-state token o in responsive units4
Formulaic expressions in Korean academic discourse: A corpus-based combinatoric morphemic analysis4
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French V-N compounds: Plural marking, headedness endocentricity/exocentricity continuum4
Mixtec negative existential cycles, standard negation and negative indefiniteness4
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On the production of bare nouns and case marking in Korean heritage speakers in contact with English3
The role of interactional and cognitive mechanisms in the evolution of (proto)language(s)3
Referential choice in the narrative discourse of people with aphasia3
An acceptability study of triadic constructions in Hong Kong Cantonese3
Brain lexicon representation of high-familiarity Japanese loanwords in Chinese-English-Japanese trilinguals: evidence from cognitive neuroscience3
Intersubjective understanding in finger braille interpreter-mediated interaction: Two case studies of other-initiated repair3
Form, Function, and Change in Chinese Two-plus-Two Idioms: A Diachronic Corpus Analysis3
Looking for someone: The encoding of indefinite human reference in Chinese/English aligned translation3
L2 acquisition of classifier reduplication in Chinese3
Verbal effect on the processing of complement coercion: Distinguishing between aspectual verbs and psych verbs3
Variation in verbal negation in Jordanian Arabic: A corpus-based analysis3
An empirical study on parameters affecting the recoverability of deictic null subjects in Korean3
Evidence for syntactic audience design from the production of active and passive relative clauses in Chinese3
Telic motion constructions in French and the notion of tendentiality3
Placeholders in written language: The case of Japanese kō and otsu3
Vulgarity and bad language in online and public discourse: an introduction3
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
Phonological preparation in Korean: the role of syllable complexity and orthographic support3
Contextual variation of internal and external modifications in L2 Chinese requests: effects of power, imposition, and proficiency3
Comparison-and-contrast in research articles of applied linguistics: A frame-based analysis3
Bilingual influences and sources of variability in acceptability judgments: A case study of Chinese3
Anaphora resolution and age effects in Greek-Spanish bilingualism: Evidence from first-generation immigrants, heritage speakers, and L2 speakers3
Derivational zero affixes worldwide2
Acquisition of reflexive and reflexively used pronouns in Croatian and Austrian German: A corpus-based study2
Cultural conceptualisations of karma in American, Indian, and Hong Kong varieties of English2
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The typology of degree marking2
“I agree!” empathetic head-nodding and its role in cultural competences development2
Modelability of WAR metaphors across time in cross-national COVID-19 news translation: An insight into ideology manipulation2
Proximity, polarity and scalarity: A semantic study of approximative sentence-final particles in Cantonese2
Explicit and implicit (im)politeness: A corpus-based study of the Chinese formulaic expression “Nikezhen+X”2
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Children interpret simple disjunction conjunctively: evidence from Mandarin Chinese2
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Coordinating individual actions in joint activities: The case of the German deictic so2
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Reduplication in South African Englishes: A what-what borrowing gets a life of its own2
Gaplessness in Chinese relative clauses2
What do Chinese bidirectional Life–Xì (‘Drama’) similes/metaphors tell us about metaphorical bidirectionality?2
Syntax, scope, and semantic identity: a genuine-sluicing approach to multiple sluicing in Mandarin Chinese2
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Bound productivity in stem-formation and categorial separation2
Pseudo-cleft-like structures in Hebrew and French conversation: The syntax-lexicon-body interface2
An investigation of nominal copular sentences in three reading paradigms: Acceptability judgments, self-paced reading, and eye-tracking2
Functional profile of the lexeme ot in contemporary Polish: A cross-linguistic examination2
Face-saving strategies: The case of Hebrew SAY expressions2
Comparing intelligibility between Occitan, Gallo-“Italic”, and Tuscan: Classification of Gallo-“Italic” empirically tested2
Subjecthood and argument structure of synonymous Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verbs across German and Icelandic2
Diachronic changes in lexical density of research article abstracts: A corpus-based study2
Italian verbal groups: A systemic functional perspective2
Refusal Pragmatic Looping (RPL) in second-language interaction: sequential constraints on refusal trajectories in a spoken learner corpus2
Syntactic functions of words grammatically related to verbs in interlanguage: A valency perspective2
How labial and alveolar consonants evoke the images of softness and cuteness?: Experiments with Korean speakers1
Unraveling the logical status of sentential relative clauses in English: Constructing a multifunctional framework1
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Chinese is a discourse-configurational language: Miyagawa’s typology revisited1
Projecting incongruity in turn and action: the TCU-medial particle ha in Chinese conversation1
Interpreters’ use of environmentally coupled gestures to achieve mutual understanding of speaker identity in a deaf and hearing classroom1
The role of phonetic radical information in compound character recognition during sentence reading1
Socio-cognitive influences on translating forward causal connectives: A multivariate analysis of English translations of Tao Te Ching1
‘What the X’ in Anglophone government meetings: Areal distribution, emotionality, and euphemism1
Perceptions of impoliteness in Twitter interactions: Evidence from Spanish Heritage speakers1
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Pragmatics of second person address variation in New Zealand Sign Language1
Gratitude for compliance: A developmental study on the speech act of thanking1
Complex interactions in the multilingual mind: Assessing metalinguistic abilities and their effects on decoding a new language system in trilingual learners1
Ranking the acoustic cues of contrastive focus in Taiwan Mandarin: Evidence from number words1
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The merger of falling tones: A perception study in Taiyuan Jin Chinese1
Final consonant clusters: A repair continuum1
Distinguishing two types of topics in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from syntax-phonology interface1
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
Language contact and areal convergence between pinghua and Kra-Dai: evidence from classifier-noun and lone classifier phrases in Baihe Pinghua1
Evaluative and interactive functions of retrospective epistemic causal markers: A discourse grammar analysis of ‘no wonder’ expressions from a cross-linguistic perspective1
Characterizing natural interpreters’ attitudes towards interpreting: The effect of experimental contexts1
Chinese nouns are mass nouns: An information-theoretic computational proof1
Corrigendum to “Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in L2 English varieties world-wide: a corpus-based study” [Lingua 322 (2025) 103948]1
A cognitive psychological model of linguistic intuitions: Polysemy and predicate order effects in copredication sentences1
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Dynamics of scope ambiguities: comparative analysis of human and large language model performance in Korean1
Referentiality and thematic importance: The discourse functions of Zauzou classifiers1
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
Verbal groups in Australian and Papuan languages: A comparative study1
The evolutionary order of the macro-events: a case study of the diachronic evolution of 过-Guò in Chinese1
Revisiting Chinese modality types: A collostructional approach to post-modal verbs1
Regional pragmatic variation in the use of conventional expressions at three Spanish-speaking sites1
Mother tongue identification in a multilingual context: the case of the Hoa ethnic group in southern Vietnam1
The motivations and limits of Mandarin contact-induced evolution: A case study of Xiaoling Junhua in contact with Min dialects in Hainan1
What happened to the modal expressions? Modality in translating Chinese texts into English1
Mandarin-speaking children’s acquisition of the additive particle ye ‘also’1
Figuratively used product names: From ergonyms to eponyms and paragons1
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Three-layered hierarchical structure of Mandarin Chinese aspectual projections1
Lexical creativity in modern Nahuatl: An analysis of multidialectal data1
Seeing through other eyes: A cognitive-contrastive study of the Chinese perceptual marker Zhĭjiàn and its English correspondences in written narratives1
Regional variation in conventional expressions: a comparative study of Mandarin in Mainland China and Taiwan1
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Comparing Germanic, Romance and Slavic: Relationships among linguistic distances1
The development of copula/affirmative response marker polysemy in Chinese and other languages in China1
Psych verbs in Japanese: Inchoativity and boundary types1
Predictive processing of grammatical gender: Using gender cues to facilitate processing in Spanish1
Dependencies between adverbs and sentence-final particles: A case of confirmative and non-confirmative modals in Cantonese1
Emotion and moral stance in evaluations of impoliteness in L1 and L2 from video clips of workplace interactions1
Linguistic typology meets register variation: Manner salience in English, French and Mandarin children’s storybooks and adult novels1
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The use of gender-fair language in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland: A contrastive, corpus-based study1
Implicit and explicit linguistic biases: The influence of social dominance orientation (SDO) upon hierarchical language attitudes1
From fear to grammar: The case of avoidives1
Understanding spelling conflicts in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian: Insights from speakers’ attitudes and beliefs1
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Dashing is faster than lumbering by sound: Speed sound symbolism in English motion verbs1
Introduction to Evolving (Proto)Language/s1
Gender classification of Korean personal names: Deep neural networks versus human judgments1
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
Developing local grammars of speech acts in Italian: The case of apology1
Diachronic changes in syntactic complexity of Mandarin Chinese: Patterns and lexical underpinnings1
The role of phonological overlap and cognates in dual logographic bilinguals’ phonological processing1
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‘Jackpot!’: How social forces intertwine with language-internal mechanisms to turn Korean noun taypak into an interactive1
Projecting telicity in the event structure of Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from production and eye-tracking experiments1
Deciphering cross-genre dynamics: Testing the Law of Abbreviation and the Meaning-Frequency Law in Chinese across genres0
Gradient perception of geminate consonants in Arabic: a perceptual study of durational thresholds0
What do ‘like life’ similes tell us about the dynamics of metaphorical language use?0
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Argument structure of emotive interjections: Evidence from Polish0
The Chinese character you (有): A functional approach0
Input-induced inter-speaker variation: evidence from Thai, Chinese and Japanese quantifier-negation sentences0
Syntactic complexity of interpreted, L2 and L1 speech: A constrained language perspective0
Imageability norms for 90 English spatio-temporal prepositions and semantically similar expressions0
A prosodic comparison of two types of response tokens in Mandarin Chinese and English0
Semantic scope in Q-float constructions: An experimental investigation0
Exploring Mandarin tone production: A Global Chinese perspective0
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Effects of proficiency and gender on learners’ use of the pragmatic marker 吧ba0
Construing virtual intercultural experiences: A transitivity analysis of pronominal use in students’ reflective journals0
Emotion at the end of life: Semantic annotation and key domains in a pilot study audiovisual corpus0
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What is a morphological future doing in a si-clause? Traces of mirativity in Spanish0
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Do position and lexical knowledge matter in children’s second language speech perception?0
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Gender stereotypes, patriarchal beliefs, and normative generics: A survey-based measure of what Polish parents communicate in norm-breaching scenarios involving children0
When scalarity meets cross-domain mapping: A corpus-based lexical-conceptual analysis of metaphorical hyperbole0
Stance-taking and (inter)subjective roles of Mandarin zhende (ma/a)0
The developmental trajectory of contrast markers in children’s writing across four grade levels0
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Offers in Nigerian English0
Waḷḷāhi (‘by God’) as a marker of commitment and involvement in Egyptian Arabic conversation0
L1 transfer and input demand in contact-driven syntactic change0
From nominal phrase ‘my word’ to agreement marker ‘Right(!)’: A pragmatic and prosodic analysis of Korean discourse marker nay mali0
The role of emoji valence on Chinese–English bilinguals’ irony comprehension in online communication: evidence from behavioral and eye-movement study0
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‘‘I’m the ghost hunter’’: Self-disclosure and its membership categorization in Chinese police interrogations of suspects0
The expression of oral discourse disfluency in advanced L2 learners of Chinese: a comparison with native speakers0
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An acoustic analysis of nasal vowels and reduced oral vowels produced by L1 Ukrainian speakers of L2 European Portuguese on intermediate and advanced levels0
Towards a domain-neutral prepositional semantics0
(Non-)compositionality and complexity: A crosslinguistic investigation0
“Conceptualizable Agent” revisited: A critical evaluation of theoretical construct, testing design, and account of Overpassivization0
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Morphological economy and template optimization: evidence from standard and Jordanian Arabic0
What surprises, interests and confuses researchers? A frame-based analysis of knowledge emotion markers in research articles0
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Nonverbal predication and SELF-assertive truth-conditionality in American Sign Language0
Sundanese verbal groups: Towards a systemic functional linguistic description0
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Linguistic factors that condition the velarization of word final /n/ in Puerto Rican Spanish0
Guyanais vs. Gardiol: Broken transmission vs. grammatical continuity0
Perceiving emotion in human and AI voices: sensitivity to acoustic cues in Korean speech0
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The influence of conjunction distributional patterns on text processing by Chinese native speakers in expository causal complex sentences0
Versatile copulas and their stance-marking uses in conversational Odia, an Indo-Aryan language0
Introduction to the Special Issue: Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in L2 Englishes world-wide: corpus-based studies0
Bidirectionality in bilingualism? Asymmetry in L1 Spanish-L2 English vs. L1 English-L2 Spanish bilinguals0
The effects of input frequency on the emergence, frequency and syntactic distribution of quantifiers in child English0
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