OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Lingua is 2. 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.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	52
Object preference in the interpretation of floating numeral quantifiers of Korean	44
Editorial Board	44
Spatial language production in Chinese preschoolers: Developmental patterns and associated predictors	33
The architecture of absence: How nominal and clausal grounding illuminate profiling verb-noun compounds	27
Is there a polarity-prominent language? A typological perspective on Dagaare verbal systems	22
The role of diacritical dots in the early stages of lexical processing in Arabic	19
Polarity metaphor in English: Definition, identification, and categorization	17
Syntactic differences of the probabilistic valency of nouns in Chinese–English Code-switching	15
Declarative intonation of Japanese-Spanish bilinguals in Spanish casual speech	15
Book Review	14
Editorial Board	13
Shocking projections: The rise of the [x-shock] construction complex in macroeconomics	13
Assessing structural language skills of autistic adults: Focus on sentence repetition	12
Editorial Board	12
The efficacy of names and their place in the lexicon	11
Constructional variation, grammaticalization, and constructional network of extreme degree resultatives in Mandarin: A quantitative analysis	11
Canonical and non-canonical roots: The diversity of roots in Mandarin Chinese	11
Editorial Board	10
Editorial Board	10
Editorial Board	10
Editorial Board	10
Editorial Board	10
Interpreter mediation as other-initiated self-repair in court: Effects on the defence in Chinese bilingual criminal trials	9
Modality effect in interactive alignment: Differences between spoken and text-based conversation	9

A better or worse communicator? Comparing human and machine translation in source language shining through across registers	8
Language contact and translation: dependency relations as a lens for source language influence in fiction	8
A corpus-based study of phrasal and clausal temporal adjuncts at the left and right peripheries across genres of written English discourse	8
Epistemological challenges in the study of alternating constructions	7
Re-investigating the classification of definite CL-NP constructions in Chinese dialect: An empirical study based on semantic maps	7
Effects of frame-semantically (in)congruent food labels on taste in non-native English speakers	7
Greek-Cypriot learners’ perception and production of L2 English vowels	7
Book Review	7
Towards a system of principles for identifying nominalizing metaphors	7
Construal and impersonalization in German and English: Comparing impersonal pronouns in online hotel reviews	7
Syllable structure and syllabification in Maaloula Aramaic	7
Interaction in bilingual early speech acquisition: Acceleration in the bilingual acquisition of English liquids for English-Spanish bilinguals	6
Language interference in Mandarin Chinese-English simultaneous interpreting: insights from multi-dimensional syntactic complexity	6
Understanding depiction in tactile Norwegian sign language interpreting	6
Verbal group complexes in Norwegian	6
The effectiveness of metaphors in Chinese video advertisements for depression: An experimental study	5
Editorial Board	5
Politeness as a participants’ matter: the interactive construction of apologies in Mandarin Chinese conversation	5
Attentional semantics of deictic locatives	5
ERP evidence for the effect of rhythmic patterns on the semantic processing of Chinese trisyllabic NN compounds	5
Towards a description of palm-up in bidirectional signed language interpreting	5
Brain activation in noun-based- and predicate-Eojeol processing during Korean visual word recognition	5
Cross-linguistic variation in pragmatic inference: Anaphora resolution in Chinese and German	5
Book Review	5
Editorial Board	5
Adverb placement by Chinese EFL learners: A MuPDAR(F) approach	4
Sequential order of antonym pairs in Modern Standard Arabic: A corpus-based analysis	4
Structural similarity in figurative language: A preliminary cognitive analysis	4
Towards a speech-gesture profile of discourse markers: The case of ‘I mean’	4
Editorial Board	4
Definiteness in plural reference in Shaoxing Wu	4
Editorial Board	4
The effects of linguistic proximity on dependency distance and dependency direction of translated English from 35 languages	4
Editorial Board	4
A multi-method approach to estimating subjectivity of causal connectives: The case of ‘poetomu’ and ‘tak chto’ in Russian	4
Nativeness perceptions and speaker voice as predictors of (non-)native English speaker evaluations in four ELF contexts	4
Training non-native speech sounds results in long-lasting plastic changes – Hard-wiring new memory traces takes time	4
Editorial Board	4
A corpus-based analysis of the fortition of the word-initial /ʒ/ in French	4
The semantic typology of expressive interjections: colexifications in pain, disgust and joy interjections across languages	4
The Chinese change-of-state token o in responsive units	4
Formulaic expressions in Korean academic discourse: A corpus-based combinatoric morphemic analysis	4
Editorial Board	4
French V-N compounds: Plural marking, headedness endocentricity/exocentricity continuum	4
Mixtec negative existential cycles, standard negation and negative indefiniteness	4
Editorial Board	4
The role of interactional and cognitive mechanisms in the evolution of (proto)language(s)	3
Referential choice in the narrative discourse of people with aphasia	3
An acceptability study of triadic constructions in Hong Kong Cantonese	3
Brain lexicon representation of high-familiarity Japanese loanwords in Chinese-English-Japanese trilinguals: evidence from cognitive neuroscience	3

On the production of bare nouns and case marking in Korean heritage speakers in contact with English	3
Intersubjective understanding in finger braille interpreter-mediated interaction: Two case studies of other-initiated repair	3
Looking for someone: The encoding of indefinite human reference in Chinese/English aligned translation	3
Verbal effect on the processing of complement coercion: Distinguishing between aspectual verbs and psych verbs	3
Variation in verbal negation in Jordanian Arabic: A corpus-based analysis	3
An empirical study on parameters affecting the recoverability of deictic null subjects in Korean	3
Form, Function, and Change in Chinese Two-plus-Two Idioms: A Diachronic Corpus Analysis	3
Evidence for syntactic audience design from the production of active and passive relative clauses in Chinese	3
L2 acquisition of classifier reduplication in Chinese	3
Telic motion constructions in French and the notion of tendentiality	3
Vulgarity and bad language in online and public discourse: an introduction	3
Phonological preparation in Korean: the role of syllable complexity and orthographic support	3
Contextual variation of internal and external modifications in L2 Chinese requests: effects of power, imposition, and proficiency	3
Comparison-and-contrast in research articles of applied linguistics: A frame-based analysis	3
Placeholders in written language: The case of Japanese kō and otsu	3
Bilingual influences and sources of variability in acceptability judgments: A case study of Chinese	3
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 speakers	3
Anaphora resolution and age effects in Greek-Spanish bilingualism: Evidence from first-generation immigrants, heritage speakers, and L2 speakers	3
Functional profile of the lexeme ot in contemporary Polish: A cross-linguistic examination	2
Face-saving strategies: The case of Hebrew SAY expressions	2
Comparing intelligibility between Occitan, Gallo-“Italic”, and Tuscan: Classification of Gallo-“Italic” empirically tested	2
Subjecthood and argument structure of synonymous Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verbs across German and Icelandic	2
Diachronic changes in lexical density of research article abstracts: A corpus-based study	2
Italian verbal groups: A systemic functional perspective	2
Refusal Pragmatic Looping (RPL) in second-language interaction: sequential constraints on refusal trajectories in a spoken learner corpus	2
Syntactic functions of words grammatically related to verbs in interlanguage: A valency perspective	2
Derivational zero affixes worldwide	2
Acquisition of reflexive and reflexively used pronouns in Croatian and Austrian German: A corpus-based study	2
Cultural conceptualisations of karma in American, Indian, and Hong Kong varieties of English	2
Book Review	2
Editorial Board	2
The typology of degree marking	2
“I agree!” empathetic head-nodding and its role in cultural competences development	2
Modelability of WAR metaphors across time in cross-national COVID-19 news translation: An insight into ideology manipulation	2
Proximity, polarity and scalarity: A semantic study of approximative sentence-final particles in Cantonese	2
Explicit and implicit (im)politeness: A corpus-based study of the Chinese formulaic expression “Nikezhen+X”	2
Editorial Board	2
Children interpret simple disjunction conjunctively: evidence from Mandarin Chinese	2
Editorial Board	2
Coordinating individual actions in joint activities: The case of the German deictic so	2
Editorial Board	2
Reduplication in South African Englishes: A what-what borrowing gets a life of its own	2
Gaplessness in Chinese relative clauses	2
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 Chinese	2
Editorial Board	2
Bound productivity in stem-formation and categorial separation	2
Pseudo-cleft-like structures in Hebrew and French conversation: The syntax-lexicon-body interface	2
An investigation of nominal copular sentences in three reading paradigms: Acceptability judgments, self-paced reading, and eye-tracking	2