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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	37
Spatial language production in Chinese preschoolers: Developmental patterns and associated predictors	29
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Object preference in the interpretation of floating numeral quantifiers of Korean	16
Polarity metaphor in English: Definition, identification, and categorization	16
Gender dissimilarity between subject and object facilitates online-comprehension of agent–patient–relations in German: An eye-tracking study with 6- to 10-year-old monolingual children	15
Editorial Board	13
Book Review	11
Editorial Board	11
Variation and change of middle-class /r/ in Standard Scottish English	11
The role of semantics and orthography in modulating conscious access to Chinese words	11
Assessing structural language skills of autistic adults: Focus on sentence repetition	10
Syntactic differences of the probabilistic valency of nouns in Chinese–English Code-switching	10
A functional model for the tag question paradigm: The case of invariable tag questions in English and Portuguese	9
Comparatives in Korean: A grammaticalization perspective	9
A corpus analysis of two by-passives in Japanese from the viewpoint of information structure	9
Declarative intonation of Japanese-Spanish bilinguals in Spanish casual speech	7
Can explicit instruction of formulaic sequences enhance L2 oral fluency?	7
The development of VdeO clefts in Chinese: A diachronic constructionist approach	7
Shocking projections: The rise of the [x-shock] construction complex in macroeconomics	7
The difference intersubjective grammar makes in protactile DeafBlind communities	7
Editorial Board	7
Exploring the effect of interpreting training: Eye-tracking English-Chinese sight interpreting	7
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Introduction: Reimagining language and belonging in the diaspora	6
Mediating linguistic diversity in the diaspora: An illustration from Haitian Canadians	6
Editorial Board	6
Greek-Cypriot learners’ perception and production of L2 English vowels	6
Processing implicatures in English as a Lingua Franca communication	6
Pitch syntax as part of an ancient protolanguage	6
Interpreter mediation as other-initiated self-repair in court: Effects on the defence in Chinese bilingual criminal trials	6
A better or worse communicator? Comparing human and machine translation in source language shining through across registers	6
Modality effect in interactive alignment: Differences between spoken and text-based conversation	6
Interaction in bilingual early speech acquisition: Acceleration in the bilingual acquisition of English liquids for English-Spanish bilinguals	5
Book Review	5
Perception of foreign segments in loanword phonology	5
Construal and impersonalization in German and English: Comparing impersonal pronouns in online hotel reviews	5
(Non-)propositional irony in Japanese – Impoliteness behind honorifics	5
Effects of frame-semantically (in)congruent food labels on taste in non-native English speakers	5
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Effects of L2 experience on Mandarin listeners’ perception of Korean politeness	5
Syntactic and typological properties of translational language: A comparative description of dependency treebank of academic abstracts	5
Towards a system of principles for identifying nominalizing metaphors	5
Epistemological challenges in the study of alternating constructions	5
Syllable structure and syllabification in Maaloula Aramaic	5
A corpus-based study of phrasal and clausal temporal adjuncts at the left and right peripheries across genres of written English discourse	5
An extensive analysis of blending in Contemporary Italian	5
How are neural machine-translated Chinese-to-English short stories constructed and cohered? An exploratory study based on theme-rheme structure	5
Re-investigating the classification of definite CL-NP constructions in Chinese dialect: An empirical study based on semantic maps	5
Attentional semantics of deictic locatives	4
The effectiveness of metaphors in Chinese video advertisements for depression: An experimental study	4
Book Review	4
Understanding depiction in tactile Norwegian sign language interpreting	4
Editorial Board	4
A multi-method approach to estimating subjectivity of causal connectives: The case of ‘poetomu’ and ‘tak chto’ in Russian	4
The Chinese change-of-state token o in responsive units	4
Towards a speech-gesture profile of discourse markers: The case of ‘I mean’	4
Structural similarity in figurative language: A preliminary cognitive analysis	4
Nativeness perceptions and speaker voice as predictors of (non-)native English speaker evaluations in four ELF contexts	4
Scalar pseudo-cleft constructions in Mandarin conversation: A multimodal approach	4
Towards a description of palm-up in bidirectional signed language interpreting	4
Emotional intelligence, working memory, and emotional vocabulary in L1 and L2: Interactions and dissociations	4
ERP evidence for the effect of rhythmic patterns on the semantic processing of Chinese trisyllabic NN compounds	4
An intercultural analysis of metadiscourse in international mathematical contest papers: From research to EAP practice	4
Pseudo-cleft constructions in Swedish talk-in-interaction: Turn projection and discourse organization	4
The role of interactional and cognitive mechanisms in the evolution of (proto)language(s)	3
French V-N compounds: Plural marking, headedness endocentricity/exocentricity continuum	3
Mixtec negative existential cycles, standard negation and negative indefiniteness	3
Animacy and agentivity of Subject Themes in English-German translation	3
Editorial Board	3
Verbal effect on the processing of complement coercion: Distinguishing between aspectual verbs and psych verbs	3
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A corpus-based analysis of the fortition of the word-initial /ʒ/ in French	3

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How did language evolve in the lineage of higher primates?	3
Exploring motion event construal: How much attention do speakers of different languages and cultures pay to context?	3
Formulaic expressions in Korean academic discourse: A corpus-based combinatoric morphemic analysis	3
L2 acquisition of classifier reduplication in Chinese	3
On referential abilities in personal narratives of Mandarin-speaking children aged three to six years	3
Verum shi, sentence-final de and the emphatic effects in Mandarin	3
Definiteness in plural reference in Shaoxing Wu	3
Editorial Board	3
Causation in Polish anticausatives	3
Sequential order of antonym pairs in Modern Standard Arabic: A corpus-based analysis	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	2
Training non-native speech sounds results in long-lasting plastic changes – Hard-wiring new memory traces takes time	2
Referential choice in the narrative discourse of people with aphasia	2
Bound productivity in stem-formation and categorial separation	2
The interface issue in second language acquisition research: An interdisciplinary perspective	2
Textual functions of low confidence adverbs: The case of perhaps	2
Looking for someone: The encoding of indefinite human reference in Chinese/English aligned translation	2
An acceptability study of triadic constructions in Hong Kong Cantonese	2
Face-saving strategies: The case of Hebrew SAY expressions	2
Metaphors and trauma: An image schematic analysis of symptom-specific metaphors	2
Form-function mismatches: The semantics of the definite article in Jordanian Arabic	2
The influence of English on Modern Standard Arabic speech reporting styles: A corpus-based study	2
Telic motion constructions in French and the notion of tendentiality	2
Editorial Board	2
Comparison-and-contrast in research articles of applied linguistics: A frame-based analysis	2
An empirical study on parameters affecting the recoverability of deictic null subjects in Korean	2
Acquisition of reflexive and reflexively used pronouns in Croatian and Austrian German: A corpus-based study	2
Book Review	2
Typological characteristics of interlanguage: Across native language types and L2 proficiency levels	2
Intersubjective understanding in finger braille interpreter-mediated interaction: Two case studies of other-initiated repair	2
Editorial Board	2
Timing patterns in a hybrid metrical system	2
Retrieval practice enhances learning and memory retention of French words in Chinese-English bilinguals	2
A multidimensional analysis of the Spanish reportative epistemic evidential dizque	2
Variation in verbal negation in Jordanian Arabic: A corpus-based analysis	2
Bilingual influences and sources of variability in acceptability judgments: A case study of Chinese	2
Conceptual metonymy and emotive-affective meaning at the interface: Examples from online medical consultations	2
Editorial Board	2
Functional profile of the lexeme ot in contemporary Polish: A cross-linguistic examination	2
Coordinating individual actions in joint activities: The case of the German deictic so	2
Correlations of valency alternations and morphological types: A typological perspective	2
Editorial Board	2
On the production of bare nouns and case marking in Korean heritage speakers in contact with English	2
Anaphora resolution and age effects in Greek-Spanish bilingualism: Evidence from first-generation immigrants, heritage speakers, and L2 speakers	2
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