OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Linguistics Vanguard 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Linguistic fieldwork in a pandemic: Supervised data collection combining smartphone recordings and videoconferencing	18
Vocalizations in dance classes teach body knowledge	18
Synchronization in demonstrations. Multimodal practices for instructing body knowledge	15
Fast Track: fast (nearly) automatic formant-tracking using Praat	13
Variability as normal as apple pie	13
Efficiency in human languages: Corpus evidence for universal principles	13
Is Zoom viable for sociophonetic research? A comparison of in-person and online recordings for vocalic analysis	9
Multifactorial Information Management (MIM): summing up the emerging alternative to Information Structure	9
Instructing embodied knowledge: multimodal approaches to interactive practices for knowledge constitution	9
Complexity trade-offs and equi-complexity in natural languages: a meta-analysis	7
The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages	7
Acoustic investigation of anticipatory vowel nasalization in a Caribbean and a non-Caribbean dialect of Spanish	7
The Lothian Diary Project: sociolinguistic methods during the COVID-19 lockdown	7
Optimization of morpheme length: a cross-linguistic assessment of Zipf’s and Menzerath’s laws	7
MI Diaries: ethical and practical challenges	7
Iconicity ratings really do measure iconicity, and they open a new window onto the nature of language	6
Editorial: using smartphones to collect linguistic data	6
Do dependency lengths explain constraints on crossing dependencies?	6
Metaphors are embodied otherwise they would not be metaphors	6
A computational construction grammar approach to semantic frame extraction	6
Stimmen: A citizen science approach to minority language sociolinguistics	6
COVID-era sociolinguistics: introduction to the special issue	6
Situating embodied instruction – proxemics and body knowledge	5
About the INTER and the INTRA in age-related research: Evidence from a longitudinal CLIL study with dense time serial measurements	5
Crowdscapes. Participatory research and the collaborative (re)construction of linguistic landscapes with Lingscape	5

Singing and the body: body-focused and concept-focused vocal instruction	5
Patterns of commemorative street and place renaming in India’s two mega-cities: Mumbai and New Delhi	5
Monomodal and multimodal metaphors in editorial cartoons on the coronavirus by Jordanian cartoonists	5
Communicative efficiency and differential case marking: a reverse-engineering approach	5
What do complexity measures measure? Correlating and validating corpus-based measures of morphological complexity	4
Geocentric directional systems in Australia: a typology	4
Quantifying the efficiency of written language	4
Is Zoom viable for sociophonetic research? A comparison of in-person and online recordings for sibilant analysis	4
Impersonal and reflexive uses of Middle English psych verbs under contact influence with Old French	4
Surprise questions in spoken French	4
Causal relevance of conditionals: semantics or pragmatics?	4
Media debates over the renaming of the cityscape	4
Intra-individual variation across the lifespan: Results from an Austrian panel study	4
Schnëssen. Surveying language dynamics in Luxembourgish with a mobile research app	4
Monitoring and evaluating body knowledge: metaphors and metonymies of body position in children’s music instrument instruction	4
In other gestures: Multimodal iteration in cello master classes	4
Reference frames in language and cognition: cross-population mismatches	4
A quantitative global test of the complexity trade-off hypothesis: the case of nominal and verbal grammatical marking	4
Individual differences in intra-speaker variation: t-glottalling in England and Scotland	4
Quantifying the importance of morphomic structure, semantic values, and frequency of use in Romance stem alternations	3
The pragmatics of surprise-disapproval questions: An empirical study	3
Linguistic complexity in second language acquisition	3
The irrelevance of scale and fixedness in landscape terms in two Australian languages	3
Emojis and conditionals: exploring the super linguistic interplay of pictorial modifiers and conditional meaning	3
Street name changes as language and identity inscription in the cityscape	3
Defining numeral classifiers and identifying classifier languages of the world	3
“It’s a Whole Vibe”: testing evaluations of grammatical and ungrammatical AAE on Twitter	3
An empirical study on the contribution of formal and semantic features to the grammatical gender of nouns	3
Experimental filler design influences error correction rates in a word restoration paradigm	3
Transatlantic linguistic ties: The impact of Jamaican on African youth language practices	3
Sound change or community change? The speech community in sound change studies: a case study of Scottish Gaelic	3
From the field into the lab: causal approaches to the evolution of spatial language	3
Cross-generational differences in linguistic and cognitive spatial frames of reference in Negev Arabic	3
Using smartphones to document linguistic landscapes: the LinguaSnapp mobile app	3
Lessons learned: the long view	2
Worldlikeness: a Web crowdsourcing platform for typological psycholinguistics	2
A fo bont, bid ben: colonial and postcolonial ideologies in debates on renaming the Second Severn Crossing	2
Measuring redundancy: the relation between concord and complexity	2
Apps for capturing language variation and change in German-speaking Europe: Opportunities, challenges, findings, and future directions	2
The emergence of bunched vowels from retroflex approximants in endangered Dardic languages	2
A socially anchored approach to spatial language in Kalaallisut	2
Where have all the sound changes gone? Examining the scarcity of evidence for regular sound change in Australian languages	2
Jiu-conditionals in Mandarin Chinese: thoughts on a uniform pragmatic analysis of Mandarin conditional constructions	2
Diversity in representing space within and between language communities	2
The prosody of French rhetorical questions	2
Socially distanced but virtually connected: pandemic fieldwork with Black Bostonians	2
Perception of regional and nonnative accents: a comparison of museum laboratory and online data collection	2
Phonetic change over the career: a case study	2
Community cityscape: modes of engagement and co-construction of the streetscape	2
Online data collection to address language sampling bias: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	2

Introduction: Reconciling approaches to intra-individual variation in psycholinguistics and variationist sociolinguistics	2
L2 motivation and willingness to communicate: a moderated mediation model of psychological shyness	2
Secure account-based data capture with smartphones – preliminary results from a study of articulatory precision in clinical depression	2
Taking the trumpet up there: enactment of embodied high pitch in a multimodal body schema	2
Disruptions due to COVID-19: using mixed methods to identify factors influencing language maintenance and shift	2
Individual variation in performing reading-aloud speech among deaf speakers	2
Efficiency in discourse processing: Does morphosyntax adapt to accommodate new referents?	2
Corpus linguistic and experimental studies on the meaning-preserving hypothesis in Indonesian voice alternations	2
The influence of language, culture, and environment on the use of spatial referencing in a multilingual context: Taiwan as a test case	2