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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Vocalizations in dance classes teach body knowledge	20
Synchronization in demonstrations. Multimodal practices for instructing body knowledge	20
Efficiency in human languages: Corpus evidence for universal principles	16
Variability as normal as apple pie	15
Fast Track: fast (nearly) automatic formant-tracking using Praat	14
Acoustic investigation of anticipatory vowel nasalization in a Caribbean and a non-Caribbean dialect of Spanish	13
Instructing embodied knowledge: multimodal approaches to interactive practices for knowledge constitution	12
Multifactorial Information Management (MIM): summing up the emerging alternative to Information Structure	10
Singing and the body: body-focused and concept-focused vocal instruction	9
Complexity trade-offs and equi-complexity in natural languages: a meta-analysis	9
Is Zoom viable for sociophonetic research? A comparison of in-person and online recordings for vocalic analysis	9
The Lothian Diary Project: sociolinguistic methods during the COVID-19 lockdown	8
COVID-era sociolinguistics: introduction to the special issue	8
Metaphors are embodied otherwise they would not be metaphors	8
Optimization of morpheme length: a cross-linguistic assessment of Zipf’s and Menzerath’s laws	8
A computational construction grammar approach to semantic frame extraction	8
Editorial: using smartphones to collect linguistic data	7
Iconicity ratings really do measure iconicity, and they open a new window onto the nature of language	7
The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages	7
MI Diaries: ethical and practical challenges	7
Patterns of commemorative street and place renaming in India’s two mega-cities: Mumbai and New Delhi	6
Monomodal and multimodal metaphors in editorial cartoons on the coronavirus by Jordanian cartoonists	6
About the INTER and the INTRA in age-related research: Evidence from a longitudinal CLIL study with dense time serial measurements	6
Stimmen: A citizen science approach to minority language sociolinguistics	6
Do dependency lengths explain constraints on crossing dependencies?	6

Reference frames in language and cognition: cross-population mismatches	6
Experimental filler design influences error correction rates in a word restoration paradigm	6
Surprise questions in spoken French	6
Intra-individual variation across the lifespan: Results from an Austrian panel study	5
Communicative efficiency and differential case marking: a reverse-engineering approach	5
Situating embodied instruction – proxemics and body knowledge	5
What do complexity measures measure? Correlating and validating corpus-based measures of morphological complexity	5
Defining numeral classifiers and identifying classifier languages of the world	5
Monitoring and evaluating body knowledge: metaphors and metonymies of body position in children’s music instrument instruction	5
Schnëssen. Surveying language dynamics in Luxembourgish with a mobile research app	4
Individual differences in intra-speaker variation: t-glottalling in England and Scotland	4
In other gestures: Multimodal iteration in cello master classes	4
The pragmatics of surprise-disapproval questions: An empirical study	4
Linguistic complexity in second language acquisition	4
Is Zoom viable for sociophonetic research? A comparison of in-person and online recordings for sibilant analysis	4
Using smartphones to document linguistic landscapes: the LinguaSnapp mobile app	4
Causal relevance of conditionals: semantics or pragmatics?	4
Media debates over the renaming of the cityscape	4
Quantifying the efficiency of written language	4
A quantitative global test of the complexity trade-off hypothesis: the case of nominal and verbal grammatical marking	4
Geocentric directional systems in Australia: a typology	4
Introducing Construction Semantics (CxS): a frame-semantic extension of Construction Grammar and constructicography	4
Secure account-based data capture with smartphones – preliminary results from a study of articulatory precision in clinical depression	3
Street name changes as language and identity inscription in the cityscape	3
Validation of two measures for assessing English vocabulary knowledge on web-based testing platforms: long-form assessments	3
Sound change or community change? The speech community in sound change studies: a case study of Scottish Gaelic	3
Individual variation in performing reading-aloud speech among deaf speakers	3
The irrelevance of scale and fixedness in landscape terms in two Australian languages	3
Introduction: Reconciling approaches to intra-individual variation in psycholinguistics and variationist sociolinguistics	3
Emojis and conditionals: exploring the super linguistic interplay of pictorial modifiers and conditional meaning	3
The Menzerath-Altmann law on the clause level in English texts	3
Quantifying the importance of morphomic structure, semantic values, and frequency of use in Romance stem alternations	3
Socially distanced but virtually connected: pandemic fieldwork with Black Bostonians	3
“It’s a Whole Vibe”: testing evaluations of grammatical and ungrammatical AAE on Twitter	3
Phonetic change over the career: a case study	3
Cross-generational differences in linguistic and cognitive spatial frames of reference in Negev Arabic	3
Jiu-conditionals in Mandarin Chinese: thoughts on a uniform pragmatic analysis of Mandarin conditional constructions	3
Worldlikeness: a Web crowdsourcing platform for typological psycholinguistics	3
Transatlantic linguistic ties: The impact of Jamaican on African youth language practices	3
A word-based account of comprehension and production of Kinyarwanda nouns in the Discriminative Lexicon	3
A fo bont, bid ben: colonial and postcolonial ideologies in debates on renaming the Second Severn Crossing	3
Apps for capturing language variation and change in German-speaking Europe: Opportunities, challenges, findings, and future directions	3
From the field into the lab: causal approaches to the evolution of spatial language	3
An empirical study on the contribution of formal and semantic features to the grammatical gender of nouns	3
Morphological features of Kiswahili youth language(s): Evidence from Dar es Salaam, Goma, Lubumbashi and Nairobi	3
Online data collection to address language sampling bias: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	3
L2 motivation and willingness to communicate: a moderated mediation model of psychological shyness	3
Taking the trumpet up there: enactment of embodied high pitch in a multimodal body schema	2
Measuring language complexity: challenges and opportunities	2
Non-standard questions in English, German, and Japanese	2

The emergence of bunched vowels from retroflex approximants in endangered Dardic languages	2
Efficiency in discourse processing: Does morphosyntax adapt to accommodate new referents?	2
Sprekend Nederland, a multi-purpose collection of Dutch speech	2
A socially anchored approach to spatial language in Kalaallisut	2
The sociolinguistics of /l/ in Manchester	2
Where have all the sound changes gone? Examining the scarcity of evidence for regular sound change in Australian languages	2
Validation of two measures for assessing English vocabulary knowledge on web-based testing platforms: brief assessments	2
Measuring redundancy: the relation between concord and complexity	2
Disruptions due to COVID-19: using mixed methods to identify factors influencing language maintenance and shift	2
Complexity in sign languages	2
Perception of regional and nonnative accents: a comparison of museum laboratory and online data collection	2
The Ultraviolet Bleach corpus	2
Length, position, and functions of inter-clausal Chinese–English code-switching in a bilingual novel	2
Corpus linguistic and experimental studies on the meaning-preserving hypothesis in Indonesian voice alternations	2
The Red Hen Anonymizer and the Red Hen Protocol for de-identifying audiovisual recordings	2
Diversity in representing space within and between language communities	2
The prosody of French rhetorical questions	2
Intra-individual variation in adults and children: measuring and conceptualizing individual dialect–standard repertoires	2
Cultural representation in Luxembourgish street naming practices	2
The dental-alveolar contrast in Mapudungun: loss, preservation, and extension	2
Tokooos!as a linguistic fashion: The recontextualization and appropriation of Lingala youth language	2
Community cityscape: modes of engagement and co-construction of the streetscape	2
The influence of language, culture, and environment on the use of spatial referencing in a multilingual context: Taiwan as a test case	2
French questions alternating between a reason and a manner interpretation	2
Lessons learned: the long view	2