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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The expression of ‘already’ in Sàꞌán Sàvǐ ñà ñuù Xnúvíkó	20
Possessive pronouns in Russian-German language contact: variation or change?	20
Novel metaphor and embodiment: comprehending novel synesthetic metaphors	18
Attention-LSTM autoencoder simulation for phonotactic learning from raw audio input	16
A multivariate analysis of causativedoand causativemakein Middle English	13
Comprehension of conversational implicatures in L3 Mandarin	13
Why are multiword units hard to acquire for late L2 learners? Insights from cognitive science on adult learning, processing, and retrieval	12
What do complexity measures measure? Correlating and validating corpus-based measures of morphological complexity	12
Disentangling constructional networks: integrating taxonomic effects into the description of grammatical alternations	11
“To boldly go where no man has gone before”: how iconic is the Star Trek split infinitive?	9
Metalinguistic awareness as a factor in contact-induced language change	9
The language of men and women in Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: Discovery	9
Revisiting the hypothesis of ideophones as windows to language evolution	9
Re-taking the field: resuming in-person fieldwork amid the COVID-19 pandemic	8
“All women are like that”: an overview of linguistic deindividualization and dehumanization of women in the incelosphere	8
Discourse connectives and their arguments: an experiment on anaphoricity in German	8
The moving project: exploring language, migration, and identity using participatory podcasting during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Alternations (at) that time: NP versus PP time adjuncts in the history of English	8
Using ATLAS.ti for constructing and analysing multimodal social media corpora	7
Metaphor and gender: are words associated with source domains perceived in a gendered way?	6
Salient Language in Context (SLIC): a web app for collecting real-time attention data in response to audio samples	6
Why is this language complex? Cherry-pick the optimal set of features in multilingual treebanks	6
Gesture-speech construction from a Cognitive Grammar perspective: the case of the sweeping away gesture	6
The Linguistics Roadshow	6
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A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of could you and would you in contemporary British English	6
Sign recognition: the effect of parameters and features in sign mispronunciations	6
Phonotactic conditions of geminates can influence sound symbolic effects: cuteness and evilness judgement experiments for Japanese speakers	6
Reading Twitter as a marketplace of ideas: how attitudes to COVID-19 are affecting attitudes to migrants in Ireland	6
Length, position, and functions of inter-clausal Chinese–English code-switching in a bilingual novel	6
One suitcase, two grammars: what can we conclude about Australian Turkish heritage speakers’ divergent processing of evidentiality?	5
A quantitative global test of the complexity trade-off hypothesis: the case of nominal and verbal grammatical marking	5
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Decoding French equivalents of the English present perfect: evidence from parallel corpora of parliamentary documents	5
On the semantics of (negated) approximative kaada in Classical Arabic: a case for embedded exhaustification	5
Sound change and tonogenesis in Sylheti	5
My Memoji, my self: prosodic correlates of online performed code-switching via avatar	4
Brazilian Portuguese-Russian (BraPoRus) corpus: automatic transcription and acoustic quality of elderly speech during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories, discourses of liberty, and “the new normal” on social media	4
Iamitive, perfect, and ‘already’ markers in Northwest Caucasian	4
Recurring patterns in tone (chain) shift	4
Phonetic change over the career: a case study	4
Testing the effect of speech separation on vowel formant estimates	4
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Yeah, but how? Operationalizing the functions of the discourse-pragmatic marker yeah	4
Researching dialects with high school students: a citizen science approach	4
Long English objects and short Chinese objects: language diversity shaped by cognitive universality	4
The Menzerath-Altmann law on the clause level in English texts	3
Quoting to deceive: fake quotes and political delegitimization in Spanish far right grassroots disinformation campaigns	3
Introduction: what are alternations and how should we study them?	3
Contextualized word senses: from attention to compositionality	3
Monomodal and multimodal metaphors in editorial cartoons on the coronavirus by Jordanian cartoonists	3
Types of interpreter services at a border town hospital in Ghana: implications for linguistic rights and access to healthcare	3
Exploring the effect of semantic diversity on boundary permeability in verb/noun heterosemy using deep contextualized word embedding	3
Phasal polarity in Totoli: aspect, restriction, and alternatives	3
Tag questions in English and Portuguese monologues: types, features, and functions	3
Anaphoric reference in a German-Polish bilingual child	3
The researcher’s bias in fake news automatic detection: a case study	3
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Generational differences in the low tones of Black Lahu	3
Quantifying the importance of morphomic structure, semantic values, and frequency of use in Romance stem alternations	3
Metonymy in the Korean internally headed relative clause construction	3
Concrete constructions or messy mangroves? How modelling contextual effects on constructional alternations reflect theoretical assumptions of language structure	3
Collecting language assessment data in the age of pandemic: a preliminary case study of Chinese EFL learners	3
A unified account of the multiple applications of German D-pronoun	3
A baseline for object clitic climbing in Italian	3
Code-switching in computer-mediated communication by Gen Z Japanese Americans	3
Attitudinal negotiation: the analysis of online commentary videos about an international event on Chinese social media platform bilibili.com	3
Introduction to sound change in endangered or small speech communities	3
Engaging to deceive: strategies of synthetic involvement in fake tweets	3
Through the compression glass: language complexity and the linguistic structure of compressed strings	2
Epenthetic vowel quality crosslinguistically, with focus on Modern Hebrew	2
Metaphors are embodied otherwise they would not be metaphors	2
What can NLP do for linguistics? Towards using grammatical error analysis to document non-standard English features	2
Memory retrieval as a pressure towards chunking in morphological inflection: the case of Turkish	2

Estimating the location and degree of constriction and labial aperture in emphatics in Jordanian Arabic	2
A multifactorial approach to crosslinguistic constituent orderings	2
Corrigendum to: Sign recognition: the effect of parameters and features in sign mispronunciations	2
Bilingualism-induced language change: what can change, when, and why?	2
Using social media as a source of analysable material in phonetics and phonology – lenition in Spanish	2
Linguistic complexity in second language acquisition	2
Translation by development workers in Vietnam: a practice for empowerment	2
Bibliographic bias and information-density sampling	2
Implicit pragmatic phenomena in headlines of Hungarian health-related fake news	2
Imperatives as persuasion strategies in political discourse	2
Ongoing exposure to an ambient language continues to build implicit knowledge across the lifespan	2
The role of narrative time in legal storytelling: a comparative analysis of opening statements in the Grant and Amanda Hayes trials	2
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Corrigendum to: repetition in Mandarin-speaking children’s dialogs: its distribution and structural dimensions	2
Rapport-building attempts in technology-mediated job interviews during the COVID-19 crisis	2
In alternations, not all semantic motivation comes from semantic contrast	2
Where have all the sound changes gone? Phonological stability and mechanisms of sound change	2
Measuring the effects of language contact using word order entropy: the case of Nheengatu	2
Reintroducing and testing the Probabilistic Sliding Template Model of vowel perception	2
Tapped /r/ in RP: a corpus-based sociophonetic study across the twentieth century	2
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Words of scents: a linguistic analysis of online perfume reviews	2
Cyberpunk,steampunk, and all thatpunk: genre names and their uses across communities	2
New perspectives on morphosyntactic variation in African youth language practices	2
Sensitivity to honorific agreement: a window into predictive processing	2
The negative existential cycle in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)	2
Rhotics, /uː/, and diphthongization in New Braunfels German	2