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

Article	Citations
Why are multiword units hard to acquire for late L2 learners? Insights from cognitive science on adult learning, processing, and retrieval	20
Non-canonical questions from a comparative perspective: Introduction to the special collection	15
The language of men and women in Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: Discovery	13
Disentangling constructional networks: integrating taxonomic effects into the description of grammatical alternations	12
A multivariate analysis of causativedoand causativemakein Middle English	11
Possessive pronouns in Russian-German language contact: variation or change?	11
What do complexity measures measure? Correlating and validating corpus-based measures of morphological complexity	11
“To boldly go where no man has gone before”: how iconic is the Star Trek split infinitive?	11
The expression of ‘already’ in Sàꞌán Sàvǐ ñà ñuù Xnúvíkó	10
Novel metaphor and embodiment: comprehending novel synesthetic metaphors	10
Comprehension of conversational implicatures in L3 Mandarin	10
Attention-LSTM autoencoder simulation for phonotactic learning from raw audio input	9
Is Zoom viable for sociophonetic research? A comparison of in-person and online recordings for vocalic analysis	8
Metaphor and gender: are words associated with source domains perceived in a gendered way?	8
“All women are like that”: an overview of linguistic deindividualization and dehumanization of women in the incelosphere	8
Re-taking the field: resuming in-person fieldwork amid the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Revisiting the hypothesis of ideophones as windows to language evolution	7
Metalinguistic awareness as a factor in contact-induced language change	7
Discourse connectives and their arguments: an experiment on anaphoricity in German	7
The moving project: exploring language, migration, and identity using participatory podcasting during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Speech style variation in an endangered language	6
Salient Language in Context (SLIC): a web app for collecting real-time attention data in response to audio samples	6
Sound change and tonogenesis in Sylheti	6
Alternations (at) that time: NP versus PP time adjuncts in the history of English	6
Sign recognition: the effect of parameters and features in sign mispronunciations	6

Using ATLAS.ti for constructing and analysing multimodal social media corpora	6
A quantitative global test of the complexity trade-off hypothesis: the case of nominal and verbal grammatical marking	5
Brazilian Portuguese-Russian (BraPoRus) corpus: automatic transcription and acoustic quality of elderly speech during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
The Linguistics Roadshow	5
Frontmatter	5
The Ultraviolet Bleach corpus	5
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
Length, position, and functions of inter-clausal Chinese–English code-switching in a bilingual novel	5
Frontmatter	5
Reading Twitter as a marketplace of ideas: how attitudes to COVID-19 are affecting attitudes to migrants in Ireland	5
Why is this language complex? Cherry-pick the optimal set of features in multilingual treebanks	5
One suitcase, two grammars: what can we conclude about Australian Turkish heritage speakers’ divergent processing of evidentiality?	4
Recurring patterns in tone (chain) shift	4
Frontmatter	4
Iamitive, perfect, and ‘already’ markers in Northwest Caucasian	4
A baseline for object clitic climbing in Italian	4
Introduction: what are alternations and how should we study them?	4
My Memoji, my self: prosodic correlates of online performed code-switching via avatar	4
Yeah, but how? Operationalizing the functions of the discourse-pragmatic marker yeah	4
Conflation of spatial reference frames in deaf community sign languages	4
Testing the effect of speech separation on vowel formant estimates	4
COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories, discourses of liberty, and “the new normal” on social media	4
Contextualized word senses: from attention to compositionality	4
Researching dialects with high school students: a citizen science approach	4
Phonetic change over the career: a case study	4
Sound change or community change? The speech community in sound change studies: a case study of Scottish Gaelic	4
Long English objects and short Chinese objects: language diversity shaped by cognitive universality	4
A unified account of the multiple applications of German D-pronoun	4
New perspectives on morphosyntactic variation in African youth language practices	3
Engaging to deceive: strategies of synthetic involvement in fake tweets	3
Introduction to sound change in endangered or small speech communities	3
Causal relevance of conditionals: semantics or pragmatics?	3
Frontmatter	3
Generational differences in the low tones of Black Lahu	3
Tag questions in English and Portuguese monologues: types, features, and functions	3
Monomodal and multimodal metaphors in editorial cartoons on the coronavirus by Jordanian cartoonists	3
The evolution of flap-nasalization in Hoocąk	3
Attitudinal negotiation: the analysis of online commentary videos about an international event on Chinese social media platform bilibili.com	3
Quantifying the importance of morphomic structure, semantic values, and frequency of use in Romance stem alternations	3
Code-switching in computer-mediated communication by Gen Z Japanese Americans	3
Quoting to deceive: fake quotes and political delegitimization in Spanish far right grassroots disinformation campaigns	3
Phasal polarity in Totoli: aspect, restriction, and alternatives	3
Collecting language assessment data in the age of pandemic: a preliminary case study of Chinese EFL learners	3
Metonymy in the Korean internally headed relative clause construction	3
Anaphoric reference in a German-Polish bilingual child	3
The Menzerath-Altmann law on the clause level in English texts	3
Concrete constructions or messy mangroves? How modelling contextual effects on constructional alternations reflect theoretical assumptions of language structure	3
Sensory experience ratings (SERs) for 1,130 Chinese words: relationships with other semantic and lexical psycholinguistic variables	2
Linguistic complexity in second language acquisition	2

Introduction to the special issue on “The language of science fiction”	2
Modeling L2 motivation change and its predictive effects on learning behaviors in the extramural digital context: a quantitative investigation in China	2
Ongoing exposure to an ambient language continues to build implicit knowledge across the lifespan	2
Corrigendum to: repetition in Mandarin-speaking children’s dialogs: its distribution and structural dimensions	2
Frontmatter	2
Encoding politeness in African urban youth languages: evidence from Southern Africa	2
Words of scents: a linguistic analysis of online perfume reviews	2
Tapped /r/ in RP: a corpus-based sociophonetic study across the twentieth century	2
Frontmatter	2
Implicit pragmatic phenomena in headlines of Hungarian health-related fake news	2
Corrigendum to: Sign recognition: the effect of parameters and features in sign mispronunciations	2
In alternations, not all semantic motivation comes from semantic contrast	2
Epenthetic vowel quality crosslinguistically, with focus on Modern Hebrew	2
Using social media as a source of analysable material in phonetics and phonology – lenition in Spanish	2
What can NLP do for linguistics? Towards using grammatical error analysis to document non-standard English features	2
Rapport-building attempts in technology-mediated job interviews during the COVID-19 crisis	2
Frontmatter	2
Sensitivity to honorific agreement: a window into predictive processing	2
A multifactorial approach to crosslinguistic constituent orderings	2
Reintroducing and testing the Probabilistic Sliding Template Model of vowel perception	2
The Lothian Diary Project: sociolinguistic methods during the COVID-19 lockdown	2
Rhotics, /uː/, and diphthongization in New Braunfels German	2
Through the compression glass: language complexity and the linguistic structure of compressed strings	2
Bibliographic bias and information-density sampling	2
Where have all the sound changes gone? Phonological stability and mechanisms of sound change	2
Imperatives as persuasion strategies in political discourse	2
Metaphors are embodied otherwise they would not be metaphors	2
Exploring the effect of semantic diversity on boundary permeability in verb/noun heterosemy using deep contextualized word embedding	2
Cyberpunk,steampunk, and all thatpunk: genre names and their uses across communities	2
Bilingualism-induced language change: what can change, when, and why?	2