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

Article	Citations
What do complexity measures measure? Correlating and validating corpus-based measures of morphological complexity	27
Is Zoom viable for sociophonetic research? A comparison of in-person and online recordings for vocalic analysis	26
A multivariate analysis of causativedoand causativemakein Middle English	20
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Why are multiword units hard to acquire for late L2 learners? Insights from cognitive science on adult learning, processing, and retrieval	11
Non-canonical questions from a comparative perspective: Introduction to the special collection	10
The language of men and women in Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: Discovery	9
“To boldly go where no man has gone before”: how iconic is the Star Trek split infinitive?	9
Novel metaphor and embodiment: comprehending novel synesthetic metaphors	8
Disentangling constructional networks: integrating taxonomic effects into the description of grammatical alternations	8
Singing and the body: body-focused and concept-focused vocal instruction	8
Possessive pronouns in Russian-German language contact: variation or change?	7
“All women are like that”: an overview of linguistic deindividualization and dehumanization of women in the incelosphere	7
Comprehension of conversational implicatures in L3 Mandarin	7
Metaphor and gender: are words associated with source domains perceived in a gendered way?	7
Metalinguistic awareness as a factor in contact-induced language change	6
Using ATLAS.ti for constructing and analysing multimodal social media corpora	6
Revisiting the hypothesis of ideophones as windows to language evolution	6
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Discourse connectives and their arguments: an experiment on anaphoricity in German	5
The moving project: exploring language, migration, and identity using participatory podcasting during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Sound change and tonogenesis in Sylheti	5
Alternations (at) that time: NP versus PP time adjuncts in the history of English	5
Sign recognition: the effect of parameters and features in sign mispronunciations	5
Speech style variation in an endangered language	5

Re-taking the field: resuming in-person fieldwork amid the COVID-19 pandemic	5
The Linguistics Roadshow	5
Why is this language complex? Cherry-pick the optimal set of features in multilingual treebanks	4
The Ultraviolet Bleach corpus	4
A quantitative global test of the complexity trade-off hypothesis: the case of nominal and verbal grammatical marking	4
Yeah, but how? Operationalizing the functions of the discourse-pragmatic marker yeah	4
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Reading Twitter as a marketplace of ideas: how attitudes to COVID-19 are affecting attitudes to migrants in Ireland	4
Brazilian Portuguese-Russian (BraPoRus) corpus: automatic transcription and acoustic quality of elderly speech during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
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On the semantics of (negated) approximative kaada in Classical Arabic: a case for embedded exhaustification	4
Length, position, and functions of inter-clausal Chinese–English code-switching in a bilingual novel	4
Decoding French equivalents of the English present perfect: evidence from parallel corpora of parliamentary documents	4
My Memoji, my self: prosodic correlates of online performed code-switching via avatar	4
One suitcase, two grammars: what can we conclude about Australian Turkish heritage speakers’ divergent processing of evidentiality?	4
Contextualized word senses: from attention to compositionality	3
A unified account of the multiple applications of German D-pronoun	3
Generational differences in the low tones of Black Lahu	3
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Media debates over the renaming of the cityscape	3
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Introduction: what are alternations and how should we study them?	3
Testing the effect of speech separation on vowel formant estimates	3
Code-switching in computer-mediated communication by Gen Z Japanese Americans	3
COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories, discourses of liberty, and “the new normal” on social media	3
Sound change or community change? The speech community in sound change studies: a case study of Scottish Gaelic	3
Conflation of spatial reference frames in deaf community sign languages	3
Long English objects and short Chinese objects: language diversity shaped by cognitive universality	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
Researching dialects with high school students: a citizen science approach	3
Phonetic change over the career: a case study	3
Monomodal and multimodal metaphors in editorial cartoons on the coronavirus by Jordanian cartoonists	2
Metonymy in the Korean internally headed relative clause construction	2
Quantifying the importance of morphomic structure, semantic values, and frequency of use in Romance stem alternations	2
Causal relevance of conditionals: semantics or pragmatics?	2
Situating embodied action plans: pre-enacting and planning actions within knowledge communication in sports training	2
Ongoing exposure to an ambient language continues to build implicit knowledge across the lifespan	2
Imperatives as persuasion strategies in political discourse	2
Epenthetic vowel quality crosslinguistically, with focus on Modern Hebrew	2
Bibliographic bias and information-density sampling	2
New perspectives on morphosyntactic variation in African youth language practices	2
Monitoring and evaluating body knowledge: metaphors and metonymies of body position in children’s music instrument instruction	2
Quoting to deceive: fake quotes and political delegitimization in Spanish far right grassroots disinformation campaigns	2
A multifactorial approach to crosslinguistic constituent orderings	2
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Tapped /r/ in RP: a corpus-based sociophonetic study across the twentieth century	2
Metaphors are embodied otherwise they would not be metaphors	2
Rapport-building attempts in technology-mediated job interviews during the COVID-19 crisis	2
Cyberpunk,steampunk, and all thatpunk: genre names and their uses across communities	2

Instructing embodied knowledge: multimodal approaches to interactive practices for knowledge constitution	2
Introduction to sound change in endangered or small speech communities	2
Collecting language assessment data in the age of pandemic: a preliminary case study of Chinese EFL learners	2
Anaphoric reference in a German-Polish bilingual child	2
The evolution of flap-nasalization in Hoocąk	2
Words of scents: a linguistic analysis of online perfume reviews	2
What can NLP do for linguistics? Towards using grammatical error analysis to document non-standard English features	2
Implicit pragmatic phenomena in headlines of Hungarian health-related fake news	2
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