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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Possessive pronouns in Russian-German language contact: variation or change?	23
Novel metaphor and embodiment: comprehending novel synesthetic metaphors	22
Comprehension of conversational implicatures in L3 Mandarin	19
A multivariate analysis of causativedoand causativemakein Middle English	15
Why are multiword units hard to acquire for late L2 learners? Insights from cognitive science on adult learning, processing, and retrieval	13
Disentangling constructional networks: integrating taxonomic effects into the description of grammatical alternations	13
The language of men and women in Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: Discovery	12
“To boldly go where no man has gone before”: how iconic is the Star Trek split infinitive?	12
The expression of ‘already’ in Sàꞌán Sàvǐ ñà ñuù Xnúvíkó	10
Discourse connectives and their arguments: an experiment on anaphoricity in German	9
Attention-LSTM autoencoder simulation for phonotactic learning from raw audio input	9
Revisiting the hypothesis of ideophones as windows to language evolution	9
What do complexity measures measure? Correlating and validating corpus-based measures of morphological complexity	9
Metalinguistic awareness as a factor in contact-induced language change	9
The moving project: exploring language, migration, and identity using participatory podcasting during the COVID-19 pandemic	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	8
Salient Language in Context (SLIC): a web app for collecting real-time attention data in response to audio samples	8
Alternations (at) that time: NP versus PP time adjuncts in the history of English	7
Phonotactic conditions of geminates can influence sound symbolic effects: cuteness and evilness judgement experiments for Japanese speakers	7
Metaphor and gender: are words associated with source domains perceived in a gendered way?	7
Reading Twitter as a marketplace of ideas: how attitudes to COVID-19 are affecting attitudes to migrants in Ireland	6
Gesture-speech construction from a Cognitive Grammar perspective: the case of the sweeping away gesture	6
Using ATLAS.ti for constructing and analysing multimodal social media corpora	6
A corpus-based sociolinguistic study of could you and would you in contemporary British English	6

The Linguistics Roadshow	6
Frontmatter	6
Why is this language complex? Cherry-pick the optimal set of features in multilingual treebanks	6
Sign recognition: the effect of parameters and features in sign mispronunciations	6
One suitcase, two grammars: what can we conclude about Australian Turkish heritage speakers’ divergent processing of evidentiality?	5
Brazilian Portuguese-Russian (BraPoRus) corpus: automatic transcription and acoustic quality of elderly speech during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
A quantitative global test of the complexity trade-off hypothesis: the case of nominal and verbal grammatical marking	5
Length, position, and functions of inter-clausal Chinese–English code-switching in a bilingual novel	5
My Memoji, my self: prosodic correlates of online performed code-switching via avatar	5
Frontmatter	5
On the semantics of (negated) approximative kaada in Classical Arabic: a case for embedded exhaustification	5
Recurring patterns in tone (chain) shift	5
Yeah, but how? Operationalizing the functions of the discourse-pragmatic marker yeah	5
Decoding French equivalents of the English present perfect: evidence from parallel corpora of parliamentary documents	5
Phonetic change over the career: a case study	4
COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories, discourses of liberty, and “the new normal” on social media	4
A baseline for object clitic climbing in Italian	4
Long English objects and short Chinese objects: language diversity shaped by cognitive universality	4
Researching dialects with high school students: a citizen science approach	4
Testing the effect of speech separation on vowel formant estimates	4
Contextualized word senses: from attention to compositionality	4
Frontmatter	4
Iamitive, perfect, and ‘already’ markers in Northwest Caucasian	4
Introduction: what are alternations and how should we study them?	4
Collecting language assessment data in the age of pandemic: a preliminary case study of Chinese EFL learners	3
Frontmatter	3
Types of interpreter services at a border town hospital in Ghana: implications for linguistic rights and access to healthcare	3
Monomodal and multimodal metaphors in editorial cartoons on the coronavirus by Jordanian cartoonists	3
Estimating the location and degree of constriction and labial aperture in emphatics in Jordanian Arabic	3
The role of narrative time in legal storytelling: a comparative analysis of opening statements in the Grant and Amanda Hayes trials	3
Concrete constructions or messy mangroves? How modelling contextual effects on constructional alternations reflect theoretical assumptions of language structure	3
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
Attitudinal negotiation: the analysis of online commentary videos about an international event on Chinese social media platform bilibili.com	3
New perspectives on morphosyntactic variation in African youth language practices	3
Engaging to deceive: strategies of synthetic involvement in fake tweets	3
A multifactorial approach to crosslinguistic constituent orderings	3
Sensitivity to honorific agreement: a window into predictive processing	3
Code-switching in computer-mediated communication by Gen Z Japanese Americans	3
Tag questions in English and Portuguese monologues: types, features, and functions	3
Anaphoric reference in a German-Polish bilingual child	3
A unified account of the multiple applications of German D-pronoun	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
Cyberpunk,steampunk, and all thatpunk: genre names and their uses across communities	3
Quantifying the importance of morphomic structure, semantic values, and frequency of use in Romance stem alternations	3
The researcher’s bias in fake news automatic detection: a case study	3
Imperatives as persuasion strategies in political discourse	2
Translation by development workers in Vietnam: a practice for empowerment	2
Measuring the effects of language contact using word order entropy: the case of Nheengatu	2

Effects of information structure on pronoun resolution: the number of pronouns matters	2
Ongoing exposure to an ambient language continues to build implicit knowledge across the lifespan	2
Through the compression glass: language complexity and the linguistic structure of compressed strings	2
Frontmatter	2
Reintroducing and testing the Probabilistic Sliding Template Model of vowel perception	2
Frontmatter	2
Rapport-building attempts in technology-mediated job interviews during the COVID-19 crisis	2
The negative existential cycle in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)	2
Corrigendum to: Sign recognition: the effect of parameters and features in sign mispronunciations	2
Frequency does not predict the processing speed of multi-morpheme sequences in Japanese	2
What can NLP do for linguistics? Towards using grammatical error analysis to document non-standard English features	2
Using social media as a source of analysable material in phonetics and phonology – lenition in Spanish	2
Words of scents: a linguistic analysis of online perfume reviews	2
Bilingualism-induced language change: what can change, when, and why?	2
Epenthetic vowel quality crosslinguistically, with focus on Modern Hebrew	2
Modeling L2 motivation change and its predictive effects on learning behaviors in the extramural digital context: a quantitative investigation in China	2
Bibliographic bias and information-density sampling	2
Expletive negation in Italian temporal clauses: an acceptability judgement and a self-paced reading study	2
Implicit pragmatic phenomena in headlines of Hungarian health-related fake news	2
Introduction to the special issue on “The language of science fiction”	2
Memory retrieval as a pressure towards chunking in morphological inflection: the case of Turkish	2
Corrigendum to: repetition in Mandarin-speaking children’s dialogs: its distribution and structural dimensions	2
Tapped /r/ in RP: a corpus-based sociophonetic study across the twentieth century	2
Influence of translation on perceived metaphor features: quality, aptness, metaphoricity, and familiarity	2