OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Lingua 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The developmental trajectory of contrast markers in children’s writing across four grade levels	36
Spatial language production in Chinese preschoolers: Developmental patterns and associated predictors	26
Editorial Board	25
Subjects, topics and the accusative case alternation in Finnish. A discourse-related “split” account of the Subject function	25
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SFL approaches to language dynamics and contrast	18
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French V-N compounds: Plural marking, headedness endocentricity/exocentricity continuum	15
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Complex interactions in the multilingual mind: Assessing metalinguistic abilities and their effects on decoding a new language system in trilingual learners	11
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What is in a word? An exploration of the metaphorical use of schizophrenia in general American English	10
Towards a comprehensive pragmatic model of subjectivity: Empirical evidence from French	9
Chinese is a discourse-configurational language: Miyagawa’s typology revisited	9
Editorial Board	9
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The natural history of negation phenomena	7
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Argument structure of emotive interjections: Evidence from Polish	7
Technical vocabulary in languages for special purposes: The corpus-based Russian economics word list	7
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Prosody and sentencehood in Chinese: A case study with reference to Chinese-English comparison	7
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Lexical use and social class: A study on lexical richness, word length, and word class in spoken English	6
Verum shi, sentence-final de and the emphatic effects in Mandarin	6
Corpus similarity measures remain robust across diverse languages	6
A focus-based analysis of Nominative objects in Japanese	6
The interactions between factivity and politeness in Korean discourse: An experimental approach	6
Editorial Board	6
Introduction to Evolving (Proto)Language/s	5
Variation in verbal negation in Jordanian Arabic: A corpus-based analysis	5
L2 acquisition of classifier reduplication in Chinese	5
Linguistic factors that condition the velarization of word final /n/ in Puerto Rican Spanish	5
Gender dissimilarity between subject and object facilitates online-comprehension of agent–patient–relations in German: An eye-tracking study with 6- to 10-year-old monolingual children	5
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Polarity metaphor in English: Definition, identification, and categorization	5
The role of interactional and cognitive mechanisms in the evolution of (proto)language(s)	5
Frequency matters in second language acquisition too! Frequency effects in the production of preterit morphology with state verbs in Spanish second language learners and heritage speakers	5
The syntactic marking of emotional intensity: Psycholinguistic evidence from French	5
L1 transfer and input demand in contact-driven syntactic change	5
There may be differences: Analysing the use of hedges in English and Spanish research articles	5
A multidimensional analysis of the Spanish reportative epistemic evidential dizque	5
Book Review	4
Intertwined grammaticalization, degrammaticalization, and pragmaticalization: The case of ppwun ‘share’ in Korean	4
A corpus-based analysis of the fortition of the word-initial /ʒ/ in French	4
Training non-native speech sounds results in long-lasting plastic changes – Hard-wiring new memory traces takes time	4
Translanguaging, transculturality, and the English naming practice for children in China	4
Object preference in the interpretation of floating numeral quantifiers of Korean	4
Repair-by-deletion/insertion and the distribution of the copula in African American English	4
Retrieval practice enhances learning and memory retention of French words in Chinese-English bilinguals	4
First acquiring articles in a second language: A new approach to the study of language and social cognition	4
Altered speech act indication: A contrastive pragmatic study of English and Chinese Thank and Greet expressions	4
Verbal effect on the processing of complement coercion: Distinguishing between aspectual verbs and psych verbs	4
What’s figurative about figurative language?	4
Language dominance influences bilingual lexical selection quantitatively but not qualitatively in language production: Evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals	4
Imageability norms for 90 English spatio-temporal prepositions and semantically similar expressions	3
How did language evolve in the lineage of higher primates?	3
Unraveling the logical status of sentential relative clauses in English: Constructing a multifunctional framework	3
Morphosyntactic variation in spoken English in Dominica	3
Declarative intonation of Japanese-Spanish bilinguals in Spanish casual speech	3
Comparatives in Korean: A grammaticalization perspective	3
Translatorial voice through modal stance: A corpus-based study of modality shifts in Chinese-to-English translation of research article abstracts	3
The position of the broken plural in the grammar: Rural Jordanian Arabic as a case study	3
Mixtec negative existential cycles, standard negation and negative indefiniteness	3
Editorial Board	3
Constructional idioms of ‘insanity’ in English and Spanish: A corpus-based study	3
Syntactic simplification in interpreted English: Dependency distance and direction measures	3
Characterizing natural interpreters’ attitudes towards interpreting: The effect of experimental contexts	3

Editorial Board	3
Inequalities in status: How do they show in discourse and what can be done about them?	3
Definiteness in plural reference in Shaoxing Wu	3
Offers in Nigerian English	3
Animacy and agentivity of Subject Themes in English-German translation	3
Editorial Board	3
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Bilingual influences and sources of variability in acceptability judgments: A case study of Chinese	3
Sentence processing in Turkish: A review and future directions	3
Dynamic modelling of context: Field, Tenor and Mode revisited	3
On the role of syllabic neighbourhood density in the syllable structure effect in European Portuguese	3
Editorial Board	2
Exploring the effect of interpreting training: Eye-tracking English-Chinese sight interpreting	2
Pseudo-clefts in Italian talk-in-interaction and in interaction-as-represented	2
Socio-cognitive influences on translating forward causal connectives: A multivariate analysis of English translations of Tao Te Ching	2
Can explicit instruction of formulaic sequences enhance L2 oral fluency?	2
Anaphora resolution and age effects in Greek-Spanish bilingualism: Evidence from first-generation immigrants, heritage speakers, and L2 speakers	2
Editorial Board	2
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Book Review	2
Predictive processing of grammatical gender: Using gender cues to facilitate processing in Spanish	2
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Fulfillment types in Realization events: Definition, distinctions, and diagnostics	2
Intonation and exchange: A dynamic and metafunctional view	2
The functions and evolution of xob ‘well’ in Persian: A thetical analysis	2
Syntactic differences of the probabilistic valency of nouns in Chinese–English Code-switching	2
Timing patterns in a hybrid metrical system	2
The development of Latin alphabet identity markers: A comparison among three Romance graphemes	2
Book Review	2
Exploring the ‘languaging habitus’ of a diasporic community: Colombians in New Zealand	2
Editorial Board	2
Variation and change of middle-class /r/ in Standard Scottish English	2
Correlations of valency alternations and morphological types: A typological perspective	2
A cognitive psychological model of linguistic intuitions: Polysemy and predicate order effects in copredication sentences	2
Laryngeal vocalizations: Grunts as a gateway to language?	2
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On the margins of figurative thought and language	2
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Assessing structural language skills of autistic adults: Focus on sentence repetition	2
Three-layered hierarchical structure of Mandarin Chinese aspectual projections	2
The repetition of passives in Mandarin-speaking children with Developmental Language Disorder and Autistic children with language impairment	2
Exploring color metaphor with Behavioral Profiles: A usage-based analysis on the metaphorical meanings of the Chinese color term bái “white”	2
Editorial Board	2
The influence of English on Modern Standard Arabic speech reporting styles: A corpus-based study	2
On the shifted interpretation of appositives in embedded contexts	2
Form-function mismatches: The semantics of the definite article in Jordanian Arabic	2
The compositionality of English phrasal verbs in terms of imageability	2
Chinese verb copying constructions: A labeling account	2