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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	37
Spatial language production in Chinese preschoolers: Developmental patterns and associated predictors	33
Editorial Board	27
Editorial Board	24
Object preference in the interpretation of floating numeral quantifiers of Korean	17
Polarity metaphor in English: Definition, identification, and categorization	16
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	15
Editorial Board	13
Book Review	12
The role of semantics and orthography in modulating conscious access to Chinese words	11
Editorial Board	11
Syntactic differences of the probabilistic valency of nouns in Chinese–English Code-switching	11
Assessing structural language skills of autistic adults: Focus on sentence repetition	10
Variation and change of middle-class /r/ in Standard Scottish English	9
Comparatives in Korean: A grammaticalization perspective	9
A corpus analysis of two by-passives in Japanese from the viewpoint of information structure	9
Declarative intonation of Japanese-Spanish bilinguals in Spanish casual speech	9
Shocking projections: The rise of the [x-shock] construction complex in macroeconomics	8
Exploring the effect of interpreting training: Eye-tracking English-Chinese sight interpreting	8
A functional model for the tag question paradigm: The case of invariable tag questions in English and Portuguese	8
Processing implicatures in English as a Lingua Franca communication	7
Editorial Board	7
The difference intersubjective grammar makes in protactile DeafBlind communities	7
Editorial Board	7
The development of VdeO clefts in Chinese: A diachronic constructionist approach	7

Pitch syntax as part of an ancient protolanguage	7
Editorial Board	7
Mediating linguistic diversity in the diaspora: An illustration from Haitian Canadians	6
Introduction: Reimagining language and belonging in the diaspora	6
Perception of foreign segments in loanword phonology	6
Interpreter mediation as other-initiated self-repair in court: Effects on the defence in Chinese bilingual criminal trials	6
Editorial Board	6
Epistemological challenges in the study of alternating constructions	6
A better or worse communicator? Comparing human and machine translation in source language shining through across registers	6
Modality effect in interactive alignment: Differences between spoken and text-based conversation	6
Interaction in bilingual early speech acquisition: Acceleration in the bilingual acquisition of English liquids for English-Spanish bilinguals	6
(Non-)propositional irony in Japanese – Impoliteness behind honorifics	5
Greek-Cypriot learners’ perception and production of L2 English vowels	5
The effectiveness of metaphors in Chinese video advertisements for depression: An experimental study	5
Book Review	5
Effects of frame-semantically (in)congruent food labels on taste in non-native English speakers	5
Book Review	5
Construal and impersonalization in German and English: Comparing impersonal pronouns in online hotel reviews	5
Syntactic and typological properties of translational language: A comparative description of dependency treebank of academic abstracts	5
The Chinese change-of-state token o in responsive units	5
Syllable structure and syllabification in Maaloula Aramaic	5
Re-investigating the classification of definite CL-NP constructions in Chinese dialect: An empirical study based on semantic maps	5
A corpus-based study of phrasal and clausal temporal adjuncts at the left and right peripheries across genres of written English discourse	5
Towards a system of principles for identifying nominalizing metaphors	5
Effects of L2 experience on Mandarin listeners’ perception of Korean politeness	5
An extensive analysis of blending in Contemporary Italian	5
Scalar pseudo-cleft constructions in Mandarin conversation: A multimodal approach	5
Editorial Board	5
How are neural machine-translated Chinese-to-English short stories constructed and cohered? An exploratory study based on theme-rheme structure	5
Towards a description of palm-up in bidirectional signed language interpreting	4
An intercultural analysis of metadiscourse in international mathematical contest papers: From research to EAP practice	4
A multi-method approach to estimating subjectivity of causal connectives: The case of ‘poetomu’ and ‘tak chto’ in Russian	4
Towards a speech-gesture profile of discourse markers: The case of ‘I mean’	4
Sequential order of antonym pairs in Modern Standard Arabic: A corpus-based analysis	4
Verbal effect on the processing of complement coercion: Distinguishing between aspectual verbs and psych verbs	4
On referential abilities in personal narratives of Mandarin-speaking children aged three to six years	4
Understanding depiction in tactile Norwegian sign language interpreting	4
Emotional intelligence, working memory, and emotional vocabulary in L1 and L2: Interactions and dissociations	4
Attentional semantics of deictic locatives	4
Editorial Board	4
Nativeness perceptions and speaker voice as predictors of (non-)native English speaker evaluations in four ELF contexts	4
Causation in Polish anticausatives	4
Structural similarity in figurative language: A preliminary cognitive analysis	4
Pseudo-cleft constructions in Swedish talk-in-interaction: Turn projection and discourse organization	4
ERP evidence for the effect of rhythmic patterns on the semantic processing of Chinese trisyllabic NN compounds	4
Editorial Board	4
Formulaic expressions in Korean academic discourse: A corpus-based combinatoric morphemic analysis	4
Exploring motion event construal: How much attention do speakers of different languages and cultures pay to context?	4
Animacy and agentivity of Subject Themes in English-German translation	3
A multidimensional analysis of the Spanish reportative epistemic evidential dizque	3

How did language evolve in the lineage of higher primates?	3
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
Verum shi, sentence-final de and the emphatic effects in Mandarin	3
Editorial Board	3
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	3
Retrieval practice enhances learning and memory retention of French words in Chinese-English bilinguals	3
Variation in verbal negation in Jordanian Arabic: A corpus-based analysis	3
Editorial Board	3
French V-N compounds: Plural marking, headedness endocentricity/exocentricity continuum	3
A corpus-based analysis of the fortition of the word-initial /ʒ/ in French	3
Editorial Board	3
L2 acquisition of classifier reduplication in Chinese	3
Training non-native speech sounds results in long-lasting plastic changes – Hard-wiring new memory traces takes time	3
Mixtec negative existential cycles, standard negation and negative indefiniteness	3
Editorial Board	3
Definiteness in plural reference in Shaoxing Wu	3
The role of interactional and cognitive mechanisms in the evolution of (proto)language(s)	3
Referential choice in the narrative discourse of people with aphasia	2
An acceptability study of triadic constructions in Hong Kong Cantonese	2
Anaphora resolution and age effects in Greek-Spanish bilingualism: Evidence from first-generation immigrants, heritage speakers, and L2 speakers	2
Form-function mismatches: The semantics of the definite article in Jordanian Arabic	2
The interface issue in second language acquisition research: An interdisciplinary perspective	2
Syntactic functions of words grammatically related to verbs in interlanguage: A valency perspective	2
Proximity, polarity and scalarity: A semantic study of approximative sentence-final particles in Cantonese	2
Transitivity-ergativity perspectives on causation in legal texts: A contrastive study of Arabic and English website terms of service	2
Face-saving strategies: The case of Hebrew SAY expressions	2
Derivational zero affixes worldwide	2
Looking for someone: The encoding of indefinite human reference in Chinese/English aligned translation	2
Conceptual metonymy and emotive-affective meaning at the interface: Examples from online medical consultations	2
Telic motion constructions in French and the notion of tendentiality	2
Editorial Board	2
An empirical study on parameters affecting the recoverability of deictic null subjects in Korean	2
Intersubjective understanding in finger braille interpreter-mediated interaction: Two case studies of other-initiated repair	2
Correlations of valency alternations and morphological types: A typological perspective	2
Editorial Board	2
Diachronic changes in lexical density of research article abstracts: A corpus-based study	2
What do Chinese bidirectional Life–Xì (‘Drama’) similes/metaphors tell us about metaphorical bidirectionality?	2
Editorial Board	2
Book Review	2
5–9-year-olds categorisation of regional accents: The role of exposure to variation	2
Editorial Board	2
How effective is expressive? Consumer perceptions of new vernacular features in Facebook webcare responses	2
Coordinating individual actions in joint activities: The case of the German deictic so	2
Bound productivity in stem-formation and categorial separation	2
On the production of bare nouns and case marking in Korean heritage speakers in contact with English	2
“I agree!” empathetic head-nodding and its role in cultural competences development	2
Bilingual influences and sources of variability in acceptability judgments: A case study of Chinese	2
Metaphors and trauma: An image schematic analysis of symptom-specific metaphors	2
Functional profile of the lexeme ot in contemporary Polish: A cross-linguistic examination	2
Standard language dynamics in postcolonial Suriname	2
Explicit and implicit (im)politeness: A corpus-based study of the Chinese formulaic expression “Nikezhen+X”	2
Acquisition of reflexive and reflexively used pronouns in Croatian and Austrian German: A corpus-based study	2
Afrikaans discourse-pragmatic features in South African English	2
Comparison-and-contrast in research articles of applied linguistics: A frame-based analysis	2
Pseudo-cleft-like structures in Hebrew and French conversation: The syntax-lexicon-body interface	2
Typological characteristics of interlanguage: Across native language types and L2 proficiency levels	2
Reduplication in South African Englishes: A what-what borrowing gets a life of its own	2
The influence of English on Modern Standard Arabic speech reporting styles: A corpus-based study	2
Textual functions of low confidence adverbs: The case of perhaps	2