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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	47
The role of diacritical dots in the early stages of lexical processing in Arabic	39
Editorial Board	37
Object preference in the interpretation of floating numeral quantifiers of Korean	29
Spatial language production in Chinese preschoolers: Developmental patterns and associated predictors	23
The architecture of absence: How nominal and clausal grounding illuminate profiling verb-noun compounds	20
Polarity metaphor in English: Definition, identification, and categorization	17
A corpus analysis of two by-passives in Japanese from the viewpoint of information structure	16
Is there a polarity-prominent language? A typological perspective on Dagaare verbal systems	16
Declarative intonation of Japanese-Spanish bilinguals in Spanish casual speech	13
Book Review	12
A functional model for the tag question paradigm: The case of invariable tag questions in English and Portuguese	12
Syntactic differences of the probabilistic valency of nouns in Chinese–English Code-switching	12
Shocking projections: The rise of the [x-shock] construction complex in macroeconomics	11
Canonical and non-canonical roots: The diversity of roots in Mandarin Chinese	11
Editorial Board	11
Editorial Board	11
Pitch syntax as part of an ancient protolanguage	10
Assessing structural language skills of autistic adults: Focus on sentence repetition	10
Editorial Board	10
Constructional variation, grammaticalization, and constructional network of extreme degree resultatives in Mandarin: A quantitative analysis	10
Editorial Board	9
Editorial Board	9
Editorial Board	9
Editorial Board	8

Greek-Cypriot learners’ perception and production of L2 English vowels	8
Modality effect in interactive alignment: Differences between spoken and text-based conversation	8
The difference intersubjective grammar makes in protactile DeafBlind communities	8
A corpus-based study of phrasal and clausal temporal adjuncts at the left and right peripheries across genres of written English discourse	8
Language contact and translation: dependency relations as a lens for source language influence in fiction	8
Construal and impersonalization in German and English: Comparing impersonal pronouns in online hotel reviews	8
A better or worse communicator? Comparing human and machine translation in source language shining through across registers	8
Interpreter mediation as other-initiated self-repair in court: Effects on the defence in Chinese bilingual criminal trials	8
Re-investigating the classification of definite CL-NP constructions in Chinese dialect: An empirical study based on semantic maps	7
Syllable structure and syllabification in Maaloula Aramaic	7
Towards a system of principles for identifying nominalizing metaphors	7
Effects of L2 experience on Mandarin listeners’ perception of Korean politeness	7
Editorial Board	7
Epistemological challenges in the study of alternating constructions	7
Language interference in Mandarin Chinese-English simultaneous interpreting: insights from multi-dimensional syntactic complexity	7
Book Review	7
Effects of frame-semantically (in)congruent food labels on taste in non-native English speakers	7
Syntactic and typological properties of translational language: A comparative description of dependency treebank of academic abstracts	6
An extensive analysis of blending in Contemporary Italian	6
Interaction in bilingual early speech acquisition: Acceleration in the bilingual acquisition of English liquids for English-Spanish bilinguals	6
How are neural machine-translated Chinese-to-English short stories constructed and cohered? An exploratory study based on theme-rheme structure	6
Understanding depiction in tactile Norwegian sign language interpreting	6
Verbal group complexes in Norwegian	6
Book Review	6
An intercultural analysis of metadiscourse in international mathematical contest papers: From research to EAP practice	5
Politeness as a participants’ matter: the interactive construction of apologies in Mandarin Chinese conversation	5
Editorial Board	5
Towards a speech-gesture profile of discourse markers: The case of ‘I mean’	5
Towards a description of palm-up in bidirectional signed language interpreting	5
Attentional semantics of deictic locatives	5
The effectiveness of metaphors in Chinese video advertisements for depression: An experimental study	5
ERP evidence for the effect of rhythmic patterns on the semantic processing of Chinese trisyllabic NN compounds	5
The Chinese change-of-state token o in responsive units	5
Structural similarity in figurative language: A preliminary cognitive analysis	5
Brain activation in noun-based- and predicate-Eojeol processing during Korean visual word recognition	5
Formulaic expressions in Korean academic discourse: A corpus-based combinatoric morphemic analysis	4
A multi-method approach to estimating subjectivity of causal connectives: The case of ‘poetomu’ and ‘tak chto’ in Russian	4
Editorial Board	4
Adverb placement by Chinese EFL learners: A MuPDAR(F) approach	4
Definiteness in plural reference in Shaoxing Wu	4
Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	4
The effects of linguistic proximity on dependency distance and dependency direction of translated English from 35 languages	4
Sequential order of antonym pairs in Modern Standard Arabic: A corpus-based analysis	4
The semantic typology of expressive interjections: colexifications in pain, disgust and joy interjections across languages	4
Training non-native speech sounds results in long-lasting plastic changes – Hard-wiring new memory traces takes time	4
Editorial Board	4
L2 acquisition of classifier reduplication in Chinese	4
Nativeness perceptions and speaker voice as predictors of (non-)native English speaker evaluations in four ELF contexts	4
Editorial Board	4

Editorial Board	4
French V-N compounds: Plural marking, headedness endocentricity/exocentricity continuum	4
Mixtec negative existential cycles, standard negation and negative indefiniteness	4
A corpus-based analysis of the fortition of the word-initial /ʒ/ in French	4
Retrieval practice enhances learning and memory retention of French words in Chinese-English bilinguals	3
Vulgarity and bad language in online and public discourse: an introduction	3
Metaphors and trauma: An image schematic analysis of symptom-specific metaphors	3
Anaphora resolution and age effects in Greek-Spanish bilingualism: Evidence from first-generation immigrants, heritage speakers, and L2 speakers	3
Form, Function, and Change in Chinese Two-plus-Two Idioms: A Diachronic Corpus Analysis	3
Phonological preparation in Korean: the role of syllable complexity and orthographic support	3
Variation in verbal negation in Jordanian Arabic: A corpus-based analysis	3
Referential choice in the narrative discourse of people with aphasia	3
An empirical study on parameters affecting the recoverability of deictic null subjects in Korean	3
Intersubjective understanding in finger braille interpreter-mediated interaction: Two case studies of other-initiated repair	3
Comparison-and-contrast in research articles of applied linguistics: A frame-based analysis	3
Placeholders in written language: The case of Japanese kō and otsu	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
The role of interactional and cognitive mechanisms in the evolution of (proto)language(s)	3
An acceptability study of triadic constructions in Hong Kong Cantonese	3
Correlations of valency alternations and morphological types: A typological perspective	3
Evidence for syntactic audience design from the production of active and passive relative clauses in Chinese	3
Contextual variation of internal and external modifications in L2 Chinese requests: effects of power, imposition, and proficiency	3
On the production of bare nouns and case marking in Korean heritage speakers in contact with English	3
Verbal effect on the processing of complement coercion: Distinguishing between aspectual verbs and psych verbs	3
Telic motion constructions in French and the notion of tendentiality	2
“I agree!” empathetic head-nodding and its role in cultural competences development	2
Italian verbal groups: A systemic functional perspective	2
Gaplessness in Chinese relative clauses	2
The typology of degree marking	2
Gratitude for compliance: A developmental study on the speech act of thanking	2
Reduplication in South African Englishes: A what-what borrowing gets a life of its own	2
Syntactic functions of words grammatically related to verbs in interlanguage: A valency perspective	2
An investigation of nominal copular sentences in three reading paradigms: Acceptability judgments, self-paced reading, and eye-tracking	2
Editorial Board	2
Acquisition of reflexive and reflexively used pronouns in Croatian and Austrian German: A corpus-based study	2
Functional profile of the lexeme ot in contemporary Polish: A cross-linguistic examination	2
Editorial Board	2
Comparing intelligibility between Occitan, Gallo-“Italic”, and Tuscan: Classification of Gallo-“Italic” empirically tested	2
Modelability of WAR metaphors across time in cross-national COVID-19 news translation: An insight into ideology manipulation	2
Understanding spelling conflicts in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian: Insights from speakers’ attitudes and beliefs	2
Editorial Board	2
Afrikaans discourse-pragmatic features in South African English	2
Face-saving strategies: The case of Hebrew SAY expressions	2
Explicit and implicit (im)politeness: A corpus-based study of the Chinese formulaic expression “Nikezhen+X”	2
The interface issue in second language acquisition research: An interdisciplinary perspective	2
What do Chinese bidirectional Life–Xì (‘Drama’) similes/metaphors tell us about metaphorical bidirectionality?	2
Children interpret simple disjunction conjunctively: evidence from Mandarin Chinese	2
Pseudo-cleft-like structures in Hebrew and French conversation: The syntax-lexicon-body interface	2
Bilingual influences and sources of variability in acceptability judgments: A case study of Chinese	2
Editorial Board	2
Looking for someone: The encoding of indefinite human reference in Chinese/English aligned translation	2
Coordinating individual actions in joint activities: The case of the German deictic so	2
How effective is expressive? Consumer perceptions of new vernacular features in Facebook webcare responses	2
Situation-bound utterances and constructional networks: The evolution of the Hebrew see-farewell family	2
Gender classification of Korean personal names: Deep neural networks versus human judgments	2
Diachronic changes in lexical density of research article abstracts: A corpus-based study	2
Derivational zero affixes worldwide	2
Standard language dynamics in postcolonial Suriname	2
Cultural conceptualisations of karma in American, Indian, and Hong Kong varieties of English	2
Syntax, scope, and semantic identity: a genuine-sluicing approach to multiple sluicing in Mandarin Chinese	2
Bound productivity in stem-formation and categorial separation	2
Proximity, polarity and scalarity: A semantic study of approximative sentence-final particles in Cantonese	2
Editorial Board	2
Book Review	2