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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A multivariate analysis of causativedoand causativemakein Middle English	15
Non-canonical questions from a comparative perspective: Introduction to the special collection	13
Why are multiword units hard to acquire for late L2 learners? Insights from cognitive science on adult learning, processing, and retrieval	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?	11
Possessive pronouns in Russian-German language contact: variation or change?	10
Disentangling constructional networks: integrating taxonomic effects into the description of grammatical alternations	10
Novel metaphor and embodiment: comprehending novel synesthetic metaphors	9
Is Zoom viable for sociophonetic research? A comparison of in-person and online recordings for vocalic analysis	8
What do complexity measures measure? Correlating and validating corpus-based measures of morphological complexity	8
Comprehension of conversational implicatures in L3 Mandarin	8
Revisiting the hypothesis of ideophones as windows to language evolution	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	7
Discourse connectives and their arguments: an experiment on anaphoricity in German	7
“All women are like that”: an overview of linguistic deindividualization and dehumanization of women in the incelosphere	7
Re-taking the field: resuming in-person fieldwork amid the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Using ATLAS.ti for constructing and analysing multimodal social media corpora	5
Sound change and tonogenesis in Sylheti	5
Frontmatter	5
The moving project: exploring language, migration, and identity using participatory podcasting during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
The Linguistics Roadshow	5
Speech style variation in an endangered language	5
Frontmatter	5
Sign recognition: the effect of parameters and features in sign mispronunciations	5

Alternations (at) that time: NP versus PP time adjuncts in the history of English	5
On the semantics of (negated) approximative kaada in Classical Arabic: a case for embedded exhaustification	5
Why is this language complex? Cherry-pick the optimal set of features in multilingual treebanks	5
Length, position, and functions of inter-clausal Chinese–English code-switching in a bilingual novel	4
The Ultraviolet Bleach corpus	4
Researching dialects with high school students: a citizen science approach	4
My Memoji, my self: prosodic correlates of online performed code-switching via avatar	4
Reading Twitter as a marketplace of ideas: how attitudes to COVID-19 are affecting attitudes to migrants in Ireland	4
Frontmatter	4
One suitcase, two grammars: what can we conclude about Australian Turkish heritage speakers’ divergent processing of evidentiality?	4
Phonetic change over the career: a case study	4
A quantitative global test of the complexity trade-off hypothesis: the case of nominal and verbal grammatical marking	4
Decoding French equivalents of the English present perfect: evidence from parallel corpora of parliamentary documents	4
Brazilian Portuguese-Russian (BraPoRus) corpus: automatic transcription and acoustic quality of elderly speech during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Recurring patterns in tone (chain) shift	4
Introduction: what are alternations and how should we study them?	3
Yeah, but how? Operationalizing the functions of the discourse-pragmatic marker yeah	3
Long English objects and short Chinese objects: language diversity shaped by cognitive universality	3
Code-switching in computer-mediated communication by Gen Z Japanese Americans	3
Frontmatter	3
Quantifying the importance of morphomic structure, semantic values, and frequency of use in Romance stem alternations	3
Concrete constructions or messy mangroves? How modelling contextual effects on constructional alternations reflect theoretical assumptions of language structure	3
Quoting to deceive: fake quotes and political delegitimization in Spanish far right grassroots disinformation campaigns	3
Media debates over the renaming of the cityscape	3
Sound change or community change? The speech community in sound change studies: a case study of Scottish Gaelic	3
A unified account of the multiple applications of German D-pronoun	3
Frontmatter	3
The Menzerath-Altmann law on the clause level in English texts	3
New perspectives on morphosyntactic variation in African youth language practices	3
Generational differences in the low tones of Black Lahu	3
Anaphoric reference in a German-Polish bilingual child	3
Contextualized word senses: from attention to compositionality	3
Conflation of spatial reference frames in deaf community sign languages	3
Testing the effect of speech separation on vowel formant estimates	3
COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories, discourses of liberty, and “the new normal” on social media	3
Causal relevance of conditionals: semantics or pragmatics?	3
The evolution of flap-nasalization in Hoocąk	3
Introduction to sound change in endangered or small speech communities	3
Collecting language assessment data in the age of pandemic: a preliminary case study of Chinese EFL learners	3
Through the compression glass: language complexity and the linguistic structure of compressed strings	2
Where have all the sound changes gone? Phonological stability and mechanisms of sound change	2
Metaphors are embodied otherwise they would not be metaphors	2
Epenthetic vowel quality crosslinguistically, with focus on Modern Hebrew	2
A multifactorial approach to crosslinguistic constituent orderings	2
What can NLP do for linguistics? Towards using grammatical error analysis to document non-standard English features	2
Metonymy in the Korean internally headed relative clause construction	2
Bilingualism-induced language change: what can change, when, and why?	2
Rapport-building attempts in technology-mediated job interviews during the COVID-19 crisis	2
In alternations, not all semantic motivation comes from semantic contrast	2
The Lothian Diary Project: sociolinguistic methods during the COVID-19 lockdown	2

Corrigendum to: repetition in Mandarin-speaking children’s dialogs: its distribution and structural dimensions	2
Bibliographic bias and information-density sampling	2
Frontmatter	2
Cyberpunk,steampunk, and all thatpunk: genre names and their uses across communities	2
Imperatives as persuasion strategies in political discourse	2
Ongoing exposure to an ambient language continues to build implicit knowledge across the lifespan	2
Encoding politeness in African urban youth languages: evidence from Southern Africa	2
Introduction to the special issue on “The language of science fiction”	2
Modeling L2 motivation change and its predictive effects on learning behaviors in the extramural digital context: a quantitative investigation in China	2
Using social media as a source of analysable material in phonetics and phonology – lenition in Spanish	2
Sensory experience ratings (SERs) for 1,130 Chinese words: relationships with other semantic and lexical psycholinguistic variables	2
Monomodal and multimodal metaphors in editorial cartoons on the coronavirus by Jordanian cartoonists	2
Corrigendum to: Sign recognition: the effect of parameters and features in sign mispronunciations	2
Tapped /r/ in RP: a corpus-based sociophonetic study across the twentieth century	2
Frontmatter	2
Words of scents: a linguistic analysis of online perfume reviews	2
Implicit pragmatic phenomena in headlines of Hungarian health-related fake news	2
Rhotics, /uː/, and diphthongization in New Braunfels German	2