OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Linguistics Vanguard is 1. 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
Interpreting the order of operations in a sociophonetic analysis	26
What do complexity measures measure? Correlating and validating corpus-based measures of morphological complexity	26
Frontmatter	17
From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture	13
Comprehension of conversational implicatures in L3 Mandarin	12
The cognitive processing of nouns and verbs in second language reading: an eye-tracking study	11
A quantitative method for syntactic gradience: words, phrases, and the constructions in between	9
Frontmatter	9
How long is too long? Production-internal and communicative constraints in the coding of conditionality in Spanish	8
Sound change and gender-based differences in isolated regions: acoustic analysis of intervocalic phonemic stops by Bora-Spanish bilinguals	8
Timing of belief as a key to cross-linguistic variation in common ground management	8
Counterfactual language, emotion, and perspective: a sentence completion study during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
The Red Hen Audio Tagger	7
The role of coarticulatory tonal information in Cantonese spoken word recognition: an eye-tracking study	7
Streetscapes and memories of real socialist anti-fascism in south-eastern Europe: between dystopianism and utopianism	7
Why are multiword units hard to acquire for late L2 learners? Insights from cognitive science on adult learning, processing, and retrieval	7
Communicative efficiency and differential case marking: a reverse-engineering approach	6
Bear in a Window: collecting Australian children’s stories of the COVID-19 pandemic	6
From sociolinguistic perception to strategic action in the study of social meaning	6
Introduction to sound change in endangered or small speech communities	6
The language of men and women in Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: Discovery	5
Validation of two measures for assessing English vocabulary knowledge on web-based testing platforms: brief assessments	5
“To boldly go where no man has gone before”: how iconic is the Star Trek split infinitive?	5
Tracking phonological regularities: exploring the influence of learning mode and regularity locus in adult phonological learning	5
Expression of (in)definiteness in Polish-German bilinguals: an example of contact-induced grammaticalization	5

Iffy discourse: Japanesemoshiin conditionals and nominal topics	5
Semantic change and socio-semantic variation: the case of COVID-related neologisms on Reddit	5
Metonymy in the Korean internally headed relative clause construction	4
Outsourcing teenage language: a participatory approach for exploring speech and text messaging	4
Cross-dialectal synchronic variation of a diachronic conditioned merger in Tlingit	4
Monitoring and evaluating body knowledge: metaphors and metonymies of body position in children’s music instrument instruction	4
L2 motivation and willingness to communicate: a moderated mediation model of psychological shyness	4
Getting “good” data in a pandemic, part 1: assessing the validity and quality of data collected remotely	4
A cognitive semantic analysis of ‘eat’ verb usages in Bangla	4
Monomodal and multimodal metaphors in editorial cartoons on the coronavirus by Jordanian cartoonists	4
Do dependency lengths explain constraints on crossing dependencies?	4
Is Zoom viable for sociophonetic research? A comparison of in-person and online recordings for vocalic analysis	4
River-based and egocentric spatial orientation in Yine	4
Talk about testimony: courtroom dialogue as racialized interactions	4
Vowel harmony in Laz Turkish: a case study in language contact and language change	4
Non-canonical questions from a comparative perspective: Introduction to the special collection	4
Shared processing strategies as a mechanism for contact-induced change in flexible constituent order	4
Lessons learned: the long view	4
Shifts in digital media usage before and after the pandemic by Rusyns in Ukraine	3
The acquisition of speaking fundamental frequency (F0) features in Cantonese and English by simultaneous bilingual children	3
Disentangling constructional networks: integrating taxonomic effects into the description of grammatical alternations	3
Singing and the body: body-focused and concept-focused vocal instruction	3
A multivariate analysis of causativedoand causativemakein Middle English	3
Emojis and conditionals: exploring the super linguistic interplay of pictorial modifiers and conditional meaning	3
Articulatory phonetics in the market: combining public engagement with ultrasound data collection	3
The evolution of flap-nasalization in Hoocąk	3
Novel metaphor and embodiment: comprehending novel synesthetic metaphors	3
Instructing embodied knowledge: multimodal approaches to interactive practices for knowledge constitution	3
Possessive pronouns in Russian-German language contact: variation or change?	3
How do L1 glosses affect EFL learners’ reading comprehension performance? An eye-tracking study	3
New perspectives on morphosyntactic variation in African youth language practices	3
Surprise questions in spoken French	3
Diversity in representing space within and between language communities	3
Place uniformity and drift in the Suzhounese fricative and apical vowels	2
Perceptual similarity is not all: online perception of English coda stops by Korean listeners	2
Situating embodied action plans: pre-enacting and planning actions within knowledge communication in sports training	2
The landscape of non-canonical ‘only’ in German	2
The use of the narrative final vowel -á by the Lingala-speaking youth of Kinshasa: from anterior to near/recent past	2
Individual differences in simultaneous perceptual compensation for coarticulatory and lexical cues	2
Words of scents: a linguistic analysis of online perfume reviews	2
“There was much new to grok”: an analysis of word coinage in science fiction literature	2
French questions alternating between a reason and a manner interpretation	2
Linguistic spatial reference systems across domains: How people talk about space in sailing, dancing, and other specialist areas	2
Frontmatter	2
Re-taking the field: resuming in-person fieldwork amid the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Sociolinguistic auto-coding has fairness problems too: measuring and mitigating bias	2
Investigating the relationship between the speed of automatization and linguistic abilities: data collection during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Tapped /r/ in RP: a corpus-based sociophonetic study across the twentieth century	2
A multifactorial approach to crosslinguistic constituent orderings	2
COVID-era sociolinguistics: introduction to the special issue	2

Effects of crosslinguistic influence in definiteness acquisition: comparing HL-English and HL-Russian bilingual children acquiring Hebrew	2
Metalinguistic awareness as a factor in contact-induced language change	2
A corpus-based study of quoi in French native speech	2
The expanding influence of Thai and its effects on cue redistribution in Kuy	2
Evaluating the importance of construal for choosing between alternating forms: the case of Spanish change-of-state verbs hacerse and volverse	2
Alternations (at) that time: NP versus PP time adjuncts in the history of English	2
Frontmatter	1
Asymmetry in French speech-in-noise perception: the effects of native dialect and cross-dialectal exposure	1
Sociotopography meets Dialectology: the case of Aquilan	1
Revisiting the hypothesis of ideophones as windows to language evolution	1
The Red Hen Anonymizer and the Red Hen Protocol for de-identifying audiovisual recordings	1
Where have all the sound changes gone? Examining the scarcity of evidence for regular sound change in Australian languages	1
Online data collection to address language sampling bias: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Metaphors are embodied otherwise they would not be metaphors	1
Perceiving with strangeness: quantifying a style of altered consciousness as estrangement in a corpus of 1960s American science fiction	1
Editorial: ideology and commemoration in the urban space	1
The influence of language, culture, and environment on the use of spatial referencing in a multilingual context: Taiwan as a test case	1
Sign recognition: the effect of parameters and features in sign mispronunciations	1
The moving project: exploring language, migration, and identity using participatory podcasting during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Ongoing exposure to an ambient language continues to build implicit knowledge across the lifespan	1
Yiyang Xiang vowel quality: Comparability across two recording media	1
Implicit pragmatic phenomena in headlines of Hungarian health-related fake news	1
Conditional connection explored: the case of Sicilian cusà	1
Community cityscape: modes of engagement and co-construction of the streetscape	1
Verifying the morpho-semantics of aspect via typological homogeneity	1
“All women are like that”: an overview of linguistic deindividualization and dehumanization of women in the incelosphere	1
Phonetic transfer in Diné Bizaad (Navajo)	1
Discourse connectives and their arguments: an experiment on anaphoricity in German	1
Metaphor and gender: are words associated with source domains perceived in a gendered way?	1
Frontmatter	1
The Linguistics Roadshow	1
The Language Science Station at Planet Word: a language research and engagement laboratory at a language museum	1
Getting “good” data in a pandemic, part 2: more tools in the toolbox	1
Bibliographic bias and information-density sampling	1
Cyberpunk,steampunk, and all thatpunk: genre names and their uses across communities	1
Translating COVID-19 information into Yiddish for the UK Hasidic community	1
Could this be next for corpus linguistics? Methods of semi-automatic data annotation with contextualized word embeddings	1
Why is this language complex? Cherry-pick the optimal set of features in multilingual treebanks	1
Flexibility and evolution of cue weighting after a tonal split: an experimental field study on Tamang	1
Jiu-conditionals in Mandarin Chinese: thoughts on a uniform pragmatic analysis of Mandarin conditional constructions	1
Crossmodal correspondence between lexical tones and visual motions: a forced-choice mapping task on Mandarin Chinese	1
Generating hypotheses for alternations at low and intermediate levels of schematicity. The use of Memory-based Learning	1
Conversational priming in repetitional responses as a mechanism in language change: evidence from agent-based modelling	1
A socially anchored approach to spatial language in Kalaallisut	1
Patterns of commemorative street and place renaming in India’s two mega-cities: Mumbai and New Delhi	1
Language science outreach through schools and social media: critical considerations	1
Supervised prediction of production patterns using machine learning algorithms	1
Syntactic pausing? Re-examining the associations	1
Bridging linguistics and high school students: the example of Noorlingvistide keeleklubi in Estonia	1
Imperatives as persuasion strategies in political discourse	1
Situating speakers in change: a methodology for quantifying degree and direction of change over the lifespan	1
This is how to recognize conspiracy theory–based alternative news media: a comparative analysis of style, text structure, and argumentation in alternative news media and mainstream news media	1
On the semantics of (negated) approximative kaada in Classical Arabic: a case for embedded exhaustification	1