Most cited papers in Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
What are the most cited papers in Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis?
The most cited paper in Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis is "The Sounds of the World's Languages" (Paul Foulkes, 1997), with 1,967 citations. Next come "What's In A Name? Malay Seals As Onomastic Sources" (1,506) and "The emergence of grammar: Systematic structure in a new language" (617).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 99 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Sounds of the World's Languages Paul Foulkes · International Journal of Bilingualism | Mar 1997 | 1,967 |
| 2 | What's In A Name? Malay Seals As Onomastic Sources Annabel Teh Gallop · Malay Literature | Jun 2018 | 1,506 |
| 3 | The emergence of grammar: Systematic structure in a new language Wendy Sandler, Irit Meir, Carol A. Padden et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 7 Feb 2005 | 617 |
| 4 | The Macro-Sudan belt: towards identifying a linguistic area in northern sub-Saharan Africa Tom Güldemann · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 13 Dec 2007 | 457 |
| 5 | The past of a future syntaxis across the Zagros Christopher J. Talbot, Mehdi Alavi · Geological Society London Special Publications | 1996 | 398 |
| 6 | The Social Cost of Cheap Pseudonyms Eric J. Friedman, Paul Resnick · Journal of Economics & Management Strategy | Jun 2001 | 386 |
| 7 | Farasa: A Fast and Furious Segmenter for Arabic Ahmed Abdelalí, Kareem Mohamed Darwish, Nadir Durrani et al. | 2016 | 379 |
| 8 | Theta theory and the syntax of applicatives in Chichewa Mark C. Baker · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory | Aug 1988 | 328 |
| 9 | On Arabic Transliteration Nizar Y. Habash, Abdelhadi Soudi, Timothy Buckwalter · Text, speech and language technology | 30 Sep 2007 | 308 |
| 10 | The World's Major Languages Bernard Comrie | 1987 | 302 |
| 11 | The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages Stuart James · Reference Reviews | Oct 2004 | 290 |
| 12 | Resumption, Movement, and Derivational Economy Joseph Aoun, Lina Choueiri, Norbert Hornstein · Linguistic Inquiry | Jul 2001 | 287 |
| 13 | African Voices: An Introduction to the Languages and Linguistics of Africa Haig Der‐Houssikian, Vic Webb, Kembo-Sure · African Studies Review | Dec 2002 | 268 |
| 14 | Modern Hebrew structure Ruth Aronson Berman · Lingua | Aug 1979 | 266 |
| 15 | Control and obviation in Warlpiri Jane Simpson, Joan W. Bresnan · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory | 1983 | 257 |
| 16 | Africa as a morphosyntactic area Denis Creissels, Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal, Zygmunt Frajzyngier et al. · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 13 Dec 2007 | 252 |
| 17 | Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages identifies an Early Bronze Age origin of Semitic in the Near East Andrew T. Kitchen, Christopher Ehret, Shiferaw Assefa et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 29 Apr 2009 | 252 |
| 18 | Quantifiers as functional heads: A study of quantifier float in Hebrew Ur Shlonsky · Lingua | Jul 1991 | 228 |
| 19 | Cross-Linguistic Evidence for Number Phrase Elizabeth Ritter · The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique | Jun 1992 | 227 |
| 20 | Contribution to the knowledge of Rifian traditional medicine. II: Folk medicine in Ksar Lakbir district (NW Morocco) Abderrahmane Merzouki, F. Ed-Derfoufi, Joaquı́n Molero Mesa · Fitoterapia | Jun 2000 | 224 |
| 21 | Language Attitudes among Arabic–French Bilinguals in Morocco Abdelâli Bentahila, Paul Stevens · Journal of Language and Social Psychology | Mar 1985 | 213 |
| 22 | Grammaticalization Chains Bernd Heine · Studies in Language | 1992 | 195 |
| 23 | Learning by Heart in Qur'anic and Public Schools in Northern Cameroon Leslie C. Moore · Social Analysis | 2006 | 184 |
| 24 | 8. Associated eating and movement: further examination of Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay verb suffixes John Giacon · Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series 4, Current issues in linguistic theory | 12 Jun 2008 | 183 |
| 25 | Verb movement and word order in Arabic Jamal Ouhalla · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 31 Mar 1994 | 182 |
| 26 | ON THE DOUBLE OBJECT CONSTRUCTION Yukio Oba · ENGLISH LINGUISTICS | 1993 | 180 |
| 27 | The decay of ergativity in Pamir languages John R. Payne · Lingua | Jun 1980 | 180 |
| 28 | Restrictive relatives in modern Hebrew Hagit Borer · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory | Jul 1984 | 174 |
| 29 | Urban Languages in Africa Rose Marie Beck · Africa Spectrum | Dec 2010 | 172 |
| 30 | The Phonemic System of Agar Dinka Torben Andersen · Journal of African Languages and Linguistics | 1987 | 167 |
| 31 | Mundane Reasoning Melvin Pollner · Philosophy of the Social Sciences | Mar 1974 | 161 |
| 32 | The MADAR Arabic Dialect Corpus and Lexicon Houda Bouamor, Nizar Y. Habash, Mohammad Yahya Bani Salameh et al. | May 2018 | 160 |
| 33 | GRAMMATICAL FEATURES OF EGYPTIAN AND PALESTINIAN ARABIC HERITAGE SPEAKERS’ ORAL PRODUCTION Abdulkafi Albirini, Elabbas Benmamoun, Eman Saadah · Studies in Second Language Acquisition | 6 May 2011 | 158 |
| 34 | Template morphology and the direction of association Moira Yip · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory | Nov 1988 | 157 |
| 35 | Arabic Modifying Adjectives and DP Structures Abdelkader Fassi Fehri · Studia Linguistica | Aug 1999 | 157 |
| 36 | Form and Ideology: Arabic Sociolinguistics and Beyond Niloofar Haeri · Annual Review of Anthropology | Oct 2000 | 155 |
| 37 | Arabic morphology: The central role of the imperfective Elabbas Benmamoun · Lingua | Jun 1999 | 155 |
| 38 | The Tanzanian Rift Valley area Roland Kießling, Maarten Mous, Derek Nurse · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 13 Dec 2007 | 153 |
| 39 | Deconstructing the Construct Hagit Borer · Studies in natural language and linguistic theory | 1999 | 153 |
| 40 | Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction Mu-Chou Poo, António Loprieno · The International Journal of African Historical Studies | 1997 | 152 |
| 41 | French discourse markers in Shaba Swahili conversations Vincent A. de Rooij · International Journal of Bilingualism | Dec 2000 | 151 |
| 42 | On the absence of case chains in Bambara Hilda J Koopman · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory | Nov 1992 | 148 |
| 43 | Is Literary Arabic a Second Language for Native Arab Speakers?: Evidence from Semantic Priming Study Raphiq Ibrahim, Judith Aharon‐Peretz · Journal of Psycholinguistic Research | 2005 | 147 |
| 44 | The acquisition of polysynthesis Marianne Mithun · Journal of Child Language | Jun 1989 | 146 |
| 45 | MULTILINGUALISM AND LANGUAGE CONTACT IN WEST AFRICA: TOWARDS A HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVE Friederike Lüpke · Journal of Language Contact | 2010 | 145 |
| 46 | Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis. David Glenn Smith · The American Journal of Human Genetics | 13 Dec 2004 | 143 |
| 47 | Chomsky's Universal Grammar and Second Language Learning Vivian J. Cook · Applied Linguistics | 1985 | 138 |
| 48 | The Pronominal Origin of an Evidential Robert Botne · Diachronica | 1995 | 138 |
| 49 | A (micro-)accretion zone in a remnant zone? Jeff Good · Typological studies in language | 25 Nov 2013 | 137 |
| 50 | Conventional Orthography for Dialectal Arabic Nizar Y. Habash, Mona Diab, Owen Rambow | May 2012 | 136 |
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