Most cited papers in Lexicography and Language Studies
What are the most cited papers in Lexicography and Language Studies?
The most cited paper in Lexicography and Language Studies is "WordNet" (George Armitage Miller, 1995), with 14,290 citations. Next come "Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English" (8,233) and "The English Lexicon Project" (2,836).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 374 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WordNet George Armitage Miller · Communications of the ACM | Nov 1995 | 14,290 |
| 2 | Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English Kathleen M. Broussard, Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson et al. · TESOL Quarterly | 2000 | 8,233 |
| 3 | The English Lexicon Project David A. Balota, Melvin Ju-min Yap, Keith A. Hutchison et al. · Behavior Research Methods | Aug 2007 | 2,836 |
| 4 | A New Academic Word List Averil Coxhead · TESOL Quarterly | 2000 | 2,790 |
| 5 | The Berkeley FrameNet Project Collin F. Baker, Charles J. Fillmore, John B. Lowe | 1998 | 2,572 |
| 6 | The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language Rodnry Huddleston, Geqffrry Pullum · Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik | Apr 2005 | 2,416 |
| 7 | The Sketch Engine Adam Kilgarriff, Vít Baisa, Jan Bušta et al. · Lexicography | Jul 2014 | 2,106 |
| 8 | Notes on transitivity and theme in English: Part 2 Μ. Α. Κ. Halliday · Journal of Linguistics | Oct 1967 | 2,102 |
| 9 | The Oxford English Dictionary and Its Philosophy J. Arol Simpson · Philosophy & Technology | 6 Jul 2013 | 2,072 |
| 10 | A grammar of contemporary English R. W. Zandvoort · Lingua | 1974 | 1,908 |
| 11 | Corpus linguistics : investigating language structure and use Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad, Randi Reppen | 2006 | 1,480 |
| 12 | Review article: Instructed second language vocabulary learning Norbert Schmitt · Language Teaching Research | 25 Jun 2008 | 1,466 |
| 13 | How Large a Vocabulary is Needed For Reading and Listening? Paul Nation · Canadian Modern Language Review/ La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes | Sep 2006 | 1,446 |
| 14 | Vocabulary in Language Teaching Laura L. Meyer, Norbert Schmitt · TESOL Quarterly | 2002 | 1,446 |
| 15 | From etymology to pragmatics metaphorical and cultural aspects of semantic structure Eve E. Sweetser | 1994 | 1,322 |
| 16 | Some principles of linguistic methodology William Labov · Language in Society | Apr 1972 | 1,230 |
| 17 | The WaCky wide web: a collection of very large linguistically processed web-crawled corpora Marco Baroni, Silvia Bernardini, Adriano Ferraresi et al. · Language Resources and Evaluation | 9 Feb 2009 | 1,220 |
| 18 | Word association norms, mutual information, and lexicography Kenneth Church, Patrick Hanks | 1989 | 1,096 |
| 19 | The Language of Schooling: A Functional Linguistics Perspective Don K. Philpot, Mary J. Schleppegrell · Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l éducation | 2005 | 1,056 |
| 20 | 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica Jetta Carol Culpepper · Reference Reviews | Apr 2006 | 1,038 |
| 21 | Person and Number in Pronouns: A Feature-Geometric Analysis Heidi Harley, Elizabeth Ritter · Language | Sep 2002 | 974 |
| 22 | APA Dictionary of Psychology Martin Guha · Reference Reviews | 3 Apr 2007 | 913 |
| 23 | Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax Gillian Catriona Ramchand | 10 Oct 2009 | 906 |
| 24 | Towards a Theory of Metonymy Günter Radden, Zoltán Kövecses · Human cognitive processing | 15 Sep 1999 | 867 |
| 25 | An Academic Formulas List: New Methods in Phraseology Research Rita Simpson‐Vlach, Nick C. Ellis · Applied Linguistics | 12 Jan 2010 | 865 |
| 26 | Reading in a Foreign Language Andrew D. Cohen, J. Charles Alderson, Alexander Urquhart · TESOL Quarterly | Dec 1986 | 840 |
| 27 | Lexical bundles in published and student disciplinary writing: Examples from history and biology Viviana Cortes · English for Specific Purposes | 2004 | 839 |
| 28 | Improvements in Part-of-Speech Tagging with an Application to German Helmut Schmid · Text, speech and language technology | 1999 | 829 |
| 29 | Technical terminology: some linguistic properties and an algorithm for identification in text John S. Justeson, Slava M. Katz · Natural Language Engineering | Mar 1995 | 819 |
| 30 | E-Type pronouns and donkey anaphora Irene Heim · Linguistics and Philosophy | Apr 1990 | 792 |
| 31 | A New Academic Vocabulary List Dee Gardner, Mark A. P. Davies · Applied Linguistics | 2 Aug 2013 | 792 |
| 32 | The importance of vocabulary in language learning and how to be taught Mofareh Alqahtani · International Journal of Teaching and Education | 2015 | 776 |
| 33 | Phraseology and Second Language Proficiency Peter B Howarth · Applied Linguistics | Apr 1998 | 766 |
| 34 | Incidental Vocabulary Learning by Advanced Foreign Language Students: The Influence of Marginal Glosses, Dictionary Use, and Reoccurrence of Unknown Words Jan H. Hulstijn, Merel Hollander, Tine Greidanus · Modern Language Journal | Sep 1996 | 747 |
| 35 | Adjectives in English: Attribution and predication Dwight L. Bolinger · Lingua | 1967 | 728 |
| 36 | "Sources of information on specific subjects" by S.C. Bradford Bertram C. Brookes · Journal of Information Science | Apr 1985 | 717 |
| 37 | Wizard of Oz studies — why and how Nils Dahlbäck, Arne Jönsson, Lars Ahrenberg · Knowledge-Based Systems | Dec 1993 | 708 |
| 38 | Figures of Rhetoric in Advertising Language Edward F. McQuarrie, David Glen Mick · Journal of Consumer Research | Mar 1996 | 701 |
| 39 | Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook Martín Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor | 15 Dec 2009 | 675 |
| 40 | Historical Ontology Ian Hacking | 2002 | 666 |
| 41 | The Cartography of Syntactic Structures Guglielmo Cinque, Luigi Rizzi · Oxford University Press eBooks | 18 Sep 2012 | 638 |
| 42 | Resolving pronoun references Jerry R. Hobbs · Lingua | Apr 1978 | 625 |
| 43 | On the psycholinguistics of sarcasm. Raymond W. Gibbs · Journal of Experimental Psychology General | Mar 1986 | 600 |
| 44 | Testing common sense. Robert J. Sternberg, Richard K. Wagner, Wendy M. Williams et al. · American Psychologist | Nov 1995 | 595 |
| 45 | A Communicative Grammar of English Roberta J. Vann, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik · Modern Language Journal | 1995 | 595 |
| 46 | Comparing corpora using frequency profiling Paul Rayson, Roger Garside | 2000 | 592 |
| 47 | Cambridge Grammar of English Mary Swan · ELT Journal | 15 Dec 2006 | 579 |
| 48 | Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic Guus Kroonen | 2012 | 570 |
| 49 | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Farzaneh MAHOMOUDİ, Amirreza MAHMOUDİ · Turkish Journal of Educational Research | 30 Dec 2020 | 568 |
| 50 | How vocabulary is learned Paul Nation · Indonesian JELT Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching | 31 May 2017 | 558 |
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