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Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition

Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition is a research topic within Artificial Intelligence. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the compilation, annotation, and analysis of spoken language corpora in Italian and Portuguese, with a particular emphasis on prosody, pragmatics, and information structure. It also delves into linguistic annotation, language teaching, and cross-linguistic analysis.

  • Spoken Language
  • Corpora
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Prosody
  • Pragmatics
  • Information Structure
  • Linguistic Annotation
  • Language Teaching
  • Cross-linguistic Analysis
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Italy
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition

Which countries lead Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition research?

By volume, Italy and Brazil publish the most (1k and 380 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Italy 1k works
  2. 2 Brazil 380 works
  3. 3 France 217 works
  4. 4 Spain 200 works
  5. 5 United States 183 works
  6. 6 Poland 90 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 66 works
  8. 8 Germany 59 works
  9. 9 Portugal 41 works
  10. 10 Switzerland 38 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Italy: 44.2%Brazil: 16.6%France: 9.5%Spain: 8.8%6 others listed: 20.9%44%largest
Italy1,012 · 44.2%Brazil380 · 16.6%France217 · 9.5%Spain200 · 8.8%6 others listed478 · 20.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition research?

By volume in 2022-now, Ca' Foscari University of Venice publishes the most Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition research, followed by University of Milan and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly 81 works
  2. 2 University of MilanItaly 80 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 62 works
  4. 4 University of FlorenceItaly 53 works
  5. 5 University of BolognaItaly 52 works
  6. 6 University of TurinItaly 50 works
  7. 7 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 44 works
  8. 8 University of PaduaItaly 35 works
  9. 9 University for Foreigners of SienaItaly 30 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition include Pierre Bourdıeu, Noam Chomsky and Claudia Patrignani.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations
  3. 3 Claudia Patrignani France 125k citations
  4. 4 M. Cuffiani Switzerland 115k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition?

The most cited paper in Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition is "The CHILDES project: tools for analyzing talk" (Brian MacWhinney, 1992), with 3,432 citations. Next come "Child's Talk: Learning to Use Language" (2,113) and "On derived domains in sentence phonology" (1,584).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The CHILDES project: tools for analyzing talk Brian MacWhinney · Child Language Teaching and Therapy Jun 1992 3,432
2 Child's Talk: Learning to Use Language Jerome S. Bruner · Child Language Teaching and Therapy 1985 2,113
3 On derived domains in sentence phonology Elisabeth O. Selkirk · Phonology Yearbook May 1986 1,584
4 Native speaker/non-native speaker conversation and the negotiation of comprehensible input1 Michael H. Long · Applied Linguistics Feb 1983 1,349
5 Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course Susan M. Gass, Larry Selinker Nov 1993 1,339
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition research done?

The largest centres of Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition research in 2022-now are Rome (Italy), Milan (Italy), Venice (Italy) and Florence (Italy). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Venice, Siena and Perugia.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 RomeItaly 116 works
  2. 2 MilanItaly 108 works
  3. 3 VeniceItaly 84 works
  4. 4 FlorenceItaly 72 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 64 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 59 works
  7. 7 BolognaItaly 56 works
  8. 8 TurinItaly 54 works
  9. 9 SienaItaly 49 works
  10. 10 MadridSpain 48 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. VeniceIT · 84.3 works92×
  2. SienaIT · 48.6 works76×
  3. PerugiaIT · 25.6 works36×
  4. FlorenceIT · 72.2 works31×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition?

Among universities, judged by research, University for Foreigners Perugia, Ca' Foscari University of Venice and University of Milan score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 15.87%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University for Forei…Ca' Foscari Universi…University of MilanUniversity of Florence
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University for Foreigners PerugiaItaly 75.030.0%748.7×17 +111.6%
2Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly 67.910.6%135.9×81 +18.0%
3University of MilanItaly 67.610.1%49.4×80 +30.8%
4University of FlorenceItaly 60.49.4%35.4×53 +10.0%
5Universidad de GranadaSpain 59.225.9%7.1×10 +92.6%
6University for Foreigners of SienaItaly 57.614.2%1150.9×30 +60.0%
7Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 56.419.5%8.5×19 +27.8%
8University of SalernoItaly 56.221.1%17.4×13 +4.1%
9University of PaduaItaly 56.011.0%17.3×35 -2.7%
10University of BolognaItaly 55.56.9%25.1×52 -7.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition, country by country

Is Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition9.4% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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