Most cited papers in Linguistic Variation and Morphology
What are the most cited papers in Linguistic Variation and Morphology?
The most cited paper in Linguistic Variation and Morphology is "Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English" (Kathleen M. Broussard, Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson et al., 2000), with 8,233 citations. Next come "Identity and interaction: a sociocultural linguistic approach" (3,778) and "The Social Stratification of English in New York City." (3,097).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 741 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English Kathleen M. Broussard, Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson et al. · TESOL Quarterly | 2000 | 8,233 |
| 2 | Identity and interaction: a sociocultural linguistic approach Mary Bucholtz, Kira Hall · Discourse Studies | Oct 2005 | 3,778 |
| 3 | The Social Stratification of English in New York City. Harry J. Crockett, William Labov · American Sociological Review | Oct 1968 | 3,097 |
| 4 | Narrative Analysis: Oral Versions of Personal Experience1 William Labov, Joshua Waletzky · Journal of Narrative and Life History | 1997 | 2,908 |
| 5 | Language and woman's place Robin Tolmach Lakoff · Language in Society | Apr 1973 | 2,780 |
| 6 | Undoing Appropriateness: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Language Diversity in Education Nelson Flores, Jonathan Rosa · Harvard Educational Review | Jun 2015 | 2,780 |
| 7 | Linguistic Landscape and Ethnolinguistic Vitality Rodrigue Landry, Richard Y. Bourhis · Journal of Language and Social Psychology | Mar 1997 | 2,219 |
| 8 | Clarifying translanguaging and deconstructing named languages: A perspective from linguistics Ricardo Otheguy, Ofelia Garcı́a, Wallis Reid · Applied Linguistics Review | 19 Aug 2015 | 2,119 |
| 9 | Conceptual approaches to acculturation. John W. Berry · American Psychological Association eBooks | 2003 | 2,033 |
| 10 | Variation and the indexical field 1 Penelope Eckert · Journal of Sociolinguistics | 24 Aug 2008 | 2,028 |
| 11 | Three Waves of Variation Study: The Emergence of Meaning in the Study of Sociolinguistic Variation Penelope Eckert · Annual Review of Anthropology | 2 Jul 2012 | 2,020 |
| 12 | Language and Agency Laura M. Ahearn · Annual Review of Anthropology | Oct 2001 | 2,001 |
| 13 | Articulatory Phonology: An Overview Catherine P. Browman, Louis Goldstein · Phonetica | May 1992 | 2,001 |
| 14 | Reference to Kinds across Language Gennaro Chierchia · Natural Language Semantics | Dec 1998 | 1,832 |
| 15 | Explaining Phonetic Variation: A Sketch of the H&H Theory Björn E. F. Lindblom | 1990 | 1,816 |
| 16 | Motivational variables in second-language acquisition. R. C. Gardner, Wallace E. Lambert · Canadian Journal of Psychology/Revue Canadienne de Psychologie | 1959 | 1,752 |
| 17 | Bilingualism With and Without Diglossia; Diglossia With and Without Bilingualism Joshua A. Fishman · Journal of Social Issues | Apr 1967 | 1,729 |
| 18 | Reflexes of grammar in patterns of language change Anthony S. Kroch · Language Variation and Change | Oct 1989 | 1,624 |
| 19 | Unsettling race and language: Toward a raciolinguistic perspective Jonathan Rosa, Nelson Flores · Language in Society | 11 Sep 2017 | 1,601 |
| 20 | How Language Structures Space Léonard Talmy | 1983 | 1,601 |
| 21 | Foreign Accent, Comprehensibility, and Intelligibility in the Speech of Second Language Learners Murray J. Munro, Tracey M. Derwing · Language Learning | Mar 1995 | 1,548 |
| 22 | Universals and cultural variation in turn-taking in conversation Tanya Stivers, N. J. Enfield, Penelope Brown et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 24 Jun 2009 | 1,537 |
| 23 | Sex, covert prestige and linguistic change in the urban British English of Norwich Peter W. TRUDGILL · Language in Society | Oct 1972 | 1,507 |
| 24 | The intersection of sex and social class in the course of linguistic change William Labov · Language Variation and Change | Jul 1990 | 1,467 |
| 25 | The social life of cultural value Asif Agha · Language & Communication | 23 Apr 2003 | 1,442 |
| 26 | The geometry of phonological features George N. Clements · Phonology Yearbook | May 1985 | 1,410 |
| 27 | An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics Aleksandar Čarapić · Journal of Sociolinguistics | Apr 2006 | 1,389 |
| 28 | The relation of bilingualism to intelligence. Elizabeth Peal, Wallace E. Lambert · The Psychological Monographs | 1962 | 1,377 |
| 29 | Linguistic change, social network and speaker innovation James Milroy, Lesley Milroy · Journal of Linguistics | Sep 1985 | 1,264 |
| 30 | Representativeness in Corpus Design Douglas Biber · Literary and Linguistic Computing | Oct 1993 | 1,261 |
| 31 | The language bioprogram hypothesis Derek Bickerton · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Jun 1984 | 1,242 |
| 32 | Using uh and um in spontaneous speaking Herbert H. Clark · Cognition | May 2002 | 1,240 |
| 33 | Some principles of linguistic methodology William Labov · Language in Society | Apr 1972 | 1,230 |
| 34 | Language ideologies and the consequences of standardization James Milroy · Journal of Sociolinguistics | Nov 2001 | 1,229 |
| 35 | Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power Charles L. Briggs, Richard W Bauman · Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | Dec 1992 | 1,164 |
| 36 | Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper The “Five Graces Group”, Clay Beckner, Richard A. Blythe et al. · Language Learning | 24 Nov 2009 | 1,156 |
| 37 | The production of “new” and “similar” phones in a foreign language: evidence for the effect of equivalence classification James Emil Flege · Journal of Phonetics | 1987 | 1,149 |
| 38 | The Other Tongue: English across Cultures Kimberley Brown, Braj Β. Kachru · TESOL Quarterly | 1995 | 1,138 |
| 39 | Linguistic uses of segmental duration in English: Acoustic and perceptual evidence Dennis H. Klatt · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | May 1976 | 1,119 |
| 40 | Differential Object Marking: Iconicity vs. Economy Judith L. Aissen · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory | Aug 2003 | 1,093 |
| 41 | Comparative concepts and descriptive categories in crosslinguistic studies Martín Haspelmath · Language | Sep 2010 | 1,043 |
| 42 | Stress-timing and syllable-timing reanalyzed Rebecca M. Dauer · Journal of Phonetics | 1983 | 1,034 |
| 43 | On the Anglocentricities of current reading research and practice: The perils of overreliance on an "outlier" orthography. David L. Share · Psychological Bulletin | Jul 2008 | 1,021 |
| 44 | The whole woman: Sex and gender differences in variation Penelope Eckert · Language Variation and Change | Oct 1989 | 1,019 |
| 45 | Narrative, Literacy and Face in Interethnic Communication Suzanne E. Jacobs, Ron Scollon, Suzanne B. K. Scollon · TESOL Quarterly | Sep 1984 | 1,000 |
| 46 | Warlpiri and the grammar of non-configurational languages Ken Hale · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory | 1983 | 1,000 |
| 47 | Cognitive Aspects of Prejudice1 Henri Tajfel · Journal of Social Issues | Oct 1969 | 999 |
| 48 | Articulatory strengthening at edges of prosodic domains Cécile Fougeron, Patricia Keating · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | Jun 1997 | 998 |
| 49 | Factors affecting degree of foreign accent in an L2: a review Thorsten Piske, IAN R. A. MACKAY, James Emil Flege · Journal of Phonetics | Apr 2001 | 997 |
| 50 | The Neglected Situation Erving Goffman · American Anthropologist | Dec 1964 | 996 |
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