Topic · Linguistics and Cultural Studies
Most cited papers in Linguistics and Cultural Studies
What are the most cited papers in Linguistics and Cultural Studies?
The most cited paper in Linguistics and Cultural Studies is "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books" (Jean-Baptiste Michel, Yuan Kui Shen, Aviva Presser Aiden et al., 2010), with 3,145 citations. Next come "The Phonology of English as an International Language" (1,797) and "Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family" (819).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 107 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books Jean-Baptiste Michel, Yuan Kui Shen, Aviva Presser Aiden et al. · Science | 16 Dec 2010 | 3,145 |
| 2 | The Phonology of English as an International Language Judy B. Gilbert, John M. Levis, Jennifer A. Jenkins · TESOL Quarterly | 2001 | 1,797 |
| 3 | Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family Remco Bouckaert, Philippe Lemey, Michael J Dunn et al. · Science | 23 Aug 2012 | 819 |
| 4 | Two Functional Categories in Noun Phrases: Evidence from Modern Hebrew Elizabeth Ritter | 26 Dec 1991 | 701 |
| 5 | The Korean language Ho‐min Sohn · Americanae (AECID Library) | 1999 | 684 |
| 6 | Biological foundations of language Hans G. Furth · Journal of Communication Disorders | Apr 1968 | 617 |
| 7 | The Noun Phrase Anna Szabolcsi | 26 Dec 1994 | 599 |
| 8 | Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic Guus Kroonen | 2012 | 570 |
| 9 | The Derived FOXP2 Variant of Modern Humans Was Shared with Neandertals Johannes Krause, Carles Lalueza‐Fox, Ludovic Orlando et al. · Current Biology | Nov 2007 | 568 |
| 10 | Does Grammaticalization Need Reanalysis? Martín Haspelmath · Studies in Language | 1998 | 511 |
| 11 | mtDNA Variation among Greenland Eskimos: The Edge of the Beringian Expansion Juliette Saillard, Peter Forster, Niels Lynnerup et al. · The American Journal of Human Genetics | Sep 2000 | 504 |
| 12 | Language Change: Progress or Decay? Jean Aitchison · Language | 1994 | 487 |
| 13 | The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia Peter de Barros Damgaard et al. · Science | 9 May 2018 | 461 |
| 14 | Indo‐European and Computational Cladistics Don Ringe, Tandy J. Warnow, Ann Taylor · Transactions of the Philological Society | Mar 2002 | 455 |
| 15 | Symmetrical Gaits of Horses Milton Hildebrand · Science | 5 Nov 1965 | 442 |
| 16 | The Give and Take of Everyday Life: Language Socialization of Kaluli Children. Keith T. Kernan · Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | Jun 1992 | 419 |
| 17 | the domain of emotion words on Ifaluk Catherine A. Lutz · American Ethnologist | Feb 1982 | 414 |
| 18 | Traditional medicine in Turkey IX: Erdem Yeşilada, Ekrem Sezik, Gisho Honda et al. · Journal of Ethnopharmacology | Mar 1999 | 361 |
| 19 | The mystery of language evolution MARC DAVID HAUSER, Charles D Yang, Robert C. Berwick et al. · Frontiers in Psychology | 7 May 2014 | 334 |
| 20 | The phonological word and stress assignment in Turkish Barış Kabak, Irene Vogel · Phonology | Dec 2001 | 322 |
| 21 | Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction James Clackson | 26 Nov 2007 | 297 |
| 22 | Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan Laurent Sagart, Guillaume Jacques, Yunfan Lai et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 6 May 2019 | 270 |
| 23 | New reflections on grammaticalization and lexicalization Christian O. Lehmann · Typological studies in language | 12 Apr 2002 | 266 |
| 24 | The history and typology of western Austronesian voice systems Fay Wouk, Malcolm D Ross | 2001 | 264 |
| 25 | Past Tense and the Hypothetical a Cross-Linguistic Study Deborah James · Studies in Language | 1982 | 263 |
| 26 | Language by ear and by eye Ragnhild Söderbergh · Journal of Child Language | Apr 1975 | 262 |
| 27 | Word-Order Change and Grammaticalization in the History of Chinese Jeroen Wiedenhof · China Information | Dec 1997 | 257 |
| 28 | Kashmiri: A cognitive-descriptive grammar Rakesh Mohan Bhatt · Lingua | Nov 1999 | 255 |
| 29 | Empirische Universalienforschung: Differentielle Objektmarkierung in den neuiranischen Sprachen Georg Bossong | 16 Apr 1985 | 250 |
| 30 | Traditional medicine in Turkey VI. Folk medicine in West Anatolia: Afyon, Kütahya, Denizli, Muğla, Aydin provinces Gisho Honda, Erdem Yeşilada, Mamoru Tabata et al. · Journal of Ethnopharmacology | Aug 1996 | 249 |
| 31 | A Three‐Dimensional Atlas of Human Tongue Muscles Ira Sanders, Liancai Mu · The Anatomical Record | 6 May 2013 | 249 |
| 32 | Traditional medicine in Turkey VII. Folk medicine in middle and west Black Sea regions Tetsuro Fujita, Ekrem Sezik, Mamoru Tabata et al. · Economic Botany | Oct 1995 | 236 |
| 33 | Morphological Analyses of the Human Tongue Musculature for Three-Dimensional Modeling Hironori Takemoto · Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research | Feb 2001 | 233 |
| 34 | Traditional medicine in Turkey VIII. Folk medicine in east anatolia; Erzurum, Erzíncan, Ağri, Kars, Iğdir provinces Ekrem Sezik, Erdem Yeşilada, Mamoru Tabata et al. · Economic Botany | Jul 1997 | 230 |
| 35 | Intonation and Its Uses. Melody in Grammar and Discourse René Collier · Language and Speech | Oct 1990 | 221 |
| 36 | A Middle Palaeolithic human hyoid bone B. Arensburg, A. M. Tillier, Bernard Vandermeersch et al. · Nature | Apr 1989 | 220 |
| 37 | Analog Studies Of The Nasalization Of Vowels Arthur S. House, Kenneth Noble Stevens · Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders | Jun 1956 | 219 |
| 38 | Speech and Language John Lötz · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | Nov 1950 | 207 |
| 39 | The relevance of extravagance: a reply to Bart Geurts Martín Haspelmath · Linguistics | 23 Jan 2000 | 206 |
| 40 | LEUKqMIA AND LYMPHOCYTES IN ATAXIA-TELANGIECTASIA Frederick M. Hecht · The Lancet | Nov 1966 | 204 |
| 41 | Regional variation in Kurmanji: A preliminary classification of dialects Ergin Öpengin, Geoffrey L.J. Haig · Kurdish Studies | 4 Oct 2014 | 204 |
| 42 | Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages Martine Robbeets et al. · Nature | 10 Nov 2021 | 199 |
| 43 | Agriculture in the Central Asian Bronze Age Robert Nicholas Spengler · Journal of World Prehistory | Sep 2015 | 199 |
| 44 | THE TONGUE SLIPS INTO PATTERNS Sieb G. Nooteboom | 31 Dec 1984 | 199 |
| 45 | The East Caucasian language family Helma van den Berg · Lingua | 24 Aug 2004 | 193 |
| 46 | Combinatorial animal communication with computable syntax: Chick-a-dee calling qualifies as ‘Language’ by structural linguistics Jack P. Hailman, Millicent Sigler Ficken · Animal Behaviour | Dec 1986 | 191 |
| 47 | Linguistic Anthropology Giovanni Bennardo · American Anthropologist | Sep 1998 | 186 |
| 48 | 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 |
| 49 | Lahu Nominalization, Relativization, and Genitivization James A. Matisoff | 12 Dec 1972 | 173 |
| 50 | Vowel length in western nilotic languages Torben Andersen · Acta Linguistica Hafniensia | 1990 | 169 |
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