Most cited papers in Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
What are the most cited papers in Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies?
The most cited paper in Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies is "Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics" (Terrence Kaufman, 1990), with 1,458 citations. Next come "The relation of bilingualism to intelligence." (1,377) and "An Introduction to Language" (1,090).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 163 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics Terrence Kaufman · Lingua | Nov 1990 | 1,458 |
| 2 | The relation of bilingualism to intelligence. Elizabeth Peal, Wallace E. Lambert · The Psychological Monographs | 1962 | 1,377 |
| 3 | An Introduction to Language Victoria A. Fromkin, Robert D. Rodman, Nina M. Hyams | 1974 | 1,090 |
| 4 | Coherence and Coreference* Jerry R. Hobbs · Cognitive Science | 1979 | 909 |
| 5 | Language and Communicative Practices Jane H. Hill · American Ethnologist | Feb 1997 | 792 |
| 6 | Constituent structure and government in phonology Jonathan Derek Kaye, Jean Lowenstamm, Jean‐Roger Vergnaud · Phonology | May 1990 | 771 |
| 7 | Lexical categories verbs, nouns, and adjectives Mark C. Baker | 2003 | 743 |
| 8 | Creating a New Town koine: Children and language change in Milton Keynes Paul E. Kerswill, Ann Williams · Language in Society | 2000 | 703 |
| 9 | Mobility, Indexicality, and the Enregisterment of “Pittsburghese” Barbara Johnstone, Jennifer Andrus, Andrew E. Danielson · Journal of English Linguistics | Jun 2006 | 673 |
| 10 | Variationist Sociolinguistics. Change, Observation, Interpretation Julia Davydova · Journal of Pragmatics | 22 May 2012 | 661 |
| 11 | Linguistic change and diffusion: description and explanation in sociolinguistic dialect geography Peter W. TRUDGILL · Language in Society | Oct 1974 | 598 |
| 12 | Language Change Across the Lifespan: /r/ in Montreal French Gillian Sankoff, Hélène Blondeau · Language | Sep 2007 | 492 |
| 13 | The child as linguistic historian William Labov · Language Variation and Change | Mar 1989 | 489 |
| 14 | Explorations in applied linguistics Norman F. Davies · System | May 1980 | 454 |
| 15 | Breaking Agreements: Distinguishing Agreement and Clitic Doubling by Their Failures Omer Preminger · Linguistic Inquiry | Oct 2009 | 442 |
| 16 | Towards New Ways of Terminology Description: The sociocognitive approach Rita Temmerman | 15 Jun 2000 | 414 |
| 17 | External arguments and the Mirror Principle: On the distinctness of Voice and v Heidi Harley · Lingua | 10 Dec 2012 | 380 |
| 18 | Preservation and minimality in loanword adaptation Carole Paradis, Darlene LaCharité · Journal of Linguistics | Sep 1997 | 356 |
| 19 | Syllable structure and stress in Spanish: A non-linear analysis James Harris · Lingua | Mar 1984 | 355 |
| 20 | Feature structure of Romance clitics Eulàlia Bonet · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory | Nov 1995 | 346 |
| 21 | Defaults and indeterminacy in temporal grammaticalization: The ‘perfect’ road to perfective Scott A. Schwenter, Rena Torres Cacoullos · Language Variation and Change | Mar 2008 | 340 |
| 22 | Intonational phrasing: the case for recursive prosodic structure D. Robert Ladd · Phonology Yearbook | May 1986 | 334 |
| 23 | Phrase structure and the syntax of clitics in the history of Spanish Josep M. Fontana · Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania) | 1993 | 334 |
| 24 | Diachronic construction grammar and grammaticalization theory Dirk Noël · Functions of Language | 7 Dec 2007 | 320 |
| 25 | The languages of native North America Marianne Mithun · Americanae (AECID Library) | 1999 | 320 |
| 26 | Specificity and Differential Object Marking in Spanish Manuel Leonetti · Catalan Journal of Linguistics | Dec 2004 | 315 |
| 27 | Sociolinguistics and social theory Ben Rampton | 2001 | 303 |
| 28 | Introduction: Sociolinguistics Frans Gregersen, Unn Røyneland · Nordic Journal of Linguistics | 23 Oct 2009 | 301 |
| 29 | Language and Dialect Contact in Spanish in New York: Toward the Formation of a Speech Community Ricardo Otheguy, Ana Celia Zentella, David E. Livert · Language | Dec 2007 | 297 |
| 30 | The design of agreement: evidence from Chamorro. Julia Barron · Lingua | Mar 2002 | 297 |
| 31 | Conditional Clauses: External and Internal Syntax Liliane Haegeman · Mind & Language | 5 Aug 2003 | 288 |
| 32 | Articulation rate across dialect, age, and gender Ewa Jacewicz, Robert A. Fox, Caitlin O'Neill et al. · Language Variation and Change | Jul 2009 | 276 |
| 33 | Don't Put Your Leg in Your Mouth: Transfer in the Acquisition of Idioms in a Second Language Suzanne Irujo · TESOL Quarterly | Jun 1986 | 275 |
| 34 | REAL ACADEMIA ESPAÑOLA, Esbozo de una nueva gramática de la lengua española. Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1973. Luis Jaime Cisneros · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) | 11 Dec 1972 | 275 |
| 35 | Agent Focus in Mayan Languages Barbara Stiebels · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory | May 2006 | 271 |
| 36 | Diffusion, levelling, simplification and reallocation in past tense BE in the English Fens David Britain · Journal of Sociolinguistics | Feb 2002 | 259 |
| 37 | Looking like a language, sounding like a race: Raciolinguistic ideologies and the learning of Latinidad Molly Hamm‐Rodríguez · Latino Studies | 16 Oct 2019 | 254 |
| 38 | The Simple and Compound Past in Romance languages Mario Squartini, Pier Marco Bertinetto | 6 Jun 2000 | 249 |
| 39 | Multilingualism in the Northwest Amazon1 Arthur P. Sorensen · American Anthropologist | Dec 1967 | 249 |
| 40 | Discourse studies: A multidisciplinary introduction Gloria Esperanza Mora-Monroy · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) | 1999 | 249 |
| 41 | Spanish gender agreement under complete and incomplete acquisition: Early and late bilinguals' linguistic behavior within the noun phrase Irma Alarcón · Bilingualism Language and Cognition | 19 Jan 2011 | 239 |
| 42 | Contrastive focus, givenness and the unmarked status of “discourse-new” Elisabeth O. Selkirk · Acta Linguistica Hungarica | 5 Oct 2008 | 239 |
| 43 | Archaeological and linguistic correlations in Mayaland and associated areas of Meso‐America Terrence Kaufman · World Archaeology | Jun 1976 | 239 |
| 44 | Moving through the left periphery: the dual complementiser system in the dialects of Southern Italy Adam Noel Ledgeway · Transactions of the Philological Society | 16 Nov 2005 | 230 |
| 45 | Gender and gender agreement in bilingual native and non-native grammars: A view from child and adult functional–lexical mixings Juana Muñoz Liceras, Raquel Fernández, Susana Borraz Perales et al. · Lingua | 13 Jul 2007 | 227 |
| 46 | Extracting semantic hierarchies from a large on-line dictionary Martin S. Chodorow, Roy J. Byrd, George E. Heidorn | 1985 | 225 |
| 47 | Toward a theory of social dialect variation Anthony S. Kroch · Language in Society | Apr 1978 | 224 |
| 48 | Canadian raising Jack K. Chambers · The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique | 1973 | 219 |
| 49 | Setting parametric limits on dialectal variation in Spanish Almeida Jacqueline Toribio · Lingua | May 2000 | 218 |
| 50 | When the music changes, you change too: Gender and language change in Cajun English Sylvie Dubois, Barbara M. Horvath · Language Variation and Change | Oct 1999 | 218 |
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