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Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Laura Tramutoli
University of Bologna
2
Elena Isolani
University of Cambridge
3
Federica Casadei
Università degli Studi della Tuscia
4
Jonas Grünke
University of Regensburg
5
Kenneth L. Brewer
Montclair State University
6
Irene Caloi
Goethe University Frankfurt
7
Tekabe Legesse Feleke
University of Verona
8
Anna Grochowska-Reiter
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
9
Davide Mastrantonio
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
10
Frederico Amorim Cavalcante
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Rising Stars Papers

1
Verb movement in Florentine
Isogloss Open Journal of Romance Linguistics|2024
45 cit.
2
Il polimorfismo dei verbi in -isco. La storia dell’identità in via di definizione
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia|2024
18 cit.
3
IL PROGETTO PRIN 2022 PNRR “DIZIONARIO DELL’ITALIANO ACCADEMICO: FORME E FUNZIONI TESTUALI” (DIA): PRIME ACQUISIZIONI E PROSPETTIVE
Italiano LinguaDue|2025
16 cit.
4
The role of differential cross-linguistic influence and other constraints in predictive L2 gender processing
Glossa Psycholinguistics|2024
4 cit.
5
Dialect Recognition via Lexical Processing: Is It a Viable Litmus Test?
Languages|2024
3 cit.
6
Dialect separation and cross-dialectal influence: a study on the grammatical gender of Oromo
Linguistics|2024
2 cit.
7
Comparing Models on the Optionality of Complementizer Omission A Quantitative Computational study on German and Italo-Romance
Annali di Ca’ Foscari Serie occidentale|2024
1 cit.
8
Contrast Maintenance in the Bulgarian and Judeo-Spanish Unstressed Vowels of Heritage Bilinguals
Heritage Language Journal|2025
0 cit.
9
Complementizer deletion and the split hypothesis
Isogloss Open Journal of Romance Linguistics|2025
0 cit.
10
The parametrization of declarative feature
Linguistic Variation|2025
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Kim A. Groothuis
Ghent University
2
George Akanlig-Pare
University of Ghana
3
Valentina De Iacovo
University of Turin
4
Shanti Úlfsbjörninn
Memorial University of Newfoundland
5
Grossmann Maria
Unknown
6
Narés García Rivero
Demos
7
Sanne van Vuuren
Radboud University Nijmegen
8
Christophe Pereira
Langage, langues et cultures d'Afrique
9
Ana Estrada Arráez
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
10
Anna-Lena Scherger
TU Dortmund University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The Varieties of English for Specific Purposes dAtabase (VESPA): Towards a multi-L1 and multi-register learner corpus of disciplinary writing
Research in Corpus Linguistics|2022
14 cit.
2
Ditransitive structures in child language acquisition: An investigation of production and comprehension in children aged five to seven
Journal of Child Language|2022
9 cit.
3
Non-finite Verb Movement in Romance
Probus|2022
6 cit.
4
Nasal Assimilation Counterfeeding and Allomorphy in Haitian: Nothing Is Still Something!
Linguistic Inquiry|2022
6 cit.
5
An Argument for Phonological Stress in French: the syntagm over contrast
Journal of French Language Studies|2022
4 cit.
6
Pseudo-Allomorphy of Articles and Articulated Prepositions in Llanito
Linx|2022
4 cit.
7
Strategies of clausal postmodification in learner English
International Journal of Learner Corpus Research|2022
4 cit.
8
On the Relation between Finiteness and Clause Size: Evidence from Romanian and Southern Italo‐Romance Irrealis Clauses*
Transactions of the Philological Society|2022
3 cit.
9
Rethinking bilingual language assessment: Considering implicit language acquisition mechanisms by means of pupillometry
Research Methods in Applied Linguistics|2022
3 cit.
10
Supporting second language acquisition of bilingual preschool children through professionalization of caregivers in specialized preschool programs
Frontiers in Psychology|2023
3 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Giulio Cesare Zavattini
Sapienza University of Rome
2
Anna Cardinaletti
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
3
Mineharu Nakayama
The Ohio State University
4
Jonathan D. Kaye
University of London
5
Malcolm Coulthard
Great North Children's Hospital
6
Roman Jakobson
Harvard University Press
7
Pilar Prieto
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
8
Teresa Cadierno
University of Southern Denmark
9
Frank Seifart
Max Planck Society
10
Anna M. Thornton
University of L'Aquila

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Closing statement : Linguistics and poetics
Unknown Journal|1960
1.5k cit.
2
Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis
The Modern Language Review|1999
1.3k cit.
3
Towards an analysis of discourse
Modern Language Journal|1977
1.1k cit.
4
Constituent structure and government in phonology
Phonology|1990
747 cit.
5
Giornale Italiano di Psicologia
Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)|2006
719 cit.
6
Preliminaries to speech analysis
Unknown Journal|2020
678 cit.
7
The internal structure of phonological elements: a theory of charm and government
Phonology Yearbook|1985
672 cit.
8
Grande grammatica italiana di consultazione
Unknown Journal|2001
641 cit.
9
Explicit Instruction and Input Processing
Studies in Second Language Acquisition|1993
639 cit.
10
Segmental complexity and phonological government
Phonology|1990
413 cit.

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