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Linguistic Variation and Morphology

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Machteld de Vos
Radboud University Nijmegen
2
Matthias Urban
Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage
3
Ezequiel Koile
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
4
Penelope Howe
University of Antananarivo
5
Christian Bester
Oklahoma State University
6
Alexandra Marley
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
7
Louise Esher
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
8
Dana Louagie
University of Liège
9
Xavier Bach
University of Oxford
10
Michael Obiri-Yeboah
Georgetown University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Mesoclisis in Old Occitan
Linguistica Pragensia|2024
17 cit.
2
Decimal systems around the world
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences|2025
7 cit.
3
Tracing Human Diversity in South America's Southern Cone: Linguistic, Morphometric, and Genetic Perspectives
American Journal of Biological Anthropology|2025
5 cit.
4
Gradient in grammatical structure of indigenous languages reflects pathway of human expansion in the Americas
Scientific Reports|2025
3 cit.
5
Akan tone encoding across musical modalities
Studies in African Linguistics|2024
1 cit.
6
Productive phrasal opacity in Gua: A challenge to Stratal Optimality Theory
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory|2024
1 cit.
7
Spatial effects with missing data
Open Linguistics|2024
1 cit.
8
Global language geography and language history: challenges and opportunities
Open Research Europe|2025
1 cit.
9
Global language geography and language history: challenges and opportunities
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)|2024
1 cit.
10
Detecting linguistic variation with geographic sampling
Journal of Linguistic Geography|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Sharese King
University of Chicago
2
Paul‐Christian Bürkner
TU Dortmund University
3
Emily Elfner
York University
4
Derya Demirçay
Avans University of Applied Sciences
5
Sanne van Vuuren
Radboud University Nijmegen
6
Tobias Bernaisch
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
7
Annemarie Verkerk
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
8
Shiri Lev‐Ari
University of Chicago
9
Salome Harris
Government of the Northern Territory
10
David Alberto Seth Langa
Eduardo Mondlane University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect
Nature|2024
171 cit.
2
A typology of northwestern Bantu gender systems
Linguistics|2022
121 cit.
3
Sociogeographic correlates of typological variation in northwestern Bantu gender systems
Language Dynamics and Change|2022
99 cit.
4
Theoretical models and statistical modelling of linguistic epicentres
World Englishes|2022
34 cit.
5
BayesFlow: Amortized Bayesian Workflows With NeuralNetworks
The Journal of Open Source Software|2023
33 cit.
6
The current state of research into linguistic epicentres
World Englishes|2022
28 cit.
7
Whose gendered voices matter?: Race and gender in the articulation of /s/ in Bakersfield, California
Journal of Sociolinguistics|2022
23 cit.
8
Intuitive joint priors for Bayesian linear multilevel models: The R2D2M2 prior
Electronic Journal of Statistics|2023
23 cit.
9
On the Information Obtainable from Comparative Judgments
Psychometrika|2022
21 cit.
10
Uncertainty quantification and propagation in surrogate-based Bayesian inference
Statistics and Computing|2025
18 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Kira Hall
University of Colorado System
2
Richard Y. Bourhis
Université du Québec à Montréal
3
Anne Cutler
Western Sydney University
4
Murray J. Munro
Simon Fraser University
5
David B. Pisoni
Indiana University Bloomington
6
R. Harald Baayen
University of Tübingen
7
Joseph Salmons
University of Wisconsin–Madison
8
Stephen C. Levinson
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
9
Patricia Keating
University of California, Los Angeles
10
Ann R. Bradlow
Northwestern University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Mixed-effects modeling with crossed random effects for subjects and items
Journal of Memory and Language|2008
8.6k cit.
2
WEIRD languages have misled us, too [Comment on Henrich et al.]
Max Planck Digital Library|2010
4.1k cit.
3
Identity and interaction: a sociocultural linguistic approach
Discourse Studies|2005
3.7k cit.
4
The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science
Behavioral and Brain Sciences|2009
2.6k cit.
5
The CELEX Lexical Database (CD-ROM)
Max Planck Digital Library|1996
2.2k cit.
6
Linguistic Landscape and Ethnolinguistic Vitality
Journal of Language and Social Psychology|1997
2.1k cit.
7
Recognizing Spoken Words: The Neighborhood Activation Model
Ear and Hearing|1998
2k cit.
8
Towards an Interactive Acculturation Model: A Social Psychological Approach
International Journal of Psychology|1997
1.5k cit.
9
Foreign Accent, Comprehensibility, and Intelligibility in the Speech of Second Language Learners
Language Learning|1995
1.5k cit.
10
Universals and cultural variation in turn-taking in conversation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2009
1.5k cit.

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