| 1 | Left periphery and how-why alternations | Journal of East Asian Linguistics | 2008 | 154 |
| 2 | Revisiting the incremental effects of context on word processing: Evidence from single‐word event‐related brain potentials | Psychophysiology | 2015 | 116 |
| 3 | Cartography and licensing of wh-adjuncts: a cross-linguistic perspective | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 2008 | 98 |
| 4 | The 1st person plural in political discourse—American politicians in interviews and in a debate | Journal of Pragmatics | 2011 | 94 |
| 5 | Individuals, kinds and events | Language Sciences | 2003 | 88 |
| 6 | Morphological awareness and learning to read Chinese | Reading and Writing | 2006 | 86 |
| 7 | Syntactic Judgment Experiments | Language and Linguistics Compass | 2009 | 83 |
| 8 | N'-ellipsis and the structure of noun phrases in Chinese and Japanese | Journal of East Asian Linguistics | 2008 | 81 |
| 9 | (null) | Journal of East Asian Linguistics | 1999 | 74 |
| 10 | The design and analysis of small-scale syntactic judgment experiments | Lingua | 2009 | 63 |
| 11 | The emergence of a grammatical category definite article in spoken Chinese | Journal of Pragmatics | 1999 | 61 |
| 12 | Root merger in Chinese compounds* | Studia Linguistica | 2007 | 56 |
| 13 | (null) | Journal of East Asian Linguistics | 2001 | 45 |
| 14 | Abnormal dynamics of activation of object use information in apraxia: Evidence from eyetracking | Neuropsychologia | 2014 | 35 |
| 15 | Distinguishing classifiers and measure words: A mathematical perspective and implications | Lingua | 2012 | 31 |
| 16 | Pain Perception Can Be Modulated by Mindfulness Training: A Resting-State fMRI Study | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience | 2016 | 31 |
| 17 | Tense in Mandarin Chinese Sentences | Syntax | 2015 | 30 |
| 18 | On the phonological organization of Mandarin tones | Lingua | 2007 | 28 |
| 19 | Identifying Chinese dependent clauses in the forms of subjects | Journal of East Asian Linguistics | 2016 | 24 |
| 20 | Neural correlates of bilingual language control during interlingual homograph processing in a logogram writing system | Brain and Language | 2017 | 24 |
| 21 | Ambiguity Advantage Revisited: Two Meanings are Better than One When Accessing Chinese Nouns | Journal of Psycholinguistic Research | 2009 | 23 |
| 22 | Lexical frequency effects in Taiwan Southern Min syllable contraction | Journal of Phonetics | 2009 | 22 |
| 23 | Mandarin-speaking children's use of the discourse markers hao ‘okay’ and dui ‘right’ in peer interaction | Language Sciences | 2016 | 22 |
| 24 | Argument-function mismatches in Mandarin resultatives: A lexical mapping account | Lingua | 2007 | 21 |
| 25 | Functional head properties of the degree word Hen in Mandarin Chinese | Lingua | 2015 | 21 |
| 26 | Sibilant Fricative Merging in Taiwan Mandarin: An Investigation of Tongue Postures using Ultrasound Imaging | Language and Speech | 2020 | 19 |
| 27 | Emptiness We Live By: Metaphors and Paradoxes in Buddhism's Heart Sutra | Metaphor and Symbol | 2007 | 17 |
| 28 | Perception of musical and lexical tones by Taiwanese-speaking musicians | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | 2011 | 17 |
| 29 | Visibility, complement selection and the case requirement of CP | Journal of East Asian Linguistics | 1995 | 16 |
| 30 | (null) | Journal of East Asian Linguistics | 2003 | 16 |
| 31 | Referential choice in Mandarin child language: A discourse-pragmatic perspective | Journal of Pragmatics | 2011 | 16 |
| 32 | Temporo-parietal connectivity uniquely predicts reading change from childhood to adolescence | NeuroImage | 2016 | 16 |
| 33 | Wiktionary and NLP | | 2009 | 16 |
| 34 | Justifying part-of-speech assignments for Mandarin gei | Lingua | 2006 | 15 |
| 35 | Frequency effects in the processing of Chinese inflection | Journal of Memory and Language | 2006 | 15 |
| 36 | Tracking Multiple Statistics: Simultaneous Learning of Object Names and Categories in English and Mandarin Speakers | Cognitive Science | 2017 | 15 |
| 37 | Emotion anticipation induces emotion effects in neutral words during sentence reading: Evidence from event-related potentials | Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience | 2020 | 15 |
| 38 | Other-repetition in Mandarin child language: A discourse-pragmatic perspective | Journal of Pragmatics | 2010 | 14 |
| 39 | Chinese Word Sketch and Mapping Principles: A Corpus-Based Study of Conceptual Metaphors Using the BUILDING Source Domain | International Journal of Computer Processing of Languages | 2008 | 13 |
| 40 | (null) | Journal of East Asian Linguistics | 2003 | 12 |
| 41 | Phonetic knowledge in tonal adaptation: Mandarin and English loanwords in Lhasa Tibetan | Journal of East Asian Linguistics | 2008 | 12 |
| 42 | Semantic processing of self-adaptors, emblems, and iconic gestures: An ERP study | Journal of Neurolinguistics | 2018 | 12 |
| 43 | On pharyngealized vowels in Northern Horpa: An acoustic and ultrasound study | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | 2020 | 12 |
| 44 | Licensing “gapless” bei passives | Journal of East Asian Linguistics | 2009 | 11 |
| 45 | Metaphor and hyperbolic expressions of emotion in Mandarin Chinese conversation | Journal of Pragmatics | 2010 | 11 |
| 46 | Referential choice and informativeness in mother–child conversation: A focus on the mother | Language Sciences | 2012 | 11 |
| 47 | Vowel coarticulation: Landmark statistics measure vowel aggression | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | 2015 | 11 |
| 48 | Defining numeral classifiers and identifying classifier languages of the world | Linguistics Vanguard: Multimodal Online Journal | 2022 | 11 |
| 49 | A Case of V2 in Chinese | Studies in Chinese Linguistics | 2015 | 10 |
| 50 | On silent elements: a case study of grand and its silent entourage | Natural Language and Linguistic Theory | 2014 | 10 |