Author(s)

Yi'an Gu¹, Wenhui Liu^2*

¹College of Foreign Languages, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, China.
²Bangor College, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, China.

Morphological awareness, awareness of the morphological structure of words and ability to manipulate that structure, has received global concern as a research focus in recent years. 691 documents from 1991 to 2021 were selected from the database Scopus and analyzed by CiteSpace 5.8.R3. The results are as follows. 1) The number of publications rose linearly from 1991 to 2021. 2) Reference co-citation analysis reveals that morphological awareness research is centralized and references forming the basis of the field are presented. 3) Keyword co-occurrence analysis and cluster view are combined to figure out the research hotspots. 4) Keyword burst map concludes that clinical studies and adult research are emerging trends in the domain. In general, this paper makes a visual, quantitative and extensive review of the research on MA in the last three decades, and proposes future research directions.

Morphological Awareness, CiteSpace, Bibliometric Review

Gu, Y. and Liu, W. (2023) Global Perspectives on Morphological Awareness: A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization from 1991-2021. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 13, 341-354. doi: 10.4236/ojml.2023.132020.