OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Applied Psycholinguistics is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Measuring bilingualism: The quest for a “bilingualism quotient”	49
Bilingual language experience as a multidimensional spectrum: Associations with objective and subjective language proficiency	45
Monolingual comparative normativity in bilingualism research is out of “control”: Arguments and alternatives	37
How language environment, age, and cognitive capacity support the bilingual development of Syrian refugee children recently arrived in Canada	27
Working memory training enhances complex syntax in children with Developmental Language Disorder	18
Socioeconomic status as a proxy for input quality in bilingual children?	16
Domain-general auditory processing determines success in second language pronunciation learning in adulthood: A longitudinal study	16
A meta-analysis of the relationship between working memory and second language reading comprehension: Does task type matter?	16
The impact of older siblings on the language environment and language development of bilingual toddlers	15
Individual differences in bilingual word recognition: The role of experiential factors and word frequency in cross-language lexical priming	13
Justice and equity for whom? Reframing research on the “bilingual (dis)advantage”	12
The processing of multiword expressions in children and adults: An eye-tracking study of Chinese	12
Quantifying individual differences in native and nonnative sentence processing	12
Alternating-color words facilitate reading and eye movements among second-language learners of Chinese	12
Word reading in English and Arabic in children who are Syrian refugees	11
Different measurements of bilingualism and their effect on performance on a Simon task	11
Lingering misinterpretation in native and nonnative sentence processing: Evidence from structural priming	11
Limits on expectation-based processing: Use of grammatical aspect for co-reference in L2	11
Testing the role of processing speed and automaticity in second language listening	11
Acculturation through the lens of language: Syrian refugees in Canada and Germany	10
Jalapeno or jalapeño: Do diacritics in consonant letters modulate visual similarity effects during word recognition?	10
Timed versus untimed recognition of L2 collocations: Does estimated proficiency modulate congruency effects?	10
Language assessment tools for Arabic-speaking heritage and refugee children in Germany	9
Predictors of reading comprehension in deaf and hearing bilinguals	9
Links between language and executive functions in Swedish preschool children: A pilot study	9

Effects of aging and noncanonical form presentation on idiom processing: Evidence from eye tracking	8
The atypical pattern of irony comprehension in autistic children	8
A cross-language study on feedforward and feedback control of voice intensity in Chinese–English bilinguals	8
Language proficiency and sociocultural integration of Canadian newcomers	8
Morphosyntactic adaptation in adult L2 processing: Exposure and the processing of case and tense violations	8
Age, frequency, and iconicity in early sign language acquisition: Evidence from the Israeli Sign Language MacArthur–Bates Communicative Developmental Inventory	8
The danger of bilingual–monolingual comparisons in applied psycholinguistic research	8
Bilingualism with minority languages: Why searching for unicorn language users does not move us forward	7
The role of word reading and oral language skills in reading comprehension in Syrian refugee children	7
Does learner cognition count on modality? Working memory and L2 morphosyntactic achievement across oral and written tasks	7
Letter transpositions and morphemic boundaries in the second language processing of derived words: An exploratory study of individual differences	7
From “No, she does” to “Yes, she does”: Negation processing in negative yes–no questions by Mandarin speakers of English	6
Family language patterns in bilingual families and relationships with children’s language outcomes	6
Interpreting experience enhances the use of lexical stress and syllabic structure to predict L2 word endings	6
The role of modality and awareness in language learning	6
Microvariation in the division of labor between null- and overt-subject pronouns: the case of Italian and Spanish	6
The roles of morphology, phonology, and prosody in reading and spelling multisyllabic words	6
Second language learning of phonological alternations with and without orthographic input: Evidence from the acquisition of a German-like voicing alternation	6
French-speaking teenagers’ mastery of connectives: the role of vocabulary size and exposure to print	6
The attrition of school-learned foreign languages: A multilingual perspective	6
The offline and online effects of processing instruction	6
Sensitivity to microvariation in bilingual acquisition: morphophonological gender cues in Russian heritage language	6
Lag effects in grammar learning: A desirable difficulties perspective	6
The roles of cognitive abilities and hearing acuity in older adults’ recognition of words taken from fast and spectrally reduced speech	6
Investigating verbal and nonverbal indicators of physiological response during second language interaction	6
Impairment or difference? The case of Theory of Mind abilities and pragmatic competence in the Autism Spectrum	6
Simplification of literary and scientific texts to improve reading fluency and comprehension in beginning readers of French	6
The sentence repetition task as a measure of sign language proficiency	5
Conceptual transfer and lexical development in adjectives of space: Evidence from judgments, reaction times, and eye tracking	5
The effect of frequency of exposure on the processing and learning of collocations: A comparison of first and second language readers’ eye movements	5
Effects of a morpheme-based training procedure on the literacy skills of readers with a reading disability	5
The development of a measure of orthographic knowledge in the Arabic language: A psychometric evaluation	5
Transmitting white monolingual Anglo-American norms: A concept analysis of “quality of language” in parent-child interactions	5
How odd: Diverging effects of predictability and plausibility violations on sentence reading and word memory	5
Prediction differs at sentence and discourse level: An event-related potential study	5
Clarifying links to literacy: How does morphological awareness support children’s word reading development?	5
Foundations of early literacy among Arabic-speaking pre-school children	5
Wisdom comes with age? The role of grammatical gender in predictive processing in Russian children and adults	4
Reading minds in motion: Mouse tracking reveals transposed-character effects in Chinese compound word recognition	4
Why subtitle speed matters: Evidence from word skipping and rereading	4
Examining the growth trajectories and cognitive predictors of reading in a consistent orthography: Evidence from a 10-year longitudinal study	4
Metalinguistic contribution to reading comprehension: A comparison of Primary 3 students from China and Singapore	4
Word skipping in deaf and hearing bilinguals: Cognitive control over eye movements remains with increased perceptual span	4
Interpretation preferences in contexts with three antecedents: examining the role of prominence in German pronouns	4
The effect of children’s prior knowledge and language abilities on their statistical learning	4
Challenging deficit frameworks in research on heritage language bilingualism	4
Grammatical performance in children with dyslexia: the contributions of individual differences in phonological memory and statistical learning	4
Transfer facilitation effects of morphological awareness on multicharacter word reading in Chinese as a foreign language	4
Testing the reminding account of the lag effect in L2 vocabulary learning	3
Interspeaker code-switching use in school-aged bilinguals and its relation with affective factors and language proficiency	3

What are the letters e and é in a language with vowel reduction? The case of Catalan	3
Examining individual variation in learner production data: A few programmatic pointers for corpus-based analyses using the example of adverbial clause ordering	3
Abandoning inauthentic intersectionality	3
Language abilities of children with refugee backgrounds: Insights from case studies	3
Parsing preferences and individual differences in nonnative sentence processing: Evidence from eye movements	3
The role of corrective feedback and lexical guidance in perceptual learning of a novel L2 accent in dialogue	3
The structure of developing semantic networks: Evidence from single and multiple nominal word associations in young monolingual and bilingual readers	3
Speech production factors and verbal working memory in children and adults with developmental language disorder	3
Sex differences in language competence of 4-year-old children: Female advantages are mediated by phonological short-term memory	3
The “work” of being a bilingual: Exploring effects of forced language switching on language production and stress level in a real-world setting	3
MIND your language(s): Recognizing Minority, Indigenous, Non-standard(ized), and Dialect variety usage in “monolinguals”	3
Transition to adulthood of refugee and immigrant children in Canada	3
Individual differences in memory predict changes in breakdown and repair fluency but not speed fluency: A short-term fluency training intervention study	3
Phonological characteristics of novel gesture production in children with developmental language disorder: Longitudinal findings	3
“I no longer count in German.” On dominance shift in returnee heritage speakers	3
Cross-linguistic influence in L1 processing of morphosyntactic variation: Evidence from L2 learners	3
A position paper on researching braille in the cognitive sciences: decentering the sighted norm	3
Visual speech cues speed processing and reduce effort for children listening in quiet and noise	3
The impact of audio on the reading of intralingual versus interlingual subtitles: Evidence from eye movements	3
The triple-deficit hypothesis in Arabic: Evidence from children with and without dyslexia	2
Production-based training benefits the comprehension and production of grammatical gender in L2 German	2
Cross-linguistic syntactic priming in Korean learners of English	2
The effect of memory instructions on within- and between-language false memory	2
Understanding language processing in variable populations on their own terms: Towards a functionalist psycholinguistics of individual differences, development, and disorders	2
Differences in word learning in children: Bilingualism or linguistic experience?	2
The contribution of orthographic input, phonological skills, and rise time discrimination to the learning of non-native phonemic contrasts	2
Rapid shift in naming efficiency on a rapid automatic naming task by young Spanish-speaking English language learners	2
The predictive processing of number information in subregular verb morphology in a first and second language	2
Integrating morphological and contextual cues in lexical inferencing of Chinese fourth graders	2
Atypical context-dependent speech processing in autism	2
The language, literacy, and social integration of refugee children and youth	2
Interdependence between L1 and L2: The case of Syrian children with refugee backgrounds in Canada and the Netherlands	2
Roles of domain-general auditory processing in spoken second-language vocabulary attainment in adulthood	2
Sensitivity to syntactic violation and semantic ambiguity in English modal verbs: A self-paced reading study	2
Plural marking in the second language: Atomicity, definiteness, and transfer	2
The English referencing behaviors of first- and second-grade Spanish–English emergent bilinguals in oral narrative retells	2
The interpretation of Spanish masculine plural NPs: Are they perceived as uniformly masculine or as a mixture of masculine and feminine?	2
A longitudinal examination of French and English reading comprehension in French immersion programs in Canada	2
Processing voice morphology and argument structure by Greek Beginning Readers and children with Reading Difficulties	2
NS and NNS processing of idioms and nonidiom formulaic sequences: What can reaction times and think-alouds tell us?	2
The efficacy of grapheme-phoneme correspondence instruction in reducing the effect of orthographic forms on second language phonology	2
Gradience in subject–verb number agreement: Can bilinguals tune in?	2
Processing of novel L2 compounds across repeated exposures during reading: A growth curve analysis	2
Speech cues to deception in bilinguals	2
Processing focus in native and non-native speakers of English: an eye-tracking study in the visual world paradigm	2
Stages of sight translation: Evidence from eye movements	2