OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Second Language Research 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners	26
From one language to the other: Examining the role of code-switching on vocabulary learning in adult second-language learners	23
The relationship between perception and production of illusory vowels in a second language	21
Cross-linguistic influence meets diminished input: A comparative study of heritage Russian in contact with Hebrew and English	15
Contrastive focus is acquirable: An investigation of Russian contrastive focus with English/Russian bilinguals	13
The role of L2 input in developing a novel L2 contrast phonetically and phonologically: Production evidence from a residence abroad context	13
L2 Korean metonymy: The relative role of a conceptual universal and conventionalization	12
Processing gender agreement in an additional language: The more languages the better?	10
Interaction between syntactic and information structure in the second language processing of Korean dative sentences	8
Searching for common phonological space: /s/-stop clusters in L1 Polish and L2 English	8
L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of VOTs of voiceless plosives in highly proficient late bilinguals	8
The source of the that -trace effect: New evidence from L2 English	8
High is good enough: Gender agreement and relative clause attachment in L2 auditory processing	8
Syntactic constraints on structural priming in L2 development: Effects of lexical overlap within and across structures	8
Combining phonetics and phonology in L x acquisition using current theoretical models and probabilistic approaches: A response to Archibald	7
Cross-language perception of Japanese consonant length by speakers from Italian- and Mandarin-speaking backgrounds	6
Cross-linguistic influence and language co-activation in acquiring L3 words: What empirical evidence do we have so far?	6
Island sensitivity in L2 learners: Evidence from acceptability judgments and event-related potentials	5
Connectivity effects in pseudoclefts in L1 and L2 speakers of German	5
The CELI corpus: Design and linguistic annotation of a new online learner corpus	5
Examining the source of island effects in native speakers and second language learners of English	5
Is cats one word or two? L2 learners’ processing of number marking in English from the viewpoints of form–meaning mapping	5
L1-transfer effects and the role of computational complexity in L2 pronoun interpretation	5
Such sweet thunder	5
Testing the Interpretability Hypothesis: Evidence from acceptability judgments of relative clauses by Persian and French learners of L2 English	4

Phonological cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages of L3 acquisition	4
Michael Sharwood Smith Award 2025	4
Can dynamical systems theory be applied to second language acquisition? The issues of reductionism and intentionality	4
Adaptation in L2 sentence processing: An EEG study	4
Dependency resolutions of null and overt subjects in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence for the cue-based model	4
Testing the Bottleneck Hypothesis: Chinese EFL learners’ knowledge of morphology and syntax across proficiency levels	4
Beyond a unidimensional view: The multilayered perspective on the implicit–explicit knowledge interface	4
Subject realization in Greek preschool learners of English	4
Language-specific properties and overt pronoun interpretation:The case of L2 Japanese	4
The L2/L3 initial state, initial stages and judgement tasks: The role of intercomprehension when judging unknown languages	4
Brain boosters: How bilingualism and working memory enhance children’s comprehension of which -questions	3
Cross-linguistic transfer of acoustic cues: Perception of Japanese vowel length by learners from Vietnamese-speaking background	3
Investigating the relation between L2 pauses, syntactic complexity, and pause location: Longitudinal data from L2-Spanish study-abroad learners	3
Waiting in the wings: The place of phonology in the study of multilingual grammars	3
Linguistic distance and crosslinguistic influence: Commentary	3
Cross-linguistic effects in grammatical gender assignment and predictive processing in L1 Greek, L1 Russian, and L1 Turkish speakers of Norwegian as a second language	3
The influence of L1 typology on the acquisition of the L2 English article: A large-scale corpus study	3
Sensitivity to missing plural marking in L2 English: A role for cross-linguistic influence?	3
Speech segmentation in pre-foreign language learners: An investigation of meta-linguistic and linguistic knowledge	3
A role for features in speech perception	3
A bidirectional study in L2 acquisition of pragmatics: The case of (un-)bounded adjectival scales	3
Learning to predict: Second language perception of reduced multi-word sequences	3
The interaction of auditory acuity and L2 input in suprasegmental cue-weighting shifts after study abroad: Mandarin speakers’ perception of Spanish lexical stress	3
Backward anaphora in L2 acquisition of English, Mandarin and Japanese	3
Second language phonology: The phonetics–phonology divide, its underrepresentation in L2 research, and the richness of phonological representations from segments to prosodic structure	3
The V2 myth: Evidence for a functional motivation of V3 in L2 German from a self-paced reading study	2
Input in the digital wild: Online informal and non-formal learning and their interactions with study abroad	2
The influence of semantic bias on triple non-identical cognates during reading: Evidence from trilinguals’ eye movements	2
Exploring the processing unit of L2 Chinese learners in on-line Chinese reading	2
Corrigendum to “Orthographic influence in the distributional learning of nonnative speech sounds”	2
The effect of second-language learning experience on Korean listeners’ use of pitch cues in the perception of Cantonese tones	2
Timed vs. untimed lexicosemantic judgement task for measuring automatized phonological vocabulary knowledge	2
Mechanism of implicit causality in L2 comprehension: Testing the empty-slot theory through coreference and coherence biases	2
Inflected infinitives in SLA: A study of L1-Brazilian Portuguese–L2-Spanish speakers	2
Lexical production and cognitive control in sequential bilinguals immersed in two different contexts of language use	2
Activation and local inhibition in the bilingual child’s processing of codeswitching	2
The effects of incidental learning and input frequency on the perception of non-native speech	2
The perception of emotional prosody in Mandarin Chinese words and sentences	2
Syllable position effects in the perception of L2 Portuguese /l/ and /ɾ/ by L1-Mandarin learners	2
Can adult learners sense L2 emotional words automatically? The role of L2 use on the emotional Stroop effect	2
When multilingualism is more than three: On the nature of gender transfer in L3+ acquisition	2
Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: Evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions	2
The effect of orthography in Mandarin speakers’ production of English voiceless stops	2
Testing the Competing Systems Hypothesis: Further evidence from aspect in tutored L1-English–L2-Spanish	2
Discourse markers in L1 and L2 Italian: A cartographic analysis of the sentence-internal position	2
The acquisition of L2 allophonic variants: The role of phonological distribution and lexical cues	2