OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Second Language Research is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
On the relationship between perception and production of L2 sounds: Evidence from Anglophones’ processing of the French /u/–/y/ contrast	24
Reviewing the potential of the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) for capturing second language exposure and use	21
L3 acquisition and crosslinguistic influence as co-activation: Response to commentaries on the keynote ‘Microvariation in multilingual situations: The importance of property-by-property acquisition’	20
CEDEL2: Design, compilation and web interface of an online corpus for L2 Spanish acquisition research	18
Roles of collocation in L2 oral proficiency revisited: Different tasks, L1 vs. L2 raters, and cross-sectional vs. longitudinal analyses	17
Audio-visual input for learning L2 vocabulary and grammatical constructions	15
Promoting L2 acquisition of multiword units through textually enhanced audiovisual input: An eye-tracking study	13
Successful second language pronunciation learning is linked to domain-general auditory processing rather than music aptitude	11
Cratylus’ silence: On the philosophy and methodology of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory in SLA	11
The complex relationship between conscious/unconscious learning and conscious/unconscious knowledge: The mediating effects of salience in form–meaning connections	9
Documenting L2 input and interaction during study abroad: Approaches, instruments and challenges	9
Language acquisition in the digital age: L2 English input effects on children’s L1 Icelandic	8
Does explicit instruction affect L2 linguistic competence? An examination with L2 acquisition of English inverse scope	7
The time-course of competition from the L1 grammar in L2 sentence processing: Evidence from cross-linguistic structural priming	7
Island sensitivity in L2 learners: Evidence from acceptability judgments and event-related potentials	6
In defense of ‘copying and restructuring’	6
Object clitic use and intuition in the Spanish of heritage speakers from Brazil	6
Similarity-based interference and relative clauses in second language processing	6
Effects of L1 morphological type on L2 morphological awareness	6
Language switch costs in a lexical decision task: Symmetry and cognitive correlates	5
Methods for investigation of L2 speech rhythm: Insights from the production of English speech rhythm by L2 Arabic learners	5
Examining the source of island effects in native speakers and second language learners of English	5
Input in the digital wild: Online informal and non-formal learning and their interactions with study abroad	5
The combined effects of L1-specific and extralinguistic factors on individual performance in a tone categorization and word identification task by English-L1 and Mandarin-L1 speakers	5
Polarity adverbs facilitate predictive processing in L2 Japanese	5

Acquisition of Japanese relative clauses by L1 Chinese learners: Evidence from reflexive pronoun resolution	4
Phonological redeployment and the mapping problem: Cross-linguistic E-similarity is the beginning of the story, not the end	4
Focus at the syntax–discourse interface in L2 Spanish: Optionality and unaccusativity reconsidered	4
Phonological cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages of L3 acquisition	4
The production and comprehension of Spanish se use in L2 and heritage Spanish	4
The effects of information structure in the processing of word order variation in the second language	4
Acquisition of the nominal case system in Russian as a second language	4
The effectiveness of embodied prosodic training in L2 accentedness and vowel accuracy	4
Spoken word recognition in a second language: The importance of phonetic details	3
The source of the that-trace effect: New evidence from L2 English	3
A lexical semantic approach to the L2 acquisition of Spanish psych verbs	3
The influence of semantic bias on triple non-identical cognates during reading: Evidence from trilinguals’ eye movements	3
Different effects of L1 and L2 phonology on L3 lexical learning: An ERP study	3
Scalar implicatures in adult L2 learners: A self-paced reading study	3
Testing the Bottleneck Hypothesis: Chinese EFL learners’ knowledge of morphology and syntax across proficiency levels	3
L1 phonological effects on L2 (non-)naïve perception: A cross-language investigation of the oral–nasal vowel contrast in Brazilian Portuguese	3
Processing gender agreement in an additional language: The more languages the better?	2
Cross-linguistic influence meets diminished input: A comparative study of heritage Russian in contact with Hebrew and English	2
Feature reassembly and L1 preemption: Acquiring CLLD in L2 Italian and L2 Romanian	2
Input and competing grammars in L2 syntax	2
Commitment in L3 relationships: Sacred vows or polyamory?	2
Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: Evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions	2
The role of L1 reading direction on L2 perceptual span: An eye-tracking study investigating Hindi and Urdu speakers	2
From one language to the other: Examining the role of code-switching on vocabulary learning in adult second-language learners	2
Discourse markers in L1 and L2 Italian: A cartographic analysis of the sentence-internal position	2
Orthographic influence in the distributional learning of non-native speech sounds	2
Complex dynamic systems theory as a foundation for process-oriented research on second language development	2
Can adult learners sense L2 emotional words automatically? The role of L2 use on the emotional Stroop effect	2
Verb bias and semantic persistence effects in L2 ambiguity resolution	2
SLA as complex, dynamical and predictable: A Processability Theory perspective	2
Epistemic reasoning in pragmatic inferencing by non-native speakers: The case of scalar implicatures	2
The interactional ecology of homestay experiences: Locating input within participation and membership	2
Crosslinguistic influence in the conceptualization of motion events: A synthesis study on L2 acquisition of Chinese motion expressions	2
Morphological generalization in heritage speakers: The Turkish aorist	2
Sentence comprehension in heritage language: Isomorphism, word order, and language transfer	2
Language change in Japanese–English bilingual returnee children over the course of five years: Evidence from accent-rating	2
Investigating the relation between L2 pauses, syntactic complexity, and pause location: Longitudinal data from L2-Spanish study-abroad learners	1
Native and second language processing of quantifier scope ambiguity	1
Orthography does not hinder non-native production learning in children	1
Development of production skills in the absence of precise phonolexical representations	1
Glottalization and linking in the L2 speech of Czech learners of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese	1
Phonolexical processing of Mandarin segments and tones by English speakers at different Mandarin proficiency levels	1
Existence and consequences of dormant features: Evidence from L2 acquisition of Chinese object ellipsis	1
Comprehension benefits of visual-gestural iconicity and spatial referencing	1
Subject realization in Greek preschool learners of English	1
Sign iconicity helps learning new words for abstract concepts in a foreign language	1
Phonetic feature size in second language acquisition: Examining VOT in voiceless and voiced stops	1
Subject position and verb class in L2 Greek and L2 Spanish	1
When covert modality sneaks into your grammar: wh-infinitives in American Norwegian	1
L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of VOTs of voiceless plosives in highly proficient late bilinguals	1

Interpretation of Mandarin pronouns and reflexives by L1-Korean and L1-English learners of Mandarin	1
The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners	1
Rhetorical question comprehension by Italian–German bilingual children	1
Processing pragmatic inferences in L2 French speakers	1
Acquiring Italian stop consonants: A challenge for Mandarin Chinese-speaking learners	1
Syllable position effects in the perception of L2 Portuguese /l/ and /ɾ/ by L1-Mandarin learners	1
Dutch–Mandarin learners’ online use of syntactic cues to anticipate mass vs. count interpretations	1
Protracted development in child heritage Spanish: Evidence from inalienable possession	1
On segmental representations in second language phonology: A perceptual account	1
Searching for common phonological space: /s/-stop clusters in L1 Polish and L2 English	1
Dependency resolutions of null and overt subjects in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence for the cue-based model	1
The computation and suspension of presuppositions by L1-Mandarin Chinese L2-English speakers	1
Input in study abroad and views from acquisition: Focus on constructs, operationalization and measurement issues: Introduction to the special issue	1
Online processing of the grammatical aspect marker by L2 Chinese learners	1