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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
From one language to the other: Examining the role of code-switching on vocabulary learning in adult second-language learners	27
The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners	27
Cross-linguistic influence meets diminished input: A comparative study of heritage Russian in contact with Hebrew and English	23
Contrastive focus is acquirable: An investigation of Russian contrastive focus with English/Russian bilinguals	15
The relationship between perception and production of illusory vowels in a second language	13
The role of L2 input in developing a novel L2 contrast phonetically and phonologically: Production evidence from a residence abroad context	13
Syntactic constraints on structural priming in L2 development: Effects of lexical overlap within and across structures	12
L2 Korean metonymy: The relative role of a conceptual universal and conventionalization	11
High is good enough: Gender agreement and relative clause attachment in L2 auditory processing	9
Searching for common phonological space: /s/-stop clusters in L1 Polish and L2 English	9
Interaction between syntactic and information structure in the second language processing of Korean dative sentences	9
Combining phonetics and phonology in L x acquisition using current theoretical models and probabilistic approaches: A response to Archibald	9
L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of VOTs of voiceless plosives in highly proficient late bilinguals	9
Connectivity effects in pseudoclefts in L1 and L2 speakers of German	8
Such sweet thunder	8
Is cats one word or two? L2 learners’ processing of number marking in English from the viewpoints of form–meaning mapping	7
The CELI corpus: Design and linguistic annotation of a new online learner corpus	6
L1-transfer effects and the role of computational complexity in L2 pronoun interpretation	6
Island sensitivity in L2 learners: Evidence from acceptability judgments and event-related potentials	6
Cross-linguistic influence and language co-activation in acquiring L3 words: What empirical evidence do we have so far?	6
The role of structural preferences and animacy cues on dative sentence parsing in L2	5
Subject realization in Greek preschool learners of English	5
Phonological cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages of L3 acquisition	5
Adaptation in L2 sentence processing: An EEG study	5
Testing the Interpretability Hypothesis: Evidence from acceptability judgments of relative clauses by Persian and French learners of L2 English	5

Beyond a unidimensional view: The multilayered perspective on the implicit–explicit knowledge interface	5
Investigating the relation between L2 pauses, syntactic complexity, and pause location: Longitudinal data from L2-Spanish study-abroad learners	4
Language-specific properties and overt pronoun interpretation:The case of L2 Japanese	4
The influence of L1 typology on the acquisition of the L2 English article: A large-scale corpus study	4
The interaction of auditory acuity and L2 input in suprasegmental cue-weighting shifts after study abroad: Mandarin speakers’ perception of Spanish lexical stress	4
Brain boosters: How bilingualism and working memory enhance children’s comprehension of which -questions	4
The L2/L3 initial state, initial stages and judgement tasks: The role of intercomprehension when judging unknown languages	4
Dependency resolutions of null and overt subjects in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence for the cue-based model	4
Michael Sharwood Smith Award 2025	4
Learning to predict: Second language perception of reduced multi-word sequences	4
Cross-linguistic transfer of acoustic cues: Perception of Japanese vowel length by learners from Vietnamese-speaking background	4
Can dynamical systems theory be applied to second language acquisition? The issues of reductionism and intentionality	4
Testing the Bottleneck Hypothesis: Chinese EFL learners’ knowledge of morphology and syntax across proficiency levels	4
Sensitivity to missing plural marking in L2 English: A role for cross-linguistic influence?	4
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
Second language phonology: The phonetics–phonology divide, its underrepresentation in L2 research, and the richness of phonological representations from segments to prosodic structure	3
A bidirectional study in L2 acquisition of pragmatics: The case of (un-)bounded adjectival scales	3
Linguistic distance and crosslinguistic influence: Commentary	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
Regressive cross-linguistic influence as co-activation: Can L3 Scandinavian trigger V2 in L2 English?	3
Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: Evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions	3
Backward anaphora in L2 acquisition of English, Mandarin and Japanese	3
Waiting in the wings: The place of phonology in the study of multilingual grammars	3
Input in the digital wild: Online informal and non-formal learning and their interactions with study abroad	3
Lexical production and cognitive control in sequential bilinguals immersed in two different contexts of language use	3
The effects of incidental learning and input frequency on the perception of non-native speech	2
Syllable position effects in the perception of L2 Portuguese /l/ and /ɾ/ by L1-Mandarin learners	2
The perception of emotional prosody in Mandarin Chinese words and sentences	2
Rhetorical question comprehension by Italian–German bilingual children	2
Inflected infinitives in SLA: A study of L1-Brazilian Portuguese–L2-Spanish speakers	2
Activation and local inhibition in the bilingual child’s processing of codeswitching	2
The effect of orthography in Mandarin speakers’ production of English voiceless stops	2
Discourse markers in L1 and L2 Italian: A cartographic analysis of the sentence-internal position	2
Exploring the processing unit of L2 Chinese learners in on-line Chinese reading	2
The influence of semantic bias on triple non-identical cognates during reading: Evidence from trilinguals’ eye movements	2
How endpoint salience and semantic distance shape L2 implicature derivation behavior in gradable adjective scales	2
The V2 myth: Evidence for a functional motivation of V3 in L2 German from a self-paced reading study	2
Mechanism of implicit causality in L2 comprehension: Testing the empty-slot theory through coreference and coherence biases	2
Timed vs. untimed lexicosemantic judgement task for measuring automatized phonological vocabulary knowledge	2
Corrigendum to “Orthographic influence in the distributional learning of nonnative speech sounds”	2
Testing the Competing Systems Hypothesis: Further evidence from aspect in tutored L1-English–L2-Spanish	2
The effect of second-language learning experience on Korean listeners’ use of pitch cues in the perception of Cantonese tones	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