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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Investigating L2 writing processes across independent and integrated tasks: A mixed-methods study	34
Five common pitfalls in eye-tracking research	26
What eye-tracking tells us about reading-only and reading-while-listening in a first and second language	25
Effects of spacing on contextual vocabulary learning: Spacing facilitates the acquisition of explicit, but not tacit, vocabulary knowledge	22
Which words do English non-native speakers know? New supernational levels based on yes/no decision	20
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’	17
On the relationship between perception and production of L2 sounds: Evidence from Anglophones’ processing of the French /u/–/y/ contrast	16
Lexical frequency and morphological regularity as sources of heritage speaker variability in the acquisition of mood	15
From sounds to words: The relation between phonological and lexical processing of tone in L2 Mandarin	15
Reviewing the potential of the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) for capturing second language exposure and use	14
Cue coalitions and additivity in predictive processing: The interaction between case and prosody in L2 German	14
L2 transfer of L1 island-insensitivity: The case of Norwegian	13
The emergence of awareness in uninstructed L2 learning: A visual world eye tracking study	13
CEDEL2: Design, compilation and web interface of an online corpus for L2 Spanish acquisition research	12
Audio-visual input for learning L2 vocabulary and grammatical constructions	12
Roles of collocation in L2 oral proficiency revisited: Different tasks, L1 vs. L2 raters, and cross-sectional vs. longitudinal analyses	12
L1, L2 and L3: Same or different?	12
Exploring the depths of second language processing with eye tracking: An introduction	11
Turtles all the way down: Micro-cues and piecemeal transfer in L3 phonology and syntax	8
Successful second language pronunciation learning is linked to domain-general auditory processing rather than music aptitude	8
Promoting L2 acquisition of multiword units through textually enhanced audiovisual input: An eye-tracking study	8
Language acquisition in the digital age: L2 English input effects on children’s L1 Icelandic	8
Effects of verb–construction association on second language constructional generalizations in production and comprehension	7
Cratylus’ silence: On the philosophy and methodology of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory in SLA	7
The complex relationship between conscious/unconscious learning and conscious/unconscious knowledge: The mediating effects of salience in form–meaning connections	6

Language transfer: a useful or pernicious concept?	6
Activation of L1 orthography in L2 word reading: Constraints from language and writing system	5
The time-course of competition from the L1 grammar in L2 sentence processing: Evidence from cross-linguistic structural priming	5
Does explicit instruction affect L2 linguistic competence? An examination with L2 acquisition of English inverse scope	5
Language switch costs in a lexical decision task: Symmetry and cognitive correlates	5
In defense of ‘copying and restructuring’	5
Learnability in the acquisition of the English tough construction by L1-Korean adult and child L2 learners	5
From a simple to a complex aspectual system: Feature reassembly in L2 acquisition of Chinese imperfective markers by English speakers	5
Microvariation in multilingual situations: The importance of property-by-property acquisition: Pros and cons	5
The effectiveness of embodied prosodic training in L2 accentedness and vowel accuracy	5
Examining the source of island effects in native speakers and second language learners of English	4
Object clitic use and intuition in the Spanish of heritage speakers from Brazil	4
Lexical fixedness and compositionality in L1 speakers’ and L2 learners’ intuitions about word combinations: Evidence from Italian	4
The production and comprehension of Spanish se use in L2 and heritage Spanish	4
The role of feedback and instruction on the cross-situational learning of vocabulary and morphosyntax: Mixed effects models reveal local and global effects on acquisition	4
Polarity adverbs facilitate predictive processing in L2 Japanese	4
Phonological cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages of L3 acquisition	3
A lexical semantic approach to the L2 acquisition of Spanish psych verbs	3
Spoken word recognition in a second language: The importance of phonetic details	3
Testing the Bottleneck Hypothesis: Chinese EFL learners’ knowledge of morphology and syntax across proficiency levels	3
The effects of speaker accent on syntactic priming in second-language speakers	3
Different effects of L1 and L2 phonology on L3 lexical learning: An ERP study	3
Similarity-based interference and relative clauses in second language processing	3
Visual cues during interaction: Are recasts different from noncorrective repetition?	3
Avoiding the cum hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy: Comments and questions regarding Full Transfer Potential	3
Identification of English vowels by non-native listeners: Effects of listeners’ experience of the target dialect and talkers’ language background	3
Effects of L1 morphological type on L2 morphological awareness	3
Intervention in relative clauses: Effects of relativized minimality on L2 representation and processing	3
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	3
Island sensitivity in L2 learners: Evidence from acceptability judgments and event-related potentials	3
Documenting L2 input and interaction during study abroad: Approaches, instruments and challenges	3
Theoretical and methodological considerations for a robust evaluation of the Linguistic Proximity Model	3
Focus at the syntax–discourse interface in L2 Spanish: Optionality and unaccusativity reconsidered	3
Input in the digital wild: Online informal and non-formal learning and their interactions with study abroad	3
Articulatory and perceptual cues to non-native phoneme perception: Cross-modal training for early learners	2
Epistemic reasoning in pragmatic inferencing by non-native speakers: The case of scalar implicatures	2
Acquisition of Japanese relative clauses by L1 Chinese learners: Evidence from reflexive pronoun resolution	2
Acquisition of the nominal case system in Russian as a second language	2
The source of the that-trace effect: New evidence from L2 English	2
Verb bias and semantic persistence effects in L2 ambiguity resolution	2
From one language to the other: Examining the role of code-switching on vocabulary learning in adult second-language learners	2
The interactional ecology of homestay experiences: Locating input within participation and membership	2
Methods for investigation of L2 speech rhythm: Insights from the production of English speech rhythm by L2 Arabic learners	2
Development of production skills in the absence of precise phonolexical representations	2
Choosing between theories: Can L3 acquisition really decide?	2
Multilingual acquisition property by property: A view from a wider perspective	2
Phonological redeployment and the mapping problem: Cross-linguistic E-similarity is the beginning of the story, not the end	2
Commitment in L3 relationships: Sacred vows or polyamory?	2
Secondary task type, exposure frequency, and their combined effects on second language vocabulary learning through reading	1
Native and second language processing of quantifier scope ambiguity	1

L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of VOTs of voiceless plosives in highly proficient late bilinguals	1
Processing gender agreement in an additional language: The more languages the better?	1
L1 phonological effects on L2 (non-)naïve perception: A cross-language investigation of the oral–nasal vowel contrast in Brazilian Portuguese	1
Dependency resolutions of null and overt subjects in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence for the cue-based model	1
Microvariation and transfer in L2 and L3 acquisition	1
Syllable position effects in the perception of L2 Portuguese /l/ and /ɾ/ by L1-Mandarin learners	1
When covert modality sneaks into your grammar: wh-infinitives in American Norwegian	1
Orthographic influence in the distributional learning of non-native speech sounds	1
Input and competing grammars in L2 syntax	1
Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: Evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions	1
The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners	1
Property-by-property acquisition of a second language: What transfers, under what conditions, and how does recovery from transfer proceed?	1
Rhetorical question comprehension by Italian–German bilingual children	1
Marr’s levels of analysis and the notion of copying	1
Existence and consequences of dormant features: Evidence from L2 acquisition of Chinese object ellipsis	1
Phonetic feature size in second language acquisition: Examining VOT in voiceless and voiced stops	1
Morphological generalization in heritage speakers: The Turkish aorist	1
The influence of semantic bias on triple non-identical cognates during reading: Evidence from trilinguals’ eye movements	1
On segmental representations in second language phonology: A perceptual account	1
The role of L1 reading direction on L2 perceptual span: An eye-tracking study investigating Hindi and Urdu speakers	1
The effects of information structure in the processing of word order variation in the second language	1
Glottalization and linking in the L2 speech of Czech learners of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese	1
Input in study abroad and views from acquisition: Focus on constructs, operationalization and measurement issues: Introduction to the special issue	1
Orthographic activation in spoken word recognition of L2 phonological variants	1
Comprehension benefits of visual-gestural iconicity and spatial referencing	1
Discourse markers in L1 and L2 Italian: A cartographic analysis of the sentence-internal position	1
Crosslinguistic influence in the conceptualization of motion events: A synthesis study on L2 acquisition of Chinese motion expressions	1