OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Second Language Research is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners	26
Does explicit instruction affect L2 linguistic competence? An examination with L2 acquisition of English inverse scope	26
Cross-linguistic influence meets diminished input: A comparative study of heritage Russian in contact with Hebrew and English	23
A bidirectional study in L2 acquisition of pragmatics: The case of (un-)bounded adjectival scales	20
Glottalization and linking in the L2 speech of Czech learners of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese	19
Contrastive focus is acquirable: An investigation of Russian contrastive focus with English/Russian bilinguals	17
Input in the digital wild: Online informal and non-formal learning and their interactions with study abroad	14
The relationship between perception and production of illusory vowels in a second language	11
L1 phonological effects on L2 (non-)naïve perception: A cross-language investigation of the oral–nasal vowel contrast in Brazilian Portuguese	10
The effects of information structure in the processing of word order variation in the second language	9
Epistemic reasoning in pragmatic inferencing by non-native speakers: The case of scalar implicatures	9
From one language to the other: Examining the role of code-switching on vocabulary learning in adult second-language learners	8
Examining transfer in the acquisition of the count/mass distinction in L2 English	8
Processing polarity sensitivity in L2 Spanish	8
Schooling and language usage matter in heritage bilingual processing: Sortal classifiers in Mandarin	7
Phonolexical processing of Mandarin segments and tones by English speakers at different Mandarin proficiency levels	7
Dependency resolutions of null and overt subjects in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence for the cue-based model	7
Development of production skills in the absence of precise phonolexical representations	6
Lexical production and cognitive control in sequential bilinguals immersed in two different contexts of language use	6
Language-specific properties and overt pronoun interpretation:The case of L2 Japanese	6
Sentence comprehension in heritage language: Isomorphism, word order, and language transfer	6
Interpretation of Mandarin pronouns and reflexives by L1-Korean and L1-English learners of Mandarin	6
Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: Evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions	5
Different effects of L1 and L2 phonology on L3 lexical learning: An ERP study	5
When multilingualism is more than three: On the nature of gender transfer in L3+ acquisition	5

Verb bias and semantic persistence effects in L2 ambiguity resolution	5
Searching for common phonological space: /s/-stop clusters in L1 Polish and L2 English	5
Processing gender agreement in an additional language: The more languages the better?	4
The source of the that-trace effect: New evidence from L2 English	4
The effectiveness of embodied prosodic training in L2 accentedness and vowel accuracy	4
Filler–gap dependencies and islands in L2 English production: Comparing transfer from L1 Norwegian and L1 Swedish	4
Can dynamical systems theory be applied to second language acquisition? The issues of reductionism and intentionality	4
SLA as complex, dynamical and predictable: A Processability Theory perspective	4
Language acquisition in the digital age: L2 English input effects on children’s L1 Icelandic	3
The role of L2 input in developing a novel L2 contrast phonetically and phonologically: Production evidence from a residence abroad context	3
On the relationship between perception and production of L2 sounds: Evidence from Anglophones’ processing of the French /u/–/y/ contrast	3
The role of L1 reading direction on L2 perceptual span: An eye-tracking study investigating Hindi and Urdu speakers	3
Focus at the syntax–discourse interface in L2 Spanish: Optionality and unaccusativity reconsidered	3
Activation and local inhibition in the bilingual child’s processing of codeswitching	3
On null-subject languages and the Overt Pronoun Constraint: A comparison of English, Mandarin and Japanese	3
Orthographic effects and fuzzy phonological representations in L2 auditory processing: The case of non-native gemination	3
Online processing and offline judgments of different types of presupposition triggers by second language speakers	3
Language change in Japanese–English bilingual returnee children over the course of five years: Evidence from accent-rating	3