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 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
Documenting L2 input and interaction during study abroad: Approaches, instruments and challenges	9
The complex relationship between conscious/unconscious learning and conscious/unconscious knowledge: The mediating effects of salience in form–meaning connections	9
Language acquisition in the digital age: L2 English input effects on children’s L1 Icelandic	8
The time-course of competition from the L1 grammar in L2 sentence processing: Evidence from cross-linguistic structural priming	7
Does explicit instruction affect L2 linguistic competence? An examination with L2 acquisition of English inverse scope	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
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
Language switch costs in a lexical decision task: Symmetry and cognitive correlates	5

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
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
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
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