OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Bilingualism-Language and Cognition is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Word order preference in sign influences speech in hearing bimodal bilinguals but not vice versa: Evidence from behavior and eye-gaze	92
Unlocking the barriers to speech normalization in L2: An EEG study on Mandarin L2 learners of Cantonese	45
The production preferences and priming effects of Dutch passives in Arabic/Berber–Dutch and Turkish–Dutch heritage speakers – CORRIGENDUM	41
A review of questionnaires quantifying bilingual experience in children: Do they document the same constructs? – CORRIGENDUM	34
The effect of foreign language and psychological distance on moral judgment in Turkish–English bilinguals	26
The effects of L2 exposure at school on the cognitive development of children from monolingual backgrounds: A longitudinal study	24
Transposed-letter priming effects in Arabic-English bilinguals: shifting toward a default orthographic processing mode	22
Mixed language processing increases cross-language phonetic transfer in Bengali–English bilinguals	20
Prediction in challenging situations: Most bilinguals can predict upcoming semantically-related words in their L1 source language when interpreting	20
Thalamus as a neural marker of cognitive reserve in bilinguals with frontotemporal dementia	18
Effects of bilingualism on foreign language learning during kindergarten years: investigating underlying mechanisms	17
When sentence meaning biases another language: an eye-tracking investigation of cross-language activation during second language reading	16
Sound symbolism in monolingual and bilingual speakers. How does bilingualism influence sound symbolism?	15
Acquiring morphology through adolescence in Spanish as a heritage language: The case of subjunctive mood	15
Neural mechanisms of bilingual speech perception: the role of the executive control network in managing competing phonological representations	14
On trade-offs in bilingualism and moving beyond the Stacking the Deck fallacy	14
Neuro-cognitive correlates of lexical borrowing during sentence comprehension of bi-dialectal speakers	14
Individual differences in L2 proficiency moderate the effect of L1 translation knowledge on L2 lexical retrieval	13
Riding the (brain) waves! Using neural oscillations to inform bilingualism research – ADDENDUM	13
Reading comprehension of children acquiring a transparent language as L2: A study with the simple view of reading model	13
Child heritage speakers’ reading skills in the majority language and exposure to the heritage language support morphosyntactic prediction in speech	12
The “emotional brain” of adolescent Spanish–German heritage speakers: is emotional intelligence a proxy for productive emotional vocabulary?	12
BIL volume 25 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	12
A cognitive network analysis of semantic associates in monolingual English speakers and learners of Kaqchikel	12
Cross-language semantic-affective interaction – with evidence from Chinese EFL learners	12

Exploring nuance in both experience and adaptation: Commentary on Titone and Tiv (2022)	12
Planning ahead: Interpreters predict source language in consecutive interpreting	12
Second language embodiment of action verbs: the impact of bilingual experience as a multidimensional spectrum	11
External non-linguistic cues influence language selection during a forced choice task	11
Bilingual interactional contexts predict executive functions in older adults	10
Thinking creatively in two languages: Effects of mental imagery vividness, foreign language proficiency and hand gestures on bilingual creativity	10
The role of cognitive control in bilingual language comprehension: An event-related potential study of dense code-switching sentences	10
Language and structure activation explain cross-linguistic influence in bilingual language production: Evidence from within- and across-language priming	10
Love me in L1, but hate me in L2: How native speakers and bilinguals rate the affectivity of words when feeling or thinking about them	10
Introducing grip force as a nonverbal measure of bilingual feelings	10
Boundaries of the foreign language effect under conditions of uncertainty	10
Cross-linguistic influence in the bilingual lexicon: Evidence for ubiquitous facilitation and context-dependent interference effects on lexical processing	10
Cognate facilitation effect on verb-based semantic prediction in L2 is modulated by L2 proficiency	9
Recognizing two dialects in one written form: A Stroop study	9
How to frame bilingualism in context: Putting people and places in mind	9
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Volume 26 Issue 1 – ADDENDUM	9
BIL volume 25 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	9
Cross-language activation in bimodal bilinguals: Do mouthings affect the co-activation of speech during sign recognition?	9
Dual language profiles in Spanish–English bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder	9
The effects of habitual code-switching in bilingual language production on cognitive control	9
Characterization of English and Spanish language proficiency among middle school English learners with reading difficulties	9
Bilinguals on the footbridge: the role of foreign-language proficiency in moral decision making	9
The “code-switching issue”: transition from (socio)linguistic to cognitive research	8
‘Don’t forget to close the light!’: ERP evidence for the facilitation of typical translation equivalents in bilingual processing – CORRIGENDUM	8
Exploring how L2 utterance fluency relates to cognitive fluency in monologic and dialogic speaking	8
Executive functions, not bilingualism or cultural differences, predict visuospatial perspective-taking in young adults	8
The neurophysiology of phonemic contrasts perception in L2/L3 learners: The role of acquisition setting	8
Evidence for two stages of prediction in non-native speakers: A visual-world eye-tracking study	8
Individual differences in main idea identification: An EEG study of monolinguals and bilinguals with dyslexia	8
An “Author Fluency Task”: Semantic fluency as predictor of L2 vocabulary knowledge	8
Neural effects differ for learning highly iconic versus non-iconic signs in hearing adults	8
Multilingualism and psychosis: a pre-registered scoping review	8
RER-LX: A new scale to measure reduced emotional resonance in bilinguals’ later learnt language – ERRATUM	8
Intersample variance of second-language readers should not be overlooked	8
Morphosyntactic underspecification affects the processing of verbal forms at different levels of abstraction in L1 and L2 German	8
Multimodal language in bilingual and monolingual children: Gesture production and speech disfluency	8
BIL volume 25 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	7
Investigating crosslinguistic representations in Polish–English bilingual children: Evidence from structural priming	7
The impact of speech rate on first- and second-stage prediction in L1 and L2 speakers	7
What modulates the acquisition of difficult structures in a heritage language? A study on Portuguese in contact with French, German and Italian	7
Working memory structure in young Spanish–English bilingual children	7
Phonetic reduction in native and non-native English speech: Assessing the intelligibility for L2 listeners – ERRATUM	7
What is proficiency? Characterizing spoken language proficiency in older Spanish-English bilinguals	7
L1 referential features influence pronoun reading in L2 for deaf, ASL–English bilinguals	7
The effect of a foreign language on cognitive reappraisal during exposure to a phobic stimulus	7
BIL volume 25 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	6
Linguistic characteristics of bimodal bilingual code-blending: Evidence from acceptability judgments	6
Can learning a new language make you better at maths? A meta-analysis of foreign language learning and numeracy skills during early adolescence	6
Semantically related gestures facilitate language comprehension during simultaneous interpreting	6
Executive function's structure in monolingual and bilingual adults using confirmatory factor analysis	6

Derivational awareness in late bilinguals increases along with proficiency without a clear influence of the suffixes shared with L1	6
Instructional media and instructional methods in digital language learning: Are we asking the right questions?	6
The effect of bilingualism on the functional neuroplasticity of the cerebellum	6
Brain dynamics of crosslinguistic interference resolution in Spanish–English bilinguals with and without aphasia	6
The influence of cross-speaker code-switching and language ability on inhibitory control in bilingual children	6
Phonological neighborhood density, phonetic categorization, and vocabulary size differentially affect the phonolexical encoding of easy and difficult L2 segmental contrasts	5
Multilingualism and mentalizing abilities in adults	5
Behavioral and ERP evidence of differences in pitch feedback control in late bilinguals’ L1 and L2 speech production	5
Moses or Noah? A case of ‘potato-potahto’ when using a foreign language – ERRATUM	5
Intergenerational attrition: direct or reverse language transmission?	5
A study on the executive functioning skills of Greek–English bilingual children – a nearest neighbour approach	5
Processing code-blending beyond the lexical level: evidence for a double syntactic derivation?	5
A Content Overlap Analysis of bilingualism questionnaires: Considering diversity	5
The dynamics of spoken word recognition in bilinguals	5
Is interpreter advantage a gift or an effect of training? Cognitive changes and interpreting acquisition at the early stage of training	5
Consequences of mixing and switching languages for retrieval and articulation	5
Learning L2 grammar from prediction errors? Verb biases in structural priming in comprehension and production	5
Dynamics of competition and co-activation in trilingual lexical processing: An eye-tracking study	5
Transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals divergent roles of left inferior frontal gyrus in bilingual language control and domain-general cognitive control	5
Prospective memory in bilinguals: Recalling future intentions in first and second language contexts	5
The performance of L2 French children on the LITMUS-QU Nonword repetition task during their first year of exposure: impact of age, vocabulary size, verbal-short term memory and phonological awareness	4
Harnessing the bilingual descent down the mountain of life: Charting novel paths for Cognitive and Brain Reserves research	4
Emotional factors of early vocabulary in Spanish as a second language	4
Bilingual profiles differentially predict executive functions during early childhood: A latent profile analysis	4
Self-regulated learning strategies in L1 and L2 reading	4
Cross-language semantic and orthographic parafoveal processing by bilingual L1 German–L2 English readers	4
Multifaceted multilingual experiences modulate neurocognitive mechanisms of task switching	4
Tongue root harmony cues for speech segmentation in multilingually raised infants learning languages with and without vowel harmony in Ghana (Africa)	4
Using latent variable analysis to capture individual differences in bilingual language experience	4
Diversity in monolingual and multilingual communicative environments and its relation to vocabulary in early childhood	4
Are executive functions engaged in language switching? The role of language proficiency	4
Voluntary and cued language switching in late bilingual speakers	4
BIL volume 25 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	4
Role of bilingual experience in children's context-sensitive selective trust strategies	4
The nature of lexical associations in a foreign language: valence, arousal and concreteness	4
The impact of orthography versus images on foreign language learning: Evidence from behavioral and neural markers	4
The use of exemplars differs between native and non-native listening	4
Multilingual and social experience: The Systems Framework of Bilingualism	4
Examining strength of L2 form-meaning connection: A study of intralingual L2 semantic priming	4
Emotion effects in second language processing: Evidence from eye movements in natural sentence reading	4
Does Language Entropy Shape Cognitive Performance? A Tale of Two Cities	4
Tuning in to the prosody of a novel language is easier without orthography	4
Bilingualism reduces associations between cognition and the brain at baseline, but does not show evidence of cognitive reserve over time	4
The abstract concept of perceived power is embodied to a lesser extent in the second language	4
Understanding the impact of foreign language on social norms through lies	4
Cross-linguistic influence in the simultaneous bilingual child's lexicon: An eye-tracking and primed picture selection study	4
Linguistic factors modulating gender assignment in Spanish–English bilingual speech	4
The impact of relevant environmental sounds on foreign language word learning	4
Reading fiction in a foreign language reduces the neural synchronization between semantic and emotional areas	4
Orthographic and semantic priming effects in neighbour cognates: Experiments and simulations	4
The relationship between intelligibility and comprehensibility in second language speech	4
The role of morphological configuration in language control during bilingual production and comprehension	4
Monolingual and Bilingual Phonological Activation in Cantonese	4
How a second language and its future time reference impacts intertemporal decision: A holistic perspective	4
Bilingual toddlers show increased attention capture by static faces compared to monolinguals	4