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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Word order preference in sign influences speech in hearing bimodal bilinguals but not vice versa: Evidence from behavior and eye-gaze	50
Unlocking the barriers to speech normalization in L2: An EEG study on Mandarin L2 learners of Cantonese	37
The effect of foreign language and psychological distance on moral judgment in Turkish–English bilinguals	30
Transposed-letter priming effects in Arabic-English bilinguals: shifting toward a default orthographic processing mode	27
The production preferences and priming effects of Dutch passives in Arabic/Berber–Dutch and Turkish–Dutch heritage speakers – CORRIGENDUM	25
Acquiring morphology through adolescence in Spanish as a heritage language: The case of subjunctive mood	21
Mixed language processing increases cross-language phonetic transfer in Bengali–English bilinguals	20
Sound symbolism in monolingual and bilingual speakers. How does bilingualism influence sound symbolism?	19
Limits of variability in bilingual language processing: An event-related potential study of German and English verb morphology	18
The effects of L2 exposure at school on the cognitive development of children from monolingual backgrounds: A longitudinal study	18
Effects of bilingualism on foreign language learning during kindergarten years: investigating underlying mechanisms	17
Theory-of-Mind development in educational bilingualism: Identifying the strongest predictors of performance and tracking them over time	16
Thalamus as a neural marker of cognitive reserve in bilinguals with frontotemporal dementia	16
A cognitive network analysis of semantic associates in monolingual English speakers and learners of Kaqchikel	15
When sentence meaning biases another language: an eye-tracking investigation of cross-language activation during second language reading	15
Individual differences in L2 proficiency moderate the effect of L1 translation knowledge on L2 lexical retrieval	15
Riding the (brain) waves! Using neural oscillations to inform bilingualism research – ADDENDUM	14
Exploring nuance in both experience and adaptation: Commentary on Titone and Tiv (2022)	14
Reading comprehension of children acquiring a transparent language as L2: A study with the simple view of reading model	14
On trade-offs in bilingualism and moving beyond the Stacking the Deck fallacy	14
Neural mechanisms of bilingual speech perception: the role of the executive control network in managing competing phonological representations	13
Neuro-cognitive correlates of lexical borrowing during sentence comprehension of bi-dialectal speakers	13
The role of cognitive control in bilingual language comprehension: An event-related potential study of dense code-switching sentences	12
Thinking creatively in two languages: Effects of mental imagery vividness, foreign language proficiency and hand gestures on bilingual creativity	12
Language and structure activation explain cross-linguistic influence in bilingual language production: Evidence from within- and across-language priming	12

Child heritage speakers’ reading skills in the majority language and exposure to the heritage language support morphosyntactic prediction in speech	12
BIL volume 25 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	12
Second language embodiment of action verbs: the impact of bilingual experience as a multidimensional spectrum	12
Cross-linguistic influence in the bilingual lexicon: Evidence for ubiquitous facilitation and context-dependent interference effects on lexical processing	11
External non-linguistic cues influence language selection during a forced choice task	11
Boundaries of the foreign language effect under conditions of uncertainty	11
Revisiting the moral foreign language effect: The interplay of cognitive control, emotional distress and victim vulnerability in bilingual moral judgment	11
The “emotional brain” of adolescent Spanish–German heritage speakers: is emotional intelligence a proxy for productive emotional vocabulary?	11
Heritage language in a border-shift context: Differential input effects on sentence comprehension	11
Introducing grip force as a nonverbal measure of bilingual feelings	11
Bilingual interactional contexts predict executive functions in older adults	11
Cross-language semantic-affective interaction – with evidence from Chinese EFL learners	10
Partial lexical and complete semantic suppression of a task-irrelevant language in bilingual word recognition	10
Recognizing two dialects in one written form: A Stroop study	10
Multilingualism and psychosis: a pre-registered scoping review	9
Dual language profiles in Spanish–English bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder	9
The brain activity flow in language and cognitive control networks underlying second language proficiency	9
The “code-switching issue”: transition from (socio)linguistic to cognitive research	9
Evidence for two stages of prediction in non-native speakers: A visual-world eye-tracking study	9
Cognate facilitation effect on verb-based semantic prediction in L2 is modulated by L2 proficiency	9
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Volume 26 Issue 1 – ADDENDUM	9
The neurophysiology of phonemic contrasts perception in L2/L3 learners: The role of acquisition setting	9
BIL volume 25 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	9
Morphosyntactic underspecification affects the processing of verbal forms at different levels of abstraction in L1 and L2 German	8
Exploring how L2 utterance fluency relates to cognitive fluency in monologic and dialogic speaking	8
Quantifying multilingual children’s language exposure through parental report: More information is not always better	8
Bilinguals on the footbridge: the role of foreign-language proficiency in moral decision making	8
Executive functions, not bilingualism or cultural differences, predict visuospatial perspective-taking in young adults	8
An “Author Fluency Task”: Semantic fluency as predictor of L2 vocabulary knowledge	8
Intersample variance of second-language readers should not be overlooked	8
RER-LX: A new scale to measure reduced emotional resonance in bilinguals’ later learnt language – ERRATUM	7
Multimodal language in bilingual and monolingual children: Gesture production and speech disfluency	7
Phonetic reduction in native and non-native English speech: Assessing the intelligibility for L2 listeners – ERRATUM	7
What modulates the acquisition of difficult structures in a heritage language? A study on Portuguese in contact with French, German and Italian	7
Neural effects differ for learning highly iconic versus non-iconic signs in hearing adults	7
Individual differences in main idea identification: An EEG study of monolinguals and bilinguals with dyslexia	7
Semantically related gestures facilitate language comprehension during simultaneous interpreting	7
What is proficiency? Characterizing spoken language proficiency in older Spanish-English bilinguals	7
‘Don’t forget to close the light!’: ERP evidence for the facilitation of typical translation equivalents in bilingual processing – CORRIGENDUM	7
L1 referential features influence pronoun reading in L2 for deaf, ASL–English bilinguals	7
Working memory structure in young Spanish–English bilingual children	7
BIL volume 25 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	6
The effect of a foreign language on cognitive reappraisal during exposure to a phobic stimulus	6
Beyond bilingual and monolingual: Cognitive, language and demographic profiles of adolescents in the United States	6
Multilingualism and mentalizing abilities in adults	6
Learning L2 grammar from prediction errors? Verb biases in structural priming in comprehension and production	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
The impact of speech rate on first- and second-stage prediction in L1 and L2 speakers	6
Investigating crosslinguistic representations in Polish–English bilingual children: Evidence from structural priming	6
Transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals divergent roles of left inferior frontal gyrus in bilingual language control and domain-general cognitive control	6

Putting new words to sleep: Novel word learning depends on individual differences in bilingual experience	6
Executive function's structure in monolingual and bilingual adults using confirmatory factor analysis	6
The influence of cross-speaker code-switching and language ability on inhibitory control in bilingual children	6
Unlocking mathematical potential through school-based language learning: Insights from PISA 2018	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
Derivational awareness in late bilinguals increases along with proficiency without a clear influence of the suffixes shared with L1	6
Dynamics of competition and co-activation in trilingual lexical processing: An eye-tracking study	5
Monolingual and Bilingual Phonological Activation in Cantonese	5
The abstract concept of perceived power is embodied to a lesser extent in the second language	5
BIL volume 25 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	5
Bilingual toddlers show increased attention capture by static faces compared to monolinguals	5
Types of language use and interference control in aging bilinguals: Insights from the Word–Color Stroop Task	5
Is interpreter advantage a gift or an effect of training? Cognitive changes and interpreting acquisition at the early stage of training	5
Linguistic characteristics of bimodal bilingual code-blending: Evidence from acceptability judgments	5
Processing code-blending beyond the lexical level: evidence for a double syntactic derivation?	5
Tuning in to the prosody of a novel language is easier without orthography	5
Emotion effects in second language processing: Evidence from eye movements in natural sentence reading	5
EEG temporal dynamics during morphological decomposition of derived words in L2	5
A study on the executive functioning skills of Greek–English bilingual children – a nearest neighbour approach	5
Behavioral and ERP evidence of differences in pitch feedback control in late bilinguals’ L1 and L2 speech production	5
Consequences of mixing and switching languages for retrieval and articulation	5
Intergenerational attrition: direct or reverse language transmission?	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	5
Working memory exertion after simultaneous interpreting in bilinguals	5
Harnessing the bilingual descent down the mountain of life: Charting novel paths for Cognitive and Brain Reserves research	5
A Content Overlap Analysis of bilingualism questionnaires: Considering diversity	5
Prospective memory in bilinguals: Recalling future intentions in first and second language contexts	5
Verbal feedback modulates language choice and risk-taking in Chinese-English bilinguals	5
Phonological neighborhood density, phonetic categorization, and vocabulary size differentially affect the phonolexical encoding of easy and difficult L2 segmental contrasts	5
Are executive functions engaged in language switching? The role of language proficiency	4
Effects of targeted perceptual training on L2 suprasegmental weighting strategies	4
Using latent variable analysis to capture individual differences in bilingual language experience	4
Orthographic and semantic priming effects in neighbour cognates: Experiments and simulations	4
Understanding the impact of foreign language on social norms through lies	4
The nature of lexical associations in a foreign language: valence, arousal and concreteness	4
Voluntary and cued language switching in late bilingual speakers	4
Diversity in monolingual and multilingual communicative environments and its relation to vocabulary in early childhood	4
Multifaceted multilingual experiences modulate neurocognitive mechanisms of task switching	4
Cross-language activation of figurative meanings of translated L1 idioms in L2 reading: An eye-tracking study	4
Examining strength of L2 form-meaning connection: A study of intralingual L2 semantic priming	4
How children shape heritage morphosyntax: Acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive in sentential complements	4
How a second language and its future time reference impacts intertemporal decision: A holistic perspective	4
Investigating individual differences in adult bilinguals’ spelling of cognates: An analysis of cross-linguistic effects	4
Does Language Entropy Shape Cognitive Performance? A Tale of Two Cities	4
Bilingualism reduces associations between cognition and the brain at baseline, but does not show evidence of cognitive reserve over time	4
Emotional factors of early vocabulary in Spanish as a second language	4
Examining the reliability and validity of bilingual language use and switching measures	4