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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Mixed language processing increases cross-language phonetic transfer in Bengali–English bilinguals	35
Sound symbolism in monolingual and bilingual speakers. How does bilingualism influence sound symbolism?	28
The production preferences and priming effects of Dutch passives in Arabic/Berber–Dutch and Turkish–Dutch heritage speakers – CORRIGENDUM	26
Thalamus as a neural marker of cognitive reserve in bilinguals with frontotemporal dementia	23
Acquiring morphology through adolescence in Spanish as a heritage language: The case of subjunctive mood	22
Transposed-letter priming effects in Arabic-English bilinguals: shifting toward a default orthographic processing mode	21
The effect of foreign language and psychological distance on moral judgment in Turkish–English bilinguals	21
Unlocking the barriers to speech normalization in L2: An EEG study on Mandarin L2 learners of Cantonese	20
Theory-of-Mind development in educational bilingualism: Identifying the strongest predictors of performance and tracking them over time	19
When sentence meaning biases another language: an eye-tracking investigation of cross-language activation during second language reading	18
Effects of bilingualism on foreign language learning during kindergarten years: investigating underlying mechanisms	17
The effects of L2 exposure at school on the cognitive development of children from monolingual backgrounds: A longitudinal study	16
Limits of variability in bilingual language processing: An event-related potential study of German and English verb morphology	16
Neuro-cognitive correlates of lexical borrowing during sentence comprehension of bi-dialectal speakers	16
Individual differences in L2 proficiency moderate the effect of L1 translation knowledge on L2 lexical retrieval	15
A cognitive network analysis of semantic associates in monolingual English speakers and learners of Kaqchikel	15
Neural mechanisms of bilingual speech perception: the role of the executive control network in managing competing phonological representations	15
Riding the (brain) waves! Using neural oscillations to inform bilingualism research – ADDENDUM	15
On trade-offs in bilingualism and moving beyond the Stacking the Deck fallacy	15
Second language embodiment of action verbs: the impact of bilingual experience as a multidimensional spectrum	14
Reading comprehension of children acquiring a transparent language as L2: A study with the simple view of reading model	14
Executive function skills of emergent bilingual primary-school children in Wales	14
Toward more comprehensive language use assessments in native and nonnative languages: alternatives to the language history questionnaire	14
Language and structure activation explain cross-linguistic influence in bilingual language production: Evidence from within- and across-language priming	13
Cross-language semantic-affective interaction – with evidence from Chinese EFL learners	13

Child heritage speakers’ reading skills in the majority language and exposure to the heritage language support morphosyntactic prediction in speech	13
The “emotional brain” of adolescent Spanish–German heritage speakers: is emotional intelligence a proxy for productive emotional vocabulary?	13
Revisiting the moral foreign language effect: The interplay of cognitive control, emotional distress and victim vulnerability in bilingual moral judgment	12
Bilingual interactional contexts predict executive functions in older adults	12
Cross-linguistic influence in the bilingual lexicon: Evidence for ubiquitous facilitation and context-dependent interference effects on lexical processing	12
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	11
Recognizing two dialects in one written form: A Stroop study	11
Boundaries of the foreign language effect under conditions of uncertainty	11
The brain activity flow in language and cognitive control networks underlying second language proficiency	11
Heritage language in a border-shift context: Differential input effects on sentence comprehension	11
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Volume 26 Issue 1 – ADDENDUM	11
The neurophysiology of phonemic contrasts perception in L2/L3 learners: The role of acquisition setting	10
The foreign language effect in the illusion of causality: Evidence of absence	10
Bilinguals on the footbridge: the role of foreign-language proficiency in moral decision making	10
Partial lexical and complete semantic suppression of a task-irrelevant language in bilingual word recognition	10
Cross-linguistic influence in Japanese-English spoken word recognition: Bidirectional phonological, semantic, and cognate frequency effects	10
Cognate facilitation effect on verb-based semantic prediction in L2 is modulated by L2 proficiency	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
‘Don’t forget to close the light!’: ERP evidence for the facilitation of typical translation equivalents in bilingual processing – CORRIGENDUM	9
Cognate facilitation in different-script trilinguals as a function of proficiency balance: A longitudinal study	9
Intersample variance of second-language readers should not be overlooked	9
What is proficiency? Characterizing spoken language proficiency in older Spanish-English bilinguals	9
Evidence for two stages of prediction in non-native speakers: A visual-world eye-tracking study	9
Quantifying multilingual children’s language exposure through parental report: More information is not always better	9
Neural effects differ for learning highly iconic versus non-iconic signs in hearing adults	9
The “code-switching issue”: transition from (socio)linguistic to cognitive research	9
Phonetic reduction in native and non-native English speech: Assessing the intelligibility for L2 listeners – ERRATUM	8
Morphosyntactic underspecification affects the processing of verbal forms at different levels of abstraction in L1 and L2 German	8
Individual differences in main idea identification: An EEG study of monolinguals and bilinguals with dyslexia	8
Foreign language effect and neuromyth discernibility: Framing and information richness as moderators	8
An “Author Fluency Task”: Semantic fluency as predictor of L2 vocabulary knowledge	8
Multimodal language in bilingual and monolingual children: Gesture production and speech disfluency	8
Executive functions, not bilingualism or cultural differences, predict visuospatial perspective-taking in young adults	8
L1 referential features influence pronoun reading in L2 for deaf, ASL–English bilinguals	8
RER-LX: A new scale to measure reduced emotional resonance in bilinguals’ later learnt language – ERRATUM	8
Exploring how L2 utterance fluency relates to cognitive fluency in monologic and dialogic speaking	8
Investigating crosslinguistic representations in Polish–English bilingual children: Evidence from structural priming	7
Semantically related gestures facilitate language comprehension during simultaneous interpreting	7
The impact of speech rate on first- and second-stage prediction in L1 and L2 speakers	7
Multilingualism and mentalizing abilities in adults	7
A Content Overlap Analysis of bilingualism questionnaires: Considering diversity	7
The influence of cross-speaker code-switching and language ability on inhibitory control in bilingual children	7
Working memory structure in young Spanish–English bilingual children	7
The effect of bilingualism on the functional neuroplasticity of the cerebellum	7
Executive function's structure in monolingual and bilingual adults using confirmatory factor analysis	7
Linguistic characteristics of bimodal bilingual code-blending: Evidence from acceptability judgments	7
The effect of a foreign language on cognitive reappraisal during exposure to a phobic stimulus	7
Unlocking mathematical potential through school-based language learning: Insights from PISA 2018	7

Beyond bilingual and monolingual: Cognitive, language and demographic profiles of adolescents in the United States	7
‘I have a gut feeling.’ Evaluation of emotion prototypicality in a second language	7
Learning L2 grammar from prediction errors? Verb biases in structural priming in comprehension and production	7
Foreign language effects in personality feedback evaluation	7
Brain dynamics of crosslinguistic interference resolution in Spanish–English bilinguals with and without aphasia	6
Putting new words to sleep: Novel word learning depends on individual differences in bilingual experience	6
Is interpreter advantage a gift or an effect of training? Cognitive changes and interpreting acquisition at the early stage of training	6
Intergenerational attrition: direct or reverse language transmission?	6
Prospective memory in bilinguals: Recalling future intentions in first and second language contexts	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
Consequences of mixing and switching languages for retrieval and articulation	6
Processing code-blending beyond the lexical level: evidence for a double syntactic derivation?	6
Phonological neighborhood density, phonetic categorization, and vocabulary size differentially affect the phonolexical encoding of easy and difficult L2 segmental contrasts	6
Transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals divergent roles of left inferior frontal gyrus in bilingual language control and domain-general cognitive control	6
Behavioral and ERP evidence of differences in pitch feedback control in late bilinguals’ L1 and L2 speech production	6
Bilingual toddlers show increased attention capture by static faces compared to monolinguals	6
Effects of targeted perceptual training on L2 suprasegmental weighting strategies	5
Do heritage speakers work harder in their heritage language? A dual task study of cognitive effort in bilingual language processing	5
Dynamics of competition and co-activation in trilingual lexical processing: An eye-tracking study	5
Does Language Entropy Shape Cognitive Performance? A Tale of Two Cities	5
Monolingual and Bilingual Phonological Activation in Cantonese	5
Bilingualism reduces associations between cognition and the brain at baseline, but does not show evidence of cognitive reserve over time	5
Using latent variable analysis to capture individual differences in bilingual language experience	5
Harnessing the bilingual descent down the mountain of life: Charting novel paths for Cognitive and Brain Reserves research	5
Types of language use and interference control in aging bilinguals: Insights from the Word–Color Stroop Task	5
Continuous effects of language ability and relative proficiency on bilingual children’s production of four advanced syntactic constructions	5
Emotion effects in second language processing: Evidence from eye movements in natural sentence reading	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
The abstract concept of perceived power is embodied to a lesser extent in the second language	5
Verbal feedback modulates language choice and risk-taking in Chinese-English bilinguals	5
EEG temporal dynamics during morphological decomposition of derived words in L2	5
How a second language and its future time reference impacts intertemporal decision: A holistic perspective	5
Tuning in to the prosody of a novel language is easier without orthography	5
Voluntary and cued language switching in late bilingual speakers	5
How children shape heritage morphosyntax: Acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive in sentential complements	4
Frequency over semantic richness: word recognition in non-native English speakers	4
Reading fiction in a foreign language reduces the neural synchronization between semantic and emotional areas	4
The impact of relevant environmental sounds on foreign language word learning	4
Changing pronoun interpretations across-languages: discourse priming in Spanish–English bilingual speakers	4
Bilingual profiles differentially predict executive functions during early childhood: A latent profile analysis	4
Examining strength of L2 form-meaning connection: A study of intralingual L2 semantic priming	4
Multifaceted multilingual experiences modulate neurocognitive mechanisms of task switching	4
Investigating individual differences in adult bilinguals’ spelling of cognates: An analysis of cross-linguistic effects	4
Diversity in monolingual and multilingual communicative environments and its relation to vocabulary in early childhood	4
Working memory exertion after simultaneous interpreting in bilinguals	4
The effects of multilingual and multicultural practices on divergent thinking. Implications for plurilingual creativity paradigm	4
Understanding the impact of foreign language on social norms through lies	4
The impact of orthography versus images on foreign language learning: Evidence from behavioral and neural markers	4
Self-regulated learning strategies in L1 and L2 reading	4
Multilingual and social experience: The Systems Framework of Bilingualism	4
Orthographic and semantic priming effects in neighbour cognates: Experiments and simulations	4
Examining the reliability and validity of bilingual language use and switching measures	4
The role of morphological configuration in language control during bilingual production and comprehension	4
Comprehension of passive voice in autistic German- and French-speaking children: No negative effects of bilingualism	4
The nature of lexical associations in a foreign language: valence, arousal and concreteness	4
Cross-language semantic and orthographic parafoveal processing by bilingual L1 German–L2 English readers	4
Tongue root harmony cues for speech segmentation in multilingually raised infants learning languages with and without vowel harmony in Ghana (Africa)	4
Linguistic factors modulating gender assignment in Spanish–English bilingual speech	4
Cross-linguistic influence in the simultaneous bilingual child's lexicon: An eye-tracking and primed picture selection study	4
Effects of healthy ageing and bilingualism on attention networks	4
Cross-language activation of figurative meanings of translated L1 idioms in L2 reading: An eye-tracking study	4
Role of bilingual experience in children's context-sensitive selective trust strategies	4
Emotional factors of early vocabulary in Spanish as a second language	4
Are executive functions engaged in language switching? The role of language proficiency	4
The relationship between intelligibility and comprehensibility in second language speech	4