OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Bilingualism 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Bilingualism in the family and child well-being: A scoping review	41
Why not both? Rethinking categorical and continuous approaches to bilingualism	30
A corpus study of child heritage speakers’ Spanish gender agreement	17
A deliberate language policy or a perceived lack of agency: Heritage language maintenance in the Polish community in Melbourne	15
Metaphors are like lenses: Electrophysiological correlates of novel meaning processing in bilingualism	14
Home language and societal language skills in second-generation bilingual adults	13
Vowel learning in diglossic settings: Evidence from Arabic-Greek learners	12
Multilingualism in Vanuatu: Four case studies	11
Cross-linguistic differences affect emotion and emotion-laden word processing: Evidence from Polish-English and Romanian-English bilinguals	11
A typology of small-scale multilingualism	11
How ordinary child language acquisition processes can lead to the unusual outcome of a mixed language	11
A bilingual advantage in memory capacity: Assessing the roles of proficiency, number of languages acquired and age of acquisition	10
Acquiring allophonic structure and phonetic detail in a bilingual community: The production of laterals by Sylheti-English bilingual children	10
‘The English language enables me to visit my pain’. Exploring experiences of using a later-learned language in the healing journey of survivors of sexuality persecution	9
Acculturation and attitudes toward code-switching: A bidimensional framework	9
Effects of language dominance on home reading practices of bilingual families	9
Emotions and multilingualism in family language policy: Introduction to the special issue	9
Multicultural experience and multilingualism as predictors of creativity	9
Societal multilingualismà la balkanique: The Montenegrin Velja Gorana and beyond	8
The speakers of minority languages are more multilingual	8
An fNIRS examination of executive function in bilingual young children	8
Bilinguals’ and monolinguals’ performance on a non-verbal cognitive control task: How bilingual language experience contributes to cognitive performance by reducing mixing and switching costs	8
Towards a coherent methodology for the documentation of small-scale multilingualism: Dealing with speech data	7
What do children think of their own bilingualism? Exploring bilingual children’s attitudes and perceptions	7
Collocations and near-native competence: Lexical strategies of heritage speakers of Russian	7

Mood and gender effects in emotional word processing in unbalanced bilinguals	7
L2 proficiency predicts inhibitory ability in L1-dominant speakers	7
African multilingualism viewed from another angle: Challenging the Casamance exception	7
Languages and ideologies at the Lower Yenisei (Siberia): Reconstructing past multilingualism	7
Narrative microstructure and macrostructure skills in Arabic diglossia: The case of Arab immigrant children in Canada	7
Assessing (a)symmetry in multilingualism: The case of Mano and Kpelle in Guinea	7
Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous and early sequential acquisition: Null subjects and null objects in Polish-German bilingualism	7
First language versus second language effect on memory for motion events: The role of language type and proficiency	7
Predicting second language listening functor comprehension probability with usage-based and embodiment approaches	6
‘Half of who you are’: Parent and child reflections on the emotional experiences of reversing familial language shift	6
The influence of social factors on the prosody of Spanish in contact with Basque	6
Language changes medical judgments and beliefs	6
Relationship between oral narrative and vocabulary skills among bilingual language-minority children and their monolingual peers in primary school	6
Effect of AoA-L2 on L1 and L2 networks in early and late bilinguals	6
The Simon effect in bilingual language brokers: A role for emotion and proficiency	6
The rise of a lingua franca: The case of Russian in Dagestan	6
Early shifts in the heritage language strength: A comparison of lexical access and accuracy in bilingual and monolingual children	6
L1 congruency, word frequency, collocational frequency, L2 proficiency, and their combined effects on Chinese–English bilinguals’ L2 collocational processing	6
Crosslinguistic influence on English and Chinese L2 speakers’ conceptualization of event series	6
Looking for contact-induced language change: Converbs in heritage Turkish	6
The interaction of age, second language, types of code-alternation and multilingualism in the Zauzou community	6
Patterns and perspectives shape perceptions: Epistemological and methodological reflections on the study of small-scale multilingualism	6
From language mixing to fused lects: The process and its outcomes	5
Cognate similarity and intervocalic /d/ production in Riverense Spanish	5
Lower Kolyma multilingualism: Historical setting and sociolinguistic trends	5
Bilingual speech in Jaru–Kriol conversations: Codeswitching, codemixing, and grammatical fusion	5
Fouta-Djallon linguistic ecology: Between polyglossia and small-scale multilingualism	5
Speaking Chinese or no breakfast: Emotional challenges and experiences confronting Chinese immigrant families in heritage language maintenance	5
The link between linguistic subordination and linguistic inferiority complexes: English as a second language migrants in Australia	5
Language experience of immigrant women in bilingual couples with Poles	5
Investigation of code-switching cost in conversation and self-paced reading tasks	5
Vietnamese–Australian children’s language proficiency and use	5
Cross-linguistic lexical effects in different-script bilingual reading are modulated by task	5
Está abriendo, la abrió: Lexical knowledge, verb type, and grammatical aspect shape child heritage speakers’ direct object omission in Spanish	5
Birds and places: What the lexicon reveals about multilingualism	4
Defining bilingualism in infancy and toddlerhood: A scoping review	4
Moral judgements in a foreign language: Expressing emotions and justifying decisions	4
Researching language and cognition in bilinguals	4
Path and rate of development in child heritage speakers: Evidence from Greek subject/object form and placement	4
The contributions of oral language to English reading outcomes among young bilingual students in the United States	4
Bilingual language dominance and contrastive focus marking: Gradient effects of K’ichee’ syntax on Spanish prosody	4
The role of morphological similarity in lexical activation and unintentional transfer	4
Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence on DOM in Romanian-Spanish bilinguals	4
Diversifying multilingualism: Languages and lects in Amazonia	4
Crosslinguistic influence in child L3 English: An empirical study on Russian-German heritage bilinguals	4
Motion event representation in L1-Turkish versus L2-English speech and gesture: Relations to eye movements for event components	4
Interfaces in the returnees’ heritage language: Is the complete (re-)activation possible?	4
Starman or Sterrenman: An acquisitional perspective on the social meaning of English in Flanders	4
‘妈妈, I miss you ’: Emotional multilingual practices in transnational families	4