OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Bilingualism 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Bilingualism, like other types of brain training, does not produce far transfer: It all fits together	47
Embodiment in directive sequences: The case of triadic interactions in a Polish-English bilingual family	22
Processing similarities between native speakers and non-balanced bilinguals	21
A systematic review of proficiency assessment methods in bilingualism research	18
Multiword units in multilingual speakers	17
Now they accept it, now they don’t: Acceptability judgements of nontypical multiword units in Russian as a native and a heritage language	16
Using a foreign language does not make you think more: Null effects of using a foreign language on cognitive reflection and numeracy	16
The relation between perceived non-native features in the L1 speech of English migrants to Austria and their phonetic manifestation in L1 productions	16
A typology of small-scale multilingualism	16
Bilinguals have more effective executive function: Evidence from an fNIRS study of the neural correlates of cognitive shifting	15
Individual variations in British humour appreciation among Chinese–English bilinguals: Role of socialisation and acculturation	15
Outlier speakers and apparent effects: The case of variable subject placement in Spanish	14
Verb placement in embedded clauses in heritage Norwegian	13
Word searching in multilingual dementia: An interdisciplinary approach	12
Language is caught not taught: Parents’ use of bimodal bilingualism with their deaf children	12
Unpacking family language policy through autoethnography: Insights from a transnational Arabic-speaking family in the United States	11
Input effects and unidirectional transfer in Mandarin–English heritage bilingual children: The case of spatial prepositional zai-phrases	10
Oscillatory features of German–English sentence processing: Evidence from an EEG study	10
How country of origin and stimuli language influence visual word recognition in bilingual children	10
Language experience, cognitive skills, and English and Spanish semantic abilities in bilingual children with typical development and language impairments	9
Evidence of phonological transfer in bilingual preschoolers who speak Arabic and French	9
Functional and sociocultural attitudes of code-switching and its relation to the meaning-making process: The case of dubbing Kim Possible into Arabic	9
Affordances of code-switching in Polish–Australian families: An exploration of language ideologies, practices and management	8
Yiddish–Slavic language contact in multilingual songs: Describing deliberate code-switching	8
Adaptive memory: Greater memory advantages in bilinguals’ first language	8

Está abriendo, la abrió: Lexical knowledge, verb type, and grammatical aspect shape child heritage speakers’ direct object omission in Spanish	8
To what extent are sacred language practices ultralingual? The experience of British Muslim children learning Qur’anic Arabic	8
Contributions of internal and external factors to bilingual development: Evidence from Kurdish-English adolescents	8
The sandwich effect in L3 acquisition: A look at the Catalan and Spanish grammars of highly advanced speakers of L3 English	8
An ecological approach to the lexical evolution of Chinese English	7
Cross-language activation and semantic judgements of translation ambiguous words among Chinese–English bilinguals	7
The effects of emotional context and exposure frequency on L2 contextual word learning	7
Regional background and donor-language fluency as predictors of Finnish loanword frequency in Finland-Swedish	7
Syntactic licensing in heritage Spanish: Psych verbs and the middle voice	7
Frequency of language brokering experience as a source of difference in bilinguals’ emotion judgments across languages	7
Learning and performing Sanskrit as a sacred language: Children’s religious repertoires and syncretic practice in London	7
A preliminary study of the relationship between working memory, language experience, and grammatical skill in dual language learners	7
Language exposure within peer and family contexts and bilingual reading profiles of German–Russian and German–Turkish adolescents in Germany	7
Emotions and multilingualism in family language policy: Introduction to the special issue	7
Do we mean the same? Semantic native-likeness in highly proficient second language users	7
The effect of language proficiency, usage, and exposure on cognitive control: A study in early adulthood Chinese learners of English	7
Are translation equivalents really equivalent? Evidence from concreteness effects in translation priming	7
Bilingual processing of case-marking and locative verbs in Korean: Use of L2-unique information	6
The effects of topic and interlocutor on code-switching patterns in the Kufr Qassem deaf community	6
Acculturation and attitudes toward code-switching: A bidimensional framework	6
Dynamics of phonetic-level language control in language switching with a letter-naming paradigm	6
‘Half of who you are’: Parent and child reflections on the emotional experiences of reversing familial language shift	6
The gender congruency effect in sentence context depends on gender transparency and L2 proficiency: A self-paced reading study with Polish–German bilinguals	6
Narrative microstructure and macrostructure skills in Arabic diglossia: The case of Arab immigrant children in Canada	6
Pronoun interpretation in intermediate-advanced L2 English speakers: L2 to L1 cross-linguistic effects	5
The processing of English prefixed and suffixed words by Chinese-English bilinguals	5
Cognitive differences between healthy monolingual and bilingual anglophones on the English version of the Dépistage Cognitif de Québec: A new screening tool for atypical dementia	5
Lexical tonal effects in code-switching: A comparative study of Cantonese, Mandarin, and Vietnamese switching with English	5
Bilingual speech in Jaru–Kriol conversations: Codeswitching, codemixing, and grammatical fusion	5
Gender assignment: Monolingual constraints contribute to a bilingual outcome	5
Language-dependent emotions in heritage and second language bilinguals: When physiological reactions deviate from feelings	5
Relative clause attachment preferences of late bilinguals	5
Cognitive and linguistic predictors of word reading fluency in Turkish–Arabic bilingual and Turkish monolingual children	5
Morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge in monolingual and bilingual learners: A meta-analysis	5
First language versus second language effect on memory for motion events: The role of language type and proficiency	5
Null objects in Polish heritage language acquisition in contact with German	5
Cognitive demand in parent–child shared book reading and home language development among dual language learners in low-income immigrant families	4
The metalinguistic and metarepresentational attitude of early bilingual children: A study on definitional skills	4
Serial memory mechanisms in monolingual and bilingual speakers	4
Tracking global English changes through local data: Intensifiers in German Learner English	4
Spanish subject pronoun expression among Bube speakers in Equatorial Guinea	4
Variation in first-generation L1 deictic systems: Language attrition and bilingualism effects	4
Metacognitive verbs do not show a cross-language gap: An investigation of metacognitive and concrete verbs in bilingual children	4
Phrasal verb production in child heritage speakers of English residing in Mexico: Chronological age, experience, and protracted development	4
Bilingual young adults’ perceived influence of parents, grandparents, siblings, and friends on their Spanish and English proficiency: A qualitative analysis	3
Second language experience influences salience of phonological units in spoken word production in the first language	3
‘Difficulties when learning, easiness when fighting’: Why do families in Latvia choose (pre)schools with a language of instruction other than their L1?	3
How bilinguals refer to Mandarin throwing actions in English	3
Does early childhood multilingualism lead to enhanced executive functioning in early adulthood? A study examining inhibitory control (Stroop effect) in Swedish university students	3
Dominant-while-speaking: How bilingual Norwegian–English children conceptualize goal-oriented motion events	3

Experimental increase in lexical frequency improves morphological computation of Spanish	3
Relations among degree of bilingualism and bilateral information processing in children and adults	3
Motivational patterns of emergent and fully bilingual children learning English and Japanese at an international school	3
Task effects and the yes-bias in heritage language bilingualism	3
Kaqchikel Maya and Spanish: Attitudes, domains, and acquisition	3
An examination of prosody and second language sentence processing through pause insertion	3
Phonological influence in bilectal speakers of Brazilian and European Portuguese	3
Emotion in multivarietal family language policy in Flanders	3
The role of frequency in the acquisition of structured variation: The case of Basque ergativity	3
Cognate and meaning frequency effects on homonym processing	3
The effects of language switching experience and acute stress on bilingual advantages in cognitive flexibility	3
Uighur college students’ irony comprehension in Chinese	3