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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Why not both? Rethinking categorical and continuous approaches to bilingualism	35
A deliberate language policy or a perceived lack of agency: Heritage language maintenance in the Polish community in Melbourne	18
Metaphors are like lenses: Electrophysiological correlates of novel meaning processing in bilingualism	16
Cross-linguistic differences affect emotion and emotion-laden word processing: Evidence from Polish-English and Romanian-English bilinguals	14
Vowel learning in diglossic settings: Evidence from Arabic-Greek learners	13
Acquiring allophonic structure and phonetic detail in a bilingual community: The production of laterals by Sylheti-English bilingual children	12
The link between linguistic subordination and linguistic inferiority complexes: English as a second language migrants in Australia	11
A typology of small-scale multilingualism	11
‘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	11
Multilingualism in Vanuatu: Four case studies	11
A bilingual advantage in memory capacity: Assessing the roles of proficiency, number of languages acquired and age of acquisition	11
‘Half of who you are’: Parent and child reflections on the emotional experiences of reversing familial language shift	11
Emotions and multilingualism in family language policy: Introduction to the special issue	10
Multicultural experience and multilingualism as predictors of creativity	10
Acculturation and attitudes toward code-switching: A bidimensional framework	10
Effects of language dominance on home reading practices of bilingual families	10
What do children think of their own bilingualism? Exploring bilingual children’s attitudes and perceptions	9
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	9
African multilingualism viewed from another angle: Challenging the Casamance exception	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
Narrative microstructure and macrostructure skills in Arabic diglossia: The case of Arab immigrant children in Canada	8
Assessing (a)symmetry in multilingualism: The case of Mano and Kpelle in Guinea	8
Towards a coherent methodology for the documentation of small-scale multilingualism: Dealing with speech data	7

Speaking Chinese or no breakfast: Emotional challenges and experiences confronting Chinese immigrant families in heritage language maintenance	7
Languages and ideologies at the Lower Yenisei (Siberia): Reconstructing past multilingualism	7
Moral judgements in a foreign language: Expressing emotions and justifying decisions	7
Vietnamese–Australian children’s language proficiency and use	7
Mood and gender effects in emotional word processing in unbalanced bilinguals	7
The rise of a lingua franca: The case of Russian in Dagestan	7
Patterns and perspectives shape perceptions: Epistemological and methodological reflections on the study of small-scale multilingualism	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
The influence of social factors on the prosody of Spanish in contact with Basque	6
L1 congruency, word frequency, collocational frequency, L2 proficiency, and their combined effects on Chinese–English bilinguals’ L2 collocational processing	6
Effect of AoA-L2 on L1 and L2 networks in early and late bilinguals	6
Cross-linguistic lexical effects in different-script bilingual reading are modulated by task	6
The contributions of oral language to English reading outcomes among young bilingual students in the United States	6
Investigation of code-switching cost in conversation and self-paced reading tasks	6
Relationship between oral narrative and vocabulary skills among bilingual language-minority children and their monolingual peers in primary school	6
Crosslinguistic influence on English and Chinese L2 speakers’ conceptualization of event series	6
The Simon effect in bilingual language brokers: A role for emotion and proficiency	6
The interaction of age, second language, types of code-alternation and multilingualism in the Zauzou community	6
Language changes medical judgments and beliefs	6
Cognate similarity and intervocalic /d/ production in Riverense Spanish	6
Predicting second language listening functor comprehension probability with usage-based and embodiment approaches	6
‘妈妈, I miss you ’: Emotional multilingual practices in transnational families	5
Cherishing the heritage language: Predictors of parental heritage language maintenance efforts	5
Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence on DOM in Romanian-Spanish bilinguals	5
Language exposure outside the home becomes more English-dominant from 30 to 60 months for children from Spanish-speaking homes in the United States	5
Fouta-Djallon linguistic ecology: Between polyglossia and small-scale multilingualism	5
Motion event representation in L1-Turkish versus L2-English speech and gesture: Relations to eye movements for event components	5
Researching language and cognition in bilinguals	5
Está abriendo, la abrió: Lexical knowledge, verb type, and grammatical aspect shape child heritage speakers’ direct object omission in Spanish	5
Production and comprehension of grammatical gender by Spanish heritage speakers: Evidence from accusative clitic pronouns	5
Lower Kolyma multilingualism: Historical setting and sociolinguistic trends	5
Bilingual speech in Jaru–Kriol conversations: Codeswitching, codemixing, and grammatical fusion	5
Language experience of immigrant women in bilingual couples with Poles	5
Word order and information structure in heritage and L2 Russian: Focus and unaccusativity effects in subject inversion	4
Birds and places: What the lexicon reveals about multilingualism	4
Defining bilingualism in infancy and toddlerhood: A scoping review	4
Syntactic optionality in heritage Spanish: How patterns of exposure and use affect clitic climbing	4
The role of bilingualism in executive functions in healthy older adults: A systematic review	4
French vocabulary development of early-elementary students in a dual language immersion program: The role of out-of-school input and output	4
Diversifying multilingualism: Languages and lects in Amazonia	4
Bilingual language dominance and contrastive focus marking: Gradient effects of K’ichee’ syntax on Spanish prosody	4
Lateralization of lexical processing in monolinguals and bilinguals	4
Evidence of phonological transfer in bilingual preschoolers who speak Arabic and French	4
Path and rate of development in child heritage speakers: Evidence from Greek subject/object form and placement	4
Proactive language control during bilingual sentence production	4
Crosslinguistic influence in child L3 English: An empirical study on Russian-German heritage bilinguals	4
The role of morphological similarity in lexical activation and unintentional transfer	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