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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Why not both? Rethinking categorical and continuous approaches to bilingualism	40
A deliberate language policy or a perceived lack of agency: Heritage language maintenance in the Polish community in Melbourne	19
Metaphors are like lenses: Electrophysiological correlates of novel meaning processing in bilingualism	16
‘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	15
Cross-linguistic differences affect emotion and emotion-laden word processing: Evidence from Polish-English and Romanian-English bilinguals	14
The link between linguistic subordination and linguistic inferiority complexes: English as a second language migrants in Australia	13
‘Half of who you are’: Parent and child reflections on the emotional experiences of reversing familial language shift	13
A typology of small-scale multilingualism	13
Acculturation and attitudes toward code-switching: A bidimensional framework	13
A bilingual advantage in memory capacity: Assessing the roles of proficiency, number of languages acquired and age of acquisition	12
Multicultural experience and multilingualism as predictors of creativity	12
Narrative microstructure and macrostructure skills in Arabic diglossia: The case of Arab immigrant children in Canada	12
Multilingualism in Vanuatu: Four case studies	11
Emotions and multilingualism in family language policy: Introduction to the special issue	11
Assessing (a)symmetry in multilingualism: The case of Mano and Kpelle in Guinea	10
Mood and gender effects in emotional word processing in unbalanced bilinguals	10
What do children think of their own bilingualism? Exploring bilingual children’s attitudes and perceptions	10
L1 congruency, word frequency, collocational frequency, L2 proficiency, and their combined effects on Chinese–English bilinguals’ L2 collocational processing	10
African multilingualism viewed from another angle: Challenging the Casamance exception	9
The speakers of minority languages are more multilingual	9
Speaking Chinese or no breakfast: Emotional challenges and experiences confronting Chinese immigrant families in heritage language maintenance	9
Societal multilingualism à la balkanique: The Montenegrin Velja Gorana and beyond	8
Moral judgements in a foreign language: Expressing emotions and justifying decisions	8
Vietnamese–Australian children’s language proficiency and use	8
Towards a coherent methodology for the documentation of small-scale multilingualism: Dealing with speech data	7

Language changes medical judgments and beliefs	7
Cognate similarity and intervocalic /d/ production in Riverense Spanish	7
Cherishing the heritage language: Predictors of parental heritage language maintenance efforts	7
Patterns and perspectives shape perceptions: Epistemological and methodological reflections on the study of small-scale multilingualism	7
Languages and ideologies at the Lower Yenisei (Siberia): Reconstructing past multilingualism	7
The interaction of age, second language, types of code-alternation and multilingualism in the Zauzou community	7
The rise of a lingua franca: The case of Russian in Dagestan	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
Path and rate of development in child heritage speakers: Evidence from Greek subject/object form and placement	6
Predicting second language listening functor comprehension probability with usage-based and embodiment approaches	6
A systematic review of proficiency assessment methods in bilingualism research	6
Investigation of code-switching cost in conversation and self-paced reading tasks	6
Researching language and cognition in bilinguals	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
‘妈妈, I miss you ’: Emotional multilingual practices in transnational families	5
The role of morphological similarity in lexical activation and unintentional transfer	5
The role of bilingualism in executive functions in healthy older adults: A systematic review	5
Proactive language control during bilingual sentence production	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
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
Syntactic optionality in heritage Spanish: How patterns of exposure and use affect clitic climbing	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
Lateralization of lexical processing in monolinguals and bilinguals	4
(Un)grounded language ideologies: A brief history of translanguaging theory	4
Evidence of phonological transfer in bilingual preschoolers who speak Arabic and French	4
French vocabulary development of early-elementary students in a dual language immersion program: The role of out-of-school input and output	4
Word order and information structure in heritage and L2 Russian: Focus and unaccusativity effects in subject inversion	4
The code-mixing of the Senegalese migrants in Italy	4
Interfaces in the returnees’ heritage language: Is the complete (re-)activation possible?	4
Scoping review of research practices in the investigation of bilingual effects on inhibition and attention in young people	4
Diversifying multilingualism: Languages and lects in Amazonia	4
Crosslinguistic influence in child L3 English: An empirical study on Russian-German heritage bilinguals	4
Modulating effects of interactional contexts on bilinguals’ cognitive control: Evidence for the Adaptive Control Hypothesis	4
Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence on DOM in Romanian-Spanish bilinguals	4
Starman or Sterrenman: An acquisitional perspective on the social meaning of English in Flanders	4
Social entrenchment influences the amount of areal borrowing in contact languages	3
Relations between phonological production, grammar and the lexicon in bilingual French-English children	3
The Simple View of borrowing and code-switching	3
A unified approach to the study of language contact: Cross-language priming and change in adjective/noun order	3
Bilinguals have more effective executive function: Evidence from an fNIRS study of the neural correlates of cognitive shifting	3
Biscriptal bilingualism differentially affects segmentation of cross-language homophones: Evidence from Hindi and English users	3
Responding to sociolinguistic change: New speakers and variationist sociolinguistics	3
Language and counterfactual reasoning in Chinese, English and Chinese_L1-English_L2 reasoners	3

English as a heritage language: The effects of input patterns and contact with Hebrew	3
Are translation equivalents really equivalent? Evidence from concreteness effects in translation priming	3
On the grammaticality of passivization in bilingual compound verbs	3
Unidirectional language bias: The Implicit Association Test with Spanish and English in Miami	3
Minoritising a regional language in multilingual preschools in Dutch Limburg: Teachers’ and toddlers’ choices between Dutch and Limburgish	3
Variation in first-generation L1 deictic systems: Language attrition and bilingualism effects	3
The effects of emotional context and exposure frequency on L2 contextual word learning	3