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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Recycling constructional patterns: The role of chunks in early bilingual acquisition	39
Now they accept it, now they don’t : Acceptability judgements of nontypical multiword units in Russian as a native and a heritage language	38
Language exposure within peer and family contexts and bilingual reading profiles of German–Russian and German–Turkish adolescents in Germany	32
To what extent are sacred language practices ultralingual? The experience of British Muslim children learning Qur’anic Arabic	29
The effects of bilingualism on executive functions and cognitive reserve in young adults	28
The relationship between language and emotion recognition in bilinguals is not robust to cultural and linguistic differences	25
Bilingualism, like other types of brain training, does not produce far transfer: It all fits together	20
The influence of L2 proficiency on letter position encoding and sentence processing of bilinguals: Evidence from a reading-like task	20
Cognitive and linguistic predictors of word reading fluency in Turkish–Arabic bilingual and Turkish monolingual children	19
First language attrition and pronominal resolution in Italian: A self-paced reading study	17
Wh-questions in the grammar of heritage Egyptian speakers	15
Profiling language dominance in bilinguals in Catalonia	14
Scoping review of research practices in the investigation of bilingual effects on inhibition and attention in young people	13
The processing of English prefixed and suffixed words by Chinese-English bilinguals	12
Cognitive differences between healthy monolingual and bilingual anglophones on the English version of the Dépistage Cognitif de Québec : A new screening	12
Different trajectories for becoming bilingual lead to comparable outcomes in cognitive flexibility	11
(Un)grounded language ideologies: A brief history of translanguaging theory	11
Language-dependent emotions in heritage and second language bilinguals: When physiological reactions deviate from feelings	11
How do differences in bilingual input affect vocabulary development of a minority language? The relationship between the type of bilingual exposure and early vocabulary acquisition	10
Teachers as new speakers of a minority language: Identity, speakerness, and ideologies on variation in Irish	10
Dominant-while-speaking: How bilingual Norwegian–English children conceptualize goal-oriented motion events	10
Exploring Chinese multilingual addressees’ attitudes and interpretation of translanguaging practices in social settings	9
Non-standard numeral constructions in L2 Russian: A corpus-based study	9
The effect of cognitive load on code-switching	9
Heritage Russian in contact with Hebrew and German: A cross-linguistic study of requests	9

Deciphering biliteracy in down syndrome: Insights from a Maltese-English bilingual setting	9
Australian Parents’ Aspirations for Biliteracy in English and Additional Home Language/s for Their Preschool-Aged Children	8
What target language use characterizes high-performing L2 learners in a migration context?	8
“Me aviento el English y el Spanish”: Spanish-English code-switching in Texas conjunto artist Nick Villarreal	8
The linguistic Odyssey of Russian-speaking immigrants in Canada	8
Rethinking marginalization and heritage language vitality in multilingual families	8
Moving in L2 Chinese from childhood to adulthood: Developmental and crosslinguistic factors in bilingual event construal	8
Conceptual transfer in the mind of Chinese English learners: Spatial metaphorical concepts of kin terms	8
Contribution of semantic context to bilingual processing	8
Comprehension and production of (non-)reflexive possessive constructions in Abui by Alor Malay–Abui bilingual children	8
Bilingual false recognition: Examining inferences and language tagging in the dual-language context	7
Comprehension-oriented input training and syntactic representation entrenchment of late L2 learners: Evidence from a longitudinal experimental study	7
Heritage Language Maintenance and family relationship dynamics: A children’s perspective	7
Navigating monolingual language ideologies: Educators’ “Yes, BUT” objections to linguistically sustaining pedagogies in the classroom	6
Speaking Chinese or no breakfast: Emotional challenges and experiences confronting Chinese immigrant families in heritage language maintenance	6
Ethnolinguistic identity at risk: Mother tongue practices among internally migrant Maithili families in Nepal	6
Phonological development of Spanish–Valencian bilingual children	6
Regional language as heritage languages	6
The influence of L2 experience on L1 speech perception: Evidence from Mandarin–English bilinguals	6
Preposition drop in Russian spoken by Mari and Beserman bilinguals	6
Bilingual experience shapes brain structural morphometry: Evidence from multidimensional structural indices	6
L2 speakers are more flexible than L1 speakers in second dialect acquisition	6
Fundamental frequency range in the bilingual repertoire of traditional and new Welsh speakers	6
Complexity or simplicity of categories: Evidence from Qiang–Chinese bilinguals	6
Acoustic adjustments of clear speech in Korean heritage vowel production	5
Revisiting bilingual foreign language learning advantages: The role of extramural exposure	5
Investigating language transfer from a usage-based perspective	5
Path and rate of development in child heritage speakers: Evidence from Greek subject/object form and placement	5
Book Review: Schwartz, A, Spanish so White: Conversations on the inconvenient racism of a “foreign” language education	5
Family language policy in tension: Conflicting language ideologies and translanguaging practices in multilingual families	5
Cross-linguistic influence in the comprehension of reflexive possessive pronouns in L3 and L4 Swedish	5
Playing the catch-up game: How long do immigrated students lag behind?	5
Null objects in Paraguayan Spanish and Guarani	5
Bilingual phonological awareness as a function of language proficiency	5
Subjective linguistic vitality (SEV) of German among minority German speakers in an English-majority-language community	4
Word searching in multilingual dementia: An interdisciplinary approach	4
“You should speak Balochi; not Lasi”: A parental language policy for a bilingual child	4
‘妈妈, I miss you ’: Emotional multilingual practices in transnational families	4
Language is caught not taught: Parents’ use of bimodal bilingualism with their deaf children	4
Variation in gender assignment strategies in mixed Spanish–Chinese noun phrases: Insights from a multilingual community in Barcelona	4
Shaping ideologies at the micro level: Stylization in EMI	4
Effects of Italian/English bilingual education on cognitive development: A pilot study	4
The effect of language proficiency, usage, and exposure on cognitive control: A study in early adulthood Chinese learners of English	4
Bilingual English-Mandarin and Monolingual Mandarin children’s narrative production: How does the macrostructure of their narratives differ?	4
Brain potentials reveal activation and inhibition of the non-target L2 in bilinguals’ L1 context	4
Syntactic licensing in heritage Spanish: Psych verbs and the middle voice	3
Are we equally accented in L2 and L3? Perception of foreign accentedness and comprehensibility in multilingual speakers	3
The cyclicity of reborrowing and the ping-pong effect: The case of Arabic–Hebrew–Arabic ṣabāba/sababa ‘ok’	3
Responses to Cantonese A-not-A questions by Cantonese-English bilingual children	3
‘Being bilingual will open doors for them’: Ideologies informing French immersion educators’ perspectives on bilingualism	3

Acquisition of Spanish Subjunctive Mood by Adult Heritage Speakers and Second Language Learners: Group, Between-Speaker, and Within-Speaker Effects	3
Examining language practices on linguistic landscapes of tourism in Xi’an, China: A perspective of pride and profit	3
An ecological exploration of challenges and affordances of emerging multilingual classrooms: Voices from Türkiye	3
Radical perception and reliance in Chinese character recognition by L2 Chinese learners: A comparison of alphabetic, Japanese, and Korean learners	3
Emotions and multilingualism in family language policy: Introduction to the special issue	3
Bilingual education and academic self-concept in primary school students	3
The role of frequency in the acquisition of structured variation: The case of Basque ergativity	3
An exploration of the language independence and speaker-specificity of /m/ and /n/ in speakers of Catalan, Spanish, and English	3
Evidence from the Triple Frontier Area on differential cognitive associations of multilingualism: Selective attention and visual search slopes	3
The influence of raciolinguistic expectations on phoneme categorization in Spanish–English bilinguals	3
Family language policy among Bangladeshi immigrants in New York	3
Unpacking family language policy through autoethnography: Insights from a transnational Arabic-speaking family in the United States	3
Literacy instruction and lexicon size determine bilingual reading development of Russian-German children	3
Orthographic component of masked cognate priming in Chinese–Japanese bilinguals	3
Comprehension of who - and which -questions in monolingual and bilingual acquisition: Explicating the diff	3
Outlier speakers and apparent effects: The case of variable subject placement in Spanish	3
How verbal labels modulate early Cantonese-English bilinguals’ perception and categorization of motion events	3
Wh-Questions in L3 French of L1 Chinese-L2 English Adults	3
The Simple View of borrowing and code-switching	3
Second and foreign language learners: The effect of language exposure on the use of English phrasal verbs	3
‘ A surprise I will never forget ’: How do adolescent Spanish-German heritage speakers express the emotion of surprise in both their heritage language an	3
Changes in real-life linguistic environment benefit executive control: A longitudinal study	3
Speaker ethnicity and L2 English proficiency influence accentedness judgments by Chinese learners of English	3
Beyond Default Masculine: Semantic Influence on English Loanword Gender in Contemporary Spoken Italian	3
Input language and structural similarity: Competing factors in early third language acquisition	3
Multiword units in multilingual speakers	3