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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Recycling constructional patterns: The role of chunks in early bilingual acquisition	43
Language exposure within peer and family contexts and bilingual reading profiles of German–Russian and German–Turkish adolescents in Germany	42
To what extent are sacred language practices ultralingual? The experience of British Muslim children learning Qur’anic Arabic	35
The effects of bilingualism on executive functions and cognitive reserve in young adults	32
The relationship between language and emotion recognition in bilinguals is not robust to cultural and linguistic differences	31
The influence of L2 proficiency on letter position encoding and sentence processing of bilinguals: Evidence from a reading-like task	27
Bilingualism, like other types of brain training, does not produce far transfer: It all fits together	23
Now they accept it, now they don’t : Acceptability judgements of nontypical multiword units in Russian as a native and a heritage language	22
Asymmetric Language Switch Benefits From Comprehension to Production in Chinese Learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL): Rethinking Cross-Modality Language Control	21
Wartime Language Choice Among Ukrainians in Ukraine and Finland: Stance-Taking and Self-Positioning	18
On the Status of English-Origin Nouns in Vietnamese Discourse: Evidence from Australia	17
First language attrition and pronominal resolution in Italian: A self-paced reading study	15
Cognitive and linguistic predictors of word reading fluency in Turkish–Arabic bilingual and Turkish monolingual children	15
Wh-questions in the grammar of heritage Egyptian speakers	14
Profiling language dominance in bilinguals in Catalonia	13
Different trajectories for becoming bilingual lead to comparable outcomes in cognitive flexibility	12
Cognitive differences between healthy monolingual and bilingual anglophones on the English version of the Dépistage Cognitif de Québec : A new screening	12
Dominant-while-speaking: How bilingual Norwegian–English children conceptualize goal-oriented motion events	12
Scoping review of research practices in the investigation of bilingual effects on inhibition and attention in young people	11
(Un)grounded language ideologies: A brief history of translanguaging theory	10
The processing of English prefixed and suffixed words by Chinese-English bilinguals	10
MMN and LDN asymmetries in Polish–English–Norwegian trilingual listeners	10
Language-dependent emotions in heritage and second language bilinguals: When physiological reactions deviate from feelings	10
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
The linguistic Odyssey of Russian-speaking immigrants in Canada	9

Non-standard numeral constructions in L2 Russian: A corpus-based study	9
Deciphering biliteracy in down syndrome: Insights from a Maltese-English bilingual setting	9
The effect of cognitive load on code-switching	9
Exploring Chinese multilingual addressees’ attitudes and interpretation of translanguaging practices in social settings	9
Conceptual transfer in the mind of Chinese English learners: Spatial metaphorical concepts of kin terms	9
Heritage Russian in contact with Hebrew and German: A cross-linguistic study of requests	9
Regional language as heritage languages	8
Australian Parents’ Aspirations for Biliteracy in English and Additional Home Language/s for Their Preschool-Aged Children	8
Comprehension and production of (non-)reflexive possessive constructions in Abui by Alor Malay–Abui bilingual children	7
“Me aviento el English y el Spanish”: Spanish-English code-switching in Texas conjunto artist Nick Villarreal	7
What target language use characterizes high-performing L2 learners in a migration context?	7
Contribution of semantic context to bilingual processing	7
Bilingual false recognition: Examining inferences and language tagging in the dual-language context	7
Moving in L2 Chinese from childhood to adulthood: Developmental and crosslinguistic factors in bilingual event construal	7
Navigating monolingual language ideologies: Educators’ “Yes, BUT” objections to linguistically sustaining pedagogies in the classroom	6
Phonological development of Spanish–Valencian bilingual children	6
Comprehension-oriented input training and syntactic representation entrenchment of late L2 learners: Evidence from a longitudinal experimental study	6
Revisiting bilingual foreign language learning advantages: The role of extramural exposure	6
Complexity or simplicity of categories: Evidence from Qiang–Chinese bilinguals	6
Bilingual experience shapes brain structural morphometry: Evidence from multidimensional structural indices	6
Heritage Language Maintenance and family relationship dynamics: A children’s perspective	6
Ethnolinguistic identity at risk: Mother tongue practices among internally migrant Maithili families in Nepal	6
L2 speakers are more flexible than L1 speakers in second dialect acquisition	6
Speaking Chinese or no breakfast: Emotional challenges and experiences confronting Chinese immigrant families in heritage language maintenance	6
Acoustic adjustments of clear speech in Korean heritage vowel production	5
Family language policy in tension: Conflicting language ideologies and translanguaging practices in multilingual families	5
Bilingual phonological awareness as a function of language proficiency	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
Cross-linguistic influence in the comprehension of reflexive possessive pronouns in L3 and L4 Swedish	5
Brain potentials reveal activation and inhibition of the non-target L2 in bilinguals’ L1 context	5
Investigating language transfer from a usage-based perspective	5
Preposition drop in Russian spoken by Mari and Beserman bilinguals	5
Playing the catch-up game: How long do immigrated students lag behind?	5
Null objects in Paraguayan Spanish and Guarani	5
‘妈妈, I miss you ’: Emotional multilingual practices in transnational families	5
Shaping ideologies at the micro level: Stylization in EMI	5
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
Outlier speakers and apparent effects: The case of variable subject placement in Spanish	4
Multiword units in multilingual speakers	4
Subjective linguistic vitality (SEV) of German among minority German speakers in an English-majority-language community	4
“You should speak Balochi; not Lasi”: A parental language policy for a bilingual child	4
Effects of Italian/English bilingual education on cognitive development: A pilot study	4
Emotions and multilingualism in family language policy: Introduction to the special issue	4
How verbal labels modulate early Cantonese-English bilinguals’ perception and categorization of motion events	4
Bilingual education and academic self-concept in primary school students	4
Unpacking family language policy through autoethnography: Insights from a transnational Arabic-speaking family in the United States	4
Syntactic licensing in heritage Spanish: Psych verbs and the middle voice	4
Language is caught not taught: Parents’ use of bimodal bilingualism with their deaf children	4

Radical perception and reliance in Chinese character recognition by L2 Chinese learners: A comparison of alphabetic, Japanese, and Korean learners	3
Wh-Questions in L3 French of L1 Chinese-L2 English Adults	3
Comprehension of who - and which -questions in monolingual and bilingual acquisition: Explicating the diff	3
Family language policy among Bangladeshi immigrants in New York	3
Evidence from the Triple Frontier Area on differential cognitive associations of multilingualism: Selective attention and visual search slopes	3
Second and foreign language learners: The effect of language exposure on the use of English phrasal verbs	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
Orthographic component of masked cognate priming in Chinese–Japanese bilinguals	3
Beyond Default Masculine: Semantic Influence on English Loanword Gender in Contemporary Spoken Italian	3
Variation in gender assignment strategies in mixed Spanish–Chinese noun phrases: Insights from a multilingual community in Barcelona	3
Changes in real-life linguistic environment benefit executive control: A longitudinal study	3
Semantic Categorization in L1 and L2: Calculating Distances	3
Examining language practices on linguistic landscapes of tourism in Xi’an, China: A perspective of pride and profit	3
Speaker ethnicity and L2 English proficiency influence accentedness judgments by Chinese learners of English	3
Literacy instruction and lexicon size determine bilingual reading development of Russian-German children	3
Input language and structural similarity: Competing factors in early third language acquisition	3
Language Attrition and Reactivation in a Simultaneous Japanese–English Bilingual Teenager: A 6-Year Longitudinal Psycholinguistic and Neurolinguistic Case Study	3
Word searching in multilingual dementia: An interdisciplinary approach	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
An exploration of the language independence and speaker-specificity of /m/ and /n/ in speakers of Catalan, Spanish, and English	3
Acquisition of Spanish Subjunctive Mood by Adult Heritage Speakers and Second Language Learners: Group, Between-Speaker, and Within-Speaker Effects	3
The influence of raciolinguistic expectations on phoneme categorization in Spanish–English bilinguals	3
An ecological exploration of challenges and affordances of emerging multilingual classrooms: Voices from Türkiye	3
‘Being bilingual will open doors for them’: Ideologies informing French immersion educators’ perspectives on bilingualism	3