OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Applied Psycholinguistics is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
A gradient-based preference for sonority markedness constraints in reading: evidence for intact phonological grammar in developmental dyslexia	114
Perceptual-semantic features of words differentially shape early vocabulary in American Sign Language and English	54
Referential choice in L2 English: Comparing L1 Spanish and L1 Dutch speakers	27
Cross-linguistic influence, limited input, or working-memory limitations: The morphosyntax of agreement and concord in Heritage Russian	25
Perceptual salience and structural ambiguity resolution	22
The development of morphological awareness and vocabulary: What influences what? – CORRIGENDUM	22
What contributes to fluent L2 speech? Examining cognitive and utterance fluency link with underlying L2 collocational processing speed and accuracy	20
What a thousand children tell us about grammatical complexity and working memory: A cross-sectional analysis on the comprehension of clitics and passives in Italian	19
Feature typology and L2 proficiency matter: L3 acquisition of Portuguese	17
Abstract structures and meaning in Japanese dative structural priming	16
How does one’s first language writing script modulate second language reading: evidence from the English Reading Online Project (ENRO)	15
Assessment of emotion word vocabulary and its contribution to reading comprehension	14
French-speaking teenagers’ mastery of connectives: the role of vocabulary size and exposure to print	14
Interactions between lexical and syntactic L1-L2 overlap: Effects of gender congruency on L2 sentence processing in L1 Spanish-L2 German speakers	14
Impairment or difference? The case of Theory of Mind abilities and pragmatic competence in the Autism Spectrum	14
APS volume 43 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	13
Acknowledging language variation and its power: Keys to justice and equity in applied psycholinguistics	13
APS volume 43 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	12
Quantifying the uniqueness and efficiency of the MLAT relative to L1 attainment as a predictor of L2 achievement: A conceptual replication	11
Bilingual narrative intervention among Russian-Hebrew bilingual preschool children with developmental language disorder	11
Investigating the Uniform Information Density hypothesis with complex nominal compounds	10
Performance pay and non-native language comprehension: Can we learn to understand better when we’re paid to listen?	10
The development of postverbal subjects in L2 Italian: A multifactorial corpus analysis	9
Statistical learning of phonotactics by children can be affected by another statistical learning task	9
Rapid audiovisual temporal recalibration across children and adults	8

The impact of balance of multilingual exposure on gesture comprehension in children above preschool age	8
Can speakers of different languages be saying the same thing? Influences of non-native language exposure and explicit comparison on children’s language awareness	8
Limitations of the cognate effect: How second language proficiency and stimulus frequency modulate adolescent learners’ word recognition	8
Lag effects in grammar learning: A desirable difficulties perspective	8
Processing of novel L2 compounds across repeated exposures during reading: A growth curve analysis	8
Is dialect proficiency associated with improved executive function?	8
Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence with different-script languages: Evidence from eye tracking	8
Word learning in emergent readers: to what extent does written input help?	7
Interactions of stimulus quality and semantic context on N400 in visual word recognition	7
Clarifying links to literacy: How does morphological awareness support children’s word reading development?	7
The effect of memory instructions on within- and between-language false memory	7
APS volume 43 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	7
Incidental learning of English derivational noun suffixes through reading: an eye-tracking study	7
The production, online processing, and offline comprehension of non-canonical structures in Mandarin-speaking children with Developmental Language Disorder	7
How acquirable are English articles for L2 learners? Evidence from online processing and production by L1-Mandarin and L1-Croatian speakers of L2-English	6
Limited predictive value of L1 picture-norms for L2 picture-naming performance	6
The effect of verb surprisal on the acquisition of second language syntactic structures in adults: An artificial language learning study	6
Analytic visual word recognition in L2 learners: evidence from the length effect among ESL speakers	6
The role of subordinating conjunctions in the interpretation of null and overt subject pronouns in native Peninsular Spanish	6
Audio-visual Stroop matching task with first- and second-language color words and color associates	5
Introducing LexEst: a quick and efficient vocabulary test for assessing vocabulary knowledge in L2 Estonian	5
Honesty repeats itself: comparing manual and automated coding on the veracity cues total details and redundancy	5
Towards a just and equitable applied psycholinguistics	5
Transmitting white monolingual Anglo-American norms: A concept analysis of “quality of language” in parent-child interactions	5
Bilingual oral language development among dual language immersion students: Use of a Bayesian approach with language learning progressions	5
How acculturation and well-being influence the English and Arabic proficiency of first-generation Syrian refugee children in Canada	5
Minding the gap: Similarity-based interference in L1 and L2 processing of long-distance Wh-dependencies	5
Frequency effects in Spanish phonological speech errors: Weak sources in the context of weak syllables and words	5
The choice of musical instrument matters: Effect of pitched but not unpitched musicianship on tone identification and word learning	5
Effects of speech production training on memory across short and long delays in 5- and 6-year-olds: A pre-registered study	5
Phonological processing of Japanese Kanji word by L1-Chinese learners of Japanese: verification of consistency and frequency effects	5
The role of emotional prototypicality in Chinese emotion word recognition: evidence from implicit and explicit emotion tasks	5
The impact of dialect differences on spoken language comprehension	5
Affective and sensory–motor norms for idioms by L1 and L2 English speakers	5
The comprehension of passives in Mandarin children with and without DLD: from the perspective of Edge Feature Underspecification Hypothesis	4
A position paper on researching braille in the cognitive sciences: decentering the sighted norm	4
APS volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	4
The impact of lexical specificity training on at-risk emergent bilinguals	4
Statistics versus semantics: retreating from the dative overgeneralization errors by Chinese EFL learners	4
The effect of context on the processing and learning of novel L2 vocabulary while reading	4
Linguistic alignment of redundancy usage in human-human and human-computer interaction	4
Asymmetrical effects of cross-linguistic structural priming on cross-linguistic influence in L2 learners	4
Framing second language comprehensibility: Do interlocutors’ ratings predict their perceived communicative experience?	4
The role of phonology-to-orthography consistency in predicting the degree of pupil dilation induced in processing reduced and unreduced speech	4
MIND your language(s): Recognizing Minority, Indigenous, Non-standard(ized), and Dialect variety usage in “monolinguals”	4
Insights into linguistic performance: investigating pragmatic and syntactic violations of Hebrew definiteness through acceptability judgment and self-paced listening and reading tasks	3
Audio-visual entrainment, cranio-electro stimulation, and sensory involvement: rival effects on attention and L2 vocabulary retention	3
Syntactic blocking on L2 acquisition of Mandarin Ba-construction	3
Associations between bilingualism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-related behavior in a community sample of primary school children	3
Analyzing lexical-semantic networks in Alzheimer’s disease patients: eye-tracking study	3

The internal structure of the syllable in Russian and in Hebrew: Evidence from monolingual kindergarteners	3
Engagement for emotional prototypicality is shaped by word frequency in reading: evidence from eye movements	3
The offline and online effects of processing instruction	3
Simplification of literary and scientific texts to improve reading fluency and comprehension in beginning readers of French	3
Reduced false memory effects for predictable words in L2 speakers of German: evidence from self-paced reading and recognition memory	3
Does perceptual high variability phonetic training improve L2 speech production? A meta-analysis of perception-production connection	3
The influence of word co-occurrence frequency on predictive processing in first and second languages: A webcam-based eye-tracking study	3
A longitudinal examination of French and English reading comprehension in French immersion programs in Canada	3
Additional language learning in ADHD: a call for research	3
How odd: Diverging effects of predictability and plausibility violations on sentence reading and word memory	3
Examining linguistic and experimenter biases through “non-native” versus “native” speech	3
A negative mood facilitates complex semantic processing in a second language	2
The effect of frequency of exposure on the processing and learning of collocations: A comparison of first and second language readers’ eye movements	2
Insights from real-time comprehension of Spanish verbal tense in children with developmental language disorder: An eye-tracking study	2
Using intonation to disambiguate meaning: The role of empathy and proficiency in L2 perceptual development	2
“I no longer count in German.” On dominance shift in returnee heritage speakers	2
APS volume 43 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	2
Understanding language processing in variable populations on their own terms: Towards a functionalist psycholinguistics of individual differences, development, and disorders	2
The contribution of affective content to cue-response correspondence in a word association task: Focus on emotion words and emotion-laden words	2
Orthographic effects on L2 production and L2 proficiency in ESL learners with non-alphabetic and orthographically opaque L1	2
Abandoning inauthentic intersectionality	2
The impact of neurotypical cognition on communication deficits attributed to pathologized people: schizophrenia as a case study	2
Cognitive-linguistic skills and vocabulary knowledge breadth and depth in children’s L1 Chinese and L2 English	2
The role of training and exposure to print for the mastery of connectives in French	2
The danger of bilingual–monolingual comparisons in applied psycholinguistic research	2
Focus interpretation in L1 and L2: The role of prosodic prominence and clefting	2
Child second language development of English tense and aspect: The role of narrative organization	2
The psycholinguistics of shining-through effects in translation: cross-linguistic structural priming or serial lexical co-activation?	2
Roles of domain-general auditory processing in spoken second-language vocabulary attainment in adulthood	2
The role of linguistic factors in the retention of verbatim information in reading: An eye-tracking study on L1 and L2 German	2