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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A gradient-based preference for sonority markedness constraints in reading: evidence for intact phonological grammar in developmental dyslexia	137
Perceptual-semantic features of words differentially shape early vocabulary in American Sign Language and English	63
Referential choice in L2 English: Comparing L1 Spanish and L1 Dutch speakers	32
Cross-linguistic influence, limited input, or working-memory limitations: The morphosyntax of agreement and concord in Heritage Russian	30
Are L2 orthographic representations fuzzy? Effects of word frequency and spelling proficiency on orthographic priming in L1 and L2	29
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	26
Feature typology and L2 proficiency matter: L3 acquisition of Portuguese	23
How does one’s first language writing script modulate second language reading: evidence from the English Reading Online Project (ENRO)	22
Perceptual salience and structural ambiguity resolution	19
What promotes success in L2 suprasegmental learning in foreign language classroom settings? The roles of perceptual, cognitive, and experiential individual differences in the acquisition of English wo	19
Impairment or difference? The case of Theory of Mind abilities and pragmatic competence in the Autism Spectrum	19
The development of morphological awareness and vocabulary: What influences what? – CORRIGENDUM	19
Interactions between lexical and syntactic L1-L2 overlap: Effects of gender congruency on L2 sentence processing in L1 Spanish-L2 German speakers	18
Assessment of emotion word vocabulary and its contribution to reading comprehension	18
What contributes to fluent L2 speech? Examining cognitive and utterance fluency link with underlying L2 collocational processing speed and accuracy	17
Bilingual narrative intervention among Russian-Hebrew bilingual preschool children with developmental language disorder	14
Acknowledging language variation and its power: Keys to justice and equity in applied psycholinguistics	14
French-speaking teenagers’ mastery of connectives: the role of vocabulary size and exposure to print	14
Performance pay and non-native language comprehension: Can we learn to understand better when we’re paid to listen?	13
Investigating the Uniform Information Density hypothesis with complex nominal compounds	13
The development of postverbal subjects in L2 Italian: A multifactorial corpus analysis	11
Quantifying the uniqueness and efficiency of the MLAT relative to L1 attainment as a predictor of L2 achievement: A conceptual replication	11
Statistical learning of phonotactics by children can be affected by another statistical learning task	11
First and second language speaker understanding of implausible English passives in discourse contexts	10
The production, online processing, and offline comprehension of non-canonical structures in Mandarin-speaking children with Developmental Language Disorder	10

The impact of balance of multilingual exposure on gesture comprehension in children above preschool age	10
Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence with different-script languages: Evidence from eye tracking	10
Rapid audiovisual temporal recalibration across children and adults	9
Clarifying links to literacy: How does morphological awareness support children’s word reading development?	8
Limitations of the cognate effect: How second language proficiency and stimulus frequency modulate adolescent learners’ word recognition	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
Is dialect proficiency associated with improved executive function?	8
APS volume 43 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	8
Conventional metaphor processing in autistic adults: a semantic priming experiment	8
The role of subordinating conjunctions in the interpretation of null and overt subject pronouns in native Peninsular Spanish	7
Limited predictive value of L1 picture-norms for L2 picture-naming performance	7
The effect of verb surprisal on the acquisition of second language syntactic structures in adults: An artificial language learning study	7
The effect of memory instructions on within- and between-language false memory	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	7
Analytic visual word recognition in L2 learners: evidence from the length effect among ESL speakers	7
Incidental learning of English derivational noun suffixes through reading: an eye-tracking study	7
Word learning in emergent readers: to what extent does written input help?	7
Introducing LexEst: a quick and efficient vocabulary test for assessing vocabulary knowledge in L2 Estonian	7
Honesty repeats itself: comparing manual and automated coding on the veracity cues total details and redundancy	6
How acculturation and well-being influence the English and Arabic proficiency of first-generation Syrian refugee children in Canada	6
Frequency effects in Spanish phonological speech errors: Weak sources in the context of weak syllables and words	6
Audio-visual Stroop matching task with first- and second-language color words and color associates	6
The role of emotional prototypicality in Chinese emotion word recognition: evidence from implicit and explicit emotion tasks	6
Bilingual oral language development among dual language immersion students: Use of a Bayesian approach with language learning progressions	6
Effects of speech production training on memory across short and long delays in 5- and 6-year-olds: A pre-registered study	6
Minding the gap: Similarity-based interference in L1 and L2 processing of long-distance Wh-dependencies	6
The comprehension of passives in Mandarin children with and without DLD: from the perspective of Edge Feature Underspecification Hypothesis	5
Transmitting white monolingual Anglo-American norms: A concept analysis of “quality of language” in parent-child interactions	5
The impact of task demand on subtitle reading in video games: an eye-tracking study	5
The impact of dialect differences on spoken language comprehension	5
Chunking words into multi-word expressions: exploring chunking ability in immediate recall among second language learners of Chinese	5
Phonological processing of Japanese Kanji word by L1-Chinese learners of Japanese: verification of consistency and frequency effects	5
Affective and sensory–motor norms for idioms by L1 and L2 English speakers	5
The choice of musical instrument matters: Effect of pitched but not unpitched musicianship on tone identification and word learning	5
Towards a just and equitable applied psycholinguistics	5
Statistics versus semantics: retreating from the dative overgeneralization errors by Chinese EFL learners	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 role of phonology-to-orthography consistency in predicting the degree of pupil dilation induced in processing reduced and unreduced speech	4
The effect of context on the processing and learning of novel L2 vocabulary while reading	4
The impact of lexical specificity training on at-risk emergent bilinguals	4
Audio-visual entrainment, cranio-electro stimulation, and sensory involvement: rival effects on attention and L2 vocabulary retention	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
MIND your language(s): Recognizing Minority, Indigenous, Non-standard(ized), and Dialect variety usage in “monolinguals”	4
The influence of word co-occurrence frequency on predictive processing in first and second languages: A webcam-based eye-tracking study	4
Additional language learning in ADHD: a call for research	3
Syntactic blocking on L2 acquisition of Mandarin Ba-construction	3
Analyzing lexical-semantic networks in Alzheimer’s disease patients: eye-tracking study	3

How odd: Diverging effects of predictability and plausibility violations on sentence reading and word memory	3
The contribution of affective content to cue-response correspondence in a word association task: Focus on emotion words and emotion-laden words	3
Examining linguistic and experimenter biases through “non-native” versus “native” speech	3
Engagement for emotional prototypicality is shaped by word frequency in reading: evidence from eye movements	3
Associations between bilingualism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-related behavior in a community sample of primary school children	3
Reduced false memory effects for predictable words in L2 speakers of German: evidence from self-paced reading and recognition memory	3
The danger of bilingual–monolingual comparisons in applied psycholinguistic research	3
The effect of talker identity and language experience in perceiving foreign-accented speech	3
The offline and online effects of processing instruction	3
Insights into linguistic performance: investigating pragmatic and syntactic violations of Hebrew definiteness through acceptability judgment and self-paced listening and reading tasks	3
The internal structure of the syllable in Russian and in Hebrew: Evidence from monolingual kindergarteners	3
Does perceptual high variability phonetic training improve L2 speech production? A meta-analysis of perception-production connection	3
The effect of frequency of exposure on the processing and learning of collocations: A comparison of first and second language readers’ eye movements	3
“I no longer count in German.” On dominance shift in returnee heritage speakers	2
Trapped in phonotactics: How exposure to Japanese phonology influences English listeners’ perception of onset stop sequences	2
APS volume 43 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	2
Using intonation to disambiguate meaning: The role of empathy and proficiency in L2 perceptual development	2
The psycholinguistics of shining-through effects in translation: cross-linguistic structural priming or serial lexical co-activation?	2
Focus interpretation in L1 and L2: The role of prosodic prominence and clefting	2
The role of training and exposure to print for the mastery of connectives in French	2
Mandarin-speaking preschoolers with early implanted CIs can perceive word boundaries like their hearing peers	2
Do readers anticipate wh-in-situ questions? Cross-linguistic reading time evidence from Mandarin Chinese and French	2
Understanding language processing in variable populations on their own terms: Towards a functionalist psycholinguistics of individual differences, development, and disorders	2
Orthographic effects on L2 production and L2 proficiency in ESL learners with non-alphabetic and orthographically opaque L1	2
Child second language development of English tense and aspect: The role of narrative organization	2
The role of linguistic factors in the retention of verbatim information in reading: An eye-tracking study on L1 and L2 German	2
Cognitive-linguistic skills and vocabulary knowledge breadth and depth in children’s L1 Chinese and L2 English	2
Resilience and vulnerability of discourse-conditioned word order in heritage Spanish	2
The impact of neurotypical cognition on communication deficits attributed to pathologized people: schizophrenia as a case study	2
Abandoning inauthentic intersectionality	2
A negative mood facilitates complex semantic processing in a second language	2
Effects of stuttering and sound avoidance on reference production and memory	2