OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Second Language Research is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners	15
Cross-linguistic influence meets diminished input: A comparative study of heritage Russian in contact with Hebrew and English	14
From one language to the other: Examining the role of code-switching on vocabulary learning in adult second-language learners	13
Contrastive focus is acquirable: An investigation of Russian contrastive focus with English/Russian bilinguals	12
The source of the that-trace effect: New evidence from L2 English	11
The relationship between perception and production of illusory vowels in a second language	11
The role of L2 input in developing a novel L2 contrast phonetically and phonologically: Production evidence from a residence abroad context	9
Processing gender agreement in an additional language: The more languages the better?	8
Searching for common phonological space: /s/-stop clusters in L1 Polish and L2 English	8
L2 Korean metonymy: The relative role of a conceptual universal and conventionalization	7
Combining phonetics and phonology in L x acquisition using current theoretical models and probabilistic approaches: A response to Archibald	6
Interaction between syntactic and information structure in the second language processing of Korean dative sentences	6
High is good enough: Gender agreement and relative clause attachment in L2 auditory processing	6
L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of VOTs of voiceless plosives in highly proficient late bilinguals	6
Is cats one word or two? L2 learners’ processing of number marking in English from the viewpoints of form–meaning mapping	5
Input and competing grammars in L2 syntax	5
Connectivity effects in pseudoclefts in L1 and L2 speakers of German	5
Such sweet thunder	5
Island sensitivity in L2 learners: Evidence from acceptability judgments and event-related potentials	4
The CELI corpus: Design and linguistic annotation of a new online learner corpus	4
Testing the Interpretability Hypothesis: Evidence from acceptability judgments of relative clauses by Persian and French learners of L2 English	4
L1-transfer effects and the role of computational complexity in L2 pronoun interpretation	4
Cross-linguistic influence and language co-activation in acquiring L3 words: What empirical evidence do we have so far?	4
Subject realization in Greek preschool learners of English	4
Examining the source of island effects in native speakers and second language learners of English	4

Cross-language perception of Japanese consonant length by speakers from Italian- and Mandarin-speaking backgrounds	4
Can dynamical systems theory be applied to second language acquisition? The issues of reductionism and intentionality	3
Similarity-based interference and relative clauses in second language processing	3
Language-specific properties and overt pronoun interpretation:The case of L2 Japanese	3
The L2/L3 initial state, initial stages and judgement tasks: The role of intercomprehension when judging unknown languages	3
Learning to predict: Second language perception of reduced multi-word sequences	3
Phonological cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages of L3 acquisition	3
Adaptation in L2 sentence processing: An EEG study	3
Michael Sharwood Smith Award 2025	3
Testing the Bottleneck Hypothesis: Chinese EFL learners’ knowledge of morphology and syntax across proficiency levels	3
Investigating the relation between L2 pauses, syntactic complexity, and pause location: Longitudinal data from L2-Spanish study-abroad learners	3
A lexical semantic approach to the L2 acquisition of Spanish psych verbs	3
Dependency resolutions of null and overt subjects in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence for the cue-based model	3
Orthography does not hinder non-native production learning in children	3
Cross-linguistic transfer of acoustic cues: Perception of Japanese vowel length by learners from Vietnamese-speaking background	3
Second language phonology: The phonetics–phonology divide, its underrepresentation in L2 research, and the richness of phonological representations from segments to prosodic structure	2
Brain boosters: How bilingualism and working memory enhance children’s comprehension of which -questions	2
Cross-linguistic effects in grammatical gender assignment and predictive processing in L1 Greek, L1 Russian, and L1 Turkish speakers of Norwegian as a second language	2
A bidirectional study in L2 acquisition of pragmatics: The case of (un-)bounded adjectival scales	2
Lexical production and cognitive control in sequential bilinguals immersed in two different contexts of language use	2
Waiting in the wings: The place of phonology in the study of multilingual grammars	2
Backward anaphora in L2 acquisition of English, Mandarin and Japanese	2
The interactional ecology of homestay experiences: Locating input within participation and membership	2
A role for features in speech perception	2
Activation and local inhibition in the bilingual child’s processing of codeswitching	2
When multilingualism is more than three: On the nature of gender transfer in L3+ acquisition	2
Speech segmentation in pre-foreign language learners: An investigation of meta-linguistic and linguistic knowledge	2
Existence and consequences of dormant features: Evidence from L2 acquisition of Chinese object ellipsis	2
Input in the digital wild: Online informal and non-formal learning and their interactions with study abroad	2
Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: Evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions	2
Inflected infinitives in SLA: A study of L1-Brazilian Portuguese–L2-Spanish speakers	2
The structure of the bilingual lexicon: Evidence from a semantic blocked word translation task with Chinese–English bilinguals	1
Exploring the processing unit of L2 Chinese learners in on-line Chinese reading	1
Can adult learners sense L2 emotional words automatically? The role of L2 use on the emotional Stroop effect	1
The effect of orthography in Mandarin speakers’ production of English voiceless stops	1
The perception of emotional prosody in Mandarin Chinese words and sentences	1
Testing the Competing Systems Hypothesis: Further evidence from aspect in tutored L1-English–L2-Spanish	1
Language change in Japanese–English bilingual returnee children over the course of five years: Evidence from accent-rating	1
Methods for investigation of L2 speech rhythm: Insights from the production of English speech rhythm by L2 Arabic learners	1
The combined effects of L1-specific and extralinguistic factors on individual performance in a tone categorization and word identification task by English-L1 and Mandarin-L1 speakers	1
The acquisition of L2 allophonic variants: The role of phonological distribution and lexical cues	1
Corrigendum to “Orthographic influence in the distributional learning of nonnative speech sounds”	1
The effects of incidental learning and input frequency on the perception of non-native speech	1
Phonological redeployment and the mapping problem: Cross-linguistic E-similarity is the beginning of the story, not the end	1
Syllable position effects in the perception of L2 Portuguese /l/ and /ɾ/ by L1-Mandarin learners	1
Orthographic influence in the distributional learning of non-native speech sounds	1
Interpretation of Mandarin pronouns and reflexives by L1-Korean and L1-English learners of Mandarin	1
Epistemic reasoning in pragmatic inferencing by non-native speakers: The case of scalar implicatures	1
Online processing and offline judgments of different types of presupposition triggers by second language speakers	1
Discourse markers in L1 and L2 Italian: A cartographic analysis of the sentence-internal position	1

What factors predict perceived nativelikeness in long-term L2 users?	1
The influence of semantic bias on triple non-identical cognates during reading: Evidence from trilinguals’ eye movements	1
The effect of second-language learning experience on Korean listeners’ use of pitch cues in the perception of Cantonese tones	1
Rhetorical question comprehension by Italian–German bilingual children	1
Learning the two translations of translation-ambiguous words: Simultaneous vs. consecutive presentation	1
SLA as complex, dynamical and predictable: A Processability Theory perspective	1