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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
L1 phonological effects on L2 (non-)naïve perception: A cross-language investigation of the oral–nasal vowel contrast in Brazilian Portuguese	33
The relationship between perception and production of illusory vowels in a second language	24
The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners	21
Contrastive focus is acquirable: An investigation of Russian contrastive focus with English/Russian bilinguals	18
Cross-linguistic influence meets diminished input: A comparative study of heritage Russian in contact with Hebrew and English	11
From one language to the other: Examining the role of code-switching on vocabulary learning in adult second-language learners	10
The source of the that-trace effect: New evidence from L2 English	9
The role of L1 reading direction on L2 perceptual span: An eye-tracking study investigating Hindi and Urdu speakers	9
Processing gender agreement in an additional language: The more languages the better?	9
High is good enough: Gender agreement and relative clause attachment in L2 auditory processing	8
Searching for common phonological space: /s/-stop clusters in L1 Polish and L2 English	8
The role of L2 input in developing a novel L2 contrast phonetically and phonologically: Production evidence from a residence abroad context	8
L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of VOTs of voiceless plosives in highly proficient late bilinguals	7
Cross-language perception of Japanese consonant length by speakers from Italian- and Mandarin-speaking backgrounds	6
Interaction between syntactic and information structure in the second language processing of Korean dative sentences	6
Input and competing grammars in L2 syntax	5
Cross-linguistic influence and language co-activation in acquiring L3 words: What empirical evidence do we have so far?	5
Connectivity effects in pseudoclefts in L1 and L2 speakers of German	5
The CELI corpus: Design and linguistic annotation of a new online learner corpus	5
Is cats one word or two? L2 learners’ processing of number marking in English from the viewpoints of form–meaning mapping	5
Object clitic use and intuition in the Spanish of heritage speakers from Brazil	5
Subject realization in Greek preschool learners of English	4
Island sensitivity in L2 learners: Evidence from acceptability judgments and event-related potentials	4
Similarity-based interference and relative clauses in second language processing	4
Adaptation in L2 sentence processing: An EEG study	4

Examining the source of island effects in native speakers and second language learners of English	4
Testing the Interpretability Hypothesis: Evidence from acceptability judgments of relative clauses by Persian and French learners of L2 English	4
A lexical semantic approach to the L2 acquisition of Spanish psych verbs	4
L1-transfer effects and the role of computational complexity in L2 pronoun interpretation	4
Learning to predict: Second language perception of reduced multi-word sequences	3
The L2/L3 initial state, initial stages and judgement tasks: The role of intercomprehension when judging unknown languages	3
Language-specific properties and overt pronoun interpretation:The case of L2 Japanese	3
Orthography does not hinder non-native production learning in children	3
Investigating the relation between L2 pauses, syntactic complexity, and pause location: Longitudinal data from L2-Spanish study-abroad learners	3
Phonological cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages of L3 acquisition	3
Can dynamical systems theory be applied to second language acquisition? The issues of reductionism and intentionality	3
CEDEL2: Design, compilation and web interface of an online corpus for L2 Spanish acquisition research	3
The interactional ecology of homestay experiences: Locating input within participation and membership	3
Dependency resolutions of null and overt subjects in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence for the cue-based model	3
Testing the Bottleneck Hypothesis: Chinese EFL learners’ knowledge of morphology and syntax across proficiency levels	3
Backward anaphora in L2 acquisition of English, Mandarin and Japanese	2
A bidirectional study in L2 acquisition of pragmatics: The case of (un-)bounded adjectival scales	2
Inflected infinitives in SLA: A study of L1-Brazilian Portuguese–L2-Spanish speakers	2
Can adult learners sense L2 emotional words automatically? The role of L2 use on the emotional Stroop effect	2
Lexical production and cognitive control in sequential bilinguals immersed in two different contexts of language use	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
Input in the digital wild: Online informal and non-formal learning and their interactions with study abroad	2
When multilingualism is more than three: On the nature of gender transfer in L3+ acquisition	2
The effect of orthography in Mandarin speakers’ production of English voiceless stops	2
Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: Evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions	2
Existence and consequences of dormant features: Evidence from L2 acquisition of Chinese object ellipsis	2
Activation and local inhibition in the bilingual child’s processing of codeswitching	2
On segmental representations in second language phonology: A perceptual account	2
The effect of second-language learning experience on Korean listeners’ use of pitch cues in the perception of Cantonese tones	2
Scalar implicatures in adult L2 learners: A self-paced reading study	1
Orthographic influence in the distributional learning of non-native speech sounds	1
Online processing and offline judgments of different types of presupposition triggers by second language speakers	1
SLA as complex, dynamical and predictable: A Processability Theory perspective	1
The acquisition of L2 allophonic variants: The role of phonological distribution and lexical cues	1
The perception of emotional prosody in Mandarin Chinese words and sentences	1
The influence of semantic bias on triple non-identical cognates during reading: Evidence from trilinguals’ eye movements	1
Exploring the processing unit of L2 Chinese learners in on-line Chinese reading	1
Epistemic reasoning in pragmatic inferencing by non-native speakers: The case of scalar implicatures	1
Do Cantonese listeners have a non-native advantage in English stress-related lexical decision?	1
Methods for investigation of L2 speech rhythm: Insights from the production of English speech rhythm by L2 Arabic learners	1
Different effects of L1 and L2 phonology on L3 lexical learning: An ERP study	1
Language change in Japanese–English bilingual returnee children over the course of five years: Evidence from accent-rating	1
Comprehension benefits of visual-gestural iconicity and spatial referencing	1
Discourse markers in L1 and L2 Italian: A cartographic analysis of the sentence-internal position	1
The effects of incidental learning and input frequency on the perception of non-native speech	1
What factors predict perceived nativelikeness in long-term L2 users?	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 structure of the bilingual lexicon: Evidence from a semantic blocked word translation task with Chinese–English bilinguals	1
Learning the two translations of translation-ambiguous words: Simultaneous vs. consecutive presentation	1
When covert modality sneaks into your grammar: wh-infinitives in American Norwegian	1

Interpretation of Mandarin pronouns and reflexives by L1-Korean and L1-English learners of Mandarin	1
Corrigendum to “Orthographic influence in the distributional learning of nonnative speech sounds”	1
Syllable position effects in the perception of L2 Portuguese /l/ and /ɾ/ by L1-Mandarin learners	1
Phonological redeployment and the mapping problem: Cross-linguistic E-similarity is the beginning of the story, not the end	1
Rhetorical question comprehension by Italian–German bilingual children	1
Testing the Competing Systems Hypothesis: Further evidence from aspect in tutored L1-English–L2-Spanish	1