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

Article	Citations
The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners	18
From one language to the other: Examining the role of code-switching on vocabulary learning in adult second-language learners	16
Contrastive focus is acquirable: An investigation of Russian contrastive focus with English/Russian bilinguals	15
The relationship between perception and production of illusory vowels in a second language	13
Cross-linguistic influence meets diminished input: A comparative study of heritage Russian in contact with Hebrew and English	11
The source of the that-trace effect: New evidence from L2 English	10
The role of L2 input in developing a novel L2 contrast phonetically and phonologically: Production evidence from a residence abroad context	10
Searching for common phonological space: /s/-stop clusters in L1 Polish and L2 English	8
Combining phonetics and phonology in L x acquisition using current theoretical models and probabilistic approaches: A response to Archibald	7
L2 Korean metonymy: The relative role of a conceptual universal and conventionalization	7
High is good enough: Gender agreement and relative clause attachment in L2 auditory processing	7
L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of VOTs of voiceless plosives in highly proficient late bilinguals	7
Processing gender agreement in an additional language: The more languages the better?	7
Connectivity effects in pseudoclefts in L1 and L2 speakers of German	6
Interaction between syntactic and information structure in the second language processing of Korean dative sentences	6
Is cats one word or two? L2 learners’ processing of number marking in English from the viewpoints of form–meaning mapping	5
Such sweet thunder	5
Input and competing grammars in L2 syntax	5
Cross-language perception of Japanese consonant length by speakers from Italian- and Mandarin-speaking backgrounds	5
The CELI corpus: Design and linguistic annotation of a new online learner corpus	4
Examining the source of island effects in native speakers and second language learners of English	4
Cross-linguistic influence and language co-activation in acquiring L3 words: What empirical evidence do we have so far?	4
L1-transfer effects and the role of computational complexity in L2 pronoun interpretation	4
The influence of L1 typology on the acquisition of the L2 English article: A large-scale corpus study	3
Learning to predict: Second language perception of reduced multi-word sequences	3

Speech segmentation in pre-foreign language learners: An investigation of meta-linguistic and linguistic knowledge	3
Testing the Bottleneck Hypothesis: Chinese EFL learners’ knowledge of morphology and syntax across proficiency levels	3
Subject realization in Greek preschool learners of English	3
Phonological cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages of L3 acquisition	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
Sensitivity to missing plural marking in L2 English: A role for cross-linguistic influence?	3
Investigating the relation between L2 pauses, syntactic complexity, and pause location: Longitudinal data from L2-Spanish study-abroad learners	3
Brain boosters: How bilingualism and working memory enhance children’s comprehension of which -questions	3
Testing the Interpretability Hypothesis: Evidence from acceptability judgments of relative clauses by Persian and French learners of L2 English	3
Adaptation in L2 sentence processing: An EEG study	3
Michael Sharwood Smith Award 2025	3
The L2/L3 initial state, initial stages and judgement tasks: The role of intercomprehension when judging unknown languages	3
Cross-linguistic transfer of acoustic cues: Perception of Japanese vowel length by learners from Vietnamese-speaking background	3
Backward anaphora in L2 acquisition of English, Mandarin and Japanese	3
Second language phonology: The phonetics–phonology divide, its underrepresentation in L2 research, and the richness of phonological representations from segments to prosodic structure	3
Island sensitivity in L2 learners: Evidence from acceptability judgments and event-related potentials	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
Can dynamical systems theory be applied to second language acquisition? The issues of reductionism and intentionality	3
Linguistic distance and crosslinguistic influence: Commentary	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
The V2 myth: Evidence for a functional motivation of V3 in L2 German from a self-paced reading study	2
A role for features in speech perception	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
Activation and local inhibition in the bilingual child’s processing of codeswitching	2
Inflected infinitives in SLA: A study of L1-Brazilian Portuguese–L2-Spanish speakers	2
When multilingualism is more than three: On the nature of gender transfer in L3+ acquisition	2
Waiting in the wings: The place of phonology in the study of multilingual grammars	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
Can adult learners sense L2 emotional words automatically? The role of L2 use on the emotional Stroop effect	2
Methods for investigation of L2 speech rhythm: Insights from the production of English speech rhythm by L2 Arabic learners	1
Interpretation of Mandarin pronouns and reflexives by L1-Korean and L1-English learners of Mandarin	1
Language change in Japanese–English bilingual returnee children over the course of five years: Evidence from accent-rating	1
The perception of emotional prosody in Mandarin Chinese words and sentences	1
Exploring the processing unit of L2 Chinese learners in on-line Chinese reading	1
What factors predict perceived nativelikeness in long-term L2 users?	1
The effect of second-language learning experience on Korean listeners’ use of pitch cues in the perception of Cantonese tones	1
The structure of the bilingual lexicon: Evidence from a semantic blocked word translation task with Chinese–English bilinguals	1
Epistemic reasoning in pragmatic inferencing by non-native speakers: The case of scalar implicatures	1
Chunking ability predicts online sensitivity to L2 morphosyntax: Evidence from Spanish gender agreement	1
SLA as complex, dynamical and predictable: A Processability Theory perspective	1
Testing the Competing Systems Hypothesis: Further evidence from aspect in tutored L1-English–L2-Spanish	1
Syllable position effects in the perception of L2 Portuguese /l/ and /ɾ/ by L1-Mandarin learners	1
The effects of incidental learning and input frequency on the perception of non-native speech	1
The effect of orthography in Mandarin speakers’ production of English voiceless stops	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
Orthographic influence in the distributional learning of non-native speech sounds	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
Online processing and offline judgments of different types of presupposition triggers by second language 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 influence of semantic bias on triple non-identical cognates during reading: Evidence from trilinguals’ eye movements	1
Rhetorical question comprehension by Italian–German bilingual children	1
Discourse markers in L1 and L2 Italian: A cartographic analysis of the sentence-internal position	1
Dichotomies as points of departure: A response to Truscott and Sharwood Smith (2024)	1