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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Input in the digital wild: Online informal and non-formal learning and their interactions with study abroad	26
Dependency resolutions of null and overt subjects in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence for the cue-based model	23
Glottalization and linking in the L2 speech of Czech learners of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese	20
From one language to the other: Examining the role of code-switching on vocabulary learning in adult second-language learners	19
The relationship between perception and production of illusory vowels in a second language	17
The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners	14
Examining transfer in the acquisition of the count/mass distinction in L2 English	10
Contrastive focus is acquirable: An investigation of Russian contrastive focus with English/Russian bilinguals	10
The structure of the bilingual lexicon: Evidence from a semantic blocked word translation task with Chinese–English bilinguals	9
Processing polarity sensitivity in L2 Spanish	9
L1 phonological effects on L2 (non-)naïve perception: A cross-language investigation of the oral–nasal vowel contrast in Brazilian Portuguese	9
Phonolexical processing of Mandarin segments and tones by English speakers at different Mandarin proficiency levels	8
Schooling and language usage matter in heritage bilingual processing: Sortal classifiers in Mandarin	8
Epistemic reasoning in pragmatic inferencing by non-native speakers: The case of scalar implicatures	7
The effectiveness of embodied prosodic training in L2 accentedness and vowel accuracy	6
A bidirectional study in L2 acquisition of pragmatics: The case of (un-)bounded adjectival scales	6
Processing gender agreement in an additional language: The more languages the better?	6
Cross-linguistic influence meets diminished input: A comparative study of heritage Russian in contact with Hebrew and English	6
Language change in Japanese–English bilingual returnee children over the course of five years: Evidence from accent-rating	5
Online processing and offline judgments of different types of presupposition triggers by second language speakers	5
Orthographic effects and fuzzy phonological representations in L2 auditory processing: The case of non-native gemination	5
The role of L1 reading direction on L2 perceptual span: An eye-tracking study investigating Hindi and Urdu speakers	4
Searching for common phonological space: /s/-stop clusters in L1 Polish and L2 English	4
SLA as complex, dynamical and predictable: A Processability Theory perspective	4
The source of the that-trace effect: New evidence from L2 English	4

Interpretation of Mandarin pronouns and reflexives by L1-Korean and L1-English learners of Mandarin	4
Development of production skills in the absence of precise phonolexical representations	4
Language acquisition in the digital age: L2 English input effects on children’s L1 Icelandic	4
On null-subject languages and the Overt Pronoun Constraint: A comparison of English, Mandarin and Japanese	3
Focus at the syntax–discourse interface in L2 Spanish: Optionality and unaccusativity reconsidered	3
Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: Evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions	3
Effects of auditory processing, memory, and experience on early and later stages of second language speech learning	3
Can dynamical systems theory be applied to second language acquisition? The issues of reductionism and intentionality	3
Language-specific properties and overt pronoun interpretation:The case of L2 Japanese	3
When multilingualism is more than three: On the nature of gender transfer in L3+ acquisition	3
Filler–gap dependencies and islands in L2 English production: Comparing transfer from L1 Norwegian and L1 Swedish	3
The role of L2 input in developing a novel L2 contrast phonetically and phonologically: Production evidence from a residence abroad context	3
Activation and local inhibition in the bilingual child’s processing of codeswitching	3
High is good enough: Gender agreement and relative clause attachment in L2 auditory processing	2
Effects of processing tasks and working memory on the mapping component of L2 word learning: A partial replication and extension of Kida and Barcroft (2018)	2
Different effects of L1 and L2 phonology on L3 lexical learning: An ERP study	2
Second language learners’ sensitivity to grammatical gender in Spanish–English codeswitching environments	2
Orthography does not hinder non-native production learning in children	2
Testing the Bottleneck Hypothesis: Chinese EFL learners’ knowledge of morphology and syntax across proficiency levels	2
The complex relationship between conscious/unconscious learning and conscious/unconscious knowledge: The mediating effects of salience in form–meaning connections	2
Protracted development in child heritage Spanish: Evidence from inalienable possession	2
Lexical production and cognitive control in sequential bilinguals immersed in two different contexts of language use	2
L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of VOTs of voiceless plosives in highly proficient late bilinguals	2
The time-course of competition from the L1 grammar in L2 sentence processing: Evidence from cross-linguistic structural priming	2
Interaction between syntactic and information structure in the second language processing of Korean dative sentences	2
Dangerous dichotomies and misunderstandings in L2 research	2
Can adult learners sense L2 emotional words automatically? The role of L2 use on the emotional Stroop effect	2
The L2/L3 initial state, initial stages and judgement tasks: The role of intercomprehension when judging unknown languages	2
Processing Chinese relative clauses in context by Italian L3 learners	2
CEDEL2: Design, compilation and web interface of an online corpus for L2 Spanish acquisition research	2
Complex dynamic systems theory as a foundation for process-oriented research on second language development	1
Documenting L2 input and interaction during study abroad: Approaches, instruments and challenges	1
Reviewing the potential of the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) for capturing second language exposure and use	1
Connectivity effects in pseudoclefts in L1 and L2 speakers of German	1
Dutch–Mandarin learners’ online use of syntactic cues to anticipate mass vs. count interpretations	1
Activating L1-attrition: A priming experiment	1
The effects of incidental learning and input frequency on the perception of non-native speech	1
Cross-language perception of Japanese consonant length by speakers from Italian- and Mandarin-speaking backgrounds	1
Is cats one word or two? L2 learners’ processing of number marking in English from the viewpoints of form–meaning mapping	1
Methods for investigation of L2 speech rhythm: Insights from the production of English speech rhythm by L2 Arabic learners	1
The production and comprehension of Spanish se use in L2 and heritage Spanish	1
The effect of orthography in Mandarin speakers’ production of English voiceless stops	1
Crosslinguistic influence in the conceptualization of motion events: A synthesis study on L2 acquisition of Chinese motion expressions	1
Orthographic influence in the distributional learning of non-native speech sounds	1
The effect of second-language learning experience on Korean listeners’ use of pitch cues in the perception of Cantonese tones	1
Learning the two translations of translation-ambiguous words: Simultaneous vs. consecutive presentation	1
Feature reassembly and L1 preemption: Acquiring CLLD in L2 Italian and L2 Romanian	1
Using allophonic variation in L2 word recognition: French listeners’ processing of English vowel nasalization	1
On segmental representations in second language phonology: A perceptual account	1
Inflected infinitives in SLA: A study of L1-Brazilian Portuguese–L2-Spanish speakers	1

ERP sensitivity to subcategorization violations in L2 learners	1
False geminates as an effective transitional strategy for Cantonese learners of Japanese	1
What factors predict perceived nativelikeness in long-term L2 users?	1
Cross-linguistic influence and language co-activation in acquiring L3 words: What empirical evidence do we have so far?	1
Input and competing grammars in L2 syntax	1
Morphological generalization in heritage speakers: The Turkish aorist	1
Native and second language processing of quantifier scope ambiguity	1