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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Investigating L2 writing processes across independent and integrated tasks: A mixed-methods study	35
Five common pitfalls in eye-tracking research	29
What eye-tracking tells us about reading-only and reading-while-listening in a first and second language	27
Effects of spacing on contextual vocabulary learning: Spacing facilitates the acquisition of explicit, but not tacit, vocabulary knowledge	23
Which words do English non-native speakers know? New supernational levels based on yes/no decision	20
On the relationship between perception and production of L2 sounds: Evidence from Anglophones’ processing of the French /u/–/y/ contrast	18
L3 acquisition and crosslinguistic influence as co-activation: Response to commentaries on the keynote ‘Microvariation in multilingual situations: The importance of property-by-property acquisition’	17
From sounds to words: The relation between phonological and lexical processing of tone in L2 Mandarin	17
Reviewing the potential of the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) for capturing second language exposure and use	16
Lexical frequency and morphological regularity as sources of heritage speaker variability in the acquisition of mood	16
Cue coalitions and additivity in predictive processing: The interaction between case and prosody in L2 German	15
CEDEL2: Design, compilation and web interface of an online corpus for L2 Spanish acquisition research	14
Audio-visual input for learning L2 vocabulary and grammatical constructions	13
L2 transfer of L1 island-insensitivity: The case of Norwegian	13
L1, L2 and L3: Same or different?	12
Exploring the depths of second language processing with eye tracking: An introduction	12
Roles of collocation in L2 oral proficiency revisited: Different tasks, L1 vs. L2 raters, and cross-sectional vs. longitudinal analyses	12
Successful second language pronunciation learning is linked to domain-general auditory processing rather than music aptitude	10
The complex relationship between conscious/unconscious learning and conscious/unconscious knowledge: The mediating effects of salience in form–meaning connections	9
Promoting L2 acquisition of multiword units through textually enhanced audiovisual input: An eye-tracking study	9
Cratylus’ silence: On the philosophy and methodology of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory in SLA	9
Language acquisition in the digital age: L2 English input effects on children’s L1 Icelandic	8
Turtles all the way down: Micro-cues and piecemeal transfer in L3 phonology and syntax	8
Language transfer: a useful or pernicious concept?	7
Does explicit instruction affect L2 linguistic competence? An examination with L2 acquisition of English inverse scope	7

Effects of verb–construction association on second language constructional generalizations in production and comprehension	7
The role of feedback and instruction on the cross-situational learning of vocabulary and morphosyntax: Mixed effects models reveal local and global effects on acquisition	6
Effects of L1 morphological type on L2 morphological awareness	5
The time-course of competition from the L1 grammar in L2 sentence processing: Evidence from cross-linguistic structural priming	5
The effectiveness of embodied prosodic training in L2 accentedness and vowel accuracy	5
Language switch costs in a lexical decision task: Symmetry and cognitive correlates	5
Microvariation in multilingual situations: The importance of property-by-property acquisition: Pros and cons	5
Learnability in the acquisition of the English tough construction by L1-Korean adult and child L2 learners	5
Documenting L2 input and interaction during study abroad: Approaches, instruments and challenges	5
In defense of ‘copying and restructuring’	5
Activation of L1 orthography in L2 word reading: Constraints from language and writing system	5
Similarity-based interference and relative clauses in second language processing	4
Island sensitivity in L2 learners: Evidence from acceptability judgments and event-related potentials	4
The production and comprehension of Spanish se use in L2 and heritage Spanish	4
Identification of English vowels by non-native listeners: Effects of listeners’ experience of the target dialect and talkers’ language background	4
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	4
Lexical fixedness and compositionality in L1 speakers’ and L2 learners’ intuitions about word combinations: Evidence from Italian	4
Polarity adverbs facilitate predictive processing in L2 Japanese	4
Examining the source of island effects in native speakers and second language learners of English	4
Object clitic use and intuition in the Spanish of heritage speakers from Brazil	4
Methods for investigation of L2 speech rhythm: Insights from the production of English speech rhythm by L2 Arabic learners	4
Intervention in relative clauses: Effects of relativized minimality on L2 representation and processing	3
A lexical semantic approach to the L2 acquisition of Spanish psych verbs	3
Acquisition of the nominal case system in Russian as a second language	3
Testing the Bottleneck Hypothesis: Chinese EFL learners’ knowledge of morphology and syntax across proficiency levels	3
Focus at the syntax–discourse interface in L2 Spanish: Optionality and unaccusativity reconsidered	3
The effects of information structure in the processing of word order variation in the second language	3
Phonological cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages of L3 acquisition	3
Spoken word recognition in a second language: The importance of phonetic details	3
Theoretical and methodological considerations for a robust evaluation of the Linguistic Proximity Model	3
Different effects of L1 and L2 phonology on L3 lexical learning: An ERP study	3
Input in the digital wild: Online informal and non-formal learning and their interactions with study abroad	3
Acquisition of Japanese relative clauses by L1 Chinese learners: Evidence from reflexive pronoun resolution	3
Avoiding the cum hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy: Comments and questions regarding Full Transfer Potential	3
The effects of speaker accent on syntactic priming in second-language speakers	3
Phonological redeployment and the mapping problem: Cross-linguistic E-similarity is the beginning of the story, not the end	2
Sentence comprehension in heritage language: Isomorphism, word order, and language transfer	2
Verb bias and semantic persistence effects in L2 ambiguity resolution	2
Epistemic reasoning in pragmatic inferencing by non-native speakers: The case of scalar implicatures	2
Secondary task type, exposure frequency, and their combined effects on second language vocabulary learning through reading	2
The source of the that-trace effect: New evidence from L2 English	2
Choosing between theories: Can L3 acquisition really decide?	2
From one language to the other: Examining the role of code-switching on vocabulary learning in adult second-language learners	2
The interactional ecology of homestay experiences: Locating input within participation and membership	2
Commitment in L3 relationships: Sacred vows or polyamory?	2
Articulatory and perceptual cues to non-native phoneme perception: Cross-modal training for early learners	2
L1 phonological effects on L2 (non-)naïve perception: A cross-language investigation of the oral–nasal vowel contrast in Brazilian Portuguese	2
Multilingual acquisition property by property: A view from a wider perspective	2
Development of production skills in the absence of precise phonolexical representations	1
Glottalization and linking in the L2 speech of Czech learners of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese	1

The computation and suspension of presuppositions by L1-Mandarin Chinese L2-English speakers	1
Orthographic activation in spoken word recognition of L2 phonological variants	1
Subject realization in Greek preschool learners of English	1
Discourse markers in L1 and L2 Italian: A cartographic analysis of the sentence-internal position	1
Orthographic influence in the distributional learning of non-native speech sounds	1
Native and second language processing of quantifier scope ambiguity	1
Input and competing grammars in L2 syntax	1
L2 processing of filler-gap dependencies: Attenuated effects of naturalistic L2 exposure in a multilingual setting	1
Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: Evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions	1
Property-by-property acquisition of a second language: What transfers, under what conditions, and how does recovery from transfer proceed?	1
Rhetorical question comprehension by Italian–German bilingual children	1
Dependency resolutions of null and overt subjects in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence for the cue-based model	1
Microvariation and transfer in L2 and L3 acquisition	1
The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners	1
Comprehension benefits of visual-gestural iconicity and spatial referencing	1
Syllable position effects in the perception of L2 Portuguese /l/ and /ɾ/ by L1-Mandarin learners	1
When covert modality sneaks into your grammar: wh-infinitives in American Norwegian	1
Morphological generalization in heritage speakers: The Turkish aorist	1
Can adult learners sense L2 emotional words automatically? The role of L2 use on the emotional Stroop effect	1
On segmental representations in second language phonology: A perceptual account	1
The role of L1 reading direction on L2 perceptual span: An eye-tracking study investigating Hindi and Urdu speakers	1
Processing gender agreement in an additional language: The more languages the better?	1
Phonolexical processing of Mandarin segments and tones by English speakers at different Mandarin proficiency levels	1
Input in study abroad and views from acquisition: Focus on constructs, operationalization and measurement issues: Introduction to the special issue	1
Marr’s levels of analysis and the notion of copying	1
Existence and consequences of dormant features: Evidence from L2 acquisition of Chinese object ellipsis	1
Phonetic feature size in second language acquisition: Examining VOT in voiceless and voiced stops	1
Scalar implicatures in adult L2 learners: A self-paced reading study	1
Crosslinguistic influence in the conceptualization of motion events: A synthesis study on L2 acquisition of Chinese motion expressions	1
The influence of semantic bias on triple non-identical cognates during reading: Evidence from trilinguals’ eye movements	1
L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of VOTs of voiceless plosives in highly proficient late bilinguals	1
SLA as complex, dynamical and predictable: A Processability Theory perspective	1