Second Language Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Second Language Research is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners27
From one language to the other: Examining the role of code-switching on vocabulary learning in adult second-language learners27
Cross-linguistic influence meets diminished input: A comparative study of heritage Russian in contact with Hebrew and English23
Contrastive focus is acquirable: An investigation of Russian contrastive focus with English/Russian bilinguals15
The role of L2 input in developing a novel L2 contrast phonetically and phonologically: Production evidence from a residence abroad context13
The relationship between perception and production of illusory vowels in a second language13
Syntactic constraints on structural priming in L2 development: Effects of lexical overlap within and across structures12
L2 Korean metonymy: The relative role of a conceptual universal and conventionalization11
Combining phonetics and phonology in L x acquisition using current theoretical models and probabilistic approaches: A response to Archibald9
L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of VOTs of voiceless plosives in highly proficient late bilinguals9
High is good enough: Gender agreement and relative clause attachment in L2 auditory processing9
Searching for common phonological space: /s/-stop clusters in L1 Polish and L2 English9
Interaction between syntactic and information structure in the second language processing of Korean dative sentences9
Such sweet thunder8
Connectivity effects in pseudoclefts in L1 and L2 speakers of German8
Is cats one word or two? L2 learners’ processing of number marking in English from the viewpoints of form–meaning mapping7
Cross-linguistic influence and language co-activation in acquiring L3 words: What empirical evidence do we have so far?6
The CELI corpus: Design and linguistic annotation of a new online learner corpus6
L1-transfer effects and the role of computational complexity in L2 pronoun interpretation6
Island sensitivity in L2 learners: Evidence from acceptability judgments and event-related potentials6
Testing the Interpretability Hypothesis: Evidence from acceptability judgments of relative clauses by Persian and French learners of L2 English5
Beyond a unidimensional view: The multilayered perspective on the implicit–explicit knowledge interface5
The role of structural preferences and animacy cues on dative sentence parsing in L25
Subject realization in Greek preschool learners of English5
Phonological cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages of L3 acquisition5
Adaptation in L2 sentence processing: An EEG study5
The L2/L3 initial state, initial stages and judgement tasks: The role of intercomprehension when judging unknown languages4
Dependency resolutions of null and overt subjects in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence for the cue-based model4
Michael Sharwood Smith Award 20254
Learning to predict: Second language perception of reduced multi-word sequences4
Cross-linguistic transfer of acoustic cues: Perception of Japanese vowel length by learners from Vietnamese-speaking background4
Can dynamical systems theory be applied to second language acquisition? The issues of reductionism and intentionality4
Testing the Bottleneck Hypothesis: Chinese EFL learners’ knowledge of morphology and syntax across proficiency levels4
Sensitivity to missing plural marking in L2 English: A role for cross-linguistic influence?4
Investigating the relation between L2 pauses, syntactic complexity, and pause location: Longitudinal data from L2-Spanish study-abroad learners4
Language-specific properties and overt pronoun interpretation:The case of L2 Japanese4
The influence of L1 typology on the acquisition of the L2 English article: A large-scale corpus study4
The interaction of auditory acuity and L2 input in suprasegmental cue-weighting shifts after study abroad: Mandarin speakers’ perception of Spanish lexical stress4
Brain boosters: How bilingualism and working memory enhance children’s comprehension of which -questions4
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