OOIR: Observatory of International 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners	26
From one language to the other: Examining the role of code-switching on vocabulary learning in adult second-language learners	23
The relationship between perception and production of illusory vowels in a second language	21
Cross-linguistic influence meets diminished input: A comparative study of heritage Russian in contact with Hebrew and English	15
The role of L2 input in developing a novel L2 contrast phonetically and phonologically: Production evidence from a residence abroad context	13
Contrastive focus is acquirable: An investigation of Russian contrastive focus with English/Russian bilinguals	13
L2 Korean metonymy: The relative role of a conceptual universal and conventionalization	12
Processing gender agreement in an additional language: The more languages the better?	10
L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of VOTs of voiceless plosives in highly proficient late bilinguals	8
The source of the that -trace effect: New evidence from L2 English	8
High is good enough: Gender agreement and relative clause attachment in L2 auditory processing	8
Syntactic constraints on structural priming in L2 development: Effects of lexical overlap within and across structures	8
Interaction between syntactic and information structure in the second language processing of Korean dative sentences	8
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
Cross-linguistic influence and language co-activation in acquiring L3 words: What empirical evidence do we have so far?	6
Cross-language perception of Japanese consonant length by speakers from Italian- and Mandarin-speaking backgrounds	6
The CELI corpus: Design and linguistic annotation of a new online learner corpus	5
Examining the source of island effects in native speakers and second language learners of English	5
Is cats one word or two? L2 learners’ processing of number marking in English from the viewpoints of form–meaning mapping	5
L1-transfer effects and the role of computational complexity in L2 pronoun interpretation	5
Such sweet thunder	5
Island sensitivity in L2 learners: Evidence from acceptability judgments and event-related potentials	5
Connectivity effects in pseudoclefts in L1 and L2 speakers of German	5
Testing the Bottleneck Hypothesis: Chinese EFL learners’ knowledge of morphology and syntax across proficiency levels	4

Beyond a unidimensional view: The multilayered perspective on the implicit–explicit knowledge interface	4
Subject realization in Greek preschool learners of English	4
Language-specific properties and overt pronoun interpretation:The case of L2 Japanese	4
The L2/L3 initial state, initial stages and judgement tasks: The role of intercomprehension when judging unknown languages	4
Testing the Interpretability Hypothesis: Evidence from acceptability judgments of relative clauses by Persian and French learners of L2 English	4
Phonological cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages of L3 acquisition	4
Michael Sharwood Smith Award 2025	4
Can dynamical systems theory be applied to second language acquisition? The issues of reductionism and intentionality	4
Adaptation in L2 sentence processing: An EEG study	4
Dependency resolutions of null and overt subjects in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence for the cue-based model	4