Second Language Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Second Language Research is 3. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners28
The relationship between perception and production of illusory vowels in a second language26
Contrastive focus is acquirable: An investigation of Russian contrastive focus with English/Russian bilinguals14
From one language to the other: Examining the role of code-switching on vocabulary learning in adult second-language learners13
The source of the that-trace effect: New evidence from L2 English11
Cross-linguistic influence meets diminished input: A comparative study of heritage Russian in contact with Hebrew and English11
Processing gender agreement in an additional language: The more languages the better?10
The role of L2 input in developing a novel L2 contrast phonetically and phonologically: Production evidence from a residence abroad context9
Searching for common phonological space: /s/-stop clusters in L1 Polish and L2 English9
The role of L1 reading direction on L2 perceptual span: An eye-tracking study investigating Hindi and Urdu speakers8
High is good enough: Gender agreement and relative clause attachment in L2 auditory processing8
Combining phonetics and phonology in L x acquisition using current theoretical models and probabilistic approaches: A response to Archibald7
L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of VOTs of voiceless plosives in highly proficient late bilinguals6
Connectivity effects in pseudoclefts in L1 and L2 speakers of German6
Interaction between syntactic and information structure in the second language processing of Korean dative sentences6
Is cats one word or two? L2 learners’ processing of number marking in English from the viewpoints of form–meaning mapping5
Cross-language perception of Japanese consonant length by speakers from Italian- and Mandarin-speaking backgrounds5
Such sweet thunder5
Input and competing grammars in L2 syntax5
Cross-linguistic influence and language co-activation in acquiring L3 words: What empirical evidence do we have so far?5
Subject realization in Greek preschool learners of English4
Examining the source of island effects in native speakers and second language learners of English4
Phonological cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages of L3 acquisition4
L1-transfer effects and the role of computational complexity in L2 pronoun interpretation4
The CELI corpus: Design and linguistic annotation of a new online learner corpus4
Testing the Interpretability Hypothesis: Evidence from acceptability judgments of relative clauses by Persian and French learners of L2 English4
Island sensitivity in L2 learners: Evidence from acceptability judgments and event-related potentials4
Adaptation in L2 sentence processing: An EEG study4
Similarity-based interference and relative clauses in second language processing3
Can dynamical systems theory be applied to second language acquisition? The issues of reductionism and intentionality3
The L2/L3 initial state, initial stages and judgement tasks: The role of intercomprehension when judging unknown languages3
Learning to predict: Second language perception of reduced multi-word sequences3
Dependency resolutions of null and overt subjects in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence for the cue-based model3
Michael Sharwood Smith Award 20253
Testing the Bottleneck Hypothesis: Chinese EFL learners’ knowledge of morphology and syntax across proficiency levels3
Orthography does not hinder non-native production learning in children3
A lexical semantic approach to the L2 acquisition of Spanish psych verbs3
Language-specific properties and overt pronoun interpretation:The case of L2 Japanese3
CEDEL2: Design, compilation and web interface of an online corpus for L2 Spanish acquisition research3
Cross-linguistic transfer of acoustic cues: Perception of Japanese vowel length by learners from Vietnamese-speaking background3
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