OOIR: Observatory of International 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Contrastive focus is acquirable: An investigation of Russian contrastive focus with English/Russian bilinguals	23
The role of resumption in the acquisition of European Portuguese prepositional relative clauses by Chinese learners	22
Cross-linguistic influence meets diminished input: A comparative study of heritage Russian in contact with Hebrew and English	21
From one language to the other: Examining the role of code-switching on vocabulary learning in adult second-language learners	15
Processing gender agreement in an additional language: The more languages the better?	13
The relationship between perception and production of illusory vowels in a second language	13
The source of the that-trace effect: New evidence from L2 English	12
Searching for common phonological space: /s/-stop clusters in L1 Polish and L2 English	10
High is good enough: Gender agreement and relative clause attachment in L2 auditory processing	8
L2 Korean metonymy: The relative role of a conceptual universal and conventionalization	8
The role of L2 input in developing a novel L2 contrast phonetically and phonologically: Production evidence from a residence abroad context	8
Interaction between syntactic and information structure in the second language processing of Korean dative sentences	8
Syntactic constraints on structural priming in L2 development: Effects of lexical overlap within and across structures	8
L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of VOTs of voiceless plosives in highly proficient late bilinguals	7
Combining phonetics and phonology in L x acquisition using current theoretical models and probabilistic approaches: A response to Archibald	7
Is cats one word or two? L2 learners’ processing of number marking in English from the viewpoints of form–meaning mapping	6
Such sweet thunder	6
Cross-language perception of Japanese consonant length by speakers from Italian- and Mandarin-speaking backgrounds	6
Beyond a unidimensional view: The multilayered perspective on the implicit–explicit knowledge interface	5
Cross-linguistic influence and language co-activation in acquiring L3 words: What empirical evidence do we have so far?	5
L1-transfer effects and the role of computational complexity in L2 pronoun interpretation	5
Connectivity effects in pseudoclefts in L1 and L2 speakers of German	5
The CELI corpus: Design and linguistic annotation of a new online learner corpus	5
Input and competing grammars in L2 syntax	5
Island sensitivity in L2 learners: Evidence from acceptability judgments and event-related potentials	4

Testing the Interpretability Hypothesis: Evidence from acceptability judgments of relative clauses by Persian and French learners of L2 English	4
Michael Sharwood Smith Award 2025	4
Examining the source of island effects in native speakers and second language learners of English	4
Adaptation in L2 sentence processing: An EEG study	4
Language-specific properties and overt pronoun interpretation:The case of L2 Japanese	4
Subject realization in Greek preschool learners of English	4
Phonological cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages of L3 acquisition	4
Dependency resolutions of null and overt subjects in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence for the cue-based model	4
A role for features in speech perception	3
Linguistic distance and crosslinguistic influence: Commentary	3
The influence of L1 typology on the acquisition of the L2 English article: A large-scale corpus study	3
Cross-linguistic transfer of acoustic cues: Perception of Japanese vowel length by learners from Vietnamese-speaking background	3
Backward anaphora in L2 acquisition of English, Mandarin and Japanese	3
Waiting in the wings: The place of phonology in the study of multilingual grammars	3
Cross-linguistic effects in grammatical gender assignment and predictive processing in L1 Greek, L1 Russian, and L1 Turkish speakers of Norwegian as a second language	3
Sensitivity to missing plural marking in L2 English: A role for cross-linguistic influence?	3
The L2/L3 initial state, initial stages and judgement tasks: The role of intercomprehension when judging unknown languages	3
Can dynamical systems theory be applied to second language acquisition? The issues of reductionism and intentionality	3
Investigating the relation between L2 pauses, syntactic complexity, and pause location: Longitudinal data from L2-Spanish study-abroad learners	3
Second language phonology: The phonetics–phonology divide, its underrepresentation in L2 research, and the richness of phonological representations from segments to prosodic structure	3
Brain boosters: How bilingualism and working memory enhance children’s comprehension of which -questions	3
Testing the Bottleneck Hypothesis: Chinese EFL learners’ knowledge of morphology and syntax across proficiency levels	3
Learning to predict: Second language perception of reduced multi-word sequences	3
Speech segmentation in pre-foreign language learners: An investigation of meta-linguistic and linguistic knowledge	3