OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Bilingualism-Language and Cognition 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Word order preference in sign influences speech in hearing bimodal bilinguals but not vice versa: Evidence from behavior and eye-gaze	86
Unlocking the barriers to speech normalization in L2: An EEG study on Mandarin L2 learners of Cantonese	44
The production preferences and priming effects of Dutch passives in Arabic/Berber–Dutch and Turkish–Dutch heritage speakers – CORRIGENDUM	38
A review of questionnaires quantifying bilingual experience in children: Do they document the same constructs? – CORRIGENDUM	33
The effect of foreign language and psychological distance on moral judgment in Turkish–English bilinguals	25
The effects of L2 exposure at school on the cognitive development of children from monolingual backgrounds: A longitudinal study	24
Transposed-letter priming effects in Arabic-English bilinguals: shifting toward a default orthographic processing mode	21
Mixed language processing increases cross-language phonetic transfer in Bengali–English bilinguals	18
Effects of bilingualism on foreign language learning during kindergarten years: investigating underlying mechanisms	18
Thalamus as a neural marker of cognitive reserve in bilinguals with frontotemporal dementia	18
When sentence meaning biases another language: an eye-tracking investigation of cross-language activation during second language reading	17
Acquiring morphology through adolescence in Spanish as a heritage language: The case of subjunctive mood	17
Sound symbolism in monolingual and bilingual speakers. How does bilingualism influence sound symbolism?	17
Neural mechanisms of bilingual speech perception: the role of the executive control network in managing competing phonological representations	15
Prediction in challenging situations: Most bilinguals can predict upcoming semantically-related words in their L1 source language when interpreting	15
Individual differences in L2 proficiency moderate the effect of L1 translation knowledge on L2 lexical retrieval	14
Neuro-cognitive correlates of lexical borrowing during sentence comprehension of bi-dialectal speakers	14
On trade-offs in bilingualism and moving beyond the Stacking the Deck fallacy	14
Child heritage speakers’ reading skills in the majority language and exposure to the heritage language support morphosyntactic prediction in speech	13
Riding the (brain) waves! Using neural oscillations to inform bilingualism research – ADDENDUM	13
A cognitive network analysis of semantic associates in monolingual English speakers and learners of Kaqchikel	13
Reading comprehension of children acquiring a transparent language as L2: A study with the simple view of reading model	13
Exploring nuance in both experience and adaptation: Commentary on Titone and Tiv (2022)	13
BIL volume 25 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	12
The “emotional brain” of adolescent Spanish–German heritage speakers: is emotional intelligence a proxy for productive emotional vocabulary?	12

External non-linguistic cues influence language selection during a forced choice task	11
Planning ahead: Interpreters predict source language in consecutive interpreting	11
Bilingual interactional contexts predict executive functions in older adults	11
Cross-linguistic influence in the bilingual lexicon: Evidence for ubiquitous facilitation and context-dependent interference effects on lexical processing	10
Thinking creatively in two languages: Effects of mental imagery vividness, foreign language proficiency and hand gestures on bilingual creativity	10
Introducing grip force as a nonverbal measure of bilingual feelings	10
Language-switch costs from comprehension to production might just be task-switch costs	10
Boundaries of the foreign language effect under conditions of uncertainty	10
Love me in L1, but hate me in L2: How native speakers and bilinguals rate the affectivity of words when feeling or thinking about them	10
Language and structure activation explain cross-linguistic influence in bilingual language production: Evidence from within- and across-language priming	10
Second language embodiment of action verbs: the impact of bilingual experience as a multidimensional spectrum	10
Cross-language semantic-affective interaction – with evidence from Chinese EFL learners	10
The role of cognitive control in bilingual language comprehension: An event-related potential study of dense code-switching sentences	10
Cross-language activation in bimodal bilinguals: Do mouthings affect the co-activation of speech during sign recognition?	9
Characterization of English and Spanish language proficiency among middle school English learners with reading difficulties	9
The effects of habitual code-switching in bilingual language production on cognitive control	9
The “code-switching issue”: transition from (socio)linguistic to cognitive research	9
BIL volume 25 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	9
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Volume 26 Issue 1 – ADDENDUM	9
Recognizing two dialects in one written form: A Stroop study	9
Dual language profiles in Spanish–English bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder	9
Cognate facilitation effect on verb-based semantic prediction in L2 is modulated by L2 proficiency	9
The neurophysiology of phonemic contrasts perception in L2/L3 learners: The role of acquisition setting	8
Bilinguals on the footbridge: the role of foreign-language proficiency in moral decision making	8
Multimodal language in bilingual and monolingual children: Gesture production and speech disfluency	8
Individual differences in main idea identification: An EEG study of monolinguals and bilinguals with dyslexia	8
RER-LX: A new scale to measure reduced emotional resonance in bilinguals’ later learnt language – ERRATUM	8
Multilingualism and psychosis: a pre-registered scoping review	8
‘Don’t forget to close the light!’: ERP evidence for the facilitation of typical translation equivalents in bilingual processing – CORRIGENDUM	8
An “Author Fluency Task”: Semantic fluency as predictor of L2 vocabulary knowledge	8
Neural effects differ for learning highly iconic versus non-iconic signs in hearing adults	8
How to frame bilingualism in context: Putting people and places in mind	8
Evidence for two stages of prediction in non-native speakers: A visual-world eye-tracking study	8
Intersample variance of second-language readers should not be overlooked	8
Exploring how L2 utterance fluency relates to cognitive fluency in monologic and dialogic speaking	8
Working memory structure in young Spanish–English bilingual children	7
Executive functions, not bilingualism or cultural differences, predict visuospatial perspective-taking in young adults	7
L1 referential features influence pronoun reading in L2 for deaf, ASL–English bilinguals	7
The influence of cross-speaker code-switching and language ability on inhibitory control in bilingual children	7
What modulates the acquisition of difficult structures in a heritage language? A study on Portuguese in contact with French, German and Italian	7
What is proficiency? Characterizing spoken language proficiency in older Spanish-English bilinguals	7
Investigating crosslinguistic representations in Polish–English bilingual children: Evidence from structural priming	7
The impact of speech rate on first- and second-stage prediction in L1 and L2 speakers	7
Morphosyntactic underspecification affects the processing of verbal forms at different levels of abstraction in L1 and L2 German	7
BIL volume 25 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	7
Phonetic reduction in native and non-native English speech: Assessing the intelligibility for L2 listeners – ERRATUM	7
The effect of bilingualism on the functional neuroplasticity of the cerebellum	6
Can learning a new language make you better at maths? A meta-analysis of foreign language learning and numeracy skills during early adolescence	6
Multilingualism and mentalizing abilities in adults	6
The effect of a foreign language on cognitive reappraisal during exposure to a phobic stimulus	6

Semantically related gestures facilitate language comprehension during simultaneous interpreting	6
A Content Overlap Analysis of bilingualism questionnaires: Considering diversity	6
Instructional media and instructional methods in digital language learning: Are we asking the right questions?	6
BIL volume 25 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	6
Linguistic characteristics of bimodal bilingual code-blending: Evidence from acceptability judgments	6
Executive function's structure in monolingual and bilingual adults using confirmatory factor analysis	5
Effect of bilingualism on infants’ cognitive flexibility	5
Intergenerational attrition: direct or reverse language transmission?	5
Brain dynamics of crosslinguistic interference resolution in Spanish–English bilinguals with and without aphasia	5
Phonological neighborhood density, phonetic categorization, and vocabulary size differentially affect the phonolexical encoding of easy and difficult L2 segmental contrasts	5
Bilingual toddlers show increased attention capture by static faces compared to monolinguals	5
A study on the executive functioning skills of Greek–English bilingual children – a nearest neighbour approach	5
Expanding and contextualizing digital language learning	5
Learning L2 grammar from prediction errors? Verb biases in structural priming in comprehension and production	5
Moses or Noah? A case of ‘potato-potahto’ when using a foreign language – ERRATUM	5
Is interpreter advantage a gift or an effect of training? Cognitive changes and interpreting acquisition at the early stage of training	5
Prospective memory in bilinguals: Recalling future intentions in first and second language contexts	5
Derivational awareness in late bilinguals increases along with proficiency without a clear influence of the suffixes shared with L1	5
Transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals divergent roles of left inferior frontal gyrus in bilingual language control and domain-general cognitive control	5
BIL volume 25 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	4
Consequences of mixing and switching languages for retrieval and articulation	4
Emotion effects in second language processing: Evidence from eye movements in natural sentence reading	4
The role of morphological configuration in language control during bilingual production and comprehension	4
The impact of relevant environmental sounds on foreign language word learning	4
Tongue root harmony cues for speech segmentation in multilingually raised infants learning languages with and without vowel harmony in Ghana (Africa)	4
Multifaceted multilingual experiences modulate neurocognitive mechanisms of task switching	4
The relationship between intelligibility and comprehensibility in second language speech	4
Does Language Entropy Shape Cognitive Performance? A Tale of Two Cities	4
Orthographic and semantic priming effects in neighbour cognates: Experiments and simulations	4
Harnessing the bilingual descent down the mountain of life: Charting novel paths for Cognitive and Brain Reserves research	4
The abstract concept of perceived power is embodied to a lesser extent in the second language	4
Are executive functions engaged in language switching? The role of language proficiency	4
Dynamics of competition and co-activation in trilingual lexical processing: An eye-tracking study	4
Using latent variable analysis to capture individual differences in bilingual language experience	4
Cross-language semantic and orthographic parafoveal processing by bilingual L1 German–L2 English readers	4
Reading fiction in a foreign language reduces the neural synchronization between semantic and emotional areas	4
Cross-linguistic influence in the simultaneous bilingual child's lexicon: An eye-tracking and primed picture selection study	4
Multilingual and social experience: The Systems Framework of Bilingualism	4
Examining strength of L2 form-meaning connection: A study of intralingual L2 semantic priming	4
Emotional factors of early vocabulary in Spanish as a second language	4
Language control in regional dialect speakers – monolingual by name, bilingual by nature?	4
Bilingualism reduces associations between cognition and the brain at baseline, but does not show evidence of cognitive reserve over time	4
Tuning in to the prosody of a novel language is easier without orthography	4
The performance of L2 French children on the LITMUS-QU Nonword repetition task during their first year of exposure: impact of age, vocabulary size, verbal-short term memory and phonological awareness	4
Processing code-blending beyond the lexical level: evidence for a double syntactic derivation?	4
Behavioral and ERP evidence of differences in pitch feedback control in late bilinguals’ L1 and L2 speech production	4
Understanding the impact of foreign language on social norms through lies	4
Changing pronoun interpretations across-languages: discourse priming in Spanish–English bilingual speakers	4
The use of exemplars differs between native and non-native listening	4
Self-regulated learning strategies in L1 and L2 reading	4
Role of bilingual experience in children's context-sensitive selective trust strategies	4
Monolingual and Bilingual Phonological Activation in Cantonese	4
The nature of lexical associations in a foreign language: valence, arousal and concreteness	4
How a second language and its future time reference impacts intertemporal decision: A holistic perspective	4
Voluntary and cued language switching in late bilingual speakers	4
The dynamics of spoken word recognition in bilinguals	4