OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Bilingualism-Language and Cognition 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Word order preference in sign influences speech in hearing bimodal bilinguals but not vice versa: Evidence from behavior and eye-gaze	75
Some thoughts on extending digital language learning research	43
A review of questionnaires quantifying bilingual experience in children: Do they document the same constructs? – CORRIGENDUM	38
Thalamus as a neural marker of cognitive reserve in bilinguals with frontotemporal dementia	28
The production preferences and priming effects of Dutch passives in Arabic/Berber–Dutch and Turkish–Dutch heritage speakers – CORRIGENDUM	28
When sentence meaning biases another language: an eye-tracking investigation of cross-language activation during second language reading	23
Acquiring morphology through adolescence in Spanish as a heritage language: The case of subjunctive mood	22
Mixed language processing increases cross-language phonetic transfer in Bengali–English bilinguals	22
Prediction in challenging situations: Most bilinguals can predict upcoming semantically-related words in their L1 source language when interpreting	19
Unlocking the barriers to speech normalization in L2: An EEG study on Mandarin L2 learners of Cantonese	18
Neural mechanisms of bilingual speech perception: the role of the executive control network in managing competing phonological representations	16
The effect of foreign language and psychological distance on moral judgment in Turkish–English bilinguals	16
BIL volume 24 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	16
Reading comprehension of children acquiring a transparent language as L2: A study with the simple view of reading model	15
Riding the (brain) waves! Using neural oscillations to inform bilingualism research – ADDENDUM	15
A cognitive network analysis of semantic associates in monolingual English speakers and learners of Kaqchikel	14
Individual differences in L2 proficiency moderate the effect of L1 translation knowledge on L2 lexical retrieval	13
Neuro-cognitive correlates of lexical borrowing during sentence comprehension of bi-dialectal speakers	13
Exploring nuance in both experience and adaptation: Commentary on Titone and Tiv (2022)	12
On trade-offs in bilingualism and moving beyond the Stacking the Deck fallacy	12
The “emotional brain” of adolescent Spanish–German heritage speakers: is emotional intelligence a proxy for productive emotional vocabulary?	11
The future of DLL	11
Digital Language Learning and SLA	11
BIL volume 25 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	11
Child heritage speakers’ reading skills in the majority language and exposure to the heritage language support morphosyntactic prediction in speech	11

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
Cross-linguistic influence in the bilingual lexicon: Evidence for ubiquitous facilitation and context-dependent interference effects on lexical processing	10
Cross-language semantic-affective interaction – with evidence from Chinese EFL learners	10
Thinking creatively in two languages: Effects of mental imagery vividness, foreign language proficiency and hand gestures on bilingual creativity	10
Second language embodiment of action verbs: the impact of bilingual experience as a multidimensional spectrum	10
Language and structure activation explain cross-linguistic influence in bilingual language production: Evidence from within- and across-language priming	10
Bilingual interactional contexts predict executive functions in older adults	10
External non-linguistic cues influence language selection during a forced choice task	10
Planning ahead: Interpreters predict source language in consecutive interpreting	9
Introducing grip force as a nonverbal measure of bilingual feelings	9
The role of cognitive control in bilingual language comprehension: An event-related potential study of dense code-switching sentences	9
Boundaries of the foreign language effect under conditions of uncertainty	9
The Emergence of a Complex Language Skill: Evidence from the Self-organization of Interpreting Competence in Interpreting Students	9
Language-switch costs from comprehension to production might just be task-switch costs	9
Beyond words: An analysis of skills underlying reading and vocabulary acquisition in three foreign languages	8
The effects of habitual code-switching in bilingual language production on cognitive control	8
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Volume 26 Issue 1 – ADDENDUM	8
Recognizing two dialects in one written form: A Stroop study	8
Cognate facilitation effect on verb-based semantic prediction in L2 is modulated by L2 proficiency	8
Word form processing at school age: Evidence for similarities between bilingual and monolingual children	8
Multilingualism and psychosis: a pre-registered scoping review	7
Evidence for two stages of prediction in non-native speakers: A visual-world eye-tracking study	7
Characterization of English and Spanish language proficiency among middle school English learners with reading difficulties	7
Dual language profiles in Spanish–English bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder	7
The “code-switching issue”: transition from (socio)linguistic to cognitive research	7
BIL volume 25 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	7
How to frame bilingualism in context: Putting people and places in mind	7
The neurophysiology of phonemic contrasts perception in L2/L3 learners: The role of acquisition setting	7
Predictors of language proficiency in school-age Spanish–English bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder	7
Multimodal language in bilingual and monolingual children: Gesture production and speech disfluency	6
Neural effects differ for learning highly iconic versus non-iconic signs in hearing adults	6
Morphosyntactic underspecification affects the processing of verbal forms at different levels of abstraction in L1 and L2 German	6
Intersample variance of second-language readers should not be overlooked	6
BIL volume 25 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	6
An “Author Fluency Task”: Semantic fluency as predictor of L2 vocabulary knowledge	6
What is proficiency? Characterizing spoken language proficiency in older Spanish-English bilinguals	6
Cross-language activation in bimodal bilinguals: Do mouthings affect the co-activation of speech during sign recognition?	6
RER-LX: A new scale to measure reduced emotional resonance in bilinguals’ later learnt language – ERRATUM	6
L1 referential features influence pronoun reading in L2 for deaf, ASL–English bilinguals	6
Bilinguals on the footbridge: the role of foreign-language proficiency in moral decision making	6
What modulates the acquisition of difficult structures in a heritage language? A study on Portuguese in contact with French, German and Italian	6
The effect of a foreign language on cognitive reappraisal during exposure to a phobic stimulus	5
The influence of cross-speaker code-switching and language ability on inhibitory control in bilingual children	5
Working memory structure in young Spanish–English bilingual children	5
Derivational awareness in late bilinguals increases along with proficiency without a clear influence of the suffixes shared with L1	5
Phonological neighborhood density, phonetic categorization, and vocabulary size differentially affect the phonolexical encoding of easy and difficult L2 segmental contrasts	5
Behavioral and ERP evidence of differences in pitch feedback control in late bilinguals’ L1 and L2 speech production	5
Multilingualism and mentalizing abilities in adults	5
Executive function's structure in monolingual and bilingual adults using confirmatory factor analysis	5
Instructional media and instructional methods in digital language learning: Are we asking the right questions?	5

Semantically related gestures facilitate language comprehension during simultaneous interpreting	5
Investigating crosslinguistic representations in Polish–English bilingual children: Evidence from structural priming	5
Can learning a new language make you better at maths? A meta-analysis of foreign language learning and numeracy skills during early adolescence	5
A Content Overlap Analysis of bilingualism questionnaires: Considering diversity	5
The dynamics of spoken word recognition in bilinguals	5
BIL volume 25 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	5
Phonetic reduction in native and non-native English speech: Assessing the intelligibility for L2 listeners – ERRATUM	5
Learning L2 grammar from prediction errors? Verb biases in structural priming in comprehension and production	5
Linguistic characteristics of bimodal bilingual code-blending: Evidence from acceptability judgments	5
Expanding and contextualizing digital language learning	5
Moses or Noah? A case of ‘potato-potahto’ when using a foreign language – ERRATUM	5
A study on the executive functioning skills of Greek–English bilingual children – a nearest neighbour approach	5
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
How a second language and its future time reference impacts intertemporal decision: A holistic perspective	4
The theory, pedagogy, technology and design issue in Digital Language Learning (DLL)	4
Consequences of mixing and switching languages for retrieval and articulation	4
On the semantic optimum and contexts	4
Is interpreter advantage a gift or an effect of training? Cognitive changes and interpreting acquisition at the early stage of training	4
Are executive functions engaged in language switching? The role of language proficiency	4
Language control in regional dialect speakers – monolingual by name, bilingual by nature?	4
Voluntary and cued language switching in late bilingual speakers	4
Prospective memory in bilinguals: Recalling future intentions in first and second language contexts	4
Intergenerational attrition: direct or reverse language transmission?	4
Bilingual toddlers show increased attention capture by static faces compared to monolinguals	4
Harnessing the bilingual descent down the mountain of life: Charting novel paths for Cognitive and Brain Reserves research	4
Does Language Entropy Shape Cognitive Performance? A Tale of Two Cities	4
Modelling L2 vocabulary acquisition: The devil is in the detail	4
Bilingualism reduces associations between cognition and the brain at baseline, but does not show evidence of cognitive reserve over time	4
Processing code-blending beyond the lexical level: evidence for a double syntactic derivation?	4
Dynamics of competition and co-activation in trilingual lexical processing: An eye-tracking study	4
BIL volume 25 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	4
Effect of bilingualism on infants’ cognitive flexibility	4
Using latent variable analysis to capture individual differences in bilingual language experience	4
Monolingual and Bilingual Phonological Activation in Cantonese	4
Reversal rewards drive language switching during observational learning: Evidence from a dual-brain EEG study	3
Do structure predictions persevere to multilinguals’ other languages? Evidence from cross-linguistic structural priming in comprehension	3
Neural tuning for Chinese characters in adult Chinese L2 learners: evidence from an ERP study	3
Cross-linguistic influence in the simultaneous bilingual child's lexicon: An eye-tracking and primed picture selection study	3
The impact of relevant environmental sounds on foreign language word learning	3
The impact of orthography versus images on foreign language learning: Evidence from behavioral and neural markers	3
Orthographic and semantic priming effects in neighbour cognates: Experiments and simulations	3
Understanding the impact of foreign language on social norms through lies	3
Helping busy Suzy fight fuzzy in foreign language learning	3
Role of bilingual experience in children's context-sensitive selective trust strategies	3
Effects of healthy ageing and bilingualism on attention networks	3
When left is right: The role of typological similarity in multilinguals’ inhibitory control performance	3
Frequency over semantic richness: word recognition in non-native English speakers	3
The role of oral vocabulary when L2 speakers read novel words: A complex word training study	3
Detangling experiential, cognitive, and sociopsychological individual differences in second language speech learning: Cross-sectional and longitudinal investigations	3
Self-regulated learning strategies in L1 and L2 reading	3
Changing pronoun interpretations across-languages: discourse priming in Spanish–English bilingual speakers	3
Linguistic factors modulating gender assignment in Spanish–English bilingual speech	3
Emotional factors of early vocabulary in Spanish as a second language	3
Tuning in to the prosody of a novel language is easier without orthography	3
Emotion effects in second language processing: Evidence from eye movements in natural sentence reading	3
Cross-language semantic and orthographic parafoveal processing by bilingual L1 German–L2 English readers	3
Bilingual profiles differentially predict executive functions during early childhood: A latent profile analysis	3
Chinese EFL learners’ conceptual combination of English noun–noun compounds: Effects of relational information and English proficiency	3
To mix or not to mix? The relation between parental language mixing and bilingual children’s language outcomes	3
The effect of the global language context on bilingual language control during L1 reading	3
The effects of multilingual and multicultural practices on divergent thinking. Implications for plurilingual creativity paradigm	3
Glottalizing at word junctures: Exploring bidirectional transfer in child and adult Spanish heritage speakers	3
The use of exemplars differs between native and non-native listening	3
The modulating role of interactional contexts in executive functioning of bilinguals: a scoping review	3
Reading fiction in a foreign language reduces the neural synchronization between semantic and emotional areas	3
The nature of lexical associations in a foreign language: valence, arousal and concreteness	3
The role of morphological configuration in language control during bilingual production and comprehension	3
Multilingual and social experience: The Systems Framework of Bilingualism	3
Multifaceted multilingual experiences modulate neurocognitive mechanisms of task switching	3
The cognate facilitation effect depends on the presence of identical cognates	3