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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Word order preference in sign influences speech in hearing bimodal bilinguals but not vice versa: Evidence from behavior and eye-gaze	74
Some thoughts on extending digital language learning research	62
A review of questionnaires quantifying bilingual experience in children: Do they document the same constructs? – CORRIGENDUM	36
The production preferences and priming effects of Dutch passives in Arabic/Berber–Dutch and Turkish–Dutch heritage speakers – CORRIGENDUM	35
Thalamus as a neural marker of cognitive reserve in bilinguals with frontotemporal dementia	28
Prediction in challenging situations: Most bilinguals can predict upcoming semantically-related words in their L1 source language when interpreting	26
When sentence meaning biases another language: an eye-tracking investigation of cross-language activation during second language reading	23
Comparing the cognate effect in spoken and written second language word production	21
The effect of foreign language and psychological distance on moral judgment in Turkish–English bilinguals	19
Acquiring morphology through adolescence in Spanish as a heritage language: The case of subjunctive mood	18
Mixed language processing increases cross-language phonetic transfer in Bengali–English bilinguals	18
BIL volume 24 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	16
Neural mechanisms of bilingual speech perception: the role of the executive control network in managing competing phonological representations	16
Reading comprehension of children acquiring a transparent language as L2: A study with the simple view of reading model	15
A cognitive network analysis of semantic associates in monolingual English speakers and learners of Kaqchikel	15
Riding the (brain) waves! Using neural oscillations to inform bilingualism research – ADDENDUM	15
On trade-offs in bilingualism and moving beyond the Stacking the Deck fallacy	14
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
Child heritage speakers’ reading skills in the majority language and exposure to the heritage language support morphosyntactic prediction in speech	13
Exploring nuance in both experience and adaptation: Commentary on Titone and Tiv (2022)	13
Expecting the unexpected: Code-switching as a facilitatory cue in online sentence processing	13
The future of DLL	13
The “emotional brain” of adolescent Spanish–German heritage speakers: is emotional intelligence a proxy for productive emotional vocabulary?	12
Digital Language Learning and SLA	12

The Emergence of a Complex Language Skill: Evidence from the Self-organization of Interpreting Competence in Interpreting Students	11
External non-linguistic cues influence language selection during a forced choice task	11
Planning ahead: Interpreters predict source language in consecutive interpreting	11
BIL volume 25 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	11
Introducing grip force as a nonverbal measure of bilingual feelings	10
Second language embodiment of action verbs: the impact of bilingual experience as a multidimensional spectrum	10
The role of cognitive control in bilingual language comprehension: An event-related potential study of dense code-switching sentences	10
Language-switch costs from comprehension to production might just be task-switch costs	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
Thinking creatively in two languages: Effects of mental imagery vividness, foreign language proficiency and hand gestures on bilingual creativity	10
Bilingual interactional contexts predict executive functions in older adults	10
Cross-linguistic influence in the bilingual lexicon: Evidence for ubiquitous facilitation and context-dependent interference effects on lexical processing	10
Language and structure activation explain cross-linguistic influence in bilingual language production: Evidence from within- and across-language priming	10
Cross-language semantic-affective interaction – with evidence from Chinese EFL learners	10
BIL volume 25 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	9
Word form processing at school age: Evidence for similarities between bilingual and monolingual children	9
Beyond words: An analysis of skills underlying reading and vocabulary acquisition in three foreign languages	9
The effects of habitual code-switching in bilingual language production on cognitive control	9
Cognate facilitation effect on verb-based semantic prediction in L2 is modulated by L2 proficiency	9
Characterization of English and Spanish language proficiency among middle school English learners with reading difficulties	9
Recognizing two dialects in one written form: A Stroop study	9
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Volume 26 Issue 1 – ADDENDUM	9
The “code-switching issue”: transition from (socio)linguistic to cognitive research	8
How to frame bilingualism in context: Putting people and places in mind	8
Multilingualism and psychosis: a pre-registered scoping review	8
Bilingual advantage in L3 vocabulary acquisition: evidence of a generalized learning benefit among classroom-immersion children	8
Predictors of language proficiency in school-age Spanish–English bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder	8
Evidence for two stages of prediction in non-native speakers: A visual-world eye-tracking study	8
The neurophysiology of phonemic contrasts perception in L2/L3 learners: The role of acquisition setting	7
Morphosyntactic underspecification affects the processing of verbal forms at different levels of abstraction in L1 and L2 German	7
Dual language profiles in Spanish–English bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder	7
Advocating the inclusion of older adults in digital language learning technology and research: Some considerations	7
RER-LX: A new scale to measure reduced emotional resonance in bilinguals’ later learnt language – ERRATUM	7
Cross-language activation in bimodal bilinguals: Do mouthings affect the co-activation of speech during sign recognition?	7
What is proficiency? Characterizing spoken language proficiency in older Spanish-English bilinguals	7
Bilinguals on the footbridge: the role of foreign-language proficiency in moral decision making	7
Intersample variance of second-language readers should not be overlooked	6
What modulates the acquisition of difficult structures in a heritage language? A study on Portuguese in contact with French, German and Italian	6
BIL volume 25 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	6
Investigating crosslinguistic representations in Polish–English bilingual children: Evidence from structural priming	6
Neural effects differ for learning highly iconic versus non-iconic signs in hearing adults	6
L1 referential features influence pronoun reading in L2 for deaf, ASL–English bilinguals	6
Phonetic reduction in native and non-native English speech: Assessing the intelligibility for L2 listeners – ERRATUM	6
Working memory structure in young Spanish–English bilingual children	6
Multimodal language in bilingual and monolingual children: Gesture production and speech disfluency	6
Information encoding and transmission profiles of first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) speech	6
Semantically related gestures facilitate language comprehension during simultaneous interpreting	6
Instructional media and instructional methods in digital language learning: Are we asking the right questions?	5
Executive function's structure in monolingual and bilingual adults using confirmatory factor analysis	5
Phonological neighborhood density, phonetic categorization, and vocabulary size differentially affect the phonolexical encoding of easy and difficult L2 segmental contrasts	5

The dynamics of spoken word recognition in bilinguals	5
Dynamics of competition and co-activation in trilingual lexical processing: An eye-tracking study	5
Linguistic characteristics of bimodal bilingual code-blending: Evidence from acceptability judgments	5
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
Can learning a new language make you better at maths? A meta-analysis of foreign language learning and numeracy skills during early adolescence	5
Consequences of mixing and switching languages for retrieval and articulation	5
A study on the executive functioning skills of Greek–English bilingual children – a nearest neighbour approach	5
On the semantic optimum and contexts	5
Learning L2 grammar from prediction errors? Verb biases in structural priming in comprehension and production	5
BIL volume 25 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	5
Derivational awareness in late bilinguals increases along with proficiency without a clear influence of the suffixes shared with L1	5
Moses or Noah? A case of ‘potato-potahto’ when using a foreign language – ERRATUM	5
Behavioral and ERP evidence of differences in pitch feedback control in late bilinguals’ L1 and L2 speech production	5
Bilingual toddlers show increased attention capture by static faces compared to monolinguals	5
Multilingualism and mentalizing abilities in adults	5
Expanding and contextualizing digital language learning	5
A Content Overlap Analysis of bilingualism questionnaires: Considering diversity	5
Executive control in bilingual aphasia: a systematic review	4
Does Language Entropy Shape Cognitive Performance? A Tale of Two Cities	4
Monolingual and Bilingual Phonological Activation in Cantonese	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
Multifaceted multilingual experiences modulate neurocognitive mechanisms of task switching	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
Is interpreter advantage a gift or an effect of training? Cognitive changes and interpreting acquisition at the early stage of training	4
Tuning in to the prosody of a novel language is easier without orthography	4
Using latent variable analysis to capture individual differences in bilingual language experience	4
Voluntary and cued language switching in late bilingual speakers	4
Helping busy Suzy fight fuzzy in foreign language learning	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
Effect of bilingualism on infants’ cognitive flexibility	4
Prospective memory in bilinguals: Recalling future intentions in first and second language contexts	4
Emotion effects in second language processing: Evidence from eye movements in natural sentence reading	4
BIL volume 25 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	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
The role of morphological configuration in language control during bilingual production and comprehension	4
Harnessing the bilingual descent down the mountain of life: Charting novel paths for Cognitive and Brain Reserves research	4
Processing code-blending beyond the lexical level: evidence for a double syntactic derivation?	4
Intergenerational attrition: direct or reverse language transmission?	4