OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Bilingualism 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Bilingualism, like other types of brain training, does not produce far transfer: It all fits together	29
The relationship between language and emotion recognition in bilinguals is not robust to cultural and linguistic differences	25
Recycling constructional patterns: The role of chunks in early bilingual acquisition	23
To what extent are sacred language practices ultralingual? The experience of British Muslim children learning Qur’anic Arabic	21
Now they accept it, now they don’t : Acceptability judgements of nontypical multiword units in Russian as a native and a heritage language	19
Language exposure within peer and family contexts and bilingual reading profiles of German–Russian and German–Turkish adolescents in Germany	19
Cognitive differences between healthy monolingual and bilingual anglophones on the English version of the Dépistage Cognitif de Québec: A new screening tool for atypical dementia	18
Different trajectories for becoming bilingual lead to comparable outcomes in cognitive flexibility	17
Teachers as new speakers of a minority language: Identity, speakerness, and ideologies on variation in Irish	17
Dominant-while-speaking: How bilingual Norwegian–English children conceptualize goal-oriented motion events	15
Scoping review of research practices in the investigation of bilingual effects on inhibition and attention in young people	15
Cognitive and linguistic predictors of word reading fluency in Turkish–Arabic bilingual and Turkish monolingual children	14
Wh-questions in the grammar of heritage Egyptian speakers	13
Profiling language dominance in bilinguals in Catalonia	12
Comparing forward and reverse transfer from Dutch to German	11
The processing of English prefixed and suffixed words by Chinese-English bilinguals	10
(Un)grounded language ideologies: A brief history of translanguaging theory	9
The linguistic Odyssey of Russian-speaking immigrants in Canada	9
Language-dependent emotions in heritage and second language bilinguals: When physiological reactions deviate from feelings	9
Deciphering biliteracy in down syndrome: Insights from a Maltese-English bilingual setting	9
Multilingual learning and cognitive restructuring: The role of audiovisual media exposure in Cantonese–English–Japanese multilinguals’ motion event cognition	9
Non-standard numeral constructions in L2 Russian: A corpus-based study	9
Minoritising a regional language in multilingual preschools in Dutch Limburg: Teachers’ and toddlers’ choices between Dutch and Limburgish	9
Exploring Chinese multilingual addressees’ attitudes and interpretation of translanguaging practices in social settings	8
The effect of cognitive load on code-switching	8

Conceptual transfer in the mind of Chinese English learners: Spatial metaphorical concepts of kin terms	8
Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence on DOM in Romanian-Spanish bilinguals	8
Hemispheric involvement in the comprehension of conventional metaphors in Arabic–Hebrew speakers	8
Contribution of semantic context to bilingual processing	8
Heritage Russian in contact with Hebrew and German: A cross-linguistic study of requests	8
Bilingual false recognition: Examining inferences and language tagging in the dual-language context	7
Comprehension and production of (non-)reflexive possessive constructions in Abui by Alor Malay–Abui bilingual children	7
“Me aviento el English y el Spanish”: Spanish-English code-switching in Texas conjunto artist Nick Villarreal	7
Phonological development of Spanish–Valencian bilingual children	7
Relationship between oral narrative and vocabulary skills among bilingual language-minority children and their monolingual peers in primary school	7
Rethinking marginalization and heritage language vitality in multilingual families	6
Speaking Chinese or no breakfast: Emotional challenges and experiences confronting Chinese immigrant families in heritage language maintenance	6
Book Review: Schwartz, A, Spanish so White: Conversations on the inconvenient racism of a “foreign” language education	6
What target language use characterizes high-performing L2 learners in a migration context?	6
Comprehension-oriented input training and syntactic representation entrenchment of late L2 learners: Evidence from a longitudinal experimental study	6
Moving in L2 Chinese from childhood to adulthood: Developmental and crosslinguistic factors in bilingual event construal	6
Acoustic adjustments of clear speech in Korean heritage vowel production	6
Navigating monolingual language ideologies: Educators’ “Yes, BUT” objections to linguistically sustaining pedagogies in the classroom	6
Heritage Language Maintenance and family relationship dynamics: A children’s perspective	6
L2 speakers are more flexible than L1 speakers in second dialect acquisition	6
The non-native phonetic perception mechanism utilized by bilinguals with different L2 proficiency levels	6
On the pragmatic function of utterance-level declination as deployed by speakers with multilingual repertoires	5
The influence of L2 experience on L1 speech perception: Evidence from Mandarin–English bilinguals	5
Shaping ideologies at the micro level: Stylization in EMI	5
Word order and information structure in heritage and L2 Russian: Focus and unaccusativity effects in subject inversion	5
Revisiting bilingual foreign language learning advantages: The role of extramural exposure	5
Preposition drop in Russian spoken by Mari and Beserman bilinguals	5
Cross-linguistic influence in the comprehension of reflexive possessive pronouns in L3 and L4 Swedish	5
Ethnolinguistic identity at risk: Mother tongue practices among internally migrant Maithili families in Nepal	5
Fundamental frequency range in the bilingual repertoire of traditional and new Welsh speakers	5
Family language policy in tension: Conflicting language ideologies and translanguaging practices in multilingual families	5
Complexity or simplicity of categories: Evidence from Qiang–Chinese bilinguals	5
Investigating language transfer from a usage-based perspective	5
Bilingual phonological awareness as a function of language proficiency	4
Outlier speakers and apparent effects: The case of variable subject placement in Spanish	4
Unpacking family language policy through autoethnography: Insights from a transnational Arabic-speaking family in the United States	4
Variation in gender assignment strategies in mixed Spanish–Chinese noun phrases: Insights from a multilingual community in Barcelona	4
‘妈妈, I miss you ’: Emotional multilingual practices in transnational families	4
Multiword units in multilingual speakers	4
Word searching in multilingual dementia: An interdisciplinary approach	4
Path and rate of development in child heritage speakers: Evidence from Greek subject/object form and placement	4
Brain potentials reveal activation and inhibition of the non-target L2 in bilinguals’ L1 context	4
Effects of Italian/English bilingual education on cognitive development: A pilot study	4
The effect of language proficiency, usage, and exposure on cognitive control: A study in early adulthood Chinese learners of English	3
Emotions and multilingualism in family language policy: Introduction to the special issue	3
Comprehension of who- and which-questions in monolingual and bilingual acquisition: Explicating the difficulty of set restriction	3
Are we equally accented in L2 and L3? Perception of foreign accentedness and comprehensibility in multilingual speakers	3
The influence of raciolinguistic expectations on phoneme categorization in Spanish–English bilinguals	3
‘A surprise I will never forget’: How do adolescent Spanish-German heritage speakers express the emotion of surprise in both their heritage language and the societal language?	3
Syntactic licensing in heritage Spanish: Psych verbs and the middle voice	3

How verbal labels modulate early Cantonese-English bilinguals’ perception and categorization of motion events	3
Bilingual speech in Jaru–Kriol conversations: Codeswitching, codemixing, and grammatical fusion	3
Speaker ethnicity and L2 English proficiency influence accentedness judgments by Chinese learners of English	3
‘Being bilingual will open doors for them’: Ideologies informing French immersion educators’ perspectives on bilingualism	3
The cyclicity of reborrowing and the ping-pong effect: The case of Arabic–Hebrew–Arabic ṣabāba/sababa ‘ok’	3
“You should speak Balochi; not Lasi”: A parental language policy for a bilingual child	3
Narrative microstructure and macrostructure skills in Arabic diglossia: The case of Arab immigrant children in Canada	3
Language is caught not taught: Parents’ use of bimodal bilingualism with their deaf children	3
The role of frequency in the acquisition of structured variation: The case of Basque ergativity	3
Orthographic component of masked cognate priming in Chinese–Japanese bilinguals	3
Second and foreign language learners: The effect of language exposure on the use of English phrasal verbs	3
Bilingual children acting as language brokers in Italy: Their affective and cognitive attitudes about the practice	3