| ASYMMETRY OF NULL SUBJECTS AND NULL OBJECTS IN CHINESE SPEAKERS'L2 ENGLISH B Yuan Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 467-497, 1997 | 163 | 1997 |
| Interpretation of binding and orientation of the Chinese reflexive ziji by English and Japanese speakers B Yuan Second Language Research 14 (4), 324-340, 1998 | 151 | 1998 |
| Acquiring the unaccusative unergative distinction in a second language: Evidence from English-speaking learners of L2 Chinese B Yuan Walter de Gruyter 37 (2), 275-296, 1999 | 120 | 1999 |
| The status of thematic verbs in the second language acquisition of Chinese: Against inevitability of thematic-verb raising in second language acquisition B Yuan Second Language Research 17 (3), 248-272, 2001 | 108 | 2001 |
| Domain-wide or variable-dependent vulnerability of the semantics—syntax interface in L2 acquisition? Evidence from wh-words used as existential polarity words in L2 Chinese … B Yuan Second Language Research 26 (2), 219-260, 2010 | 102 | 2010 |
| Acquisition of base‐generated topics by English‐speaking learners of Chinese B Yuan Language Learning 45 (4), 567-603, 1995 | 68 | 1995 |
| Second language acquisition of reflexives revisited B Yuan Language 70 (3), 539-545, 1994 | 65 | 1994 |
| WH-TOPICALIZATION AT THE SYNTAX-DISCOURSE INTERFACE IN ENGLISH SPEAKERS’L2 CHINESE GRAMMARS B Yuan, E Dugarova Studies in Second Language Acquisition 34 (4), 533-560, 2012 | 47 | 2012 |
| Resumptive pronouns in English-Chinese and Arabic-Chinese interlanguages B Yuan, Y Zhao Walter de Gruyter 43 (3), 219-237, 2005 | 41 | 2005 |
| Uneven reassembly of tense, telicity and discourse features in L2 acquisition of the Chinese shì … de cleft construction by adult English speakers Z Mai, B Yuan Second Language Research 32 (2), 247-276, 2016 | 39 | 2016 |
| Negation in French–Chinese, German–Chinese and English–Chinese interlanguages B Yuan Transactions of the Philological Society 102 (2), 169-197, 2004 | 35 | 2004 |
| Asymmetric syntactic and thematic reconfigurations in English speakers’ L2 Chinese resultative compound constructions B Yuan, Y Zhao International journal of bilingualism 15 (1), 38-55, 2011 | 32 | 2011 |
| Behaviours of wh-words in English speakers' L2 Chinese wh-questions: Evidence of no variability, temporary variability and persistent variability in L2 grammars B Yuan Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 10 (3), 277-298, 2007 | 30 | 2007 |
| ‘Wh-on-earth’in Chinese speakers’ L2 English: Evidence of dormant features B Yuan Second Language Research 30 (4), 515-549, 2014 | 23 | 2014 |
| Japanese speakers' second language Chinese wh-questions: a lexical morphological feature deficit account B Yuan Second Language Research 23 (3), 329-357, 2007 | 23 | 2007 |
| How are lexical-semantic differences represented in L2 syntax? A study of the unaccusative/unergative distinction in L2 Chinese B Yuan Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 55 (1), 201-215, 1996 | 20 | 1996 |
| Is the core-peripheral distinction for unaccusative verbs cross-linguistically consistent?: Empirical evidence from Mandarin J Laws, B Yuan Chinese Language and Discourse 1 (2), 220-263, 2010 | 19 | 2010 |
| Directionality of difficulty in second language acquisition of Chinese and English B Yuan The University of Edinburgh, 1993 | 19 | 1993 |
| Can L2 sentence processing strategies be native-like? Evidence from English speakers’ L2 processing of Chinese base-generated-topic sentences B Yuan Lingua 191, 42-64, 2017 | 18 | 2017 |
| Is Chinese ‘daodi’ ‘the hell’ in English speakers’ L2 acquisition of Chinese daodi … wh … questions? Effects and recoverability of L1 transfer at L2 interfaces B Yuan International Journal of Bilingualism 17 (4), 403-430, 2013 | 17 | 2013 |
