First Language

Papers
(The H4-Index of First Language is 6. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
How diverse is child language acquisition research?96
Universal strategies for the improvement of expressive language skills in the primary classroom: A systematic review19
The development and psychometric properties of a shared book reading observational tool: The Emergent Literacy and Language Early Childhood Checklist for Teachers (ELLECCT)12
Gestures, grunts, and words: Development in a dynamic system10
Bilingual advantages in executive functioning: Evidence from a low-income sample10
Efficacy and benefits of the MetaCom training to promote metaphor comprehension in typical development6
Speech acts addressed to Hadza infants in Tanzania: Cross-cultural comparison, speaker age, and camp livelihood6
The effect of phonological complexity on the order in which words are acquired in early childhood6
Topic maintenance in social conversation: What children need to learn and evidence this can be taught6
Acquisition of cumulative conditioning effects on words: Spanish-speaking children’s [subject pronoun + verb] usage6
The production of preverbal and postverbal subjects by Italian heritage children: Timing of acquisition matters6
Text complexity and variety factors in narrative retelling and narrative comprehension among Arabic-speaking preschool children6
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