OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of First Language is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Veronica Mattes, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler (Eds.), The acquisition of derivational morphology: A cross-linguistic perspe	40
What else will I do when I start school? Preschoolers’ wh -questions in dinnertime conversations and their language development	27
Acquisition during normative code-mixing: Trinidadian children’s varilingual pronoun usage	18
Silent Finns and Talkative Italians? An investigation of communicative differences and similarities as perceived by parents in typically developing children	14
The road to negation: A comparative study of five typologically and culturally diverse languages	13
Parents as the first teachers: An exploratory study of parent perceptions and use of an online instructional vocabulary module for parents	12
Cross-Cultural Exploration of Growth in Expressive Communication Between English and Portuguese-Speaking Infants and Toddlers	11
Speech Reduction in Middle Childhood: the Case of Child–Caregiver Interactions	11
Examining the relations between early language skills and environmental variables and literacy skills: A longitudinal study from 2 to 9 years	11
Promoting a multimodal first language acquisition framework: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	10
Shared book reading among Mexican and Dominican parent-child dyads	8
How to implement a unified multimodal framework of first language acquisition: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	8
The Influence of Prenatal Language Exposure on the Use of Pitch in Newborns’ Vocalisations: A Systematic Review	8
Mommy and Mama: Parental Language Input from Mother-Mother Couples	7
Investigating pragmatic abilities in 5- to 7-year-old Norwegian children: A study using the Pragma test	7
A Response to the Commentaries on Riches (2026)	6
Corrigendum to “Establishing Guidelines for MLU measurement in an agglutinating language: An illustration of Georgian”	5
Prompting heritage-language engagement in English-speaking Maltese families, via a family language programme intervention	5
Book Review: Saiegh-Haddad, E., Laks, L., & McBride, C. (Eds.). Handbook of literacy in diglossia and in dialectal contexts: Psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic, and education	5
A Crosslinguistic Study of Gesture and Lexical Development in South African Infants	5
Comprehension of Relative Clauses in Chinese Children: Comparing Developmental Dyslexia, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, and their Comorbidity	5
The production of preverbal and postverbal subjects by Italian heritage children: Timing of acquisition matters	5
The development of basic word order in child Emirati Arabic	5
Word characteristics of late talkers’ early lexicon	4
Development of Narrative Competence in Mano, Mande	4

A Communicative–Linguistic Analysis of Typically Developing Children Aged 12- to 37-Month-Old Using the Dynamic Communication Evaluation Coding Scheme: Data Presentation and Comparison Across Age Grou	4
Using cognitive measures from linguistic relativity research to assess thinking in Yucatec Maya-Spanish bilingual children	4
Classroom conversations: What will it take? A commentary on Abbot-Smith et al., 2023	4
What bilingualism can tell us about the Semantic Subset Principle: The case of disjunction under negation	4
Developmental Pathway of the Three-Way Contrasts of Word-Initial Stops in Young Korean-Acquiring Children	4
Examining Noun Bias in the Vocabulary Development of Xitsonga-Speaking Children Aged 16 to 32 Months	3
What do parents really think? Knowledge, beliefs, and self-awareness of parentese in relation to its use in daylong recordings	3
Putting multiparty interactions back into multimodal language development studies: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	3
The Acquisition of Noun Class Morphology in Eegimaa: Early Signs of System Building	3
The acquisition of directionals in Q’anjob’al	3
Unifying Language, Reading, and Handwriting Impairments in Dyslexia: The Inefficient Anticipatory Planning Hypothesis	3
Thought and language: association of groupmindedness with young English-speaking children’s production of pronouns	3
Language-Based Social Preferences of Language Minority Children in Hong Kong	3
Associations of paternal factors and child’s sex with early vocabulary development – The STEPS study	3
Giving oranges and puppies: Children’s production of directional verbs in an emerging sign language from Oaxaca	3
Situating multimodal language acquisition in the real-world: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	3
Six-year-olds’ comprehension of object-gapped relative clause sentences: Investigating the contribution of NP number mismatch	2
Words in context: Compensation for phonological assimilation in monolingual and bilingual toddlers	2
Fine motor skills and their link to receptive vocabulary, expressive vocabulary, and narrative language skills	2
Book Review: Sharon Armon-Lotem and Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Language impairment in multilingual settings: LITMUS in action across Europe	2
Establishing guidelines for MLU measurement in an agglutinating language: An illustration of Georgian	2
Development of derivational morphology in Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children	2
A Root Infinitive Analogue in Malagasy	2
The high dimensionality of caregiver-child communication: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	2
Learning South African Sign Language as a First Language – The Results of a Sentence Repetition Task	2
The acquisition of the passive voice in Northern East Cree	2
Investigating conversational patterns: Self-repetition and response complexity in English school-age children with a history of late talking	2
How the characteristics of words in child-directed speech differ from adult-directed speech to influence children’s productive vocabularies	2
Children’s endorsement of prosocial lies according to content and recipient knowledge	2
Topic maintenance in social conversation: What children need to learn and evidence this can be taught	2
Text complexity and variety factors in narrative retelling and narrative comprehension among Arabic-speaking preschool children	2
Metacognitive and Metalinguistic Verb Use in Narrative Retelling and Critical Thinking Tasks: A Study of Palestinian Arabic-Speaking Adolescents	2
Book Review: Schwartz, M., Ecological perspectives in early language education: Parent, teacher, peer, and child agency in interaction SchwartzM. (2024).	2
Adaptation and validation of the word complexity measure for Persian-speaking toddlers	2
The acquisition of verbal tone in Seenku (Mande, Burkina Faso)	2
Bengali-speaking children’s comprehension of disjunction	2
Integrating the Syntactic and Semantic Acquisition of Chinese Classifiers in Mandarin-speaking Children: A Corpus Study	2
Advanced Theory of Mind in Syrian Arabic–Turkish Sequential Bilinguals and Turkish Monolinguals: Assessment Language, School-Language Attainment, and the Ecology of Bilingualism	2
Development of sensitivity to beat gesture and contrastive accenting in support of word learning in early childhood in boys and girls	2
Late talking in young children in Saudi Arabia: Identifying key risk factors	2
Quantifying events or entities?—A corpus-based study of universal quantifiers in early child English and child-directed speech	2
Book review: Silvia Silleresi, Developmental Profiles in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Theoretical and Methodological Implications	2
To Drop or Not to Drop? Third-Person Overt Versus Null Referential Choice in Monolingual and Bilingual Russian–Hebrew-Speaking Children	2
Acquisition of Malayalam inflections: Complexity of morphosyntactic rules and its impact on developing grammars	1
The integration of the visual-gestural modality in research on child language development: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
Complex grammar in English: A snapshot of comprehension in children aged 5 to 8	1
Sometimes larger, sometimes smaller: Measuring vocabulary in monolingual and bilingual infants and toddlers	1
The impact of baby sign on vocabulary development	1
The grammar of typically developing Oromo-speaking 3-year-olds	1
Acquisition of Spanish Differential Object Marking in the comprehension of which-questions	1

Preschoolers’ comprehension of exhaustive focus: The role of contextualization	1
The richness of the stimulus: Constructional variation and development in child-directed speech	1
Mothers’ and fathers’ bimodal communication in dyadic and triadic interaction with their infants	1
Acquiring Polish noun inflection: Two children’s productivity and error patterns in relation to parental input	1
Acquiring Relational Verb Inflection in Northern East Cree: Frequency, Complexity, and Overgeneralizations	1
Sign Duration in Infant-Directed Signing: Evidence from Deaf Mother–Hearing Infant Dyads in Israeli Sign Language	1
How a modality-neutral prosodic dimension can enrich the multimodal language acquisition framework: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
Communicative function in child directed speech: A cross-cultural analysis	1
Book Review: William Forshaw, The Acquisition of Complex Morphology: Insights from Murrinhpatha ( Trends in Language Acquisition R	1
Focus Comprehension in Mandarin-Speaking Children Aged 6 to 8: A Comparison Between Children With Cochlear Implants and Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder	1
Language acquisition in the multimodal parallel architecture: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	1
Voiced Implosive Acquisition: Acoustic Analyses of /ɓ/ and /ɗ/ as Produced by Shimaore-Speaking Children 3;0 to 7;1 on Mayotte Island	1
Learning to Presuppose	1
Effects of animacy and executive functions in Mandarin-speaking children’s processing of relative clauses: A self-paced listening task	1
A developmental study of Hebrew text reconstruction: The role of passive voice in different genres	1
The production of subject and object relative clauses in Italian-speaking children: a syntactic priming study	1
Developmental trajectories of grammatical comprehension in individuals with Williams syndrome	1
Language Variations in Standardised Assessments: Evidence From Indonesia	1
An embodied multi-articulatory multimodal language framework: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
Associations between early pre-reading and phonological skills in the light of auditory word recognition and lexical ability	1
Influences of early and intense L2 exposure on L1 causal verb production: Comparison of 5-, 7-, and 9-year-old bilingual and monolingual children	1
The multimodal nature of development makes language multimodal: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
Advancing the Multimodal Language Acquisition Framework Through Collaborative Dialogue	1
Talking to children in Tsotsil Mayan: Interactional formats in child-directed communication across multigenerational caregivers	1
The Influence of Age and Cultural Context on Internal State Terms Production in Luganda-Speaking Children’s Narratives	1
A prosodic account of complex predicate acquisition in Mam: A Mayan language	1
Vocal gestures in early multimodal communication: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
Does the processing advantage of formulaic language persist in its nonadjacent forms? Evidence from Chinese collocation processing in children	1
Children’s Comprehension of Evidentiality Through Intonation in Majorcan Catalan	1
Developing Presupposition in Mandarin-Speaking Preschoolers: A Dual Analysis of Cognitive and Pragmatic Features in Peer Interactions	1
The Association Between Socioeconomic Status and Oral Vocabulary in Young Children: A Quantitative Meta-Analysis	1
Toward a child-centered, interactive approach to multimodal language development: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	1
Book review: Han, W. & Brebner, C. (Eds.), Typical and atypical language development in cultural and linguistic diversity	1
Grammatical categorization based on frequent frames in Persian child-directed speech	1
Comprehension leads: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
Development in Southwestern Norwegian Children’s Role-Play Register	1
Interrelatedness of false-belief reasoning, structural language, and pragmatic communication in typically developing 4- to 6-year-old children	1
The role of input cues in acquiring unaccusative and unergative verbs: Verb learning experiments with Mandarin-speaking toddlers	1
Book Review: Anita Wong, Understanding development and disorder in Cantonese using language sample analysis	1
‘The More, the Better?’ An Experimental Investigation on the Role of Sentential Negation in the Acquisition of Italian Nessuno	1