OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of First Language 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
How diverse is child language acquisition research?	96
Universal strategies for the improvement of expressive language skills in the primary classroom: A systematic review	19
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 system	10
Bilingual advantages in executive functioning: Evidence from a low-income sample	10
Topic maintenance in social conversation: What children need to learn and evidence this can be taught	6
Acquisition of cumulative conditioning effects on words: Spanish-speaking children’s [subject pronoun + verb] usage	6
The production of preverbal and postverbal subjects by Italian heritage children: Timing of acquisition matters	6
Text complexity and variety factors in narrative retelling and narrative comprehension among Arabic-speaking preschool children	6
Efficacy and benefits of the MetaCom training to promote metaphor comprehension in typical development	6
Speech acts addressed to Hadza infants in Tanzania: Cross-cultural comparison, speaker age, and camp livelihood	6
The effect of phonological complexity on the order in which words are acquired in early childhood	6
A new perspective on referentiality in elicited narratives: Introduction to the Special Issue	5
How do 3-year-olds use relevance inferencing to interpret indirect speech?	5
Internal consistency and concurrent validity of the parental report instrument on language in pre-school-aged children – The Finnish Communicative Development Inventory III	5
Maternal responsiveness and directiveness in speech to 2-year-olds: Relationships with children’s concurrent and later vocabulary	5
The concurrent and longitudinal relationship between narrative skills and other language skills in children	5
The effect of tone hyperarticulation in Cantonese infant-directed speech on toddlers’ word recognition in the second year of life	4
Developmental trajectories in infant pointing: The effects of vocalisation and communicative intention	4
From information to action: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	4
Argument omissions by deaf students in three languages and three modalities	4
Linguistic cues facilitate children’s understanding of belief-reporting sentences	4
How the characteristics of words in child-directed speech differ from adult-directed speech to influence children’s productive vocabularies	4
Bidirectional language influence in mother–child interaction and its effects on the communicative development of children with cochlear implants: A longitudinal study	4
Exploring influential factors of shape classifier comprehension and production in Mandarin-speaking children	3

Features of communication in Norwegian parent–child play interactions	3
Diversity in bilingual child language acquisition research: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
Rhyme over time: Vocabulary learning through daily reading aloud at home with children	3
Signed languages – Unique and ordinary: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
Language diversity and bilingual first language acquisition: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
Classroom conversations: What will it take? A commentary on Abbot-Smith et al., 2023	3
Speech production accuracy of children with auditory brainstem implants: A comparison with peers with cochlear implants and typical hearing using Levenshtein Distance	3
Morphological distance between spoken Palestinian dialect and standard Arabic and its implications for reading acquisition	3
Sometimes larger, sometimes smaller: Measuring vocabulary in monolingual and bilingual infants and toddlers	3
Child language acquisition research on indigenous African sign languages: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
On the acquisition of complex predicates: Introduction to the special issue	3
Some concrete steps for journal editorial boards: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
Exploring language diversity: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
Silent Finns and Talkative Italians? An investigation of communicative differences and similarities as perceived by parents in typically developing children	3