First Language

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review: Veronica Mattes, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler (Eds.), The acquisition of derivational morphology: A cross-linguistic perspective136
What else will I do when I start school? Preschoolers’ wh-questions in dinnertime conversations and their language development13
The interpretation of disjunction in VP ellipsis: The case of Mandarin Chinese13
Examining the relations between early language skills and environmental variables and literacy skills: A longitudinal study from 2 to 9 years10
How diverse is child language acquisition research?10
From green to turquoise: Exploring age and socioeconomic status in the acquisition of color terms9
Silent Finns and Talkative Italians? An investigation of communicative differences and similarities as perceived by parents in typically developing children8
The acquisition of argument structures of intransitive and transitive verbs in Japanese: The role of parental input7
How to implement a unified multimodal framework of first language acquisition: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek7
Acquisition during normative code-mixing: Trinidadian children’s varilingual pronoun usage7
Promoting a multimodal first language acquisition framework: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek7
Prompting heritage-language engagement in English-speaking Maltese families, via a family language programme intervention6
Shared book reading among Mexican and Dominican parent-child dyads6
Bilingual advantages in executive functioning: Evidence from a low-income sample6
Investigating pragmatic abilities in 5- to 7-year-old Norwegian children: A study using the Pragma test6
The production of preverbal and postverbal subjects by Italian heritage children: Timing of acquisition matters5
How do 3-year-olds use relevance inferencing to interpret indirect speech?5
The effect of tone hyperarticulation in Cantonese infant-directed speech on toddlers’ word recognition in the second year of life5
Capturing what remains: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)5
Book review: Paul Ibbotson, What it takes to talk: Exploring developmental cognitive linguistics (Cognitive linguistic research 64)5
Book Review: Saiegh-Haddad, E., Laks, L., & McBride, C. (Eds.). Handbook of literacy in diglossia and in dialectal contexts: Psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic, and educational perspectives5
What about broader impacts for child language acquisition research? A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)4
Corrigendum to “Establishing Guidelines for MLU measurement in an agglutinating language: An illustration of Georgian”4
On the acquisition of complex predicates: Introduction to the special issue4
What bilingualism can tell us about the Semantic Subset Principle: The case of disjunction under negation4
Features of communication in Norwegian parent–child play interactions4
Language diversity and bilingual first language acquisition: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)4
Word characteristics of late talkers’ early lexicon4
Classroom conversations: What will it take? A commentary on Abbot-Smith et al., 20234
Establishing guidelines for MLU measurement in an agglutinating language: An illustration of Georgian3
A language documentation perspective: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)3
Thought and language: association of groupmindedness with young English-speaking children’s production of pronouns3
Using cognitive measures from linguistic relativity research to assess thinking in Yucatec Maya-Spanish bilingual children3
Associations of paternal factors and child’s sex with early vocabulary development – The STEPS study3
What ‘diversity’ means depends on your perspective: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)3
How the characteristics of words in child-directed speech differ from adult-directed speech to influence children’s productive vocabularies3
Toddlers use functional morphemes for backward syntactic categorization3
Introduction to the special section on the Emergent Literacy and Language Early Childhood Checklist for Teachers (ELLECCT)3
Giving oranges and puppies: Children’s production of directional verbs in an emerging sign language from Oaxaca3
Feature generalization in Dutch–German bilingual and monolingual children’s speech production3
Situating multimodal language acquisition in the real-world: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek3
Rhyme over time: Vocabulary learning through daily reading aloud at home with children3
Postverbal subjects in child Italian: Argument structure, discourse and the definiteness effect3
Fine motor skills and their link to receptive vocabulary, expressive vocabulary, and narrative language skills3
A longitudinal study of Estonian mothers’ self-reported language teaching practices and children’s language skills3
What do parents really think? Knowledge, beliefs, and self-awareness of parentese in relation to its use in daylong recordings3
The acquisition of directionals in Q’anjob’al3
Examining the psychometric properties of the ELLECCT: A commentary on Weadman, Serry and Snow (2022)3
0.068201065063477