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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Anita Wong, Understanding development and disorder in Cantonese using language sample analysis	114
What else will I do when I start school? Preschoolers’ wh-questions in dinnertime conversations and their language development	13
Book review: Silvia Silleresi, Developmental Profiles in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Theoretical and Methodological Implications	7
A developmental study of expressing simultaneous events in film-based narratives	7
No evidence of an association between parental mind-mindedness at 9 months and language development at either 9 or 25 months in Swedish infants	7
Signed languages – Unique and ordinary: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	7
Bidirectional language influence in mother–child interaction and its effects on the communicative development of children with cochlear implants: A longitudinal study	6
The interpretation of disjunction in VP ellipsis: The case of Mandarin Chinese	6
Thought and language: association of groupmindedness with young English-speaking children’s production of pronouns	6
Book Review: Katherine Messenger (Ed.), Syntactic Priming in Language Acquisition: Representations, mechanisms and applications	6
Introduction to the special section on the Emergent Literacy and Language Early Childhood Checklist for Teachers (ELLECCT)	6
What can journals do to increase the publication of research on the acquisition of understudied languages? A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	5
Acquisition of cumulative conditioning effects on words: Spanish-speaking children’s [subject pronoun + verb] usage	5
Book Review: Veronica Mattes, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler (Eds.), The acquisition of derivational morphology: A cross-linguistic perspective	5
Giving oranges and puppies: Children’s production of directional verbs in an emerging sign language from Oaxaca	5
Text complexity and variety factors in narrative retelling and narrative comprehension among Arabic-speaking preschool children	5
Book review: Gary Morgan (Ed.), Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive Development. Essays in honour of Bencie Woll	4
The potential for ELLECCT to support language development in the early years: A commentary on Weadman, Serry and Snow (2022)	4
How diverse is child language acquisition research?	4
The effect of phonological complexity on the order in which words are acquired in early childhood	4
Quantifying events or entities?—A corpus-based study of universal quantifiers in early child English and child-directed speech	4
A longitudinal study of Estonian mothers’ self-reported language teaching practices and children’s language skills	4
Acquisition of Eegimaa (Atlantic family, Niger-Congo) in a polyadic environment: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
Acquisition during normative code-mixing: Trinidadian children’s varilingual pronoun usage	3
A language documentation perspective: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3

Acquiring Polish noun inflection: Two children’s productivity and error patterns in relation to parental input	3
Preschoolers’ imitation of sentential complement sentences: Does the nature of the matrix clause matter?	3
Examining the relations between early language skills and environmental variables and literacy skills: A longitudinal study from 2 to 9 years	3
Towards an evidence-based approach to fostering collaborative conversation in mainstream primary classrooms: Response to commentators	3
Development of derivational morphology in Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children	3
Silent Finns and Talkative Italians? An investigation of communicative differences and similarities as perceived by parents in typically developing children	3
Little evidence for a noun bias in Tseltal spontaneous speech	3
Maternal responsiveness and directiveness in speech to 2-year-olds: Relationships with children’s concurrent and later vocabulary	3
Early vocabulary in two varieties of South American Spanish: Quantitative and qualitative differences	3
Examining the psychometric properties of the ELLECCT: A commentary on Weadman, Serry and Snow (2022)	3
Does the processing advantage of formulaic language persist in its nonadjacent forms? Evidence from Chinese collocation processing in children	3
Fine motor skills and their link to receptive vocabulary, expressive vocabulary, and narrative language skills	3
Sometimes larger, sometimes smaller: Measuring vocabulary in monolingual and bilingual infants and toddlers	3
Effects of second-language acquisition on character introductions in 5- and 7-year-old bilingual and monolingual children’s Frog story narratives	3
From green to turquoise: Exploring age and socioeconomic status in the acquisition of color terms	3