Journal of Child Language

Article	Citations
Early language experience in a Papuan community	38
Home language environment and children's second language acquisition: the special status of input from older siblings	25
An intervention to increase conversational turns between parents and young children	24
Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous and early sequential bilingual children: a meta-analysis	22
Overusing the pacifier during infancy sets a footprint on abstract words processing	18
Unique contribution of shared book reading on adult-child language interaction	17
Singing to infants matters: Early singing interactions affect musical preferences and facilitate vocabulary building	17
Constructivist Approaches to First Language Acquisition	16
Associations Between Maternal Stress, Early Language Behaviors, and Infant Electroencephalography During the First Year of Life	15
Scalar and ad-hoc pragmatic inferences in children: guess which one is easier	14
Change in maternal speech rate to preverbal infants over the first two years of life	14
Sources of individual differences in the dual language development of heritage bilinguals	14
Language use, home literacy environment, and demography: Predicting vocabulary skills among diverse young dual language learners in Norway	13
Documenting the acquisition of indigenous languages	13
Socioeconomic status correlates with measures of Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system: a meta-analysis	13
Cross-cultural differences in mother-preschooler book sharing practices in the United States and Thailand	12
Code-switching in parents’ everyday speech to bilingual infants	12
The effects of phonological neighborhood density in childhood word production and recognition in Russian are opposite to English	10
Testing the validity of the Cross-Linguistic Lexical Task as a measure of language proficiency in bilingual children	10
A lexical advantage in four-year-old children's word repetition	9
An investigation of iconic language development in four datasets	8
Lexical and Prosodic Pitch Modifications in Cantonese Infant-directed Speech	8
Starting Big: The Effect of Unit Size on Language Learning in Children and Adults	8
The Starting Big approach to language learning	8
Targeted adaptation in infants following live exposure to an accented talker	8

Theory and predictions for the development of morphology and syntax: A Universal Grammar + statistics approach	7
Does the maturation of early sleep patterns predict language ability at school entry? A Born in Bradford study	7
The role of socioeconomic and sociocultural predictors of Spanish and English proficiencies of young Latino children of immigrants	7
Multilingual toddlers’ vocabulary development in two languages: Comparing bilinguals and trilinguals	7
Fine lexical tuning in infant directed speech to typically developing children	7
The development of phonological memory and language: A multiple groups approach	7
“El nen s'ha menjat una aranya”: The development of narratives in Catalan speaking children	7
The Hebrew Web Communicative Development Inventory (MB-CDI): Lexical Development Growth Curves	7
Child-directed and overheard input from different speakers in two distinct cultures	7
The development of narrative skills in monolingual Swedish-speaking children aged 4 to 9: a longitudinal study	7
Word learning from context in school-age children: relations with language ability and executive function	7
Spontaneous verbal repetition in toddler-adult conversations: a longitudinal study with Spanish-speaking two- year-olds	7
How children learn to communicate discriminatively	7
Variation sets in the speech directed to toddlers in Argentinian households.SES and type of activity effects	6
Pragmatic, linguistic and cognitive factors in young children's development of quantity, relevance and word learning inferences	6
Socio-cognitive engagement (but not socioeconomic status) predicts preschool children's language and pragmatic abilities	6
A novel online assessment of pragmatic and core language skills: An attempt to tease apart language domains in children	6
The nature and frequency of relative clauses in the language children hear and the language children read: A developmental cross-corpus analysis of English complex grammar	6
The association between screen media quantity, content, and context and language development	6
Accuracy of the Language Environment Analyses (LENATM) system for estimating child and adult speech in laboratory settings	6
Productivity and the acquisition of gender	5
Toddlers raised in multi-dialectal families learn words better in accented speech than those raised in monodialectal families	5
What categorical induction variability reveals about typical and atypical development	5
Parent-child interaction during storybook reading: wordless narrative books versus books with text	5
Disentangling syntactic, semantic and pragmatic impairments in ASD: Elicited production of passives	5
Assessing the Quantity and Quality of Language Used by Mothers and Fathers of Children with Down Syndrome During Shared Book Reading	5
The timescales of word learning in children with language delays: In-the-moment mapping, retention, and generalization	5
Phonetic discrimination, phonological awareness, and pre-literacy skills in Spanish–English dual language preschoolers	5
Referential expressions in monolingual and bilingual children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A study of informativeness and definiteness	5
Inhibitory Control and Preschoolers’ Use of Irregular Past Tense Verbs	5
Sources of variation at the onset of bilingualism: The differential effect of input factors, AOA, and cognitive skills on HL Arabic and L2 English syntax	5
Measuring knowledge of multiple word meanings in children with English as a first and an additional language and the relationship to reading comprehension	5
Modelling the early expressive communicative trajectories of infants/toddlers with early cochlear implants	4
Ontogeny of index-finger pointing	4
Contrasting lexical biases in bilingual English–Mandarin speech: Verb-biased mothers, but noun-biased toddlers	4
Collocational knowledge in children: a comparison of English-speaking monolingual children, and children acquiring English as an Additional Language	4
Contributions of Abstract Extratextual Talk and Interactive Style to Preschoolers’ Vocabulary Development	4
Determinants of early lexical acquisition: Effects of word- and child-level factors on Dutch children's acquisition of words	4
Syllable effects in beginning and intermediate European-Portuguese readers: Evidence from a sandwich masked go/no-go lexical decision task	4
Children’s engagement and caregivers’ use of language-boosting strategies during shared book reading: A mixed methods approach	4
Running or crossing? Children's expression of voluntary motion in English, German, and French	4
A parametric approach to the acquisition of syntax	4
Monolingual and bilingual children's processing of coarticulation cues during spoken word recognition	4
Speaking of State of Mind: Maternal Mental Health Predicts Children's Home Language Environment and Expressive Language	4
Cognitive predictors of language abilities in primary school children: A cascaded developmental view	4
Parent education to improve early language development: A preliminary evaluation of LENA StartTM	4
Spanish copula selection with adjectives at age three	4
Exploring the Linguistic, Cognitive, and Social Skills Underlying Lexical Processing Efficiency as Measured by the Looking-while-Listening Paradigm	4
Infants aged 12 months use the gender feature in determiners to anticipate upcoming words: an eye-tracking study	3
Young minds’ quest for regularity: Evidence from the Turkish causative	3

Cross-linguistic variation in word-initial cluster production in adult and child language: evidence from English and Norwegian	3
The development of constructions from the right edge: a multinomial regression analysis of clitic left and right dislocation in child French	3
Distribution of Nominal Word-Patterns and Roots in Palestinian Arabic: A Developmental Perspective in Early Childhood	3
“And they had a big, big, very long fight:” The development of evaluative language in preschoolers' oral fictional stories told in a peer-group context	3
Remembering sentences is not all about memory: Convergent and discriminant validity of syntactic knowledge and its relationship with reading comprehension	3
Child phonological responses to variegation in adult words: A cross-linguistic study	3
Use of a head camera to examine maternal input and its relation to 10- to 26-month-olds’ acquisition of mental and non-mental state vocabulary	3
Acquisition of demonstratives in cross-linguistic perspective	3
Clause-initial AND usage in a cross-sectional and longitudinal corpus of school-age children's narratives	3
Vocabulary production in toddlers from low-income immigrant families: evidence from children exposed to Romanian-Italian and Nigerian English-Italian	3
No effects of modality in development of locative expressions of space in signing and speaking children	3
The comprehension of relative clauses in Mandarin Children with suspected specific language impairment	3
Connecting perception and production in early Catalan–Spanish bilingual children: language dominance and quality of input effects	3
The generalisation of linguistic constructions in children with or without developmental language disorders	3
¡Casi te caístes!: Variation in second person singular preterit forms in Spanish Children	3
Task difficulty and private speech in typically developing and at-risk preschool children	3
Parentese in infancy predicts 5-year language complexity and conversational turns	3
Development of the voiceless sibilant fricative contrast in three-year-olds: an ultrasound and acoustic study	3
Maternal mind-mindedness and communicative functions in free-play and mealtime contexts: Stability, continuity and relations with child language at 16 months	2
Developmental change in children’s speech processing of auditory and visual cues: An eyetracking study	2
Parents tune their vowels to the emergence of children’s words	2
Combining observational and experimental approaches to the development of language and communication in rural samples: Opportunities and challenges	2
Metaphor comprehension in the acquisition of Arabic	2
Russian–German five-year-olds: What omissions in sentence repetition tell us about linguistic knowledge, memory skills and their interrelation	2
Prosodic realizations ofnew,given, andcorrectivereferents in the spontaneous speech of toddlers	2
Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping	2
Validation of the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) system for Dutch	2
Narrative Performance and Sociopragmatic Abilities in Preschool Children are Linked to Multimodal Imitation Skills	2
The acquisition of prosodic marking of narrow focus in Central Swedish	2
Object Shape and Depth of Word Representations in Preschoolers	2
Phonological neighborhood measures and multisyllabic word acquisition in children	2
Phonological vs. natural gender cues in the acquisition of German by simultaneous and sequential bilinguals (German–Russian)	2
A broadened estimate of syntactic and lexical ability from the MB-CDI	2
Interface Delay	2
Ditransitive structures in child language acquisition: An investigation of production and comprehension in children aged five to seven	2
Relating the prosody of infant-directed speech to children’s vocabulary size	2
Cue reliability, salience and early comprehension of agreement: Evidence from Greek	2
Maternal interactive beliefs and style as predictors of language development in preterm and full term children	2
The acquisition of sign languages in rural contexts – what can we do when samples will always be ‘too small’?	2
Do infants have abstract grammatical knowledge of word order at 17 months? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese.	2
Internal and external factors contributing to variability in consonant accuracy of Arabic–French simultaneous bilingual children	2
Using shared knowledge to determine ironic intent; a conversational response paradigm	2
Adapting to children’s individual language proficiency: An observational study of preschool teacher talk addressing monolinguals and children learning English as an additional language	2
Korean-speaking children’s constructional knowledge about a transitive event: Corpus analysis and Bayesian modelling	2
Variation in quality of maternal input and development of coda stops in English-speaking children in Singapore	2
Development of sign phonology in Kata Kolok	2
Communicative functions of parents’ child-directed speech across dyadic and triadic contexts	2
Inhibitory control and verb inflection in Italian preschool children	2
Silence matters: The role of pauses during dyadic maternal and paternal vocal interactions with preterm and full-term infants	2
A new way to identify if variation in children’s input could be developmentally meaningful: Using computational cognitive modeling to assess input across socio-economic status for syntactic islands	2
Effect of sex and dyad composition on speech and gesture development of singleton and twin children	2
Going beyond F0: The acquisition of Mandarin tones	2
Parent Responsivity, Language Input, and the Development of Simple Sentences	2
Rules and exceptions: A Tolerance Principle account of the possessive suffix in Northern East Cree	2
Cognates are advantaged over non-cognates in early bilingual expressive vocabulary development	2
Early parental causal language input predicts children’s later causal verb understanding	2
Improvements of Statistical Learning Skills Allow Older Children to Go Beyond Single-Hypothesis Testing When Learning Words	1
Vowels and consonants matter equally to British English-learning 11-month-olds’ familiar word form recognition	1
Can prosody encode recursive embedding? Children's realizations of complex NPs in Japanese	1
Structure and acoustics of the speech of verbal autistic preschoolers	1
Two-year-olds at elevated risk for ASD can learn novel words from their parents	1
Context sensitivity and the semantics of count nouns in the evaluation of partial objects by children and adults	1
Produced, but not ‘productive’: Mandarin-speaking pre-schoolers’ challenges acquiring L2 English plural morphology	1
The roles of language use and vocabulary size in the emergence of word-combining in children with complex neurodevelopmental disabilities	1
The influence of prominence cues in 7- to 10-year-olds’ pronoun resolution: Disentangling order of mention, grammatical role, and semantic role	1
The relations of SES and literacy-related oral and written language skills after one year of reading instruction – evidence from novice readers of Arabic	1
No concurrent correlations between parental mental state talk and toddlers’ language abilities	1
Syllable duration changes during babbling: a longitudinal study of French infant productions	1
Children’s disambiguation of novel words varies by the number and position of phonological contrasts	1
Use of pointing in parent-child interactions by hearing children of deaf and hearing parents: A follow-up from 1- to 3-years of age	1
Germination, early development, and creativity in the acquisition of the Yucatec Maya deictic system	1
Marked pointing facilitates learning part names: A test of lexical constraint versus social pragmatic accounts of word learning	1
Converging Evidence of Underlying Competence: Comprehension and Production in the Acquisition of Spanish Subject-Verb Agreement	1
Processing of noun plural marking in German-speaking children: an eye-tracking study	1
Structural and interactional aspects of adverbial sentences in English mother-child interactions: an analysis of two dense corpora	1
L1 acquisition of the tense-aspect markers -ess (past-perfective) and -ko iss (imperfective) in Korean	1
Acoustic cues to coda stop voicing contrasts in Australian English-speaking children	1
Enhancing adolescent parent interactions in communication through facilitative playgroups	1
Mandarin-learning 19-month-old toddlers’ sensitivity to word order cues that differentiate unaccusative and unergative verbs	1
Can gesture input support toddlers’ fast mapping?	1

Infant learning of words in a typologically distant nonnative language	1
Singleton consonant onset acquisition in monolingual Granada Spanish-speaking preschoolers with typical versus protracted phonological development: Impacts of word structure and feature constraints	1
Input effects in the acquisition of verb inflection: Evidence from Emirati Arabic	1
The Development of Abstract Word Meanings	1
Effects of semantic plausibility, syntactic complexity and n-gram frequency on children's sentence repetition	1
Commonalities, differences, and differences that matter between monolingual and bilingual development	1
Filling lexical gaps and more: code-switching for the power of expression by young bilinguals	1
So many variables, but what causes what?	1
Children's comprehension of prosodically marked focus in Hungarian: How mandatory syntactic focus-marking affects the trajectory of acquisition	1
Cumulative semantic interference across unrelated responses in school-age children's picture naming	1
Consonant articulation and vocabulary size: Twins versus singletons	1
Information structure in language acquisition. Production and comprehension of (in)definite articles by German-speaking children	1
What Characterizes the Productive Morphosyntax of Norwegian Children with Developmental Language Disorder?	1
Individual Differences in Bilingual Child Language Acquisition: A plunge into a Complex and Dynamic Network	1
Frequent vs. infrequent words shape toddlers’ real-time sentence comprehension	1
Parents’ talk about conceptual categories with infants: stability, variability, and implications for expressive language development	1
Wh-Questions are understood before polar-questions: Evidence from English, German, and Chinese	1
Testable theories of core first language acquisition	1
The influence of the temporal characteristics of events on adults’ and children’s pronoun resolution	1
Monolingual and bilingual children’s production of complex syntactic structures	1
Learning to express causal events in Mandarin Chinese: A multimodal perspective	1
Spontaneous speech intelligibility: early cochlear implanted children versus their normally hearing peers at seven years of age	1
Receptive and expressive vocabulary development in children learning English as an additional language: Converging evidence from multiple datasets	1