Journal of Child Language

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Child Language is 0. 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
Parents tune their vowels to the emergence of children’s words74
Processing adjectives in development: Evidence from eye-tracking35
Bilingual Toddlers’ Vocabulary Growth Interacts with Existing Knowledge and Cross-Linguistic Similarity28
Syntactic priming as implicit learning in German child language25
Neural correlates of lexical-tone and vowel-quality processing in 6- and 9-month-old German-learning infants and adults19
Children’s engagement and caregivers’ use of language-boosting strategies during shared book reading: A mixed methods approach16
So many variables, but what causes what?15
How is vowel production in Italian affected by geminate consonants and stress patterns?14
No concurrent correlations between parental mental state talk and toddlers’ language abilities – ERRATUM13
Individual Differences in Bilingual Child Language Acquisition: A plunge into a Complex and Dynamic Network13
Overuse of familiar phrases by individuals with Williams syndrome masks differences in language processing13
Parents’ talk about conceptual categories with infants: stability, variability, and implications for expressive language development12
The distributional and embodied contexts of verbs in caregiver-infant interactions12
JCL volume 48 issue 5 Cover and Front matter11
Realistic and broad-scope learning simulations: first results and challenges11
The Acquisition of Verbal Morphology by Child Classroom EFL Learners in Russia and China: The Effect of Age and L110
Object Shape and Depth of Word Representations in Preschoolers10
Acquisition of the feature [+spread glottis] in Icelandic9
Different paths to multilingualism in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Naturalistic and non-interactive8
Language Development Between 30 and 48 Months in Monolingual Slovenian-Speaking Children: A Study Using the Slovenian Adaptation of the Macarthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory CDI–III8
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The complexity of opportunities to respond used by mothers and fathers of children with Down syndrome: A preliminary investigation8
Individual differences differentially influence language domains and learning mechanisms8
Collecting language acquisition data from understudied urban communities: A reply to Cristia et al.7
Rules and exceptions: A Tolerance Principle account of the possessive suffix in Northern East Cree7
Filling lexical gaps and more: code-switching for the power of expression by young bilinguals7
The relationship between working memory, production, and comprehension: evidence from children’s errors in complex wh questions7
Is there a bilingual disadvantage for word segmentation? A computational modeling approach7
Argument ordering in simple sentences is affected by age of first language acquisition: Evidence from late first language signers of ASL7
How do parents refer to their children while playing? A cross-linguistic comparison of parental input to Bulgarian- and English-speaking children with ASD6
How children learn to communicate discriminatively6
Comprehension of complex sentences containing temporal connectives: How children are led down the event-semantic kindergarten-path6
Parent Responsivity, Language Input, and the Development of Simple Sentences6
Diversifying language acquisition research can be (partly) achieved in urban societies and with simplified methodologies: Insights from multilingual Ghana6
Socio-economic status and other potential risk factors for language development in the first year of life6
Real-time spoken word recognition in deaf and hard of hearing preschoolers: Effects of phonological competition5
No concurrent correlations between parental mental state talk and toddlers’ language abilities5
Influence of caregiver input and language experience on the production of coda laterals by English–Malay bilingual preschoolers in multi-accent Singapore5
The language of mechanical support in children: Is it “Sticking,” “Hanging,” or simply “On”?5
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Neurocomputational modeling of speech motor development5
Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping5
Assessing two methods of webcam-based eye-tracking for child language research5
Frequency, perceptual salience, and semantic complexity: The acquisition of possessor inflection in Northern East Cree5
Positive Valence Contributes to Hyperarticulation in Maternal Speech to Infants and Puppies5
Maternal parenting style and self-regulatory private speech content use in preschool children4
Revisiting the Acquisition of Onset Complexity: Affrication in Québec French4
Size sound symbolism in mothers’ speech to their infants4
There might be more to syntactic bootstrapping than being pragmatic: A look at grammatical person and prosody in naturalistic child-directed speech4
Child phonological responses to variegation in adult words: A cross-linguistic study4
Phonological Variation in Child-Directed Speech is Modulated by Lexical Frequency4
Narrative performance and sociopragmatic abilities in preschool children are linked to multimodal imitation skills – CORRIGENDUM4
Marked pointing facilitates learning part names: A test of lexical constraint versus social pragmatic accounts of word learning4
Parentese in infancy predicts 5-year language complexity and conversational turns4
Interface Delay4
Null subject comprehension and production revisited: a look at English and Italian4
Age-related changes in lexical tones and intonation in Cantonese infant-directed speech: A longitudinal study4
Ontogeny of index-finger pointing4
To what extent do children’s expressions of time actually refer to time? An investigation into the temporal and discursive usages of temporal adverbs in family interaction3
Pseudo-relatives and restrictive-relatives in child Mandarin3
Phonological Working Memory and Sentence Production in School-Age Children with Typical Language, Dyslexia, and Comorbid Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorder3
Sources of individual differences in the dual language development of heritage bilinguals3
Do You Use Love to Make it Lovely? The Role of Meaning Overlap across Morphological Relatives in the Development of Morphological Representations3
JCL volume 48 issue 6 Cover and Front matter3
The acquisition of English modal constructions: a corpus-based analysis3
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Bilingual children reach early language milestones at the same age as monolingual peers3
Syntactic Structural Development in Chinese deaf Children Aged 4–7 Years with Cochlear Implants3
Speech representation used by Mandarin Chinese-speaking children aged three to six years3
JCL volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter3
JCL volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Front matter3
Examining Dutch children’s vocabularies across infancy and toddlerhood: Demographic effects are age-specific and task-specific3
Mean Length of Utterance: A study of early language development in four Southern Bantu languages3
Parent-child interaction during storybook reading: wordless narrative books versus books with text3
Current practices of Portuguese speech-language pathologists with preschool-age children with pragmatic impairment: A cross-sectional survey2
Building a unified model of the Optional Infinitive Stage: Simulating the cross-linguistic pattern of verb-marking error in typically developing children and children with Developmental Language Disor2
JCL volume 49 issue 5 Cover and Front matter2
Object shape and depth of word representations in preschoolers – ERRATUM2
Exposure to Foreign Languages through Live Interaction Can Facilitate Children’s Acceptance of Multiple Labeling Conventions across Languages2
Stop contrast acquisition in child Kriol: Evidence of stable transmission of phonology post Creole formation2
“Mom said it in quotation marks!” Irony comprehension and metapragmatic awareness in 8-year-olds2
Panda” or “Bear, cat”: Mandarin-speaking preschoolers use duration and pitch to distinguish compounds and lists2
The Relationship between Parenting Styles, Child’s Gender, and Gender-Shift Use in Arabic Child-Directed Speech2
Accent the positive: An investigation into five-year-olds’ implicit attitudes towards different regional accents2
The development of Hebrew zero and pronominal subject realization in the context of first and second person2
JCL volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Back matter2
Developing early lexical composition in Mandarin-speaking children: A longitudinal study2
Exploring the relations between teachers’ high-quality language features and preschoolers and kindergarteners’ vocabulary learning2
Maternal mind-mindedness and communicative functions in free-play and mealtime contexts: Stability, continuity and relations with child language at 16 months2
Produced, but not ‘productive’: Mandarin-speaking pre-schoolers’ challenges acquiring L2 English plural morphology2
Phonological vs. natural gender cues in the acquisition of German by simultaneous and sequential bilinguals (German–Russian)2
Developmental differences in perceptual anticipation underlie different sensitivities to coarticulatory dynamics2
The everyday speech environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants2
Syntactic bootstrapping with clausal complements of adjectives2
How strong is the relationship between caregiver speech and language development? A meta-analysis2
Young minds’ quest for regularity: Evidence from the Turkish causative2
Relating the prosody of infant-directed speech to children’s vocabulary size2
Vowels and consonants matter equally to British English-learning 11-month-olds’ familiar word form recognition2
Utterance-Initial Prosodic Differences Between Statements and Questions in Infant-Directed Speech2
Remote collection of language samples from three-year-olds2
The acquisition of the semantics of Japanese numeral classifiers: The methodological value of nonsense2
Bilingual Vocabulary Development in Mexican Indigenous Infants: The Effects of Language Exposure from Home and Mothers’ Language Dominance2
Variation awaiting bias: Substantively biased learning of vowel harmony variation2
Singleton consonant onset acquisition in monolingual Granada Spanish-speaking preschoolers with typical versus protracted phonological development: Impacts of word structure and feature constraints2
Motherese Directed at Prelinguistic Infants at Risk for Neurological Disorders: An Exploratory Study2
Computational cognitive modeling for syntactic acquisition: Approaches that integrate information from multiple places2
The effects of overhearing on vocabulary learning in ethnic majority and minority preschool children2
Contributions of Abstract Extratextual Talk and Interactive Style to Preschoolers’ Vocabulary Development2
Maternal input, not transient elevated depression and anxiety symptoms, predicts 2-year-olds’ vocabulary development2
Learning to comprehend and explain spatial metaphors for time in Chinese1
L1 acquisition of the tense-aspect markers -ess (past-perfective) and -ko iss (imperfective) in Korean1
Developmental change in children’s speech processing of auditory and visual cues: An eyetracking study1
An observational study of parental language during play and mealtime in toddlers at variable likelihood for autism1
Grammaticality judgments in autism: Deviance or delay – CORRIGENDUM1
Use of pointing in parent-child interactions by hearing children of deaf and hearing parents: A follow-up from 1- to 3-years of age1
JCL volume 49 issue 5 Cover and Back matter1
Cognitive skills differentially influence narrative macrostructure in bilinguals’ L1 and L21
The production of /s/-stop clusters by pre-schoolers with hearing loss1
JCL volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter1
The Developmental Puzzle of Irony Understanding: Is Epistemic Vigilance the Missing Piece?1
Children’s acquisition of word order variation: A study of subject placement in embedded clauses in Norwegian1
Mandarin-learning 19-month-old toddlers’ sensitivity to word order cues that differentiate unaccusative and unergative verbs1
An Evaluation of LENA Start™ Using Measures Derived from Parent–Child Interactions1
JCL volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
Learning speaker- and addressee-centered demonstratives in Ticuna1
Structure and acoustics of the speech of verbal autistic preschoolers1
The Language ENvironment Analysis system (LENA): A validation study with Italian-learning children1
Vocabulary trajectories in German-speaking children from 18 months to three years: a growth mixture model1
How reliable is assessment of children’s sentence comprehension using a self-directed app? A comparison of supported versus independent use1
Acquisition of demonstratives in cross-linguistic perspective1
Novel word learning ability in 24-month-olds: The interactive role of mother’s work status and education level1
Testing the relationship between preferences for infant-directed speech and vocabulary development: A multi-lab study1
Comprehension and processing of the universal quantifier in children, adolescents and adults1
Frequent vs. infrequent words shape toddlers’ real-time sentence comprehension1
Converging Evidence of Underlying Competence: Comprehension and Production in the Acquisition of Spanish Subject-Verb Agreement1
Same name, different representational levels? Misalignment of indirect parent-reported and direct alternative forced choice measures of emotion word comprehension in preschool children1
Literacy and early language development: Insights from computational modelling1
“They sure aren’t from around here”: Children’s perception of accent distance in L1 and L2 varieties of English1
Emergent bilingual children during the silent period: A scoping review of their communication strategies and classroom environments1
The influence of the temporal characteristics of events on adults’ and children’s pronoun resolution1
Analogy is indispensable but rule is a must: Insights from Turkish1
Commonalities, differences, and differences that matter between monolingual and bilingual development1
JCL volume 48 issue 5 Cover and Back matter1
Comparing parent-child interaction during wordless book reading, print book reading and imaginative play1
The role of age of arrival and language environment factors in Arabic heritage language development: A longitudinal study1
Infants aged 12 months use the gender feature in determiners to anticipate upcoming words: an eye-tracking study1
The influence of prominence cues in 7- to 10-year-olds’ pronoun resolution: Disentangling order of mention, grammatical role, and semantic role1
Child-directed and overheard input from different speakers in two distinct cultures1
Socio-cognitive engagement (but not socioeconomic status) predicts preschool children's language and pragmatic abilities1
Acoustic cues to phrase and clause boundaries in infant-directed speech: Evidence from LENA recordings1
The comprehension of relative clauses in Mandarin Children with suspected specific language impairment1
Children's comprehension of prosodically marked focus in Hungarian: How mandatory syntactic focus-marking affects the trajectory of acquisition1
Singleton consonant onset acquisition in monolingual Granada Spanish-speaking preschoolers with typical versus protracted phonological development: Impacts of word structure and feature constraints – 1
Co-speech gesture comprehension in autistic children1
Cognitive predictors of language abilities in primary school children: A cascaded developmental view1
Which phonological and lexical factors best influence whether a word is produced and pronounced well?1
JCL volume 49 issue 6 Cover and Back matter1
Computational modelling of language acquisition: an introduction1
Cognates are advantaged over non-cognates in early bilingual expressive vocabulary development0
Shifting toward progressive and balanced interaction: A longitudinal corpus study of children’s responses to Who-questions in Japanese0
Children’s use of demonstrative words: spatial deictics beyond infancy0
Input effects in the acquisition of verb inflection: Evidence from Emirati Arabic0
Factors structuring lexical development in toddlers: The effects of parental education, language exposure, and age0
More than just a happy talk? Evidence for functional pitch and utterance length modifications in infant-, spouse-, and dog-directed communication0
Children’s disambiguation of novel words varies by the number and position of phonological contrasts0
Sources of children’s difficulties with non-canonical sentence structures: Insights from Mandarin0
Leveraging language specific information0
Late Talkers can generalise trained labels by object shape similarities, but not unfamiliar labels0
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Profiles of word-finding difficulties in school-aged children0
Lexical restructuring stimulates phonological awareness among emerging English–French bilingual children’s literacy0
Frequency, redundancy, and context in bilingual acquisition0
Connecting perception and production in early Catalan–Spanish bilingual children: language dominance and quality of input effects0
Caregiver sensitivity supported young children’s vocabulary development during the Covid-19 UK lockdowns0
Pragmatic, linguistic and cognitive factors in young children's development of quantity, relevance and word learning inferences0
Print exposure predicts pronoun comprehension strategies in children – CORRIGENDUM0
Referential expressions in monolingual and bilingual children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A study of informativeness and definiteness0
Can gesture input support toddlers’ fast mapping?0
Linguistic and motor profiles in preschool and school-age children with an older sibling with autism spectrum disorder0
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The role of imageability in noun and verb acquisition in children with Down syndrome and their peers with typical development0
An investigation of iconic language development in four datasets0
The role of early temperament on oral language development of New Zealand children speaking Mandarin or Cantonese0
Development of communicative-pragmatic abilities in children with early cochlear implants0
Sign advantage: Both children and adults’ spatial expressions in sign are more informative than those in speech and gestures combined0
Testable theories of core first language acquisition0
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The development of narrative skills in monolingual Swedish-speaking children aged 4 to 9: a longitudinal study0
Longitudinal development of cognition and vocabulary knowledge in young second language learners in a bilingual programme0
Early parental causal language input predicts children’s later causal verb understanding0
Cognates are advantaged over non-cognates in early bilingual expressive vocabulary development – ERRATUM0
Developmental language disorder in sequential bilinguals: Characterising word properties in spontaneous speech0
Maternal underestimations and overestimations of their infants’ word comprehension: effects on mothers’ verbal input and infants’ receptive vocabulary0
How does linguistic context influence word learning?0
Spontaneous speech intelligibility: early cochlear implanted children versus their normally hearing peers at seven years of age0
Living the first years in a pandemic: children’s linguistic development and related factors in and out of the COVID-19 lockdowns0
Code-switching in parents’ everyday speech to bilingual infants0
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Context-Dependent Learning of Linguistic Disjunction0
Narrative Performance and Sociopragmatic Abilities in Preschool Children are Linked to Multimodal Imitation Skills0
¡Casi te caístes!: Variation in second person singular preterit forms in Spanish Children0
Acquisition of variability in Akan Phonology: Labio-palatalized consonants and front rounded vowels0
For preschoolers, word knowledge falls on a continuum: A novel framework for capturing the incremental process of word learning0
Comprehension of indirect answers: Developmental trajectory for preschool- and early elementary school-aged children with typical development0
The impact of internal and external factors across language domains and features in sequential bilingual acquisition0
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 grammar0
A broadened estimate of syntactic and lexical ability from the MB-CDI0
The association between screen media quantity, content, and context and language development0
Task effects in children’s word recall: Expanding the reverse production effect0
Investigating the Mechanisms Driving Referent Selection and Retention in Toddlers at Typical and Elevated Likelihood for Autism Spectrum Disorder0
What Characterizes the Productive Morphosyntax of Norwegian Children with Developmental Language Disorder?0
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Hablando at home: Examining the interactional resources of a bilingual autistic child0
Development of derivational morphological knowledge in monolingual and bilingual children: Effects of modality and lexicality0
Metaphor comprehension in the acquisition of Arabic – ERRATUM0
Sources of variation at the onset of bilingualism: The differential effect of input factors, AOA, and cognitive skills on HL Arabic and L2 English syntax0
Constructivist Approaches to First Language Acquisition0
Two-year-olds at elevated risk for ASD can learn novel words from their parents0
Russian–German five-year-olds: What omissions in sentence repetition tell us about linguistic knowledge, memory skills and their interrelation0
Due to increased variability, the expanded vowel and tone space in Mandarin IDS does not lead to enhanced contrasts0
A cross-linguistic examination of young children’s everyday language experiences0
Parental use of causal language for preterm and full-term children: A longitudinal study0
Time after time: Factors influencing children’s comprehension of Before and After0
Development of sign phonology in Kata Kolok0
Touching while listening: Does infants’ haptic word processing speed predict vocabulary development?0
An empirical study on native Mandarin-speaking children’s metonymy comprehension development0
Uh and um in autism: The case of hesitation marker usage in Dutch-speaking autistic preschoolers0
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 islands0
Building on cultural and linguistic strengths and recognizing life challenges - a commentary on Paradis’ “Sources of individual differences in the dual language development of heritage bilinguals”0
Children's Understanding of Proper Names and Descriptions0
A metaphorical advantage for bilingual children? Understanding figurative meaning by L2 and L3 EFL learners0
The dynamics of initiation in caregiver–child conversational interactions0
Structural complexity reduction in English–French bilingual children’s event encoding0
The acquisition of sign languages in rural contexts – what can we do when samples will always be ‘too small’?0
Processing of noun plural marking in German-speaking children: an eye-tracking study0
The acquisition and use of relative clauses in Turkish-learning children's conversational interactions: a cross-linguistic approach – CORRIGENDUM0
Associations between shared book reading, daily screen time and infants’ vocabulary size0
The observation of superiority on multiple movements to the Italian left-periphery: Intervention effects on nested dependencies and the role of information-structure features0
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Enhancing adolescent parent interactions in communication through facilitative playgroups0
Receptive and expressive vocabulary development in children learning English as an additional language: Converging evidence from multiple datasets0
Preferential use of full glottal stops in vowel-initial glottalization in child speech: Evidence from novel words0
The Development of Abstract Word Meanings0
Examining the dimensionality of vocabulary in English as a second language in Chinese children0
Learning Irony in School: Effects of Metapragmatic Training0
Inhibitory Control and Patterns of Errors in Resolution of Syntactically Ambiguous Sentences0
Task difficulty and private speech in typically developing and at-risk preschool children0
Internal and external factors contributing to variability in consonant accuracy of Arabic–French simultaneous bilingual children0
Assessing the Quantity and Quality of Language Used by Mothers and Fathers of Children with Down Syndrome During Shared Book Reading0
The emergence of subjects in Lebanese two-year-olds0
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