Journal of Child Language

Article	Citations
Sources of individual differences in the dual language development of heritage bilinguals	36
Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous and early sequential bilingual children: a meta-analysis	28
Singing to infants matters: Early singing interactions affect musical preferences and facilitate vocabulary building	23
Constructivist Approaches to First Language Acquisition	21
Testing the validity of the Cross-Linguistic Lexical Task as a measure of language proficiency in bilingual children	17
Socioeconomic status correlates with measures of Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system: a meta-analysis	16
The Starting Big approach to language learning	13
Code-switching in parents’ everyday speech to bilingual infants	13
The association between screen media quantity, content, and context and language development	12
Does the maturation of early sleep patterns predict language ability at school entry? A Born in Bradford study	11
The Hebrew Web Communicative Development Inventory (MB-CDI): Lexical Development Growth Curves	11
The development of narrative skills in monolingual Swedish-speaking children aged 4 to 9: a longitudinal study	10
Parent-child interaction during storybook reading: wordless narrative books versus books with text	10
An investigation of iconic language development in four datasets	10
Spontaneous verbal repetition in toddler-adult conversations: a longitudinal study with Spanish-speaking two- year-olds	9
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	9
Lexical and Prosodic Pitch Modifications in Cantonese Infant-directed Speech	9
A novel online assessment of pragmatic and core language skills: An attempt to tease apart language domains in children	9
Theory and predictions for the development of morphology and syntax: A Universal Grammar + statistics approach	8
The timescales of word learning in children with language delays: In-the-moment mapping, retention, and generalization	8
Child-directed and overheard input from different speakers in two distinct cultures	8
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	8
Toddlers raised in multi-dialectal families learn words better in accented speech than those raised in monodialectal families	8
Pragmatic, linguistic and cognitive factors in young children's development of quantity, relevance and word learning inferences	8
Variation sets in the speech directed to toddlers in Argentinian households.SES and type of activity effects	7

Measuring knowledge of multiple word meanings in children with English as a first and an additional language and the relationship to reading comprehension	7
Referential expressions in monolingual and bilingual children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A study of informativeness and definiteness	7
How children learn to communicate discriminatively	7
Multilingual toddlers’ vocabulary development in two languages: Comparing bilinguals and trilinguals	7
Socio-cognitive engagement (but not socioeconomic status) predicts preschool children's language and pragmatic abilities	7
Early parental causal language input predicts children’s later causal verb understanding	6
Ontogeny of index-finger pointing	6
Assessing the Quantity and Quality of Language Used by Mothers and Fathers of Children with Down Syndrome During Shared Book Reading	6
Productivity and the acquisition of gender	6
Cognitive predictors of language abilities in primary school children: A cascaded developmental view	6
A parametric approach to the acquisition of syntax	5
Speaking of State of Mind: Maternal Mental Health Predicts Children's Home Language Environment and Expressive Language	5
Phonetic discrimination, phonological awareness, and pre-literacy skills in Spanish–English dual language preschoolers	5
Determinants of early lexical acquisition: Effects of word- and child-level factors on Dutch children's acquisition of words	5
“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	5
The comprehension of relative clauses in Mandarin Children with suspected specific language impairment	5
Collocational knowledge in children: a comparison of English-speaking monolingual children, and children acquiring English as an Additional Language	5
Maternal mind-mindedness and communicative functions in free-play and mealtime contexts: Stability, continuity and relations with child language at 16 months	5
What categorical induction variability reveals about typical and atypical development	5
Child phonological responses to variegation in adult words: A cross-linguistic study	4
Effect of sex and dyad composition on speech and gesture development of singleton and twin children	4
Contributions of Abstract Extratextual Talk and Interactive Style to Preschoolers’ Vocabulary Development	4
Young minds’ quest for regularity: Evidence from the Turkish causative	4
The acquisition of prosodic marking of narrow focus in Central Swedish	4
¡Casi te caístes!: Variation in second person singular preterit forms in Spanish Children	4
Parentese in infancy predicts 5-year language complexity and conversational turns	4
Children’s engagement and caregivers’ use of language-boosting strategies during shared book reading: A mixed methods approach	4
Communicative functions of parents’ child-directed speech across dyadic and triadic contexts	4
Acquisition of demonstratives in cross-linguistic perspective	4
Relating the prosody of infant-directed speech to children’s vocabulary size	4
Silence matters: The role of pauses during dyadic maternal and paternal vocal interactions with preterm and full-term infants	4
Rules and exceptions: A Tolerance Principle account of the possessive suffix in Northern East Cree	4
Task difficulty and private speech in typically developing and at-risk preschool children	4
Running or crossing? Children's expression of voluntary motion in English, German, and French	4
Interface Delay	4
Connecting perception and production in early Catalan–Spanish bilingual children: language dominance and quality of input effects	4
Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping	4
Neurocomputational modeling of speech motor development	4
Exploring the Linguistic, Cognitive, and Social Skills Underlying Lexical Processing Efficiency as Measured by the Looking-while-Listening Paradigm	4
Korean-speaking children’s constructional knowledge about a transitive event: Corpus analysis and Bayesian modelling	4
Variation in quality of maternal input and development of coda stops in English-speaking children in Singapore	4
Contrasting lexical biases in bilingual English–Mandarin speech: Verb-biased mothers, but noun-biased toddlers	4
The influence of prominence cues in 7- to 10-year-olds’ pronoun resolution: Disentangling order of mention, grammatical role, and semantic role	3
Development of the voiceless sibilant fricative contrast in three-year-olds: an ultrasound and acoustic study	3
Inhibitory control and verb inflection in Italian preschool children	3
Combining observational and experimental approaches to the development of language and communication in rural samples: Opportunities and challenges	3
Spontaneous speech intelligibility: early cochlear implanted children versus their normally hearing peers at seven years of age	3
Internal and external factors contributing to variability in consonant accuracy of Arabic–French simultaneous bilingual children	3
Structural and interactional aspects of adverbial sentences in English mother-child interactions: an analysis of two dense corpora	3
Phonological vs. natural gender cues in the acquisition of German by simultaneous and sequential bilinguals (German–Russian)	3

Ditransitive structures in child language acquisition: An investigation of production and comprehension in children aged five to seven	3
Parents tune their vowels to the emergence of children’s words	3
Infants aged 12 months use the gender feature in determiners to anticipate upcoming words: an eye-tracking study	3
Parent Responsivity, Language Input, and the Development of Simple Sentences	3
The development of constructions from the right edge: a multinomial regression analysis of clitic left and right dislocation in child French	3
Parents’ talk about conceptual categories with infants: stability, variability, and implications for expressive language development	3
Individual Differences in Bilingual Child Language Acquisition: A plunge into a Complex and Dynamic Network	3
Remembering sentences is not all about memory: Convergent and discriminant validity of syntactic knowledge and its relationship with reading comprehension	3
Development of sign phonology in Kata Kolok	3
Filling lexical gaps and more: code-switching for the power of expression by young bilinguals	3
Vocabulary production in toddlers from low-income immigrant families: evidence from children exposed to Romanian-Italian and Nigerian English-Italian	3
Narrative Performance and Sociopragmatic Abilities in Preschool Children are Linked to Multimodal Imitation Skills	2
The acquisition of sign languages in rural contexts – what can we do when samples will always be ‘too small’?	2
Processing of noun plural marking in German-speaking children: an eye-tracking study	2
Sign advantage: Both children and adults’ spatial expressions in sign are more informative than those in speech and gestures combined	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
The influence of the temporal characteristics of events on adults’ and children’s pronoun resolution	2
Effects of emotional cues on novel word learning in typically developing children in relation to broader autism traits	2
Produced, but not ‘productive’: Mandarin-speaking pre-schoolers’ challenges acquiring L2 English plural morphology	2
What Characterizes the Productive Morphosyntax of Norwegian Children with Developmental Language Disorder?	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
Development of communicative-pragmatic abilities in children with early cochlear implants	2
Influence of caregiver input and language experience on the production of coda laterals by English–Malay bilingual preschoolers in multi-accent Singapore	2
Lexical restructuring stimulates phonological awareness among emerging English–French bilingual children’s literacy	2
Do infants have abstract grammatical knowledge of word order at 17 months? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese.	2
Cognates are advantaged over non-cognates in early bilingual expressive vocabulary development	2
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 Disor	2
Online processing of which-questions in bilingual children: Evidence from eye-tracking	2
Variation awaiting bias: Substantively biased learning of vowel harmony variation	2
A broadened estimate of syntactic and lexical ability from the MB-CDI	2
Adapting language development research paradigms to online testing: Data from preferential looking, word learning and vocabulary assessment in toddlers	2
Context sensitivity and the semantics of count nouns in the evaluation of partial objects by children and adults	2
Socio-economic status and other potential risk factors for language development in the first year of life	2
Syntactic bootstrapping with clausal complements of adjectives	2
Russian–German five-year-olds: What omissions in sentence repetition tell us about linguistic knowledge, memory skills and their interrelation	2
Development of derivational morphological knowledge in monolingual and bilingual children: Effects of modality and lexicality	2
Converging Evidence of Underlying Competence: Comprehension and Production in the Acquisition of Spanish Subject-Verb Agreement	2
Object Shape and Depth of Word Representations in Preschoolers	2
Phonological neighborhood measures and multisyllabic word acquisition in children	2
Acoustic cues to coda stop voicing contrasts in Australian English-speaking children	2
Frequent vs. infrequent words shape toddlers’ real-time sentence comprehension	2
Developmental change in children’s speech processing of auditory and visual cues: An eyetracking study	2
Receptive and expressive vocabulary development in children learning English as an additional language: Converging evidence from multiple datasets	2
Learning speaker- and addressee-centered demonstratives in Ticuna	2
Input effects in the acquisition of verb inflection: Evidence from Emirati Arabic	2
Testable theories of core first language acquisition	2
Caregiver sensitivity supported young children’s vocabulary development during the Covid-19 UK lockdowns	1
Fostering retention of word learning: The number of training sessions children retrieve words positively relates to post-training retention	1
Enhancing adolescent parent interactions in communication through facilitative playgroups	1
About me, you and her: Personal pronouns are developmentally preceded by mental state language	1
Parental use of causal language for preterm and full-term children: A longitudinal study	1
The Language ENvironment Analysis system (LENA): A validation study with Italian-learning children	1
The Development of Abstract Word Meanings	1
Inhibitory Control and Patterns of Errors in Resolution of Syntactically Ambiguous Sentences	1
Factors structuring lexical development in toddlers: The effects of parental education, language exposure, and age	1
Children’s disambiguation of novel words varies by the number and position of phonological contrasts	1
So many variables, but what causes what?	1
Cognates are advantaged over non-cognates in early bilingual expressive vocabulary development – ERRATUM	1
Children's comprehension of prosodically marked focus in Hungarian: How mandatory syntactic focus-marking affects the trajectory of acquisition	1
How do parents refer to their children while playing? A cross-linguistic comparison of parental input to Bulgarian- and English-speaking children with ASD	1
Structure and acoustics of the speech of verbal autistic preschoolers	1
Consonant articulation and vocabulary size: Twins versus singletons	1
Developmental language disorder in sequential bilinguals: Characterising word properties in spontaneous speech	1
There might be more to syntactic bootstrapping than being pragmatic: A look at grammatical person and prosody in naturalistic child-directed speech	1
Developmental differences in perceptual anticipation underlie different sensitivities to coarticulatory dynamics	1
Can gesture input support toddlers’ fast mapping?	1
Stop contrast acquisition in child Kriol: Evidence of stable transmission of phonology post Creole formation	1
No concurrent correlations between parental mental state talk and toddlers’ language abilities	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
Time after time: Factors influencing children’s comprehension of Before and After	1
Marked pointing facilitates learning part names: A test of lexical constraint versus social pragmatic accounts of word learning	1
Monolingual and bilingual children’s production of complex syntactic structures	1
Learning to express causal events in Mandarin Chinese: A multimodal perspective	1
Language in educational apps for pre-schoolers. A comparison of grammatical constructions and psycholinguistic features in apps, books and child directed speech	1
Vowels and consonants matter equally to British English-learning 11-month-olds’ familiar word form recognition	1
Children's Understanding of Proper Names and Descriptions	1
L1 acquisition of the tense-aspect markers -ess (past-perfective) and -ko iss (imperfective) in Korean	1
Two-year-olds at elevated risk for ASD can learn novel words from their parents	1
Children’s use of demonstrative words: spatial deictics beyond infancy	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

Context-Dependent Learning of Linguistic Disjunction	1
How reliable is assessment of children’s sentence comprehension using a self-directed app? A comparison of supported versus independent use	1
Mandarin-learning 19-month-old toddlers’ sensitivity to word order cues that differentiate unaccusative and unergative verbs	1
Metaphor comprehension in the acquisition of Arabic	1
Acquisition of variability in Akan Phonology: Labio-palatalized consonants and front rounded vowels	1
Relations among Socioeconomic Status, Perceived Stress, and the Home Language Environment	1
Commonalities, differences, and differences that matter between monolingual and bilingual development	1
Germination, early development, and creativity in the acquisition of the Yucatec Maya deictic system	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
Improvements of Statistical Learning Skills Allow Older Children to Go Beyond Single-Hypothesis Testing When Learning Words	1
Computational cognitive modeling for syntactic acquisition: Approaches that integrate information from multiple places	1
Individual differences differentially influence language domains and learning mechanisms	1
Developmental differences in reported speech and internal state language in preschoolers’ personal narratives	1