OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Child Language is 2. 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
JCL volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	43
Receptive and expressive vocabulary development in children learning English as an additional language: Converging evidence from multiple datasets	28
Parent-child interaction during storybook reading: wordless narrative books versus books with text	23
JCL volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	23
The comprehension of relative clauses in Mandarin Children with suspected specific language impairment	18
Bilingual Toddlers’ Vocabulary Growth Interacts with Existing Knowledge and Cross-Linguistic Similarity	16
Inhibitory control and verb inflection in Italian preschool children	13
Processing adjectives in development: Evidence from eye-tracking	13
JCL volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	11
Remembering sentences is not all about memory: Convergent and discriminant validity of syntactic knowledge and its relationship with reading comprehension	11
Reviewers 2021	10
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	10
JCL volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	10
What does the Sentence Structure component of the CELF-IV index, in monolinguals and bilinguals?	9
The role of infinitival clauses in the dialogues of German-speaking children and adults	9
JCL volume 49 issue 6 Cover and Back matter	9
Pseudo-relatives and restrictive-relatives in child Mandarin	8
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”	8
Phonological Working Memory and Sentence Production in School-Age Children with Typical Language, Dyslexia, and Comorbid Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorder	8
JCL volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	8
Learning to express causal events in Mandarin Chinese: A multimodal perspective	8
Ditransitive structures in child language acquisition: An investigation of production and comprehension in children aged five to seven	8
The dynamics of initiation in caregiver–child conversational interactions	7
Socioeconomic status correlates with measures of Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system: a meta-analysis	7
An Evaluation of LENA Start™ Using Measures Derived from Parent–Child Interactions	7

Bilingual children reach early language milestones at the same age as monolingual peers	7
Acquisition of variability in Akan Phonology: Labio-palatalized consonants and front rounded vowels	7
Structural complexity reduction in English–French bilingual children’s event encoding	6
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 interaction	6
Neural correlates of lexical-tone and vowel-quality processing in 6- and 9-month-old German-learning infants and adults	6
Running or crossing? Children's expression of voluntary motion in English, German, and French	6
Adapting language development research paradigms to online testing: Data from preferential looking, word learning and vocabulary assessment in toddlers	6
Factors structuring lexical development in toddlers: The effects of parental education, language exposure, and age	5
Ontogeny of index-finger pointing	5
The acquisition of English modal constructions: a corpus-based analysis	5
A cross-linguistic examination of young children’s everyday language experiences	5
Uncovering the development of linguistic knowledge in lesser studied languages	5
Word segmentation from transcriptions of child-directed speech using lexical and sub-lexical cues	5
Parentese in infancy predicts 5-year language complexity and conversational turns	5
Parents tune their vowels to the emergence of children’s words	5
Children’s engagement and caregivers’ use of language-boosting strategies during shared book reading: A mixed methods approach	5
Interest, home environment, and young Chinese children’s development of English as a second/foreign language	5
Examining Dutch children’s vocabularies across infancy and toddlerhood: Demographic effects are age-specific and task-specific	4
Speech representation used by Mandarin Chinese-speaking children aged three to six years	4
That kid is a grasshopper! Metaphor development from 3 to 9 years of age	4
So many variables, but what causes what?	4
Variation awaiting bias: Substantively biased learning of vowel harmony variation	4
Spontaneous verbal repetition in toddler-adult conversations: a longitudinal study with Spanish-speaking two- year-olds	4
Sources of children’s difficulties with non-canonical sentence structures: Insights from Mandarin	4
Syntactic priming as implicit learning in German child language	4
Marked pointing facilitates learning part names: A test of lexical constraint versus social pragmatic accounts of word learning	4
The Hebrew Web Communicative Development Inventory (MB-CDI): Lexical Development Growth Curves	4
Sources of individual differences in the dual language development of heritage bilinguals	4
JCL volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
JCL volume 48 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	4
Uh and um in autism: The case of hesitation marker usage in Dutch-speaking autistic preschoolers	4
Commonalities, differences, and differences that matter between monolingual and bilingual development	4
Internal state language factor structure and development in toddlerhood: Insights from WordBank	4
The timescales of word learning in children with language delays: In-the-moment mapping, retention, and generalization	4
JCL volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	4
JCL volume 50 issue 1 Front matter	4
Mandarin-learning 19-month-old toddlers’ sensitivity to word order cues that differentiate unaccusative and unergative verbs	3
JCL volume 49 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	3
Singleton consonant onset acquisition in monolingual Granada Spanish-speaking preschoolers with typical versus protracted phonological development: Impacts of word structure and feature constraints	3
The distributional and embodied contexts of verbs in caregiver-infant interactions	3
The Development of Abstract Word Meanings	3
Touching while listening: Does infants’ haptic word processing speed predict vocabulary development?	3
Do You Use Love to Make it Lovely? The Role of Meaning Overlap across Morphological Relatives in the Development of Morphological Representations	3
JCL volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	3
Realistic and broad-scope learning simulations: first results and challenges	3
Parents’ talk about conceptual categories with infants: stability, variability, and implications for expressive language development	3
Parental use of causal language for preterm and full-term children: A longitudinal study	3
The impact of internal and external factors across language domains and features in sequential bilingual acquisition	3
How does linguistic context influence word learning?	3
Context-Dependent Learning of Linguistic Disjunction	3

Cognitive predictors of language abilities in primary school children: A cascaded developmental view	3
Produced, but not ‘productive’: Mandarin-speaking pre-schoolers’ challenges acquiring L2 English plural morphology	3
Developmental differences in perceptual anticipation underlie different sensitivities to coarticulatory dynamics	3
The acquisition and use of relative clauses in Turkish-learning children's conversational interactions: a cross-linguistic approach – CORRIGENDUM	2
Measuring knowledge of multiple word meanings in children with English as a first and an additional language and the relationship to reading comprehension	2
Exploring the relations between teachers’ high-quality language features and preschoolers and kindergarteners’ vocabulary learning	2
More than just a happy talk? Evidence for functional pitch and utterance length modifications in infant-, spouse-, and dog-directed communication	2
“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	2
How is vowel production in Italian affected by geminate consonants and stress patterns?	2
Frequent vs. infrequent words shape toddlers’ real-time sentence comprehension	2
Stop contrast acquisition in child Kriol: Evidence of stable transmission of phonology post Creole formation	2
JCL volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2
Enhancing adolescent parent interactions in communication through facilitative playgroups	2
Overuse of familiar phrases by individuals with Williams syndrome masks differences in language processing	2
Singleton consonant onset acquisition in monolingual Granada Spanish-speaking preschoolers with typical versus protracted phonological development: Impacts of word structure and feature constraints –	2
The influence of prominence cues in 7- to 10-year-olds’ pronoun resolution: Disentangling order of mention, grammatical role, and semantic role	2
Profiles of word-finding difficulties in school-aged children	2
Motherese Directed at Prelinguistic Infants at Risk for Neurological Disorders: An Exploratory Study	2
Children’s use of demonstrative words: spatial deictics beyond infancy	2
Novel word learning ability in 24-month-olds: The interactive role of mother’s work status and education level	2
The everyday speech environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants	2
Frequency, redundancy, and context in bilingual acquisition	2
Variation in quality of maternal input and development of coda stops in English-speaking children in Singapore	2
Mean Length of Utterance: A study of early language development in four Southern Bantu languages	2
Syntactic Structural Development in Chinese deaf Children Aged 4–7 Years with Cochlear Implants	2
Print exposure predicts pronoun comprehension strategies in children – CORRIGENDUM	2
No concurrent correlations between parental mental state talk and toddlers’ language abilities – ERRATUM	2
Individual Differences in Bilingual Child Language Acquisition: A plunge into a Complex and Dynamic Network	2
The influence of the temporal characteristics of events on adults’ and children’s pronoun resolution	2
The emergence of subjects in Lebanese two-year-olds	2
Children’s acquisition of word order variation: A study of subject placement in embedded clauses in Norwegian	2
“They sure aren’t from around here”: Children’s perception of accent distance in L1 and L2 varieties of English	2
Impact of talker variability on language development in two-year-olds	2
Phonological vs. natural gender cues in the acquisition of German by simultaneous and sequential bilinguals (German–Russian)	2
Object shape and depth of word representations in preschoolers – ERRATUM	2
Same name, different representational levels? Misalignment of indirect parent-reported and direct alternative forced choice measures of emotion word comprehension in preschool children	2