OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Child 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Processing adjectives in development: Evidence from eye-tracking	82
Bilingual Toddlers’ Vocabulary Growth Interacts with Existing Knowledge and Cross-Linguistic Similarity	30
Parents tune their vowels to the emergence of children’s words	29
Neural correlates of lexical-tone and vowel-quality processing in 6- and 9-month-old German-learning infants and adults	22
So many variables, but what causes what?	14
Children’s engagement and caregivers’ use of language-boosting strategies during shared book reading: A mixed methods approach	14
Syntactic priming as implicit learning in German child language	13
Individual Differences in Bilingual Child Language Acquisition: A plunge into a Complex and Dynamic Network	13
No concurrent correlations between parental mental state talk and toddlers’ language abilities – ERRATUM	12
Realistic and broad-scope learning simulations: first results and challenges	12
Early home learning environment and children’s concurrent and longitudinal language development	10
Parents’ talk about conceptual categories with infants: stability, variability, and implications for expressive language development	10
The distributional and embodied contexts of verbs in caregiver-infant interactions	10
How is vowel production in Italian affected by geminate consonants and stress patterns?	9
JCL volume 48 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	8
Individual differences differentially influence language domains and learning mechanisms	8
The Acquisition of Verbal Morphology by Child Classroom EFL Learners in Russia and China: The Effect of Age and L1	8
Acquisition of the feature [+spread glottis] in Icelandic	8
Overuse of familiar phrases by individuals with Williams syndrome masks differences in language processing	8
Object Shape and Depth of Word Representations in Preschoolers	8
Children Learn Causatives Despite Pervasive Ellipsis: Evidence from Turkish	7
Reviewers 2024	7
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–III	7
Different paths to multilingualism in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Naturalistic and non-interactive	7
The relationship between working memory, production, and comprehension: evidence from children’s errors in complex wh questions	6

Is there a bilingual disadvantage for word segmentation? A computational modeling approach	6
Rules and exceptions: A Tolerance Principle account of the possessive suffix in Northern East Cree	6
Collecting language acquisition data from understudied urban communities: A reply to Cristia et al.	6
The complexity of opportunities to respond used by mothers and fathers of children with Down syndrome: A preliminary investigation	6
Diversifying language acquisition research can be (partly) achieved in urban societies and with simplified methodologies: Insights from multilingual Ghana	5
How children learn to communicate discriminatively	5
Comprehension of complex sentences containing temporal connectives: How children are led down the event-semantic kindergarten-path	5
Filling lexical gaps and more: code-switching for the power of expression by young bilinguals	5
Parent Responsivity, Language Input, and the Development of Simple Sentences	5
Positive Valence Contributes to Hyperarticulation in Maternal Speech to Infants and Puppies	5
How do parents refer to their children while playing? A cross-linguistic comparison of parental input to Bulgarian- and English-speaking children with ASD	5
Argument ordering in simple sentences is affected by age of first language acquisition: Evidence from late first language signers of ASL	5
Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping	5
Neurocomputational modeling of speech motor development	4
Frequency, perceptual salience, and semantic complexity: The acquisition of possessor inflection in Northern East Cree	4
There might be more to syntactic bootstrapping than being pragmatic: A look at grammatical person and prosody in naturalistic child-directed speech	4
Narrative performance and sociopragmatic abilities in preschool children are linked to multimodal imitation skills – CORRIGENDUM	4
Assessing two methods of webcam-based eye-tracking for child language research	4
No concurrent correlations between parental mental state talk and toddlers’ language abilities	4
Influence of caregiver input and language experience on the production of coda laterals by English–Malay bilingual preschoolers in multi-accent Singapore	4
Reviewers 2023	4
Maternal parenting style and self-regulatory private speech content use in preschool children	4
Socio-economic status and other potential risk factors for language development in the first year of life	4
The language of mechanical support in children: Is it “Sticking,” “Hanging,” or simply “On”?	4
Acoustic characteristics of stop consonants in Vietnamese children and adults	4
Real-time spoken word recognition in deaf and hard of hearing preschoolers: Effects of phonological competition	4
Phonological Variation in Child-Directed Speech is Modulated by Lexical Frequency	4
Speech representation used by Mandarin Chinese-speaking children aged three to six years	3
JCL volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	3
Ontogeny of index-finger pointing	3
Child phonological responses to variegation in adult words: A cross-linguistic study	3
Examining Dutch children’s vocabularies across infancy and toddlerhood: Demographic effects are age-specific and task-specific	3
Motherese Directed at Prelinguistic Infants at Risk for Neurological Disorders: An Exploratory Study	3
Object shape and depth of word representations in preschoolers – ERRATUM	3
Syntactic Structural Development in Chinese deaf Children Aged 4–7 Years with Cochlear Implants	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
Pseudo-relatives and restrictive-relatives in child Mandarin	3
Bilingual children reach early language milestones at the same age as monolingual peers	3
Null subject comprehension and production revisited: a look at English and Italian	3
Age-related changes in lexical tones and intonation in Cantonese infant-directed speech: A longitudinal study	3
The acquisition of English modal constructions: a corpus-based analysis	3
Parent-child interaction during storybook reading: wordless narrative books versus books with text	3
Do You Use Love to Make it Lovely? The Role of Meaning Overlap across Morphological Relatives in the Development of Morphological Representations	3
Exploring the relations between teachers’ high-quality language features and preschoolers and kindergarteners’ vocabulary learning	3
JCL volume 48 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	3
Phonological Working Memory and Sentence Production in School-Age Children with Typical Language, Dyslexia, and Comorbid Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorder	3
JCL volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	3
Marked pointing facilitates learning part names: A test of lexical constraint versus social pragmatic accounts of word learning	3
Size sound symbolism in mothers’ speech to their infants	3
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	3

Parentese in infancy predicts 5-year language complexity and conversational turns	3
Bilingual Vocabulary Development in Mexican Indigenous Infants: The Effects of Language Exposure from Home and Mothers’ Language Dominance	3
Stop contrast acquisition in child Kriol: Evidence of stable transmission of phonology post Creole formation	3
Sources of individual differences in the dual language development of heritage bilinguals	3