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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Syntactic priming as implicit learning in German child language	157
So many variables, but what causes what?	17
Neural correlates of lexical-tone and vowel-quality processing in 6- and 9-month-old German-learning infants and adults	15
Processing adjectives in development: Evidence from eye-tracking	15
Children’s engagement and caregivers’ use of language-boosting strategies during shared book reading: A mixed methods approach	14
Bilingual Toddlers’ Vocabulary Growth Interacts with Existing Knowledge and Cross-Linguistic Similarity	14
Influence of Visual Context Stability on Word Learning in Fourteen- and Nineteen-Month-Old Children	12
Realistic and broad-scope learning simulations: first results and challenges	11
Individual Differences in Bilingual Child Language Acquisition: A plunge into a Complex and Dynamic Network	11
Lexical Trajectories in Toddlers from Low-Income Bilingual Immigrant and Monolingual Families in Italy	11
Overuse of familiar phrases by individuals with Williams syndrome masks differences in language processing	10
How is vowel production in Italian affected by geminate consonants and stress patterns?	10
No concurrent correlations between parental mental state talk and toddlers’ language abilities – ERRATUM	10
Early home learning environment and children’s concurrent and longitudinal language development	9
The Acquisition of Verbal Morphology by Child Classroom EFL Learners in Russia and China: The Effect of Age and L1	8
The distributional and embodied contexts of verbs in caregiver-infant interactions	8
Acquisition of the feature [+spread glottis] in Icelandic	8
The relationship between maternal input, culture, and the strength of noun bias in Palestinian-Arabic-learning infants	8
Children Learn Causatives Despite Pervasive Ellipsis: Evidence from Turkish	7
Reviewers 2024	7
Object Shape and Depth of Word Representations in Preschoolers	7
The complexity of opportunities to respond used by mothers and fathers of children with Down syndrome: A preliminary investigation	7
Individual differences differentially influence language domains and learning mechanisms	7
No concurrent correlations between parental mental state talk and toddlers’ language abilities	6
Parent Responsivity, Language Input, and the Development of Simple Sentences	6

Diversifying language acquisition research can be (partly) achieved in urban societies and with simplified methodologies: Insights from multilingual Ghana	6
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	6
Enhancing Phonological Awareness in First and Second Language by Jyutping Training: Evidence From Cantonese-English Bilingual Children	6
The relationship between working memory, production, and comprehension: evidence from children’s errors in complex wh questions	6
Collecting language acquisition data from understudied urban communities: A reply to Cristia et al.	6
Comprehension of complex sentences containing temporal connectives: How children are led down the event-semantic kindergarten-path	6
Argument ordering in simple sentences is affected by age of first language acquisition: Evidence from late first language signers of ASL	6
Different paths to multilingualism in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Naturalistic and non-interactive	6
The language of mechanical support in children: Is it “Sticking,” “Hanging,” or simply “On”?	5
Socio-economic status and other potential risk factors for language development in the first year of life	5
Neurocomputational modeling of speech motor development	5
Positive Valence Contributes to Hyperarticulation in Maternal Speech to Infants and Puppies	5
Frequency, perceptual salience, and semantic complexity: The acquisition of possessor inflection in Northern East Cree	5
To bind or not to bind: Individual differences in pronominal processing among adolescent Mandarin-English heritage speakers	5
Flexible Use of Word Learning Strategies: Monolingual and Bilingual Children’s Word Learning Under Different Language Contexts	5
Influence of caregiver input and language experience on the production of coda laterals by English–Malay bilingual preschoolers in multi-accent Singapore	5
Acoustic characteristics of stop consonants in Vietnamese children and adults	5
Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping	5
Assessing two methods of webcam-based eye-tracking for child language research	5
Stop contrast acquisition in child Kriol: Evidence of stable transmission of phonology post Creole formation	4
Maternal parenting style and self-regulatory private speech content use in preschool children	4
Ontogeny of index-finger pointing	4
There might be more to syntactic bootstrapping than being pragmatic: A look at grammatical person and prosody in naturalistic child-directed speech	4
Child phonological responses to variegation in adult words: A cross-linguistic study	4
Sources of individual differences in the dual language development of heritage bilinguals	4
Singleton consonant onset acquisition in monolingual Granada Spanish-speaking preschoolers with typical versus protracted phonological development: Impacts of word structure and feature constraints	4
The everyday speech environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants	4
Parentese in infancy predicts 5-year language complexity and conversational turns	4
Exploring the relations between teachers’ high-quality language features and preschoolers and kindergarteners’ vocabulary learning	4
Mean Length of Utterance: A study of early language development in four Southern Bantu languages	4
Examining Dutch children’s vocabularies across infancy and toddlerhood: Demographic effects are age-specific and task-specific	4
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	4
Reviewers 2023	4
Phonological Variation in Child-Directed Speech is Modulated by Lexical Frequency	4
Size sound symbolism in mothers’ speech to their infants	4
Bilingual children reach early language milestones at the same age as monolingual peers	4
Syntactic Structural Development in Chinese deaf Children Aged 4–7 Years with Cochlear Implants	4
Do You Use Love to Make it Lovely? The Role of Meaning Overlap across Morphological Relatives in the Development of Morphological Representations	4
The Role of Home Literacy Environment in Word Reading and Listening Comprehension in Chinese	4
Beyond breadth of vocabulary: Vocabulary depth can also be impacted by school’s socioeconomic status	4
Phonological Working Memory and Sentence Production in School-Age Children with Typical Language, Dyslexia, and Comorbid Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorder	4
Real-time spoken word recognition in deaf and hard of hearing preschoolers: Effects of phonological competition	4
Null subject comprehension and production revisited: a look at English and Italian	4
Age-related changes in lexical tones and intonation in Cantonese infant-directed speech: A longitudinal study	4
The acquisition of English modal constructions: a corpus-based analysis	4
Effortful control and expressive language in deaf or hard-of-hearing children: The contributions of caregiver language and parenting stress	4
Motherese Directed at Prelinguistic Infants at Risk for Neurological Disorders: An Exploratory Study	4
Object shape and depth of word representations in preschoolers – ERRATUM	4
Bilingual Vocabulary Development in Mexican Indigenous Infants: The Effects of Language Exposure from Home and Mothers’ Language Dominance	4
Phonetic development in late childhood: Longitudinal evidence from Gheg-speaking children	3

Developing early lexical composition in Mandarin-speaking children: A longitudinal study	3
The effects of overhearing on vocabulary learning in ethnic majority and minority preschool children	3
JCL volume 49 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	3
“ Panda ” or “ Bear, cat ”: Mandarin-speaking preschoolers use duration and pitch to distinguish compounds	3
Risk of early language deprivation among deaf bilinguals with early signing experience: Evidence from American Sign Language basic word order and bilingual proficiency	3
The acquisition of the semantics of Japanese numeral classifiers: The methodological value of nonsense	3
Learning to comprehend and explain spatial metaphors for time in Chinese	3
“Mom said it in quotation marks!” Irony comprehension and metapragmatic awareness in 8-year-olds	3
Syntactic bootstrapping with clausal complements of adjectives	3
Vowels and consonants matter equally to British English-learning 11-month-olds’ familiar word form recognition	3
The Relationship between Parenting Styles, Child’s Gender, and Gender-Shift Use in Arabic Child-Directed Speech	3
Current practices of Portuguese speech-language pathologists with preschool-age children with pragmatic impairment: A cross-sectional survey	3
Exposure to Foreign Languages through Live Interaction Can Facilitate Children’s Acceptance of Multiple Labeling Conventions across Languages	3
How strong is the relationship between caregiver speech and language development? A meta-analysis	3
Utterance-Initial Prosodic Differences Between Statements and Questions in Infant-Directed Speech	3
Grammaticality judgments in autism: Deviance or delay – CORRIGENDUM	3
Relating the prosody of infant-directed speech to children’s vocabulary size	3
Accent the positive: An investigation into five-year-olds’ implicit attitudes towards different regional accents	3
Computational cognitive modeling for syntactic acquisition: Approaches that integrate information from multiple places	3
Maternal input, not transient elevated depression and anxiety symptoms, predicts 2-year-olds’ vocabulary development	3
Spoken or sung? Examining word learning in child-directed speech and in song	3
Remote collection of language samples from three-year-olds	3
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	3
Examining the Robustness and Generalizability of the Shape Bias: A Meta-Analysis	3
The development of Hebrew zero and pronominal subject realization in the context of first and second person	3
The clarity of word repetitions in American English infant-directed speech	3