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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Early language experience in a Papuan community	41
An intervention to increase conversational turns between parents and young children	24
Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous and early sequential bilingual children: a meta-analysis	22
Singing to infants matters: Early singing interactions affect musical preferences and facilitate vocabulary building	19
Overusing the pacifier during infancy sets a footprint on abstract words processing	18
Unique contribution of shared book reading on adult-child language interaction	17
Sources of individual differences in the dual language development of heritage bilinguals	17
Constructivist Approaches to First Language Acquisition	17
Associations Between Maternal Stress, Early Language Behaviors, and Infant Electroencephalography During the First Year of Life	16
Scalar and ad-hoc pragmatic inferences in children: guess which one is easier	14
Documenting the acquisition of indigenous languages	14
Code-switching in parents’ everyday speech to bilingual infants	13
Cross-cultural differences in mother-preschooler book sharing practices in the United States and Thailand	13
Socioeconomic status correlates with measures of Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system: a meta-analysis	13
Language use, home literacy environment, and demography: Predicting vocabulary skills among diverse young dual language learners in Norway	13
The effects of phonological neighborhood density in childhood word production and recognition in Russian are opposite to English	11
Testing the validity of the Cross-Linguistic Lexical Task as a measure of language proficiency in bilingual children	10
Does the maturation of early sleep patterns predict language ability at school entry? A Born in Bradford study	9
An investigation of iconic language development in four datasets	9
A lexical advantage in four-year-old children's word repetition	9
The development of narrative skills in monolingual Swedish-speaking children aged 4 to 9: a longitudinal study	9
The Starting Big approach to language learning	9
Targeted adaptation in infants following live exposure to an accented talker	8
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	8
Lexical and Prosodic Pitch Modifications in Cantonese Infant-directed Speech	8

Starting Big: The Effect of Unit Size on Language Learning in Children and Adults	8
Child-directed and overheard input from different speakers in two distinct cultures	7
The development of phonological memory and language: A multiple groups approach	7
“El nen s'ha menjat una aranya”: The development of narratives in Catalan speaking children	7
The Hebrew Web Communicative Development Inventory (MB-CDI): Lexical Development Growth Curves	7
How children learn to communicate discriminatively	7
Word learning from context in school-age children: relations with language ability and executive function	7
Spontaneous verbal repetition in toddler-adult conversations: a longitudinal study with Spanish-speaking two- year-olds	7
Multilingual toddlers’ vocabulary development in two languages: Comparing bilinguals and trilinguals	7
Fine lexical tuning in infant directed speech to typically developing children	7
Theory and predictions for the development of morphology and syntax: A Universal Grammar + statistics approach	7
The role of socioeconomic and sociocultural predictors of Spanish and English proficiencies of young Latino children of immigrants	7
Inhibitory Control and Preschoolers’ Use of Irregular Past Tense Verbs	6
A novel online assessment of pragmatic and core language skills: An attempt to tease apart language domains in children	6
Parent-child interaction during storybook reading: wordless narrative books versus books with text	6
Variation sets in the speech directed to toddlers in Argentinian households.SES and type of activity effects	6
The association between screen media quantity, content, and context and language development	6
Accuracy of the Language Environment Analyses (LENA^TM) system for estimating child and adult speech in laboratory settings	6
Referential expressions in monolingual and bilingual children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A study of informativeness and definiteness	6
Socio-cognitive engagement (but not socioeconomic status) predicts preschool children's language and pragmatic abilities	6
Pragmatic, linguistic and cognitive factors in young children's development of quantity, relevance and word learning inferences	6
The timescales of word learning in children with language delays: In-the-moment mapping, retention, and generalization	5
Phonetic discrimination, phonological awareness, and pre-literacy skills in Spanish–English dual language preschoolers	5
Disentangling syntactic, semantic and pragmatic impairments in ASD: Elicited production of passives	5
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	5
What categorical induction variability reveals about typical and atypical development	5
Parent education to improve early language development: A preliminary evaluation of LENA Start^TM	5
Determinants of early lexical acquisition: Effects of word- and child-level factors on Dutch children's acquisition of words	5
Assessing the Quantity and Quality of Language Used by Mothers and Fathers of Children with Down Syndrome During Shared Book Reading	5
Measuring knowledge of multiple word meanings in children with English as a first and an additional language and the relationship to reading comprehension	5
Productivity and the acquisition of gender	5
Toddlers raised in multi-dialectal families learn words better in accented speech than those raised in monodialectal families	5
A parametric approach to the acquisition of syntax	4
Monolingual and bilingual children's processing of coarticulation cues during spoken word recognition	4
Speaking of State of Mind: Maternal Mental Health Predicts Children's Home Language Environment and Expressive Language	4
The comprehension of relative clauses in Mandarin Children with suspected specific language impairment	4
Contrasting lexical biases in bilingual English–Mandarin speech: Verb-biased mothers, but noun-biased toddlers	4
Spanish copula selection with adjectives at age three	4
Exploring the Linguistic, Cognitive, and Social Skills Underlying Lexical Processing Efficiency as Measured by the Looking-while-Listening Paradigm	4
Syllable effects in beginning and intermediate European-Portuguese readers: Evidence from a sandwich masked go/no-go lexical decision task	4
Children’s engagement and caregivers’ use of language-boosting strategies during shared book reading: A mixed methods approach	4
Running or crossing? Children's expression of voluntary motion in English, German, and French	4
Collocational knowledge in children: a comparison of English-speaking monolingual children, and children acquiring English as an Additional Language	4
Contributions of Abstract Extratextual Talk and Interactive Style to Preschoolers’ Vocabulary Development	4
Clause-initial AND usage in a cross-sectional and longitudinal corpus of school-age children's narratives	4
Cognitive predictors of language abilities in primary school children: A cascaded developmental view	4
Ontogeny of index-finger pointing	4
The development of constructions from the right edge: a multinomial regression analysis of clitic left and right dislocation in child French	3
Phonological vs. natural gender cues in the acquisition of German by simultaneous and sequential bilinguals (German–Russian)	3
Infants aged 12 months use the gender feature in determiners to anticipate upcoming words: an eye-tracking study	3

Parents tune their vowels to the emergence of children’s words	3
Cross-linguistic variation in word-initial cluster production in adult and child language: evidence from English and Norwegian	3
Ditransitive structures in child language acquisition: An investigation of production and comprehension in children aged five to seven	3
Young minds’ quest for regularity: Evidence from the Turkish causative	3
Distribution of Nominal Word-Patterns and Roots in Palestinian Arabic: A Developmental Perspective in Early Childhood	3
Vocabulary production in toddlers from low-income immigrant families: evidence from children exposed to Romanian-Italian and Nigerian English-Italian	3
Development of sign phonology in Kata Kolok	3
“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	3
Child phonological responses to variegation in adult words: A cross-linguistic study	3
Parentese in infancy predicts 5-year language complexity and conversational turns	3
Acquisition of demonstratives in cross-linguistic perspective	3
Development of the voiceless sibilant fricative contrast in three-year-olds: an ultrasound and acoustic study	3
Use of a head camera to examine maternal input and its relation to 10- to 26-month-olds’ acquisition of mental and non-mental state vocabulary	3
¡Casi te caístes!: Variation in second person singular preterit forms in Spanish Children	3
Task difficulty and private speech in typically developing and at-risk preschool children	3
Interface Delay	3
Variation in quality of maternal input and development of coda stops in English-speaking children in Singapore	3
Connecting perception and production in early Catalan–Spanish bilingual children: language dominance and quality of input effects	3
Remembering sentences is not all about memory: Convergent and discriminant validity of syntactic knowledge and its relationship with reading comprehension	3
The generalisation of linguistic constructions in children with or without developmental language disorders	3