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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Parents tune their vowels to the emergence of children’s words	74
Processing adjectives in development: Evidence from eye-tracking	35
Bilingual Toddlers’ Vocabulary Growth Interacts with Existing Knowledge and Cross-Linguistic Similarity	28
Syntactic priming as implicit learning in German child language	25
Neural correlates of lexical-tone and vowel-quality processing in 6- and 9-month-old German-learning infants and adults	19
Children’s engagement and caregivers’ use of language-boosting strategies during shared book reading: A mixed methods approach	16
So many variables, but what causes what?	15
How is vowel production in Italian affected by geminate consonants and stress patterns?	14
Overuse of familiar phrases by individuals with Williams syndrome masks differences in language processing	13
No concurrent correlations between parental mental state talk and toddlers’ language abilities – ERRATUM	13
Individual Differences in Bilingual Child Language Acquisition: A plunge into a Complex and Dynamic Network	13
Parents’ talk about conceptual categories with infants: stability, variability, and implications for expressive language development	12
The distributional and embodied contexts of verbs in caregiver-infant interactions	12
JCL volume 48 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	11
Realistic and broad-scope learning simulations: first results and challenges	11
Object Shape and Depth of Word Representations in Preschoolers	10
The Acquisition of Verbal Morphology by Child Classroom EFL Learners in Russia and China: The Effect of Age and L1	10
Acquisition of the feature [+spread glottis] in Icelandic	9
The complexity of opportunities to respond used by mothers and fathers of children with Down syndrome: A preliminary investigation	8
Individual differences differentially influence language domains and learning mechanisms	8
Different paths to multilingualism in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Naturalistic and non-interactive	8
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	8
Reviewers 2024	8
Is there a bilingual disadvantage for word segmentation? A computational modeling approach	7
Argument ordering in simple sentences is affected by age of first language acquisition: Evidence from late first language signers of ASL	7

Collecting language acquisition data from understudied urban communities: A reply to Cristia et al.	7
Rules and exceptions: A Tolerance Principle account of the possessive suffix in Northern East Cree	7
Filling lexical gaps and more: code-switching for the power of expression by young bilinguals	7
The relationship between working memory, production, and comprehension: evidence from children’s errors in complex wh questions	7
Diversifying language acquisition research can be (partly) achieved in urban societies and with simplified methodologies: Insights from multilingual Ghana	6
Socio-economic status and other potential risk factors for language development in the first year of life	6
How do parents refer to their children while playing? A cross-linguistic comparison of parental input to Bulgarian- and English-speaking children with ASD	6
How children learn to communicate discriminatively	6
Comprehension of complex sentences containing temporal connectives: How children are led down the event-semantic kindergarten-path	6
Parent Responsivity, Language Input, and the Development of Simple Sentences	6
Assessing two methods of webcam-based eye-tracking for child language research	5
Frequency, perceptual salience, and semantic complexity: The acquisition of possessor inflection in Northern East Cree	5
Positive Valence Contributes to Hyperarticulation in Maternal Speech to Infants and Puppies	5
Real-time spoken word recognition in deaf and hard of hearing preschoolers: Effects of phonological competition	5
No concurrent correlations between parental mental state talk and toddlers’ language abilities	5
Influence of caregiver input and language experience on the production of coda laterals by English–Malay bilingual preschoolers in multi-accent Singapore	5
The language of mechanical support in children: Is it “Sticking,” “Hanging,” or simply “On”?	5
Reviewers 2023	5
Neurocomputational modeling of speech motor development	5
Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping	5
Interface Delay	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
Ontogeny of index-finger pointing	4
Maternal parenting style and self-regulatory private speech content use in preschool children	4
Revisiting the Acquisition of Onset Complexity: Affrication in Québec French	4
Size sound symbolism in mothers’ speech to their infants	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
Phonological Variation in Child-Directed Speech is Modulated by Lexical Frequency	4
Narrative performance and sociopragmatic abilities in preschool children are linked to multimodal imitation skills – CORRIGENDUM	4
Marked pointing facilitates learning part names: A test of lexical constraint versus social pragmatic accounts of word learning	4
Parentese in infancy predicts 5-year language complexity and conversational turns	4
JCL volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	3
JCL volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	3
Examining Dutch children’s vocabularies across infancy and toddlerhood: Demographic effects are age-specific and task-specific	3
Mean Length of Utterance: A study of early language development in four Southern Bantu languages	3
Parent-child interaction during storybook reading: wordless narrative books versus books with text	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
Pseudo-relatives and restrictive-relatives in child Mandarin	3
Phonological Working Memory and Sentence Production in School-Age Children with Typical Language, Dyslexia, and Comorbid Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorder	3
Sources of individual differences in the dual language development of heritage bilinguals	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 6 Cover and Front matter	3
The acquisition of English modal constructions: a corpus-based analysis	3
JCL volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
Bilingual children reach early language milestones at the same age as monolingual peers	3
Syntactic Structural Development in Chinese deaf Children Aged 4–7 Years with Cochlear Implants	3
Speech representation used by Mandarin Chinese-speaking children aged three to six years	3
Produced, but not ‘productive’: Mandarin-speaking pre-schoolers’ challenges acquiring L2 English plural morphology	2

Utterance-Initial Prosodic Differences Between Statements and Questions in Infant-Directed Speech	2
Phonological vs. natural gender cues in the acquisition of German by simultaneous and sequential bilinguals (German–Russian)	2
Developmental differences in perceptual anticipation underlie different sensitivities to coarticulatory dynamics	2
The everyday speech environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants	2
How strong is the relationship between caregiver speech and language development? A meta-analysis	2
Computational cognitive modeling for syntactic acquisition: Approaches that integrate information from multiple places	2
Contributions of Abstract Extratextual Talk and Interactive Style to Preschoolers’ Vocabulary Development	2
Remote collection of language samples from three-year-olds	2
Maternal input, not transient elevated depression and anxiety symptoms, predicts 2-year-olds’ vocabulary development	2
The acquisition of the semantics of Japanese numeral classifiers: The methodological value of nonsense	2
Current practices of Portuguese speech-language pathologists with preschool-age children with pragmatic impairment: A cross-sectional survey	2
Bilingual Vocabulary Development in Mexican Indigenous Infants: The Effects of Language Exposure from Home and Mothers’ Language Dominance	2
Variation awaiting bias: Substantively biased learning of vowel harmony variation	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
Motherese Directed at Prelinguistic Infants at Risk for Neurological Disorders: An Exploratory Study	2
The effects of overhearing on vocabulary learning in ethnic majority and minority preschool children	2
“Mom said it in quotation marks!” Irony comprehension and metapragmatic awareness in 8-year-olds	2
The Relationship between Parenting Styles, Child’s Gender, and Gender-Shift Use in Arabic Child-Directed Speech	2
The development of Hebrew zero and pronominal subject realization in the context of first and second person	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
JCL volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	2
JCL volume 49 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	2
Developing early lexical composition in Mandarin-speaking children: A longitudinal study	2
Object shape and depth of word representations in preschoolers – ERRATUM	2
Exposure to Foreign Languages through Live Interaction Can Facilitate Children’s Acceptance of Multiple Labeling Conventions across Languages	2
Stop contrast acquisition in child Kriol: Evidence of stable transmission of phonology post Creole formation	2
“Panda” or “Bear, cat”: Mandarin-speaking preschoolers use duration and pitch to distinguish compounds and lists	2
Accent the positive: An investigation into five-year-olds’ implicit attitudes towards different regional accents	2
Syntactic bootstrapping with clausal complements of adjectives	2
Young minds’ quest for regularity: Evidence from the Turkish causative	2
Exploring the relations between teachers’ high-quality language features and preschoolers and kindergarteners’ vocabulary learning	2
Relating the prosody of infant-directed speech to children’s vocabulary size	2
Maternal mind-mindedness and communicative functions in free-play and mealtime contexts: Stability, continuity and relations with child language at 16 months	2
Vowels and consonants matter equally to British English-learning 11-month-olds’ familiar word form recognition	2