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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Sources of individual differences in the dual language development of heritage bilinguals	36
Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous and early sequential bilingual children: a meta-analysis	28
Singing to infants matters: Early singing interactions affect musical preferences and facilitate vocabulary building	23
Constructivist Approaches to First Language Acquisition	21
Testing the validity of the Cross-Linguistic Lexical Task as a measure of language proficiency in bilingual children	17
Socioeconomic status correlates with measures of Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system: a meta-analysis	16
The Starting Big approach to language learning	13
Code-switching in parents’ everyday speech to bilingual infants	13
The association between screen media quantity, content, and context and language development	12
Does the maturation of early sleep patterns predict language ability at school entry? A Born in Bradford study	11
The Hebrew Web Communicative Development Inventory (MB-CDI): Lexical Development Growth Curves	11
Parent-child interaction during storybook reading: wordless narrative books versus books with text	10
An investigation of iconic language development in four datasets	10
The development of narrative skills in monolingual Swedish-speaking children aged 4 to 9: a longitudinal study	10
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	9
Lexical and Prosodic Pitch Modifications in Cantonese Infant-directed Speech	9
A novel online assessment of pragmatic and core language skills: An attempt to tease apart language domains in children	9
Spontaneous verbal repetition in toddler-adult conversations: a longitudinal study with Spanish-speaking two- year-olds	9
Child-directed and overheard input from different speakers in two distinct cultures	8
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	8
Toddlers raised in multi-dialectal families learn words better in accented speech than those raised in monodialectal families	8
Pragmatic, linguistic and cognitive factors in young children's development of quantity, relevance and word learning inferences	8
Theory and predictions for the development of morphology and syntax: A Universal Grammar + statistics approach	8
The timescales of word learning in children with language delays: In-the-moment mapping, retention, and generalization	8
Referential expressions in monolingual and bilingual children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A study of informativeness and definiteness	7

How children learn to communicate discriminatively	7
Multilingual toddlers’ vocabulary development in two languages: Comparing bilinguals and trilinguals	7
Socio-cognitive engagement (but not socioeconomic status) predicts preschool children's language and pragmatic abilities	7
Variation sets in the speech directed to toddlers in Argentinian households.SES and type of activity effects	7
Measuring knowledge of multiple word meanings in children with English as a first and an additional language and the relationship to reading comprehension	7
Assessing the Quantity and Quality of Language Used by Mothers and Fathers of Children with Down Syndrome During Shared Book Reading	6
Productivity and the acquisition of gender	6
Cognitive predictors of language abilities in primary school children: A cascaded developmental view	6
Early parental causal language input predicts children’s later causal verb understanding	6
Ontogeny of index-finger pointing	6
Collocational knowledge in children: a comparison of English-speaking monolingual children, and children acquiring English as an Additional Language	5
Maternal mind-mindedness and communicative functions in free-play and mealtime contexts: Stability, continuity and relations with child language at 16 months	5
What categorical induction variability reveals about typical and atypical development	5
A parametric approach to the acquisition of syntax	5
Speaking of State of Mind: Maternal Mental Health Predicts Children's Home Language Environment and Expressive Language	5
Phonetic discrimination, phonological awareness, and pre-literacy skills in Spanish–English dual language preschoolers	5
Determinants of early lexical acquisition: Effects of word- and child-level factors on Dutch children's acquisition of words	5
“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	5
The comprehension of relative clauses in Mandarin Children with suspected specific language impairment	5
Communicative functions of parents’ child-directed speech across dyadic and triadic contexts	4
Acquisition of demonstratives in cross-linguistic perspective	4
Relating the prosody of infant-directed speech to children’s vocabulary size	4
Silence matters: The role of pauses during dyadic maternal and paternal vocal interactions with preterm and full-term infants	4
Rules and exceptions: A Tolerance Principle account of the possessive suffix in Northern East Cree	4
Task difficulty and private speech in typically developing and at-risk preschool children	4
Running or crossing? Children's expression of voluntary motion in English, German, and French	4
Interface Delay	4
Connecting perception and production in early Catalan–Spanish bilingual children: language dominance and quality of input effects	4
Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping	4
Neurocomputational modeling of speech motor development	4
Exploring the Linguistic, Cognitive, and Social Skills Underlying Lexical Processing Efficiency as Measured by the Looking-while-Listening Paradigm	4
Korean-speaking children’s constructional knowledge about a transitive event: Corpus analysis and Bayesian modelling	4
Variation in quality of maternal input and development of coda stops in English-speaking children in Singapore	4
Contrasting lexical biases in bilingual English–Mandarin speech: Verb-biased mothers, but noun-biased toddlers	4
Child phonological responses to variegation in adult words: A cross-linguistic study	4
Effect of sex and dyad composition on speech and gesture development of singleton and twin children	4
Contributions of Abstract Extratextual Talk and Interactive Style to Preschoolers’ Vocabulary Development	4
Young minds’ quest for regularity: Evidence from the Turkish causative	4
The acquisition of prosodic marking of narrow focus in Central Swedish	4
¡Casi te caístes!: Variation in second person singular preterit forms in Spanish Children	4
Parentese in infancy predicts 5-year language complexity and conversational turns	4
Children’s engagement and caregivers’ use of language-boosting strategies during shared book reading: A mixed methods approach	4
Infants aged 12 months use the gender feature in determiners to anticipate upcoming words: an eye-tracking study	3
Parent Responsivity, Language Input, and the Development of Simple Sentences	3
The development of constructions from the right edge: a multinomial regression analysis of clitic left and right dislocation in child French	3
Parents’ talk about conceptual categories with infants: stability, variability, and implications for expressive language development	3
Individual Differences in Bilingual Child Language Acquisition: A plunge into a Complex and Dynamic Network	3
Remembering sentences is not all about memory: Convergent and discriminant validity of syntactic knowledge and its relationship with reading comprehension	3
Development of sign phonology in Kata Kolok	3
Filling lexical gaps and more: code-switching for the power of expression by young bilinguals	3

Vocabulary production in toddlers from low-income immigrant families: evidence from children exposed to Romanian-Italian and Nigerian English-Italian	3
The influence of prominence cues in 7- to 10-year-olds’ pronoun resolution: Disentangling order of mention, grammatical role, and semantic role	3
Development of the voiceless sibilant fricative contrast in three-year-olds: an ultrasound and acoustic study	3
Inhibitory control and verb inflection in Italian preschool children	3
Combining observational and experimental approaches to the development of language and communication in rural samples: Opportunities and challenges	3
Spontaneous speech intelligibility: early cochlear implanted children versus their normally hearing peers at seven years of age	3
Internal and external factors contributing to variability in consonant accuracy of Arabic–French simultaneous bilingual children	3
Structural and interactional aspects of adverbial sentences in English mother-child interactions: an analysis of two dense corpora	3
Phonological vs. natural gender cues in the acquisition of German by simultaneous and sequential bilinguals (German–Russian)	3
Ditransitive structures in child language acquisition: An investigation of production and comprehension in children aged five to seven	3
Parents tune their vowels to the emergence of children’s words	3