OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language Acquisition is 1. 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
Acquisition of emphatic consonants by Ammani Arabic-speaking children	14
Revisiting the epistemic gap: It’s not the thought that counts	11
Verbal mediation of theory of mind in verbal adolescents with autism spectrum disorder	8
Word knowledge and lexical access in monolingual and bilingual migrant children: Impact of word properties	7
Learning to predict and predicting to learn: Before and beyond the syntactic bootstrapper	6
Child heritage speakers’ acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive in volitional and adverbial clauses	6
Syntactic bootstrapping attitude verbs despite impoverished morphosyntax	5
The acquisition of linking theories: A Tolerance and Sufficiency Principle approach to deriving UTAH and rUTAH	5
The link between lexical semantic features and children’s comprehension of English verbal be-passives	5
Discourse with few words: Coherence statistics, parent-infant actions on objects, and object names	5
Negative sentences with disjunction in child Catalan	5
Parent American Sign Language skills correlate with child–but not toddler–ASL vocabulary size	5
Look at that: Spatial deixis reveals experience-related differences in prediction	4
Structural diversity does not affect the acquisition of recursion: The case of possession in German	4
Effects of age of acquisition and category size on signed verbal fluency	3
Word-level reading skills of Brazilian children with developmental language disorder	3
Morphological generalization in bilingual language production: Age of acquisition determines variability	3
The study of children with developmental language disorder beyond English: a tutorial	3
Japanese children’s knowledge of the locality ofzibunandkare	3
Verb agreement production in Arabic-speaking children with developmental language disorder	3
Cognitive inhibition explains children’s production of medial wh-phrases	3
The extragrammaticality of the acquisition of adjunct control	2
L2 speech learning of European Portuguese /l/ and /ɾ/ by L1-Mandarin learners: Experimental evidence and theoretical modelling	2
Social biases can lead to less communicatively efficient languages	2
Arabic morpheme per utterance: a morphological measure of child language development in spoken Arabic	2

Experiencer troubles: A reappraisal of the predicate-based asymmetry in child passives	2
Learning embedded verb placement in Norwegian: Evidence for early overgeneralization	2
L2 representation and processing of Spanish focus	2
On the source of children’s conjunctive interpretation of disjunction: Scope, strengthening, or both?	2
The acquisition of wh-questions: Beyond structural economy and input frequency	2
L2 within-language morphological competition during spoken word recognition	2
Lexical skills in children with and without autism in the context of Arabic diglossia: Evidence from vocabulary and narrative tasks	2
Considering the whole paradigm: Preschoolers’ comprehension of agreement is not uniformly late	2
A protracted developmental trajectory for English-learning children’s detection of consonant mispronunciations in newly learned words	2
Acquisition of English adjectival resultatives: Support for the Compounding Parameter	1
The Comprehension and Production of Passive Constructions by Afrikaans and isiXhosa First Language Grade 1 Children	1
Input factors in the acquisition of evidentiality by Turkish heritage language children and adults in the United States	1
Development of a screening tool to identify babies at risk of language delay in India: A preliminary study	1
Acquisition of Russian noun case by bilingual children: lexical cues to case assignment in real and novel words	1
Relative clause production abilities of Hebrew-speaking children with ASD	1
Acquisition of empathy in child Japanese	1
The differentiation of early word meanings from global to specific categories: Towards a verification of the “semantic pluripotency hypothesis”	1
Do children knowwhanything? 3-year-olds know the ambiguity ofwh-phrases in Mandarin	1
Using ultrasound tongue imaging to study covert contrasts in second-language learners’ acquisition of English vowels	1
The cum-sine pattern in German child language: An argument for antonym decomposition	1
Assessing the acquisition of Romani in Roma children	1
Smashing verb learning through parental sound symbolic input in preterm and full-term children	1
The effects of language input on word order in German as a heritage and majority language	1
Phonetic imitation in L2 speech: Immediate imitation of English consonant glottalization by speakers of Polish	1
The repetition of relative clauses in Mandarin children with Developmental Language Disorder	1
First language attrition and second language attainment of Mandarin-speaking immigrants in Hong Kong: Evidence from prosodic focus	1