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

Article	Citations
Correction	16
Feature selection, feature reassembly, and the role of Universal Grammar: The acquisition of wh-questions by Japanese and Chinese learners of English	12
Distributional signatures of superordinate nouns	9
Word-level reading skills of Brazilian children with developmental language disorder	8
Experiencer troubles: A reappraisal of the predicate-based asymmetry in child passives	7
Acquisition of modal readings of the Imperfect tense in L2 Spanish	6
Fast passives, slow relatives	6
Early knowledge of word order in Palestinian Arabic: An eye-tracking study	6
Focus effect unveils children’s local processing of pronouns and reflexives	6
Mandarin non-interrogative wh -words distinguish between children with Developmental Language Disorder and Language-Impaired autistic children	6
Object relatives with postverbal subject in Italian-speaking children and adults: The role of encyclopedic knowledge in detecting sentence ambiguity	5
Child heritage speakers’ acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive in volitional and adverbial clauses	5
Piecewise Structural Equation Modeling of the collective implicature in child language	4
Structural diversity does not affect the acquisition of recursion: The case of possession in German	4
Not a matter of a degree : American Sign Language (ASL) signing children and acquisition of gradability	4
L2 within-language morphological competition during spoken word recognition	3
A case study of the American Sign Language patterns of a natively-exposed Deaf autistic signer	3
Kein subjects are hard: Exploring German-speaking children’s behavior with negative indefinites	3
L2 representation and processing of Spanish focus	3
Modelling the developmental path in the acquisition of /l/-final irregular plurals by Portuguese children	3
Acquiring recursive structures through distributional learning	3
L2 speech learning of European Portuguese /l/ and /ɾ/ by L1-Mandarin learners: Experimental evidence and theoretical modelling	3
Acquisition of Russian noun case by bilingual children: lexical cues to case assignment in real and novel words	3
Non-verbal predicate negation in child Emirati Arabic	3
Role of Theory of Mind in children’s derivation of ad hoc conversational implicatures	2

Not all English Resultative Constructions (ERCs) are equal: The acquisition of ERC by Spanish speakers	2
Discourse with few words: Coherence statistics, parent-infant actions on objects, and object names	2
Development of a screening tool to identify babies at risk of language delay in India: A preliminary study	2
Applying given-before-new principle in L2 English datives development	2
Arabic morpheme per utterance: a morphological measure of child language development in spoken Arabic	2
Are theory of mind and metaphor comprehension causally related? A training study in middle childhood	2
Language acquisition and language processing: Finding new connections	2
The Comprehension and Production of Passive Constructions by Afrikaans and isiXhosa First Language Grade 1 Children	2
Ambiguous pronoun resolution in Greek-speaking preschool children	2
Syntactic bootstrapping attitude verbs despite impoverished morphosyntax	1
The study of children with developmental language disorder beyond English: a tutorial	1
Parent American Sign Language skills correlate with child–but not toddler–ASL vocabulary size	1
Difficulties with pronouns in autism: Experimental results from Thai children with autism	1
His face is not smiling but Neke !: A preliminary study of 21-month-old infants’ use of mutual exclusivity in learning facial expression labels	1
Sentence repetition task for European Portuguese: results from a study with monolingual and Portuguese-German bilingual children	1
Morphological generalization in bilingual language production: Age of acquisition determines variability	1
Production and comprehension of rhetorical questions in the acquisition of Italian as a first language	1
Assessing the acquisition of Romani in Roma children	1
Obviating the mood, but mostly under control: Spanish heritage speakers’ acquisition of the binding constraints of desiderative complements	1
Relative clause production abilities of Hebrew-speaking children with ASD	1
Lexical skills in children with and without autism in the context of Arabic diglossia: Evidence from vocabulary and narrative tasks	1
Learning to predict and predicting to learn: Before and beyond the syntactic bootstrapper	1
Exploring syntactically encoded evidentiality	1
Conjunction is polarity sensitive in Mandarin	1
Do children knowwhanything? 3-year-olds know the ambiguity ofwh-phrases in Mandarin	1