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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
L2 speech learning of European Portuguese /l/ and /ɾ/ by L1-Mandarin learners: Experimental evidence and theoretical modelling	14
Modelling the developmental path in the acquisition of /l/-final irregular plurals by Portuguese children	11
QUD sensitivity in the computation of scalar implicatures in second language acquisition	8
Unclogging the Bottleneck: The role of case morphology in L2 acquisition at the syntax-discourse interface	7
The acquisition of linking theories: A Tolerance and Sufficiency Principle approach to deriving UTAH and rUTAH	6
Assessing the acquisition of Romani in Roma children	6
First language attrition and second language attainment of Mandarin-speaking immigrants in Hong Kong: Evidence from prosodic focus	5
L2 within-language morphological competition during spoken word recognition	5
Relative clause production abilities of Hebrew-speaking children with ASD	5
Exploring syntactically encoded evidentiality	5
Investigating language acquisition in communication sciences and disorders: A case for language diversity	5
More hard words: Learning emotion and mental state adjectives from linguistic context	5
The extragrammaticality of the acquisition of adjunct control	4
Learning embedded verb placement in Norwegian: Evidence for early overgeneralization	4
Correction	4
Acquiring recursive structures through distributional learning	3
Event-related potentials in the study of L2 sentence processing: A scoping review of the decade 2010-2020	3
Feature selection, feature reassembly, and the role of Universal Grammar: The acquisition of wh-questions by Japanese and Chinese learners of English	3
Kein subjects are hard: Exploring German-speaking children’s behavior with negative indefinites	3
Mapping modal verbs to meanings: an elicited production study on “force” and “flavor” with young preschoolers	3
Correction	2
Distributional signatures of superordinate nouns	2
The acquisition of Hindi split-ergativity and differential object marking by Dutch L1 speakers: systematicity and variation	2
Children’s early negative auxiliaries are true auxiliaries	2
Japanese children’s knowledge of the locality ofzibunandkare	2

Using syntax and semantics to acquire subjective adjective meanings	2
A case study of the American Sign Language patterns of a natively-exposed Deaf autistic signer	2
The cum-sine pattern in German child language: An argument for antonym decomposition	2
Subject position in Greek and Spanish monolingual and bilingual production: Exploring the influence of verb type and definiteness	2
The knowledge of binding principles in early child grammar: Experimental evidence from 30-month-old toddlers	2
Word-level reading skills of Brazilian children with developmental language disorder	2
Acquisition of Russian noun case by bilingual children: lexical cues to case assignment in real and novel words	2
Experiencer troubles: A reappraisal of the predicate-based asymmetry in child passives	1
Non-verbal predicate negation in child Emirati Arabic	1
The repetition of relative clauses in Mandarin children with Developmental Language Disorder	1
Development of a screening tool to identify babies at risk of language delay in India: A preliminary study	1
Acquisition of emphatic consonants by Ammani Arabic-speaking children	1
Word knowledge and lexical access in monolingual and bilingual migrant children: Impact of word properties	1
Editorial	1
Obviating the mood, but mostly under control: Spanish heritage speakers’ acquisition of the binding constraints of desiderative complements	1
Using ultrasound tongue imaging to study covert contrasts in second-language learners’ acquisition of English vowels	1
A protracted developmental trajectory for English-learning children’s detection of consonant mispronunciations in newly learned words	1
Difficulties with pronouns in autism: Experimental results from Thai children with autism	1
Parser-grammar transparency and the development of syntactic dependencies	1
Why second-language speakers sometimes, but not always, derive scalar inferences like first-language speakers: Effects of task demands	1
The acquisition of wh-questions: Beyond structural economy and input frequency	1
Acquisition of modal readings of the Imperfect tense in L2 Spanish	1
Mandarin non-interrogative wh -words distinguish between children with Developmental Language Disorder and Language-Impaired autistic children	1
Ambiguous pronoun resolution in Greek-speaking preschool children	1