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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Children with ASD use joint attention and linguistic skill in pronoun development	18
Revisiting the epistemic gap: It’s not the thought that counts	11
Acquisition of emphatic consonants by Ammani Arabic-speaking children	10
Toddlers track hierarchical structure dependence	8
Mentalizing: What’s language got to do with it?	7
Verbal mediation of theory of mind in verbal adolescents with autism spectrum disorder	7
Syntactic bootstrapping attitude verbs despite impoverished morphosyntax	5
Word knowledge and lexical access in monolingual and bilingual migrant children: Impact of word properties	5
Clitic-doubled left dislocation in L2 Spanish: The effect of processing load at the syntax-discourse interface	5
Parent American Sign Language skills correlate with child–but not toddler–ASL vocabulary size	4
Negative sentences with disjunction in child Catalan	4
Child heritage speakers’ acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive in volitional and adverbial clauses	4
Look at that: Spatial deixis reveals experience-related differences in prediction	4
The acquisition of linking theories: A Tolerance and Sufficiency Principle approach to deriving UTAH and rUTAH	4
Effects of age of acquisition and category size on signed verbal fluency	3
Cognitive inhibition explains children’s production of medial wh-phrases	3
Establishing upper bounds in English monolingual and Heritage Spanish-English bilingual language development	3
Structural diversity does not affect the acquisition of recursion: The case of possession in German	3
Learning to predict and predicting to learn: Before and beyond the syntactic bootstrapper	3
The link between lexical semantic features and children’s comprehension of English verbal be-passives	3
Production of referring expressions by children with ASD: Effects of referent accessibility and working memory capacity	3
Discourse with few words: Coherence statistics, parent-infant actions on objects, and object names	3
L2 representation and processing of Spanish focus	2
On the source of children’s conjunctive interpretation of disjunction: Scope, strengthening, or both?	2
Structural intervention effects in the acquisition of sluicing	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
The acquisition of wh-questions: Beyond structural economy and input frequency	2
L2 within-language morphological competition during spoken word recognition	2
Morphological generalization in bilingual language production: Age of acquisition determines variability	2
An inductive learning bias toward phonetically driven tonal phonotactics	2
Japanese children’s knowledge of the locality ofzibunandkare	2
On the source of children’s conjunctive interpretation of disjunction: Scope, strengthening, or both?	2
Arabic morpheme per utterance: a morphological measure of child language development in spoken Arabic	1
Considering the whole paradigm: Preschoolers’ comprehension of agreement is not uniformly late	1
Development of a screening tool to identify babies at risk of language delay in India: A preliminary study	1
The repetition of relative clauses in Mandarin children with Developmental Language Disorder	1
On links between language development and extralinguistic cognitive knowledge: What we can learn from autism	1
The Comprehension and Production of Passive Constructions by Afrikaans and isiXhosa First Language Grade 1 Children	1
The effects of language input on word order in German as a heritage and majority language	1
Acquisition of empathy in child Japanese	1
A protracted developmental trajectory for English-learning children’s detection of consonant mispronunciations in newly learned words	1
Evidence for immature perception in adolescents: Adults process reduced speech better and faster than 16-year olds	1
The extragrammaticality of the acquisition of adjunct control	1
The differentiation of early word meanings from global to specific categories: Towards a verification of the “semantic pluripotency hypothesis”	1
The study of children with developmental language disorder beyond English: a tutorial	1
Do children knowwhanything? 3-year-olds know the ambiguity ofwh-phrases in Mandarin	1
Gradual syntactic triggering: The gradient parameter hypothesis	1
Learning embedded verb placement in Norwegian: Evidence for early overgeneralization	1