OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language Acquisition is 0. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction	24
Sì and no : How Italian children and adults answer positive and negative polar questions	15
The development of speech disfluencies in non-stuttering Greek-speaking children during conversational and narrative discourse	11
Distributional signatures of superordinate nouns	10
Word-level reading skills of Brazilian children with developmental language disorder	9
Morphological access to alternatives fails to boost scalar implicatures: interpretation of disjunction in Turkish-speaking children	7
Experiencer troubles: A reappraisal of the predicate-based asymmetry in child passives	6
Acquisition of modal readings of the Imperfect tense in L2 Spanish	6
Disjunction across polarities: Scope versus strengthening in children’s interpretations of negative disjunctive sentences	5
Mandarin non-interrogative wh -words distinguish between children with Developmental Language Disorder and language-impaired autistic children	5
Focus effect unveils children’s local processing of pronouns and reflexives	5
Early knowledge of word order in Palestinian Arabic: An eye-tracking study	5
Correction	4
Morphological salience matters to aspectual production: Evidence from Mandarin-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder	4
Not a matter of a degree : American Sign Language (ASL) signing children and acquisition of gradability	4
Modelling the developmental path in the acquisition of /l/-final irregular plurals by Portuguese children	4
Infant-directed speech in Argentinian Spanish across the first year of life	4
Parents align American Sign Language (ASL) input with deaf children’s gaze	4
Language exposure and use among children acquiring Finnish Sign Language	4
Piecewise Structural Equation Modeling of the collective implicature in child language	4
Non-verbal predicate negation in child Emirati Arabic	3
Kein subjects are hard: Exploring German-speaking children’s behavior with negative indefinites	3
Ambiguous pronoun resolution in Greek-speaking preschool children	3
A case study of the American Sign Language patterns of a natively-exposed Deaf autistic signer	3
Early or late complementizer phrase (CP) acquisition? Evidence from topics and other CP diagnostics in Germanic–Romance bilinguals	3

Acquiring recursive structures through distributional learning	3
Acquisition of Russian noun case by bilingual children: lexical cues to case assignment in real and novel words	3
Information structure in first language acquisition: The effect of sentence-level focus on preschoolers’ logical scope interpretation	2
Role of Theory of Mind in children’s derivation of ad hoc conversational implicatures	2
Language acquisition and language processing: Finding new connections	2
Are theory of mind and metaphor comprehension causally related? A training study in middle childhood	2
Semantic skills and input frequency influence classifier learning among Mandarin-speaking children: Perspectives from a novel classifier learning task	1
Arabic morpheme per utterance: a morphological measure of child language development in spoken Arabic	1
Sentence repetition task for European Portuguese: Results from a study with monolingual and Portuguese-German bilingual children	1
Assessing the acquisition of Romani in Roma children	1
Understanding the descriptive/metalinguistic dichotomy: How preschool children derive intended meanings of negation	1
The relation between numeral acquisition and morphosyntactic cues in kindergartners with and without (suspected) Developmental Language Disorder	1
Applying given-before-new principle in L2 English datives development	1
Not all English Resultative Constructions (ERCs) are equal: The acquisition of ERC by Spanish speakers	1
Lexical skills in children with and without autism in the context of Arabic diglossia: Evidence from vocabulary and narrative tasks	1
Relative clause production abilities of Hebrew-speaking children with ASD	1
Obviating the mood, but mostly under control: Spanish heritage speakers’ acquisition of the binding constraints of desiderative complements	1
The Comprehension and Production of Passive Constructions by Afrikaans and isiXhosa First Language Grade 1 Children	1
The study of children with developmental language disorder beyond English: a tutorial	1
Production and comprehension of rhetorical questions in the acquisition of Italian as a first language	1
Conjunction is polarity sensitive in Mandarin	1
Difficulties with pronouns in autism: Experimental results from Thai children with autism	1
A comparative analysis of request strategies in Russian monolingual and Russian-Hebrew bilingual children	0
Does pointing predict bilingual children’s vocabulary?	0
Mapping modal verbs to meanings: an elicited production study on “force” and “flavor” with young preschoolers	0
Children’s interpretation of epithets: On coreference and self-ascription	0
First language (L1) maintenance in typologically close languages: The role of second language (L2) exposure and L2 performance	0
Insights into the morphological errors of adolescents with ASD	0
English derived word recognition by Chinese‐English bilinguals: Testing the nature and time course of the component processes	0
Phonetic imitation in L2 speech: Immediate imitation of English consonant glottalization by speakers of Polish	0
Input factors in the acquisition of evidentiality by Turkish heritage language children and adults in the United States	0
Correction	0
Reasoning with epistemic adverbs in child Romanian: Insights from the Shadow Play Paradigm	0
Comprehension of focus in Mandarin-speaking children with autism spectrum disorders: Evidence from unmarked and contextually marked focus	0
Adjectival subcategorization in child-directed speech	0
Wh-word acquisition in Czech: Exploring the growing trees hypothesis	0
Event context influences motion verb mapping	0
Smashing verb learning through parental sound symbolic input in preterm and full-term children	0
The knowledge of binding principles in early child grammar: Experimental evidence from 30-month-old toddlers	0
Investigating language acquisition in communication sciences and disorders: A case for language diversity	0
Does early gesture usage contribute alongside oral language to later theory of mind performance and metaphor comprehension? Indications from a longitudinal study with children aged 1–9 years	0
The cum-sine pattern in German child language: An argument for antonym decomposition	0
The acquisition of Hindi split-ergativity and differential object marking by Dutch L1 speakers: systematicity and variation	0
Semantic gradients mediate Mandarin-speaking children’s acquisition of unaccusativity	0
The gap between humans and language models: Analyzing adjective performance	0
English-learning preschoolers can correctly parse and interpret negative sentences to guide their interpretations of novel noun and verb meanings	0
Eliciting the grammar of stress: Morphophonological conditioning in Greek by school-age children and adults	0
Subject position in Greek and Spanish monolingual and bilingual production: Exploring the influence of verb type and definiteness	0
Exploring nonlocal subject–verb agreement in L2 English: The role of proficiency and language experience	0
Structural priming as a means of learning a new grammatical structure? Priming for transitives in Dutch learners of French	0

Acquiring constraints on filler-gap dependencies from structural collocations: Assessing a computational learning model of island-insensitivity in Norwegian	0
The repetition of relative clauses in Mandarin children with Developmental Language Disorder	0
Using syntax and semantics to acquire subjective adjective meanings	0
Children’s early negative auxiliaries are true auxiliaries	0
Investigating second language (L2) learners’ acquisition of scalar implicatures: Insights from scalar diversity	0
Verb agreement production in Arabic-speaking children with developmental language disorder	0
His face is not smiling but Neke !: A preliminary study of 21-month-old infants’ use of mutual exclusivity in learning facial expression labels	0
Parent American Sign Language skills correlate with child–but not toddler–ASL vocabulary size	0
More hard words: Learning emotion and mental state adjectives from linguistic context	0
When morphology is not enough: The acquisition of voice in monolingual Greek children and bilingual children with Greek as a heritage language	0
The acquisition of the verbal passive: The role of verb type	0
The acquisition path of expressing social meaning in the morphosyntax of requests	0
Event-related potentials in the study of L2 sentence processing: A scoping review of the decade 2010-2020	0
Number, shape, and intervention effects in child Mandarin passives	0
Understanding disjunction: Japanese-speaking children’s interpretation of ka and ya “or”	0
No referential bias in children’s interpretation of it and there	0
Why second-language speakers sometimes, but not always, derive scalar inferences like first-language speakers: Effects of task demands	0
Parser-grammar transparency and the development of syntactic dependencies	0
Acquisition of overt and covert and : support for the semantic subset principle	0
Learning modal force: Evidence from French	0