OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language Acquisition is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Sì and no : How Italian children and adults answer positive and negative polar questions	19
Correction	14
The development of speech disfluencies in non-stuttering Greek-speaking children during conversational and narrative discourse	13
Feature selection, feature reassembly, and the role of Universal Grammar: The acquisition of wh-questions by Japanese and Chinese learners of English	12
Word-level reading skills of Brazilian children with developmental language disorder	10
Distributional signatures of superordinate nouns	10
Acquisition of modal readings of the Imperfect tense in L2 Spanish	8
Experiencer troubles: A reappraisal of the predicate-based asymmetry in child passives	7
Mandarin non-interrogative wh -words distinguish between children with Developmental Language Disorder and language-impaired autistic children	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
Infant-directed speech in Argentinian Spanish across the first year of life	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	5
Disjunction across polarities: Scope versus strengthening in children’s interpretations of negative disjunctive sentences	5
Modelling the developmental path in the acquisition of /l/-final irregular plurals by Portuguese children	4
Language exposure and use among children acquiring Finnish Sign Language	4
L2 representation and processing of Spanish focus	4
Parents align American Sign Language (ASL) input with deaf children’s gaze	4
Not a matter of a degree : American Sign Language (ASL) signing children and acquisition of gradability	4
Acquiring recursive structures through distributional learning	4
Correction	4
Morphological salience matters to aspectual production: Evidence from Mandarin-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder	4
Kein subjects are hard: Exploring German-speaking children’s behavior with negative indefinites	3
Acquisition of Russian noun case by bilingual children: lexical cues to case assignment in real and novel words	3

Language acquisition and language processing: Finding new connections	3
Non-verbal predicate negation in child Emirati Arabic	3
Ambiguous pronoun resolution in Greek-speaking preschool children	3
Discourse with few words: Coherence statistics, parent-infant actions on objects, and object names	3
Development of a screening tool to identify babies at risk of language delay in India: A preliminary study	3
A case study of the American Sign Language patterns of a natively-exposed Deaf autistic signer	3
Applying given-before-new principle in L2 English datives development	3
Are theory of mind and metaphor comprehension causally related? A training study in middle childhood	3