OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language Learning and Development 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
Understanding How and When Morphosyntax is Acquired: Insights from English Allomorphic Variation and Sesotho ‘Optional’ Noun Class Prefixes	13
Underpinning the On-Line Processing of (Non-)Canonical Sentences in German-Speaking Four-Year-Olds: The Interplay of Cognitive Control and Memory Capacity	11
More Than Looks: Exploring Methods to Test Phonological Discrimination in the Sign Language Kata Kolok	9
Statistical learning aptitude and English grammar proficiency among Saudi university students: a cognitive perspective on second language development	6
Implicit learning across the lifespan: NZ migrants build a Māori proto-lexicon, NZ expats retain one	6
Multiple Constraints on Second Language Processing of English Dative Alternation	5
Children’s Acquisition of Morphosyntactic Variation: A Reply to Commentaries	5
Dependency treebank-based research on semantic organization development in Mandarin-speaking preschool children	5
Thematic Content, Not Number Matching, Drives Syntactic Bootstrapping	4
“Es una pelota, do you like the ball?”: Pitch in Spanish-English bilingual infant directed speech	4
Ad-Hoc Conversational Implicatures in Two-Year-Olds	4
Thinking About Shin & Miller (2022)’s Step 1	4
Language-Specific Sound-Shape Matching at 12-Months of Age	4
Distributional learning beyond perceptual reorganization: enhanced discrimination in children and adults after bimodal training	4
Different in Different Ways: A Network-Analysis Approach to Voice and Prosody in Autism Spectrum Disorder	4
Announcment of the Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award	3
List of Reviewers	3
The Comprehension of Headed and Headless Relative Clauses in Mandarin: Evidence from Monolingual and Mandarin-English Heritage Bilingual Children	3
Children’s Speech Errors Reflect Phonotactics That They Say and Hear	3
The role of follow-in naming and sustained attention in vocabulary growth	2
Affect in Infant-Directed Speech of Swedish-Speaking Mothers and Fathers to 3-, 6-, 9-, and 12-Month-Old Infants	2
Incremental processing of classifier-noun agreement by Mandarin-speaking toddlers: a real-time comprehension study	2
Acknowledgment of Reviewers	2
20-Month-Old infants’ Use of Noun and Verb Morphosyntactic Cues in Novel Word Learning in Dynamic Events	2
Thanks or Tanks: Training with Tactile Cues Improves Learners’ Accuracy of English Interdental Consonants in an Oral Reading Task	2

Limits to resilience: investigating narratives in ASL signers who acquired their first language in adolescence	2
Second Language Phonolexical Representations in Italian First-Grade Children Enrolled in an English Immersion Program: Effects of Receptive Vocabulary and Environmental Factors	2
Role of Pitch in Toddler Looking toNewandGivenReferents in American English	2
Enhancing second language learning through orthographical changes	2
An Online Survey of Picture Book Reading Practices with Children Between the Ages of 0 and 30 Months	1
Discourse Effect on Children’s Interpretation of Pre-Subject Exclusive Zhiyou ‘Only’	1
Implicit Learning of Prepositions in Dutch Kindergartners with and without Developmental Language Disorder	1
The influence of masks on children's ability to produce new words	1
Phoneme identification in bilingual children in Singapore – a preregistered investigation using the CROWN game	1
A Longitudinal Corpus Analysis of the Quantity, Syntactic, and Lexical Characteristics of Maternal and Paternal Parentese	1
Announcment of the Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award	1
The influences of discourse and perceptual factors on Mandarin-speaking children’s verbal and non-verbal referential acts	1
Logic and felicity in the face of intellectual disability: linguistic scales and Williams syndrome	1
Cross-Situational Word Learning in Children and Adults: The Case of Lexical Overlap	1
The Acquisition of Causative Alternation in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence for Children’s Early Knowledge of Semantic Constraints	1
Variability in Production is the Rule, Not the Exception, at the Onset of Multi-Word Speech	0
Brazilian-Portuguese-learning preschoolers use phrasal prosody to constrain their interpretation of ellipsis	0
The acquisition of relative clauses and noun phrase accessibility: testing the NPAH in Cantonese	0
Developmental changes in infants’ amodal phonological abstraction skills and their relationship to early vocabulary	0
American Sign Language basic clause comprehension strategies used by late first-language learners: plausibility, animacy, and linguistic structure	0
Associative word learning predicts later vocabulary development: a longitudinal investigation	0
Infants’ Lexical Processing: Independent Contributions of Attentional and Clarity Cues	0
Announcement of the Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award	0
Learning Verbs in English and Korean: The Roles of Word Order and Argument Drop	0
Comparing utterance types and contents in the input to blind and sighted infants	0
Linguistic and inferential aspects of Hungarian preschool children’s relevance implicature derivation	0
Effects of a higher-level distributional statistic on second language learners’ restriction of linguistic generalization in L2 construction development	0
Children may learn words best from other children, not adults	0
Learning Concrete and Abstract Novel Words in Emotional Contexts: Evidence from Incidental Vocabulary Learning	0
Now You See Me, Now You don’t: Children Learn Grammatical Choices During Online Socially Contingent Video and Audio Interactions	0
Russian Children and Their Relatives: What Can a Free Word Order Language Reveal About the Subject/Object Asymmetry?	0
Structural markedness and school-age L2 exposure in Mandarin-speaking children’s acquisition of English consonant clusters	0
Examining weak drop in Israeli Sign Language (ISL) infant-directed signing	0
Methodological Triangulation in the Study of Acquisition of Morphosyntactic Variation	0
Variation by Context: The Importance of Pragmatics and the Discourse	0
In their own words: pre-school children’s verbalizations of the appearance-reality distinction	0
Associations Between Joint Attention, Supported Joint Engagement and Language in TD Children and Children with ASD: Potential Sources of Individual and Group Differences in Language Outcomes	0
Bilingual advantage in vocabulary development: a longitudinal look at turkish-german preschoolers	0
I learn what I like: children’s preferences but not maternal IDS influence word learning from IDS and ADS	0
The development of English negative constructions and communicative functions	0
“Simpler is better”: Japanese children’s learning of case-markers in transitive sentences	0
Semantic Cues Facilitate Structural Generalizations in Artificial Language Learning	0
Encouraging use of complex language in preschoolers: a classroom-based storybook intervention study	0
Verbs drive real-time object state representation during language processing in children under 3 years of age	0
Reviewer Acknowledgements	0
Variation along the referentiality scale in the production of Spanish differential object marking by monolingual and bilingual children	0
When and why parts count: linking categorization and counting of partial objects	0
An Exploration of Voice Quality in Mothers Speaking Canadian English to Infants	0
Investigation of pitch recognition of preschool children aged 3–6 years old in Mandarin	0
More is sometimes less: verb learning by school-aged l2 learners	0

Announcment of the Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award	0
A Comparison of Perception-Based and Production-Based Training Approaches to Adults’ Learning of L2 Sounds	0
Unraveling overgeneralization in second language acquisition: a usage-based perspective on transitive and intransitive constructions in Chinese EFL learners	0
List of Reviewers	0
Word associations in Mexican school children	0
How Does English Encode ‘Tight’ Vs. ‘Loose-fit’ Motion Events? It’s Complicated	0
Acknowledgement of Reviewers	0
Acquisition of a rare variant: ne-realization in the negative utterances of French children and their caregivers	0
Early Development of Syllable Structure in French	0
Early parental multimodal input is differentially associated with later vocabulary knowledge for preterm and full-term infants	0
Verbal response latency in turn-taking as a measure of language processing in mother-child dialogue	0
Models of Variable Form Acquisition Should Be Informed by Cross-Dialect Studies of Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)	0
Introduction to Commentaries on Shin and Miller (2022)	0
In Support of Varying Approaches to the Study of Variation	0
Longitudinal Examination of Potential Bilingual Advantage Effects for Selective Attention and Cognitive Functioning in Young Children	0
A Challenge to Whole-word Phonology? A Study of Japanese and Mandarin	0