OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language Learning and Development 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
Vocabulary Size Leads to Better Attunement to L2 Phonetic Differences: Clues from Russian Learners of English	16
The Acquisition of the Tagalog Symmetrical Voice System: Evidence from Structural Priming	14
Children’s Acquisition of Morphosyntactic Variation	13
Statistical Learning in the Visuomotor Domain and Its Relation to Grammatical Proficiency in Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder: A Conceptual Replication and Meta-Analysis	13
With Language in Mind	12
Infant-directed Speech by Dutch Fathers: Increased Pitch Variability within and across Utterances	11
Leaving Obligations Behind: Epistemic Incrementation in Preschool English	10
The Development of Sociolinguistic Competence across the Lifespan: Three Domains of Regional Dialect Perception	10
Culture at Play: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Mother-Child Communication during Toy Play	9
Is 10 Better than 1? The Effect of Speaker Variability on Children’s Cross-Situational Word Learning	8
Effects and Non-Effects of Late Language Exposure on Spatial Language Development: Evidence from Deaf Adults and Children	8
Difference or Delay? Syntax, Semantics, and Verb Vocabulary Development in Typically Developing and Late-talking Toddlers	8
The Impact of Auditory Perceptual Training on the Perception and Production of English Vowels by Cypriot Greek Children and Adults	8
Improvement of Communicative-pragmatic Ability in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Adapted Version of the Cognitive Pragmatic Treatment	7
Learning a Language from Inconsistent Input: Regularization in Child and Adult Learners	7
Emergent Morphology in Child Homesign: Evidence from Number Language	6
Is Regularization Uniform across Linguistic Levels? Comparing Learning and Production of Unconditioned Probabilistic Variation in Morphology and Word Order	6
Practice and Experience Predict Coarticulation in Child Speech	6
Language Specificity of Infant-directed Speech: Speaking Rate and Word Position in Word-learning Contexts	6
Home Literacy Environment and English as A Second Language Acquisition: A Meta-analysis	6
Nouns and Verbs in Parent Input in American Sign Language during Interaction among Deaf Dyads	5
Maternal Linguistic Input and Child Language in a Cohort at Risk of Experiencing Social Adversity	5
An Adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates CDI in 17 Arabic Dialects for Children Aged 8 to 30 Months	5
Linguistic Variation in the Acquisition of Morphosyntax: Variable Object Marking in the Speech of Mexican Children and Their Caregivers	4
Gesturers Tell a Story Creatively; Non-Gesturers Tell it like it Happened	4

The Development of Quantity Implicatures in Mandarin-Speaking Children	4
Consistency and Inconsistency in Caregiver Reporting of Vocabulary	4
Seeing and Believing: The Relationship between Perception and Mental Verbs in Acquisition	3
How Adults and Children Interpret Disjunction under Negation in Dutch, French, Hungarian and Italian: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison	3
The Primate Origins of Human Social Cognition	3
Word by Word: Everyday Math Talk in the Homes of Hispanic Families	3
After the Null Subject Parameter: Acquisition of the Null-Overt Contrast in Spanish	3
Learning to Read Interacts with Children’s Spoken Language Fluency	3
A Collective-Distributive Pragmatic Scale and the Developing Lexicon	3
The Influence of Exemplar Variability on Young Children’s Construal of Verb Meaning	3
Children’s Initial Understanding of the Related Meanings of Polysemous Noun-Verb Pairs	3
Children’s Linguistic Repertoires Across Dialect and Standard Speech: Mirroring Input or Co-constructing Sociolinguistic Identities?	3
Change Is Hard: Individual Differences in Children’s Lexical Processing and Executive Functions after a Shift in Dimensions	3
Cross-generational Phonetic Alignment between Mothers and Their Children	3
Plasticity in Second Language Learning: The Case of Mandarin Tones	2
Expressive Pragmatics and Prosody in Young Preschoolers are More Closely Related to Structural Language than to Mentalizing	2
Early Verb Morphological Development of a Bangla-speaking Child	2
Language-Specificity in Monolingual and Bilingual Later Lexical Development	2
Thanks or Tanks: Training with Tactile Cues Improves Learners’ Accuracy of English Interdental Consonants in an Oral Reading Task	2
Objects Shape Activation during Spoken Word Recognition in Preschoolers with Typical and Atypical Language Development: An Eye-tracking Study	2
The Role of Perspective-Taking in Children’s Quantity Implicatures	2
One Is Not Enough: Interactive Role of Word Order, Case-marking, and Verbal Morphology in Children’s Comprehension of Suffixal Passive in Korean	2
The Effect of Explicit Instruction on Implicit and Explicit Linguistic Knowledge in Kindergartners	2
Learning Challenging L2 Sounds Via Computer Training: High-Variability Perceptual Training for Children and Adults	1
Compensation for Phonological Assimilation in Bilingual Children	1
Early Acquisition of Plural Morphology in a Classifier Language: Data from Korean 2-4 Year Olds	1
The Influence of Accent Distance on Perceptual Adaptation in Toddlers and Adults	1
Positive Effects of Passive Voice Exposure on Children’s Passive Production During a Classroom Story-telling Training	1
Are Generics Defaults? A Study on the Interpretation of Generics and Universals in 3 Age-Groups of Spanish-Speaking Individuals	1
Vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension account for SES-differences in how school-aged children infer word meanings from sentences	1
Comprehension of Null and Pronominal Object Sentences in Japanese-speaking Children	1
The Impact of Phonological Biases on Mispronunciation Sensitivity and Novel Accent Adaptation	1
Verbal and More: Multimodality in Adults’ and Toddlers’ Spontaneous Repetitions	1
The Relations between Cardinal Number Knowledge and Quantifier Comprehension	1
Poverty of the Stimulus Without Tears	1
The Causative-Inchoative Alternation and Age-of-Acquisition Effects on Multi-predicate Constructions in Turkish Sign Language	1
Levels of Integration in Children’s Early Clause Combining in Hebrew	1
Repetition, but Not Acoustic Differentiation, Facilitates Pseudohomophone Learning by Children	1
Auditory Word Recognition Ability in Babble Noise and Phonological Development in Children at 3;6 Years of Age	1
Semantic Preview Benefit of Tibetan-Chinese Bilinguals during Chinese Reading	1
Infants’ Lexical Processing: Independent Contributions of Attentional and Clarity Cues	1
Copula Omission in Down Syndrome	1