OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of First Language 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
What else will I do when I start school? Preschoolers’ wh -questions in dinnertime conversations and their language development	33
Book Review: Veronica Mattes, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler (Eds.), The acquisition of derivational morphology: A cross-linguistic perspe	26
Cross-Cultural Exploration of Growth in Expressive Communication Between English and Portuguese-Speaking Infants and Toddlers	15
From green to turquoise: Exploring age and socioeconomic status in the acquisition of color terms	13
Silent Finns and Talkative Italians? An investigation of communicative differences and similarities as perceived by parents in typically developing children	11
Acquisition during normative code-mixing: Trinidadian children’s varilingual pronoun usage	11
Speech Reduction in Middle Childhood: the Case of Child–Caregiver Interactions	10
Examining the relations between early language skills and environmental variables and literacy skills: A longitudinal study from 2 to 9 years	10
The road to negation: A comparative study of five typologically and culturally diverse languages	9
The Influence of Prenatal Language Exposure on the Use of Pitch in Newborns’ Vocalisations: A Systematic Review	8
Parents as the first teachers: An exploratory study of parent perceptions and use of an online instructional vocabulary module for parents	8
How to implement a unified multimodal framework of first language acquisition: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	7
Mommy and Mama: Parental Language Input from Mother-Mother Couples	6
Promoting a multimodal first language acquisition framework: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	6
Investigating pragmatic abilities in 5- to 7-year-old Norwegian children: A study using the Pragma test	6
Shared book reading among Mexican and Dominican parent-child dyads	6
The effect of tone hyperarticulation in Cantonese infant-directed speech on toddlers’ word recognition in the second year of life	5
Book Review: Saiegh-Haddad, E., Laks, L., & McBride, C. (Eds.). Handbook of literacy in diglossia and in dialectal contexts: Psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic, and education	5
The development of basic word order in child Emirati Arabic	5
Capturing what remains: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	5
A Crosslinguistic Study of Gesture and Lexical Development in South African Infants	5
Comprehension of Relative Clauses in Chinese Children: Comparing Developmental Dyslexia, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, and their Comorbidity	5
The production of preverbal and postverbal subjects by Italian heritage children: Timing of acquisition matters	5
Prompting heritage-language engagement in English-speaking Maltese families, via a family language programme intervention	5
Classroom conversations: What will it take? A commentary on Abbot-Smith et al., 2023	4

Developmental Pathway of the Three-Way Contrasts of Word-Initial Stops in Young Korean-Acquiring Children	4
Development of Narrative Competence in Mano, Mande	4
Corrigendum to “Establishing Guidelines for MLU measurement in an agglutinating language: An illustration of Georgian”	4
Word characteristics of late talkers’ early lexicon	4
Using cognitive measures from linguistic relativity research to assess thinking in Yucatec Maya-Spanish bilingual children	4
What bilingualism can tell us about the Semantic Subset Principle: The case of disjunction under negation	4
Examining Noun Bias in the Vocabulary Development of Xitsonga-Speaking Children Aged 16 to 32 Months	4
The acquisition of directionals in Q’anjob’al	4
A Response to the Commentaries on Riches (2026)	4
Situating multimodal language acquisition in the real-world: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	3
Associations of paternal factors and child’s sex with early vocabulary development – The STEPS study	3
Thought and language: association of groupmindedness with young English-speaking children’s production of pronouns	3
Investigating conversational patterns: Self-repetition and response complexity in English school-age children with a history of late talking	3
A language documentation perspective: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
What ‘diversity’ means depends on your perspective: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
Unifying Language, Reading, and Handwriting Impairments in Dyslexia: The Inefficient Anticipatory Planning Hypothesis	3
What do parents really think? Knowledge, beliefs, and self-awareness of parentese in relation to its use in daylong recordings	3
Giving oranges and puppies: Children’s production of directional verbs in an emerging sign language from Oaxaca	3
Language-Based Social Preferences of Language Minority Children in Hong Kong	3
Fine motor skills and their link to receptive vocabulary, expressive vocabulary, and narrative language skills	3
The Acquisition of Noun Class Morphology in Eegimaa: Early Signs of System Building	3
Language diversity and bilingual first language acquisition: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
Introduction to the special section on the Emergent Literacy and Language Early Childhood Checklist for Teachers (ELLECCT)	3
A longitudinal study of Estonian mothers’ self-reported language teaching practices and children’s language skills	3
Putting multiparty interactions back into multimodal language development studies: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	3
Examining the psychometric properties of the ELLECCT: A commentary on Weadman, Serry and Snow (2022)	3
Acquisition of Eegimaa (Atlantic family, Niger-Congo) in a polyadic environment: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	2
Sometimes larger, sometimes smaller: Measuring vocabulary in monolingual and bilingual infants and toddlers	2
Does the processing advantage of formulaic language persist in its nonadjacent forms? Evidence from Chinese collocation processing in children	2
Adaptation and validation of the word complexity measure for Persian-speaking toddlers	2
The acquisition of the passive voice in Northern East Cree	2
Community-set goals are needed to increase diversity in language acquisition research: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	2
Words in context: Compensation for phonological assimilation in monolingual and bilingual toddlers	2
Establishing guidelines for MLU measurement in an agglutinating language: An illustration of Georgian	2
Development of sensitivity to beat gesture and contrastive accenting in support of word learning in early childhood in boys and girls	2
Book Review: Schwartz, M., Ecological perspectives in early language education: Parent, teacher, peer, and child agency in interaction SchwartzM. (2024).	2
Development of derivational morphology in Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children	2
Considerations when using rating scales to support teacher professional development: A commentary on Weadman, Serry and Snow (2022)	2
Text complexity and variety factors in narrative retelling and narrative comprehension among Arabic-speaking preschool children	2
A Root Infinitive Analogue in Malagasy	2
Learning South African Sign Language as a First Language – The Results of a Sentence Repetition Task	2
Some concrete steps for journal editorial boards: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	2
Children’s endorsement of prosocial lies according to content and recipient knowledge	2
How the characteristics of words in child-directed speech differ from adult-directed speech to influence children’s productive vocabularies	2
The acquisition of verbal tone in Seenku (Mande, Burkina Faso)	2
To Drop or Not to Drop? Third-Person Overt Versus Null Referential Choice in Monolingual and Bilingual Russian–Hebrew-Speaking Children	2
Late talking in young children in Saudi Arabia: Identifying key risk factors	2
Quantifying events or entities?—A corpus-based study of universal quantifiers in early child English and child-directed speech	2
The high dimensionality of caregiver-child communication: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	2
Book review: Silvia Silleresi, Developmental Profiles in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Theoretical and Methodological Implications	2

Book Review: Sharon Armon-Lotem and Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Language impairment in multilingual settings: LITMUS in action across Europe	2
Six-year-olds’ comprehension of object-gapped relative clause sentences: Investigating the contribution of NP number mismatch	2
Bengali-speaking children’s comprehension of disjunction	2
Integrating the Syntactic and Semantic Acquisition of Chinese Classifiers in Mandarin-speaking Children: A Corpus Study	2
Topic maintenance in social conversation: What children need to learn and evidence this can be taught	2
The role of input cues in acquiring unaccusative and unergative verbs: Verb learning experiments with Mandarin-speaking toddlers	1
Acquiring Relational Verb Inflection in Northern East Cree: Frequency, Complexity, and Overgeneralizations	1
The grammar of typically developing Oromo-speaking 3-year-olds	1
Vocal gestures in early multimodal communication: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
Communicative function in child directed speech: A cross-cultural analysis	1
A developmental study of Hebrew text reconstruction: The role of passive voice in different genres	1
Effects of animacy and executive functions in Mandarin-speaking children’s processing of relative clauses: A self-paced listening task	1
Grammatical categorization based on frequent frames in Persian child-directed speech	1
Focus Comprehension in Mandarin-Speaking Children Aged 6 to 8: A Comparison Between Children With Cochlear Implants and Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder	1
Associations between early pre-reading and phonological skills in the light of auditory word recognition and lexical ability	1
Book Review: Anita Wong, Understanding development and disorder in Cantonese using language sample analysis	1
The multimodal nature of development makes language multimodal: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
Advancing the Multimodal Language Acquisition Framework Through Collaborative Dialogue	1
Prosodic features of maternal input to children with sex chromosome trisomies	1
Mothers’ and fathers’ bimodal communication in dyadic and triadic interaction with their infants	1
The integration of the visual-gestural modality in research on child language development: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
Children’s Comprehension of Evidentiality Through Intonation in Majorcan Catalan	1
Acquisition of Spanish Differential Object Marking in the comprehension of which-questions	1
Contextual dependency and overuse of estar in the acquisition of Spanish copula verbs	1
Acquisition of Malayalam inflections: Complexity of morphosyntactic rules and its impact on developing grammars	1
Developing Presupposition in Mandarin-Speaking Preschoolers: A Dual Analysis of Cognitive and Pragmatic Features in Peer Interactions	1
An embodied multi-articulatory multimodal language framework: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
Learning from Mayan Tzotzil: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	1
Individual differences in the effectiveness of a narrative-promoting intervention: Relation with executive function skills	1
Sign Duration in Infant-Directed Signing: Evidence from Deaf Mother–Hearing Infant Dyads in Israeli Sign Language	1
‘The More, the Better?’ An Experimental Investigation on the Role of Sentential Negation in the Acquisition of Italian Nessuno	1
A prosodic account of complex predicate acquisition in Mam: A Mayan language	1
Development in Southwestern Norwegian Children’s Role-Play Register	1
How a modality-neutral prosodic dimension can enrich the multimodal language acquisition framework: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
The impact of baby sign on vocabulary development	1
Language acquisition in the multimodal parallel architecture: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	1
Complex grammar in English: A snapshot of comprehension in children aged 5 to 8	1
The production of subject and object relative clauses in Italian-speaking children: a syntactic priming study	1
The Influence of Age and Cultural Context on Internal State Terms Production in Luganda-Speaking Children’s Narratives	1
Talking to children in Tsotsil Mayan: Interactional formats in child-directed communication across multigenerational caregivers	1
Book Review: William Forshaw, The Acquisition of Complex Morphology: Insights from Murrinhpatha ( Trends in Language Acquisition R	1
Acquiring Polish noun inflection: Two children’s productivity and error patterns in relation to parental input	1
Comprehension leads: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
Signed languages – Unique and ordinary: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	1
Voiced Implosive Acquisition: Acoustic Analyses of /ɓ/ and /ɗ/ as Produced by Shimaore-Speaking Children 3;0 to 7;1 on Mayotte Island	1
Influences of early and intense L2 exposure on L1 causal verb production: Comparison of 5-, 7-, and 9-year-old bilingual and monolingual children	1