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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Giving oranges and puppies: Children’s production of directional verbs in an emerging sign language from Oaxaca	132
Book review: Gary Morgan (Ed.), Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive Development. Essays in honour of Bencie Woll	13
No evidence of an association between parental mind-mindedness at 9 months and language development at either 9 or 25 months in Swedish infants	10
Acquisition of cumulative conditioning effects on words: Spanish-speaking children’s [subject pronoun + verb] usage	10
Book Review: Veronica Mattes, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler (Eds.), The acquisition of derivational morphology: A cross-linguistic perspective	10
What can journals do to increase the publication of research on the acquisition of understudied languages? A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	9
The interpretation of disjunction in VP ellipsis: The case of Mandarin Chinese	7
Quantifying events or entities?—A corpus-based study of universal quantifiers in early child English and child-directed speech	7
Introduction to the special section on the Emergent Literacy and Language Early Childhood Checklist for Teachers (ELLECCT)	7
Bidirectional language influence in mother–child interaction and its effects on the communicative development of children with cochlear implants: A longitudinal study	7
Thought and language: association of groupmindedness with young English-speaking children’s production of pronouns	7
A longitudinal study of Estonian mothers’ self-reported language teaching practices and children’s language skills	7
Book Review: Katherine Messenger (Ed.), Syntactic Priming in Language Acquisition: Representations, mechanisms and applications	6
Book Review: Anita Wong, Understanding development and disorder in Cantonese using language sample analysis	6
What else will I do when I start school? Preschoolers’ wh-questions in dinnertime conversations and their language development	6
Book review: Silvia Silleresi, Developmental Profiles in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Theoretical and Methodological Implications	5
The multimodal nature of development makes language multimodal: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	5
Signed languages – Unique and ordinary: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	5
Text complexity and variety factors in narrative retelling and narrative comprehension among Arabic-speaking preschool children	5
Maternal responsiveness and directiveness in speech to 2-year-olds: Relationships with children’s concurrent and later vocabulary	4
Comprehension leads: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	4
A developmental study of expressing simultaneous events in film-based narratives	4
Preschoolers’ imitation of sentential complement sentences: Does the nature of the matrix clause matter?	4
How diverse is child language acquisition research?	4
From green to turquoise: Exploring age and socioeconomic status in the acquisition of color terms	4

Toddlers use functional morphemes for backward syntactic categorization	4
The effect of phonological complexity on the order in which words are acquired in early childhood	4
Development of derivational morphology in Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children	3
What ‘diversity’ means depends on your perspective: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
Considerations when using rating scales to support teacher professional development: A commentary on Weadman, Serry and Snow (2022)	3
Examining the relations between early language skills and environmental variables and literacy skills: A longitudinal study from 2 to 9 years	3
Associations between early pre-reading and phonological skills in the light of auditory word recognition and lexical ability	3
Preschool Mandarin-speaking children’s comprehension of associative anaphora	3
A language documentation perspective: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
Acquiring Polish noun inflection: Two children’s productivity and error patterns in relation to parental input	3
The potential for ELLECCT to support language development in the early years: A commentary on Weadman, Serry and Snow (2022)	3
Effects of second-language acquisition on character introductions in 5- and 7-year-old bilingual and monolingual children’s Frog story narratives	3
We need a comparative approach to language acquisition: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
Fine motor skills and their link to receptive vocabulary, expressive vocabulary, and narrative language skills	3
Silent Finns and Talkative Italians? An investigation of communicative differences and similarities as perceived by parents in typically developing children	3
Postverbal subjects in child Italian: Argument structure, discourse and the definiteness effect	3
Examining the psychometric properties of the ELLECCT: A commentary on Weadman, Serry and Snow (2022)	3
Early vocabulary in two varieties of South American Spanish: Quantitative and qualitative differences	3
Evidence for executive function advantages in low SES bilingual children. But why do they arise? A commentary on Grote, Scott and Gilger (2021)	3
Learning from Mayan Tzotzil: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	2
Acquisition during normative code-mixing: Trinidadian children’s varilingual pronoun usage	2
Sometimes larger, sometimes smaller: Measuring vocabulary in monolingual and bilingual infants and toddlers	2
CLEM: A cross-language emotional metanorm in children	2
Mothers’ and fathers’ bimodal communication in dyadic and triadic interaction with their infants	2
In the ear of the viewer: Toward an auditory dominance in early word learning	2
Vocal gestures in early multimodal communication: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	2
Individual differences in the effectiveness of a narrative-promoting intervention: Relation with executive function skills	2
Acquisition of Eegimaa (Atlantic family, Niger-Congo) in a polyadic environment: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	2
Exploring language diversity: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	2
Introduction to the special section on topic maintenance in social conversation	2
Contextual dependency and overuse of estar in the acquisition of Spanish copula verbs	2
Towards an evidence-based approach to fostering collaborative conversation in mainstream primary classrooms: Response to commentators	2
Does the processing advantage of formulaic language persist in its nonadjacent forms? Evidence from Chinese collocation processing in children	2
Little evidence for a noun bias in Tseltal spontaneous speech	2
Children’s acquisition of negation in L1 Afrikaans	2
The grammar of typically developing Oromo-speaking 3-year-olds	2
Language acquisition in the multimodal parallel architecture: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	1
Book review: Paul Ibbotson, What it takes to talk: Exploring developmental cognitive linguistics (Cognitive linguistic research 64)	1
Prompting heritage-language engagement in English-speaking Maltese families, via a family language programme intervention	1
Diversity in bilingual child language acquisition research: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	1
The richness of the stimulus: Constructional variation and development in child-directed speech	1
How do 3-year-olds use relevance inferencing to interpret indirect speech?	1
Argument omissions by deaf students in three languages and three modalities	1
How the characteristics of words in child-directed speech differ from adult-directed speech to influence children’s productive vocabularies	1
Rhyme over time: Vocabulary learning through daily reading aloud at home with children	1
Book Review: William Forshaw, The Acquisition of Complex Morphology: Insights from Murrinhpatha (Trends in Language Acquisition Research, Volume 30)	1
Preschoolers’ comprehension of exhaustive focus: The role of contextualization	1
Examining linguistic and discourse features in oral text production and their dimensionality	1
Bilingual advantages in executive functioning: Evidence from a low-income sample	1
Speech production accuracy of children with auditory brainstem implants: A comparison with peers with cochlear implants and typical hearing using Levenshtein Distance	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
Shared book reading among Mexican and Dominican parent-child dyads	1
The integration of the visual-gestural modality in research on child language development: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
Corrigendum to ‘No evidence of an association between parental mind-mindedness at 9 months and language development at either 9 or 25 months in Swedish infants’	1
Book review: Han, W. & Brebner, C. (Eds.), Typical and atypical language development in cultural and linguistic diversity	1
From information to action: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	1
Establishing guidelines for MLU measurement in an agglutinating language: An illustration of Georgian	1
The acquisition of argument structures of intransitive and transitive verbs in Japanese: The role of parental input	1
Toward a child-centered, interactive approach to multimodal language development: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	1
The production of preverbal and postverbal subjects by Italian heritage children: Timing of acquisition matters	1
The effect of tone hyperarticulation in Cantonese infant-directed speech on toddlers’ word recognition in the second year of life	1
Prosodic features of maternal input to children with sex chromosome trisomies	1
Morphological distance between spoken Palestinian dialect and standard Arabic and its implications for reading acquisition	1
How to implement a unified multimodal framework of first language acquisition: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	1
Evaluating English-language morphological awareness assessments	1
Investigating pragmatic abilities in 5- to 7-year-old Norwegian children: A study using the Pragma test	1
Inflectional morphology and reading comprehension in low SES Arabic-speaking second graders	1
How to learn more about how children learn languages: A commentary on Kidd and García (2022)	1
Hastening slowly on classroom-based conversational skills teaching: A commentary on Abbot-Smith et al., 2023	1
Interrelatedness of false-belief reasoning, structural language, and pragmatic communication in typically developing 4- to 6-year-old children	1