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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
What else will I do when I start school? Preschoolers’ wh -questions in dinnertime conversations and their language development	34
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
From green to turquoise: Exploring age and socioeconomic status in the acquisition of color terms	17
Acquisition during normative code-mixing: Trinidadian children’s varilingual pronoun usage	13
Parents as the first teachers: An exploratory study of parent perceptions and use of an online instructional vocabulary module for parents	11
The road to negation: A comparative study of five typologically and culturally diverse languages	11
Examining the relations between early language skills and environmental variables and literacy skills: A longitudinal study from 2 to 9 years	11
Silent Finns and Talkative Italians? An investigation of communicative differences and similarities as perceived by parents in typically developing children	11
Speech Reduction in Middle Childhood: the Case of Child–Caregiver Interactions	9
Promoting a multimodal first language acquisition framework: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	8
Cross-Cultural Exploration of Growth in Expressive Communication Between English and Portuguese-Speaking Infants and Toddlers	8
The Influence of Prenatal Language Exposure on the Use of Pitch in Newborns’ Vocalisations: A Systematic Review	7
Shared book reading among Mexican and Dominican parent-child dyads	6
Investigating pragmatic abilities in 5- to 7-year-old Norwegian children: A study using the Pragma test	6
How to implement a unified multimodal framework of first language acquisition: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	6
Mommy and Mama: Parental Language Input from Mother-Mother Couples	6
A Response to the Commentaries on Riches (2026)	5
The production of preverbal and postverbal subjects by Italian heritage children: Timing of acquisition matters	5
Comprehension of Relative Clauses in Chinese Children: Comparing Developmental Dyslexia, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, and their Comorbidity	5
A Crosslinguistic Study of Gesture and Lexical Development in South African Infants	5
Prompting heritage-language engagement in English-speaking Maltese families, via a family language programme intervention	5
The development of basic word order in child Emirati Arabic	5
Corrigendum to “Establishing Guidelines for MLU measurement in an agglutinating language: An illustration of Georgian”	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 effect of tone hyperarticulation in Cantonese infant-directed speech on toddlers’ word recognition in the second year of life	5

What bilingualism can tell us about the Semantic Subset Principle: The case of disjunction under negation	4
Developmental Pathway of the Three-Way Contrasts of Word-Initial Stops in Young Korean-Acquiring Children	4
Unifying Language, Reading, and Handwriting Impairments in Dyslexia: The Inefficient Anticipatory Planning Hypothesis	4
Classroom conversations: What will it take? A commentary on Abbot-Smith et al., 2023	4
Development of Narrative Competence in Mano, Mande	4
Using cognitive measures from linguistic relativity research to assess thinking in Yucatec Maya-Spanish bilingual children	4
Word characteristics of late talkers’ early lexicon	4
The acquisition of directionals in Q’anjob’al	4
Thought and language: association of groupmindedness with young English-speaking children’s production of pronouns	3
A longitudinal study of Estonian mothers’ self-reported language teaching practices and children’s language skills	3
Introduction to the special section on the Emergent Literacy and Language Early Childhood Checklist for Teachers (ELLECCT)	3
What do parents really think? Knowledge, beliefs, and self-awareness of parentese in relation to its use in daylong recordings	3
The Acquisition of Noun Class Morphology in Eegimaa: Early Signs of System Building	3
Language-Based Social Preferences of Language Minority Children in Hong Kong	3
Language diversity and bilingual first language acquisition: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
Examining Noun Bias in the Vocabulary Development of Xitsonga-Speaking Children Aged 16 to 32 Months	3
Situating multimodal language acquisition in the real-world: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	3
Giving oranges and puppies: Children’s production of directional verbs in an emerging sign language from Oaxaca	3
Associations of paternal factors and child’s sex with early vocabulary development – The STEPS study	3
Six-year-olds’ comprehension of object-gapped relative clause sentences: Investigating the contribution of NP number mismatch	2
Words in context: Compensation for phonological assimilation in monolingual and bilingual toddlers	2
Children’s endorsement of prosocial lies according to content and recipient knowledge	2
Putting multiparty interactions back into multimodal language development studies: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	2
Development of sensitivity to beat gesture and contrastive accenting in support of word learning in early childhood in boys and girls	2
Late talking in young children in Saudi Arabia: Identifying key risk factors	2
Text complexity and variety factors in narrative retelling and narrative comprehension among Arabic-speaking preschool children	2
Book review: Silvia Silleresi, Developmental Profiles in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Theoretical and Methodological Implications	2
To Drop or Not to Drop? Third-Person Overt Versus Null Referential Choice in Monolingual and Bilingual Russian–Hebrew-Speaking Children	2
The acquisition of the passive voice in Northern East Cree	2
Establishing guidelines for MLU measurement in an agglutinating language: An illustration of Georgian	2
Investigating conversational patterns: Self-repetition and response complexity in English school-age children with a history of late talking	2
Book Review: Sharon Armon-Lotem and Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Language impairment in multilingual settings: LITMUS in action across Europe	2
Integrating the Syntactic and Semantic Acquisition of Chinese Classifiers in Mandarin-speaking Children: A Corpus Study	2
Effects of animacy and executive functions in Mandarin-speaking children’s processing of relative clauses: A self-paced listening task	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
Learning South African Sign Language as a First Language – The Results of a Sentence Repetition Task	2
The acquisition of verbal tone in Seenku (Mande, Burkina Faso)	2
Bengali-speaking children’s comprehension of disjunction	2
What ‘diversity’ means depends on your perspective: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	2
Fine motor skills and their link to receptive vocabulary, expressive vocabulary, and narrative language skills	2
How the characteristics of words in child-directed speech differ from adult-directed speech to influence children’s productive vocabularies	2
Topic maintenance in social conversation: What children need to learn and evidence this can be taught	2
Development of derivational morphology in Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children	2
A Root Infinitive Analogue in Malagasy	2
Adaptation and validation of the word complexity measure for Persian-speaking toddlers	2
Book Review: Schwartz, M., Ecological perspectives in early language education: Parent, teacher, peer, and child agency in interaction SchwartzM. (2024).	2
Focus Comprehension in Mandarin-Speaking Children Aged 6 to 8: A Comparison Between Children With Cochlear Implants and Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder	1
The production of subject and object relative clauses in Italian-speaking children: a syntactic priming study	1
Language acquisition in the multimodal parallel architecture: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	1

Contextual dependency and overuse of estar in the acquisition of Spanish copula verbs	1
‘The More, the Better?’ An Experimental Investigation on the Role of Sentential Negation in the Acquisition of Italian Nessuno	1
Interrelatedness of false-belief reasoning, structural language, and pragmatic communication in typically developing 4- to 6-year-old children	1
Does the processing advantage of formulaic language persist in its nonadjacent forms? Evidence from Chinese collocation processing in children	1
Toward a child-centered, interactive approach to multimodal language development: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	1
Mothers’ and fathers’ bimodal communication in dyadic and triadic interaction with their infants	1
Language Variations in Standardised Assessments: Evidence From Indonesia	1
A prosodic account of complex predicate acquisition in Mam: A Mayan language	1
The multimodal nature of development makes language multimodal: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
Book Review: Babatsouli, E. (Ed.), On Under-reported Monolingual Child Phonology BabatsouliE. (Ed.) On Under-reported Monolingual Child Phonology. Multil	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
Advancing the Multimodal Language Acquisition Framework Through Collaborative Dialogue	1
The Association Between Socioeconomic Status and Oral Vocabulary in Young Children: A Quantitative Meta-Analysis	1
Sign Duration in Infant-Directed Signing: Evidence from Deaf Mother–Hearing Infant Dyads in Israeli Sign Language	1
An embodied multi-articulatory multimodal language framework: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
The richness of the stimulus: Constructional variation and development in child-directed speech	1
A developmental study of Hebrew text reconstruction: The role of passive voice in different genres	1
Developing Presupposition in Mandarin-Speaking Preschoolers: A Dual Analysis of Cognitive and Pragmatic Features in Peer Interactions	1
Book Review: William Forshaw, The Acquisition of Complex Morphology: Insights from Murrinhpatha ( Trends in Language Acquisition R	1
The integration of the visual-gestural modality in research on child language development: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
The Influence of Age and Cultural Context on Internal State Terms Production in Luganda-Speaking Children’s Narratives	1
How to learn more about how children learn languages: A commentary on Kidd and García (2022)	1
The impact of baby sign on vocabulary development	1
Developmental trajectories of grammatical comprehension in individuals with Williams syndrome	1
Complex grammar in English: A snapshot of comprehension in children aged 5 to 8	1
Communicative function in child directed speech: A cross-cultural analysis	1
Children’s Comprehension of Evidentiality Through Intonation in Majorcan Catalan	1
Signed languages – Unique and ordinary: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	1
The role of input cues in acquiring unaccusative and unergative verbs: Verb learning experiments with Mandarin-speaking toddlers	1
Exploring narrative proficiency in Arabic speakers: A literature review	1
Associations between early pre-reading and phonological skills in the light of auditory word recognition and lexical ability	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
Preschoolers’ comprehension of exhaustive focus: The role of contextualization	1
Grammatical categorization based on frequent frames in Persian child-directed speech	1
Prosodic features of maternal input to children with sex chromosome trisomies	1
How a modality-neutral prosodic dimension can enrich the multimodal language acquisition framework: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	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
Sometimes larger, sometimes smaller: Measuring vocabulary in monolingual and bilingual infants and toddlers	1
Learning from Mayan Tzotzil: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	1
Acquisition of Spanish Differential Object Marking in the comprehension of which-questions	1
Comprehension leads: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
Acquisition of Malayalam inflections: Complexity of morphosyntactic rules and its impact on developing grammars	1
Talking to children in Tsotsil Mayan: Interactional formats in child-directed communication across multigenerational caregivers	1
Exploring parent profiles in parent–child interactions with e-books	1
Book Review: Anita Wong, Understanding development and disorder in Cantonese using language sample analysis	1
Development in Southwestern Norwegian Children’s Role-Play Register	1
Charting the frequency and diversity of emotion words in children’s language: Written language matters	1
Acquiring Polish noun inflection: Two children’s productivity and error patterns in relation to parental input	1
Acquiring Relational Verb Inflection in Northern East Cree: Frequency, Complexity, and Overgeneralizations	1
Book review: Han, W. & Brebner, C. (Eds.), Typical and atypical language development in cultural and linguistic diversity	1