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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Veronica Mattes, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler (Eds.), The acquisition of derivational morphology: A cross-linguistic perspective	157
What else will I do when I start school? Preschoolers’ wh-questions in dinnertime conversations and their language development	17
The interpretation of disjunction in VP ellipsis: The case of Mandarin Chinese	16
How diverse is child language acquisition research?	15
Silent Finns and Talkative Italians? An investigation of communicative differences and similarities as perceived by parents in typically developing children	9
From green to turquoise: Exploring age and socioeconomic status in the acquisition of color terms	9
Examining the relations between early language skills and environmental variables and literacy skills: A longitudinal study from 2 to 9 years	8
Acquisition during normative code-mixing: Trinidadian children’s varilingual pronoun usage	8
Shared book reading among Mexican and Dominican parent-child dyads	7
The road to negation: A comparative study of five typologically and culturally diverse languages	7
Parents as the first teachers: An exploratory study of parent perceptions and use of an online instructional vocabulary module for parents	7
How to implement a unified multimodal framework of first language acquisition: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	6
The acquisition of argument structures of intransitive and transitive verbs in Japanese: The role of parental input	6
Promoting a multimodal first language acquisition framework: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	6
Prompting heritage-language engagement in English-speaking Maltese families, via a family language programme intervention	6
Investigating pragmatic abilities in 5- to 7-year-old Norwegian children: A study using the Pragma test	6
Book review: Paul Ibbotson, What it takes to talk: Exploring developmental cognitive linguistics (Cognitive linguistic research 64)	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 educational perspectives	5
Capturing what remains: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	5
How do 3-year-olds use relevance inferencing to interpret indirect speech?	5
The effect of tone hyperarticulation in Cantonese infant-directed speech on toddlers’ word recognition in the second year of life	5
The production of preverbal and postverbal subjects by Italian heritage children: Timing of acquisition matters	5
Language diversity and bilingual first language acquisition: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	4
Classroom conversations: What will it take? A commentary on Abbot-Smith et al., 2023	4

Word characteristics of late talkers’ early lexicon	4
On the acquisition of complex predicates: Introduction to the special issue	4
Features of communication in Norwegian parent–child play interactions	4
What bilingualism can tell us about the Semantic Subset Principle: The case of disjunction under negation	4
Feature generalization in Dutch–German bilingual and monolingual children’s speech production	3
Using cognitive measures from linguistic relativity research to assess thinking in Yucatec Maya-Spanish bilingual children	3
Associations of paternal factors and child’s sex with early vocabulary development – The STEPS study	3
Situating multimodal language acquisition in the real-world: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	3
Fine motor skills and their link to receptive vocabulary, expressive vocabulary, and narrative language skills	3
What ‘diversity’ means depends on your perspective: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
What about broader impacts for child language acquisition research? 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
A longitudinal study of Estonian mothers’ self-reported language teaching practices and children’s language skills	3
How the characteristics of words in child-directed speech differ from adult-directed speech to influence children’s productive vocabularies	3
A language documentation perspective: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
Postverbal subjects in child Italian: Argument structure, discourse and the definiteness effect	3
Giving oranges and puppies: Children’s production of directional verbs in an emerging sign language from Oaxaca	3
The acquisition of directionals in Q’anjob’al	3
Thought and language: association of groupmindedness with young English-speaking children’s production of pronouns	3
Examining the psychometric properties of the ELLECCT: A commentary on Weadman, Serry and Snow (2022)	3
Putting multiparty interactions back into multimodal language development studies: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	3
Introduction to the special section on the Emergent Literacy and Language Early Childhood Checklist for Teachers (ELLECCT)	3
Toddlers use functional morphemes for backward syntactic categorization	3
A new perspective on referentiality in elicited narratives: Introduction to the Special Issue	2
Bengali-speaking children’s comprehension of disjunction	2
Words in context: Compensation for phonological assimilation in monolingual and bilingual toddlers	2
From information to action: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	2
Community-set goals are needed to increase diversity in language acquisition research: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	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
Book Review: Schwartz, M., Ecological perspectives in early language education: Parent, teacher, peer, and child agency in interaction SchwartzM. (2024). Ecological perspectives in early language educ	2
Establishing guidelines for MLU measurement in an agglutinating language: An illustration of Georgian	2
Children’s endorsement of prosocial lies according to content and recipient knowledge	2
Six-year-olds’ comprehension of object-gapped relative clause sentences: Investigating the contribution of NP number mismatch	2
Book Review: Sharon Armon-Lotem and Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Language impairment in multilingual settings: LITMUS in action across Europe	2
Adaptation and validation of the word complexity measure for Persian-speaking toddlers	2
The high dimensionality of caregiver-child communication: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	2
Rhyme over time: Vocabulary learning through daily reading aloud at home with children	2
Some concrete steps for journal editorial boards: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	2
The acquisition of the passive voice in Northern East Cree	2
Topic maintenance in social conversation: What children need to learn and evidence this can be taught	2
The integration of the visual-gestural modality in research on child language development: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
Acquisition of Spanish Differential Object Marking in the comprehension of which-questions	1
Complex grammar in English: A snapshot of comprehension in children aged 5 to 8	1
Acquisition of Malayalam inflections: Complexity of morphosyntactic rules and its impact on developing grammars	1
Mothers’ and fathers’ bimodal communication in dyadic and triadic interaction with their infants	1
Language acquisition in the multimodal parallel architecture: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	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
Book Review: William Forshaw, The Acquisition of Complex Morphology: Insights from Murrinhpatha (Trends in Language Acquisition Research, Volume 30)	1

Acquisition of Eegimaa (Atlantic family, Niger-Congo) in a polyadic environment: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	1
Considerations when using rating scales to support teacher professional development: A commentary on Weadman, Serry and Snow (2022)	1
Book review: Silvia Silleresi, Developmental Profiles in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Theoretical and Methodological Implications	1
Vocal gestures in early multimodal communication: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
How a modality-neutral prosodic dimension can enrich the multimodal language acquisition framework: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
A developmental study of Hebrew text reconstruction: The role of passive voice in different genres	1
A prosodic account of complex predicate acquisition in Mam: A Mayan language	1
Talking to children in Tsotsil Mayan: Interactional formats in child-directed communication across multigenerational caregivers	1
The grammar of typically developing Oromo-speaking 3-year-olds	1
The role of input cues in acquiring unaccusative and unergative verbs: Verb learning experiments with Mandarin-speaking toddlers	1
Speech production accuracy of children with auditory brainstem implants: A comparison with peers with cochlear implants and typical hearing using Levenshtein Distance	1
Effects of animacy and executive functions in Mandarin-speaking children’s processing of relative clauses: A self-paced listening task	1
Maternal responsiveness and directiveness in speech to 2-year-olds: Relationships with children’s concurrent and later vocabulary	1
Text complexity and variety factors in narrative retelling and narrative comprehension among Arabic-speaking preschool children	1
Does the processing advantage of formulaic language persist in its nonadjacent forms? Evidence from Chinese collocation processing in children	1
Prosodic features of maternal input to children with sex chromosome trisomies	1
Talking about people who are not there: Children’s early references to absent caregivers and absent friends	1
Communicative function in child directed speech: A cross-cultural analysis	1
Grammatical categorization based on frequent frames in Persian child-directed speech	1
The development and psychometric properties of a shared book reading observational tool: The Emergent Literacy and Language Early Childhood Checklist for Teachers (ELLECCT)	1
Contextual dependency and overuse of estar in the acquisition of Spanish copula verbs	1
An embodied multi-articulatory multimodal language framework: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
Sometimes larger, sometimes smaller: Measuring vocabulary in monolingual and bilingual infants and toddlers	1
Development of derivational morphology in Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children	1
Bidirectional language influence in mother–child interaction and its effects on the communicative development of children with cochlear implants: A longitudinal study	1
Quantifying events or entities?—A corpus-based study of universal quantifiers in early child English and child-directed speech	1