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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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	141
The interpretation of disjunction in VP ellipsis: The case of Mandarin Chinese	15
What else will I do when I start school? Preschoolers’ wh-questions in dinnertime conversations and their language development	15
Examining the relations between early language skills and environmental variables and literacy skills: A longitudinal study from 2 to 9 years	10
How diverse is child language acquisition research?	10
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
Acquisition during normative code-mixing: Trinidadian children’s varilingual pronoun usage	8
Shared book reading among Mexican and Dominican parent-child dyads	7
The acquisition of argument structures of intransitive and transitive verbs in Japanese: The role of parental input	7
Investigating pragmatic abilities in 5- to 7-year-old Norwegian children: A study using the Pragma test	7
Promoting a multimodal first language acquisition framework: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	7
Prompting heritage-language engagement in English-speaking Maltese families, via a family language programme intervention	6
How to implement a unified multimodal framework of first language acquisition: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	6
Bilingual advantages in executive functioning: Evidence from a low-income sample	6
How do 3-year-olds use relevance inferencing to interpret indirect speech?	5
The production of preverbal and postverbal subjects by Italian heritage children: Timing of acquisition matters	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
Book review: Paul Ibbotson, What it takes to talk: Exploring developmental cognitive linguistics (Cognitive linguistic research 64)	5
Capturing what remains: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	5
The effect of tone hyperarticulation in Cantonese infant-directed speech on toddlers’ word recognition in the second year of life	5
Features of communication in Norwegian parent–child play interactions	4
What about broader impacts for child language acquisition research? A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	4
What bilingualism can tell us about the Semantic Subset Principle: The case of disjunction under negation	4
On the acquisition of complex predicates: Introduction to the special issue	4

Corrigendum to “Establishing Guidelines for MLU measurement in an agglutinating language: An illustration of Georgian”	4
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
The acquisition of directionals in Q’anjob’al	4
Feature generalization in Dutch–German bilingual and monolingual children’s speech production	3
Giving oranges and puppies: Children’s production of directional verbs in an emerging sign language from Oaxaca	3
Using cognitive measures from linguistic relativity research to assess thinking in Yucatec Maya-Spanish bilingual children	3
Situating multimodal language acquisition in the real-world: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	3
Toddlers use functional morphemes for backward syntactic categorization	3
Fine motor skills and their link to receptive vocabulary, expressive vocabulary, and narrative language skills	3
Examining the psychometric properties of the ELLECCT: A commentary on Weadman, Serry and Snow (2022)	3
A longitudinal study of Estonian mothers’ self-reported language teaching practices and children’s language skills	3
What do parents really think? Knowledge, beliefs, and self-awareness of parentese in relation to its use in daylong recordings	3
Introduction to the special section on the Emergent Literacy and Language Early Childhood Checklist for Teachers (ELLECCT)	3
Postverbal subjects in child Italian: Argument structure, discourse and the definiteness effect	3
Putting multiparty interactions back into multimodal language development studies: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek	3
How the characteristics of words in child-directed speech differ from adult-directed speech to influence children’s productive vocabularies	3
Thought and language: association of groupmindedness with young English-speaking children’s production of pronouns	3
Associations of paternal factors and child’s sex with early vocabulary development – The STEPS study	3
Unifying Language, Reading, and Handwriting Impairments in Dyslexia: The Inefficient Anticipatory Planning Hypothesis	3
What ‘diversity’ means depends on your perspective: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
A language documentation perspective: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
Establishing guidelines for MLU measurement in an agglutinating language: An illustration of Georgian	3
Argument omissions by deaf students in three languages and three modalities	2
Community-set goals are needed to increase diversity in language acquisition research: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	2
The acquisition of the passive voice in Northern East Cree	2
Development of sensitivity to beat gesture and contrastive accenting in support of word learning in early childhood in boys and girls	2
Quantifying events or entities?—A corpus-based study of universal quantifiers in early child English and child-directed speech	2
Bidirectional language influence in mother–child interaction and its effects on the communicative development of children with cochlear implants: A longitudinal study	2
Book Review: Sharon Armon-Lotem and Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Language impairment in multilingual settings: LITMUS in action across Europe	2
From information to action: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	2
Six-year-olds’ comprehension of object-gapped relative clause sentences: Investigating the contribution of NP number mismatch	2
Late talking in young children in Saudi Arabia: Identifying key risk factors	2
Adaptation and validation of the word complexity measure for Persian-speaking toddlers	2
Text complexity and variety factors in narrative retelling and narrative comprehension among Arabic-speaking preschool children	2
Topic maintenance in social conversation: What children need to learn and evidence this can be taught	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
Words in context: Compensation for phonological assimilation in monolingual and bilingual toddlers	2
A new perspective on referentiality in elicited narratives: Introduction to the Special Issue	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
Individual differences in the effectiveness of a narrative-promoting intervention: Relation with executive function skills	1
The production of subject and object relative clauses in Italian-speaking children: a syntactic priming study	1
The multimodal nature of development makes language multimodal: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
An embodied multi-articulatory multimodal language framework: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
Communicative function in child directed speech: A cross-cultural analysis	1
Prosodic features of maternal input to children with sex chromosome trisomies	1
The integration of the visual-gestural modality in research on child language development: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1

The grammar of typically developing Oromo-speaking 3-year-olds	1
Sometimes larger, sometimes smaller: Measuring vocabulary in monolingual and bilingual infants and toddlers	1
Does the processing advantage of formulaic language persist in its nonadjacent forms? Evidence from Chinese collocation processing in children	1
How a modality-neutral prosodic dimension can enrich the multimodal language acquisition framework: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
Considerations when using rating scales to support teacher professional development: A commentary on Weadman, Serry and Snow (2022)	1
Book Review: Anita Wong, Understanding development and disorder in Cantonese using language sample analysis	1
Talking to children in Tsotsil Mayan: Interactional formats in child-directed communication across multigenerational caregivers	1
Acquisition of Malayalam inflections: Complexity of morphosyntactic rules and its impact on developing grammars	1
Grammatical categorization based on frequent frames in Persian child-directed speech	1
Contextual dependency and overuse of estar in the acquisition of Spanish copula verbs	1
Vocal gestures in early multimodal communication: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek	1
Development of derivational morphology in Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children	1
Book Review: William Forshaw, The Acquisition of Complex Morphology: Insights from Murrinhpatha (Trends in Language Acquisition Research, Volume 30)	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
Acquisition of Eegimaa (Atlantic family, Niger-Congo) in a polyadic environment: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	1
Acquiring Polish noun inflection: Two children’s productivity and error patterns in relation to parental input	1
Signed languages – Unique and ordinary: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	1
A prosodic account of complex predicate acquisition in Mam: A Mayan language	1
Talking about people who are not there: Children’s early references to absent caregivers and absent friends	1
The role of input cues in acquiring unaccusative and unergative verbs: Verb learning experiments with Mandarin-speaking toddlers	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
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 second-language acquisition on character introductions in 5- and 7-year-old bilingual and monolingual children’s Frog story narratives	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
Maternal responsiveness and directiveness in speech to 2-year-olds: Relationships with children’s concurrent and later vocabulary	1