OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of First Language is 3. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How diverse is child language acquisition research?	75
The development of English as a heritage language: The role of chronological age and age of onset of bilingualism	27
Abstractions made of exemplars or ‘You’re all right, and I’ve changed my mind’: Response to commentators	21
Universal strategies for the improvement of expressive language skills in the primary classroom: A systematic review	18
The development and psychometric properties of a shared book reading observational tool: The Emergent Literacy and Language Early Childhood Checklist for Teachers (ELLECCT)	10
The temporal dynamics of deictic communication	9
Bilingual advantages in executive functioning: Evidence from a low-income sample	9
Polish–English bilingual children overuse referential markers: MLU inflation in Polish-language narratives	9
Preverbal skills in 8-month-old children with sex chromosome trisomies	9
Gestures, grunts, and words: Development in a dynamic system	8
Heterogeneity in the trajectories of US Latine mothers’ dual-language input from infancy to preschool	8
Investigating the relationship between syntactic and short-term/working memory impairments in children with developmental disorders is not a straightforward endeavour	7
Reference maintenance in the narratives of Albanian–Greek and Russian–Greek children with Developmental Language Disorder: A study on crosslinguistic effects	7
Individual differences in narrative production in late childhood: Associations with age and fiction reading experience	6
Acquisition of cumulative conditioning effects on words: Spanish-speaking children’s [subject pronoun + verb] usage	6
Topic maintenance in social conversation: What children need to learn and evidence this can be taught	6
Reference to characters in narratives of Russian-Hebrew bilingual and Russian and Hebrew monolingual children with Developmental Language Disorder and typical language development	6
The concurrent and longitudinal relationship between narrative skills and other language skills in children	5
Speech acts addressed to Hadza infants in Tanzania: Cross-cultural comparison, speaker age, and camp livelihood	5
Efficacy and benefits of the MetaCom training to promote metaphor comprehension in typical development	5
The effect of phonological complexity on the order in which words are acquired in early childhood	5
Exploring the acquisition of verb inflections in Japanese: A probabilistic analysis of seven adult–child corpora	4
How do 3-year-olds use relevance inferencing to interpret indirect speech?	4
From information to action: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	4
Early linguistic reference to first and second person depends on social understanding as well as language skills: Evidence from Czech 30-month-olds	4

The production of preverbal and postverbal subjects by Italian heritage children: Timing of acquisition matters	4
Exploring influential factors of shape classifier comprehension and production in Mandarin-speaking children	3
Language diversity and bilingual first language acquisition: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
Linguistic cues facilitate children’s understanding of belief-reporting sentences	3
Speech production accuracy of children with auditory brainstem implants: A comparison with peers with cochlear implants and typical hearing using Levenshtein Distance	3
Exploring language diversity: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
Diversity in bilingual child language acquisition research: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
Acquisition of multi-verb predicates in Nungon	3
Child language acquisition research on indigenous African sign languages: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
A new perspective on referentiality in elicited narratives: Introduction to the Special Issue	3
Internal consistency and concurrent validity of the parental report instrument on language in pre-school-aged children – The Finnish Communicative Development Inventory III	3
Morphological distance between spoken Palestinian dialect and standard Arabic and its implications for reading acquisition	3
Developmental trajectories in infant pointing: The effects of vocalisation and communicative intention	3
Maternal responsiveness and directiveness in speech to 2-year-olds: Relationships with children’s concurrent and later vocabulary	3
Signed languages – Unique and ordinary: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	3
The unique role of verbal memory, vocabulary, concentration and self-efficacy in children’s listening comprehension in upper elementary grades	3
On the acquisition of complex predicates: Introduction to the special issue	3
Referential choice in stories with characters of one or different genders: A study of monolingual Croatian speakers	3
Rhyme over time: Vocabulary learning through daily reading aloud at home with children	3
Argument omissions by deaf students in three languages and three modalities	3
Text complexity and variety factors in narrative retelling and narrative comprehension among Arabic-speaking preschool children	3