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 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
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
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
What can journals do to increase the publication of research on the acquisition of understudied languages? A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)	9
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
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
What else will I do when I start school? Preschoolers’ wh-questions in dinnertime conversations and their language development	6
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
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
Book review: Silvia Silleresi, Developmental Profiles in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Theoretical and Methodological Implications	5
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
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
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
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