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 2021-06-01 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
What else will I do when I start school? Preschoolers’ wh-questions in dinnertime conversations and their language development	15
The interpretation of disjunction in VP ellipsis: The case of Mandarin Chinese	15
How diverse is child language acquisition research?	10
Examining the relations between early language skills and environmental variables and literacy skills: A longitudinal study from 2 to 9 years	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
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
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
Bilingual advantages in executive functioning: Evidence from a low-income sample	6
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
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
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
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
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
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
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