Journal of Child Language

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Child 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.)
ArticleCitations
Processing adjectives in development: Evidence from eye-tracking77
Bilingual Toddlers’ Vocabulary Growth Interacts with Existing Knowledge and Cross-Linguistic Similarity36
Neural correlates of lexical-tone and vowel-quality processing in 6- and 9-month-old German-learning infants and adults29
So many variables, but what causes what?28
Syntactic priming as implicit learning in German child language21
Parents tune their vowels to the emergence of children’s words18
Children’s engagement and caregivers’ use of language-boosting strategies during shared book reading: A mixed methods approach16
No concurrent correlations between parental mental state talk and toddlers’ language abilities – ERRATUM14
The distributional and embodied contexts of verbs in caregiver-infant interactions13
Individual Differences in Bilingual Child Language Acquisition: A plunge into a Complex and Dynamic Network12
Parents’ talk about conceptual categories with infants: stability, variability, and implications for expressive language development12
How is vowel production in Italian affected by geminate consonants and stress patterns?12
Realistic and broad-scope learning simulations: first results and challenges12
Overuse of familiar phrases by individuals with Williams syndrome masks differences in language processing11
Object Shape and Depth of Word Representations in Preschoolers10
The Acquisition of Verbal Morphology by Child Classroom EFL Learners in Russia and China: The Effect of Age and L110
JCL volume 48 issue 5 Cover and Front matter10
Individual differences differentially influence language domains and learning mechanisms9
Acquisition of the feature [+spread glottis] in Icelandic9
The complexity of opportunities to respond used by mothers and fathers of children with Down syndrome: A preliminary investigation8
Different paths to multilingualism in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Naturalistic and non-interactive8
Reviewers 20248
Rules and exceptions: A Tolerance Principle account of the possessive suffix in Northern East Cree7
The relationship between working memory, production, and comprehension: evidence from children’s errors in complex wh questions7
Children Learn Causatives Despite Pervasive Ellipsis: Evidence from Turkish7
Is there a bilingual disadvantage for word segmentation? A computational modeling approach7
Argument ordering in simple sentences is affected by age of first language acquisition: Evidence from late first language signers of ASL7
Language Development Between 30 and 48 Months in Monolingual Slovenian-Speaking Children: A Study Using the Slovenian Adaptation of the Macarthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory CDI–III7
Collecting language acquisition data from understudied urban communities: A reply to Cristia et al.7
How do parents refer to their children while playing? A cross-linguistic comparison of parental input to Bulgarian- and English-speaking children with ASD6
Comprehension of complex sentences containing temporal connectives: How children are led down the event-semantic kindergarten-path6
Diversifying language acquisition research can be (partly) achieved in urban societies and with simplified methodologies: Insights from multilingual Ghana6
Filling lexical gaps and more: code-switching for the power of expression by young bilinguals6
Parent Responsivity, Language Input, and the Development of Simple Sentences6
Positive Valence Contributes to Hyperarticulation in Maternal Speech to Infants and Puppies5
No concurrent correlations between parental mental state talk and toddlers’ language abilities5
Assessing two methods of webcam-based eye-tracking for child language research5
How children learn to communicate discriminatively5
Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping5
The language of mechanical support in children: Is it “Sticking,” “Hanging,” or simply “On”?5
Neurocomputational modeling of speech motor development5
Socio-economic status and other potential risk factors for language development in the first year of life5
Influence of caregiver input and language experience on the production of coda laterals by English–Malay bilingual preschoolers in multi-accent Singapore5
Frequency, perceptual salience, and semantic complexity: The acquisition of possessor inflection in Northern East Cree5
Reviewers 20234
Interface Delay4
There might be more to syntactic bootstrapping than being pragmatic: A look at grammatical person and prosody in naturalistic child-directed speech4
Age-related changes in lexical tones and intonation in Cantonese infant-directed speech: A longitudinal study4
Null subject comprehension and production revisited: a look at English and Italian4
Real-time spoken word recognition in deaf and hard of hearing preschoolers: Effects of phonological competition4
Maternal parenting style and self-regulatory private speech content use in preschool children4
Child phonological responses to variegation in adult words: A cross-linguistic study4
Ontogeny of index-finger pointing4
Narrative performance and sociopragmatic abilities in preschool children are linked to multimodal imitation skills – CORRIGENDUM4
Phonological Variation in Child-Directed Speech is Modulated by Lexical Frequency4
Size sound symbolism in mothers’ speech to their infants4
Marked pointing facilitates learning part names: A test of lexical constraint versus social pragmatic accounts of word learning4
Speech representation used by Mandarin Chinese-speaking children aged three to six years3
JCL volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
JCL volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Front matter3
Sources of individual differences in the dual language development of heritage bilinguals3
Syntactic Structural Development in Chinese deaf Children Aged 4–7 Years with Cochlear Implants3
Singleton consonant onset acquisition in monolingual Granada Spanish-speaking preschoolers with typical versus protracted phonological development: Impacts of word structure and feature constraints3
The acquisition of English modal constructions: a corpus-based analysis3
Examining Dutch children’s vocabularies across infancy and toddlerhood: Demographic effects are age-specific and task-specific3
JCL volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter3
Bilingual children reach early language milestones at the same age as monolingual peers3
JCL volume 48 issue 6 Cover and Front matter3
The everyday speech environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants3
Parentese in infancy predicts 5-year language complexity and conversational turns3
Phonological Working Memory and Sentence Production in School-Age Children with Typical Language, Dyslexia, and Comorbid Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorder3
Pseudo-relatives and restrictive-relatives in child Mandarin3
To what extent do children’s expressions of time actually refer to time? An investigation into the temporal and discursive usages of temporal adverbs in family interaction3
Parent-child interaction during storybook reading: wordless narrative books versus books with text3
Mean Length of Utterance: A study of early language development in four Southern Bantu languages3
Stop contrast acquisition in child Kriol: Evidence of stable transmission of phonology post Creole formation3
Exploring the relations between teachers’ high-quality language features and preschoolers and kindergarteners’ vocabulary learning2
Object shape and depth of word representations in preschoolers – ERRATUM2
The Relationship between Parenting Styles, Child’s Gender, and Gender-Shift Use in Arabic Child-Directed Speech2
Produced, but not ‘productive’: Mandarin-speaking pre-schoolers’ challenges acquiring L2 English plural morphology2
Syntactic bootstrapping with clausal complements of adjectives2
Computational cognitive modeling for syntactic acquisition: Approaches that integrate information from multiple places2
Utterance-Initial Prosodic Differences Between Statements and Questions in Infant-Directed Speech2
Infants aged 12 months use the gender feature in determiners to anticipate upcoming words: an eye-tracking study2
“Mom said it in quotation marks!” Irony comprehension and metapragmatic awareness in 8-year-olds2
How strong is the relationship between caregiver speech and language development? A meta-analysis2
Exposure to Foreign Languages through Live Interaction Can Facilitate Children’s Acceptance of Multiple Labeling Conventions across Languages2
Maternal mind-mindedness and communicative functions in free-play and mealtime contexts: Stability, continuity and relations with child language at 16 months2
Do You Use Love to Make it Lovely? The Role of Meaning Overlap across Morphological Relatives in the Development of Morphological Representations2
Motherese Directed at Prelinguistic Infants at Risk for Neurological Disorders: An Exploratory Study2
Acquisition of demonstratives in cross-linguistic perspective2
Developmental differences in perceptual anticipation underlie different sensitivities to coarticulatory dynamics2
Accent the positive: An investigation into five-year-olds’ implicit attitudes towards different regional accents2
Current practices of Portuguese speech-language pathologists with preschool-age children with pragmatic impairment: A cross-sectional survey2
Contributions of Abstract Extratextual Talk and Interactive Style to Preschoolers’ Vocabulary Development2
Learning speaker- and addressee-centered demonstratives in Ticuna2
Maternal input, not transient elevated depression and anxiety symptoms, predicts 2-year-olds’ vocabulary development2
Grammaticality judgments in autism: Deviance or delay – CORRIGENDUM2
JCL volume 49 issue 5 Cover and Front matter2
Remote collection of language samples from three-year-olds2
The acquisition of the semantics of Japanese numeral classifiers: The methodological value of nonsense2
Variation awaiting bias: Substantively biased learning of vowel harmony variation2
Bilingual Vocabulary Development in Mexican Indigenous Infants: The Effects of Language Exposure from Home and Mothers’ Language Dominance2
Young minds’ quest for regularity: Evidence from the Turkish causative2
Vowels and consonants matter equally to British English-learning 11-month-olds’ familiar word form recognition2
The development of Hebrew zero and pronominal subject realization in the context of first and second person2
Developing early lexical composition in Mandarin-speaking children: A longitudinal study2
Relating the prosody of infant-directed speech to children’s vocabulary size2
How reliable is assessment of children’s sentence comprehension using a self-directed app? A comparison of supported versus independent use2
JCL volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Back matter2
The effects of overhearing on vocabulary learning in ethnic majority and minority preschool children2
Panda” or “Bear, cat”: Mandarin-speaking preschoolers use duration and pitch to distinguish compounds and lists2
Building a unified model of the Optional Infinitive Stage: Simulating the cross-linguistic pattern of verb-marking error in typically developing children and children with Developmental Language Disor2
The Role of Home Literacy Environment in Word Reading and Listening Comprehension in Chinese2
Twenty-month-olds categorically discriminate similar sounding vowels regardless of vocabulary level, an event related potentials (ERP) study1
Vocabulary trajectories in German-speaking children from 18 months to three years: a growth mixture model1
“They sure aren’t from around here”: Children’s perception of accent distance in L1 and L2 varieties of English1
Cognitive skills differentially influence narrative macrostructure in bilinguals’ L1 and L21
The influence of prominence cues in 7- to 10-year-olds’ pronoun resolution: Disentangling order of mention, grammatical role, and semantic role1
The production of /s/-stop clusters by pre-schoolers with hearing loss1
JCL volume 49 issue 5 Cover and Back matter1
Literacy and early language development: Insights from computational modelling1
Same name, different representational levels? Misalignment of indirect parent-reported and direct alternative forced choice measures of emotion word comprehension in preschool children1
Computational modelling of language acquisition: an introduction1
The comprehension of relative clauses in Mandarin Children with suspected specific language impairment1
An observational study of parental language during play and mealtime in toddlers at variable likelihood for autism1
JCL volume 49 issue 6 Cover and Back matter1
Comparing parent-child interaction during wordless book reading, print book reading and imaginative play1
JCL volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter1
The role of age of arrival and language environment factors in Arabic heritage language development: A longitudinal study1
Converging Evidence of Underlying Competence: Comprehension and Production in the Acquisition of Spanish Subject-Verb Agreement1
JCL volume 48 issue 5 Cover and Back matter1
Socio-cognitive engagement (but not socioeconomic status) predicts preschool children's language and pragmatic abilities1
Cognitive predictors of language abilities in primary school children: A cascaded developmental view1
Comprehension and processing of the universal quantifier in children, adolescents and adults1
Mandarin-learning 19-month-old toddlers’ sensitivity to word order cues that differentiate unaccusative and unergative verbs1
Navajo Verbs in Child Speech1
Singleton consonant onset acquisition in monolingual Granada Spanish-speaking preschoolers with typical versus protracted phonological development: Impacts of word structure and feature constraints – 1
Co-speech gesture comprehension in autistic children1
The Language ENvironment Analysis system (LENA): A validation study with Italian-learning children1
Which phonological and lexical factors best influence whether a word is produced and pronounced well?1
Use of pointing in parent-child interactions by hearing children of deaf and hearing parents: A follow-up from 1- to 3-years of age1
Leamos Juntos! Bilingual books support Latine parents’ Spanish language use during book-sharing interactions1
Child-directed and overheard input from different speakers in two distinct cultures1
Developmental change in children’s speech processing of auditory and visual cues: An eyetracking study1
L1 acquisition of the tense-aspect markers -ess (past-perfective) and -ko iss (imperfective) in Korean1
Gendered speech development in early childhood: Evidence from a longitudinal study of vowel and consonant acoustics1
Testing the relationship between preferences for infant-directed speech and vocabulary development: A multi-lab study1
Children’s acquisition of word order variation: A study of subject placement in embedded clauses in Norwegian1
Language in educational apps for pre-schoolers. A comparison of grammatical constructions and psycholinguistic features in apps, books and child directed speech1
Frequent vs. infrequent words shape toddlers’ real-time sentence comprehension1
Acoustic cues to phrase and clause boundaries in infant-directed speech: Evidence from LENA recordings1
The influence of the temporal characteristics of events on adults’ and children’s pronoun resolution1
Structure and acoustics of the speech of verbal autistic preschoolers1
Novel word learning ability in 24-month-olds: The interactive role of mother’s work status and education level1
The Developmental Puzzle of Irony Understanding: Is Epistemic Vigilance the Missing Piece?1
Commonalities, differences, and differences that matter between monolingual and bilingual development1
Emergent bilingual children during the silent period: A scoping review of their communication strategies and classroom environments1
An Evaluation of LENA Start™ Using Measures Derived from Parent–Child Interactions1
Analogy is indispensable but rule is a must: Insights from Turkish1
Learning to comprehend and explain spatial metaphors for time in Chinese1
JCL volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
Development of derivational morphological knowledge in monolingual and bilingual children: Effects of modality and lexicality1
0.048249006271362