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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Children’s engagement and caregivers’ use of language-boosting strategies during shared book reading: A mixed methods approach96
Parents tune their vowels to the emergence of children’s words35
Syntactic priming as implicit learning in German child language16
Processing adjectives in development: Evidence from eye-tracking15
Neural correlates of lexical-tone and vowel-quality processing in 6- and 9-month-old German-learning infants and adults14
Bilingual Toddlers’ Vocabulary Growth Interacts with Existing Knowledge and Cross-Linguistic Similarity12
So many variables, but what causes what?12
No concurrent correlations between parental mental state talk and toddlers’ language abilities – ERRATUM11
How is vowel production in Italian affected by geminate consonants and stress patterns?10
Individual Differences in Bilingual Child Language Acquisition: A plunge into a Complex and Dynamic Network10
Realistic and broad-scope learning simulations: first results and challenges9
Overuse of familiar phrases by individuals with Williams syndrome masks differences in language processing9
Parents’ talk about conceptual categories with infants: stability, variability, and implications for expressive language development9
Early home learning environment and children’s concurrent and longitudinal language development9
Object Shape and Depth of Word Representations in Preschoolers8
The Acquisition of Verbal Morphology by Child Classroom EFL Learners in Russia and China: The Effect of Age and L18
The distributional and embodied contexts of verbs in caregiver-infant interactions8
The complexity of opportunities to respond used by mothers and fathers of children with Down syndrome: A preliminary investigation7
Acquisition of the feature [+spread glottis] in Icelandic7
Different paths to multilingualism in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Naturalistic and non-interactive7
Individual differences differentially influence language domains and learning mechanisms7
Reviewers 20247
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–III6
How do parents refer to their children while playing? A cross-linguistic comparison of parental input to Bulgarian- and English-speaking children with ASD6
Collecting language acquisition data from understudied urban communities: A reply to Cristia et al.6
The relationship between working memory, production, and comprehension: evidence from children’s errors in complex wh questions6
Children Learn Causatives Despite Pervasive Ellipsis: Evidence from Turkish6
Rules and exceptions: A Tolerance Principle account of the possessive suffix in Northern East Cree6
Is there a bilingual disadvantage for word segmentation? A computational modeling approach5
Filling lexical gaps and more: code-switching for the power of expression by young bilinguals5
Socio-economic status and other potential risk factors for language development in the first year of life5
Assessing two methods of webcam-based eye-tracking for child language research5
No concurrent correlations between parental mental state talk and toddlers’ language abilities5
Argument ordering in simple sentences is affected by age of first language acquisition: Evidence from late first language signers of ASL5
Parent Responsivity, Language Input, and the Development of Simple Sentences5
Flexible Use of Word Learning Strategies: Monolingual and Bilingual Children’s Word Learning Under Different Language Contexts5
The language of mechanical support in children: Is it “Sticking,” “Hanging,” or simply “On”?5
Positive Valence Contributes to Hyperarticulation in Maternal Speech to Infants and Puppies5
Comprehension of complex sentences containing temporal connectives: How children are led down the event-semantic kindergarten-path5
Diversifying language acquisition research can be (partly) achieved in urban societies and with simplified methodologies: Insights from multilingual Ghana5
Acoustic characteristics of stop consonants in Vietnamese children and adults5
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
Age-related changes in lexical tones and intonation in Cantonese infant-directed speech: A longitudinal study4
Phonological Variation in Child-Directed Speech is Modulated by Lexical Frequency4
The acquisition of English modal constructions: a corpus-based analysis4
Speech representation used by Mandarin Chinese-speaking children aged three to six years4
There might be more to syntactic bootstrapping than being pragmatic: A look at grammatical person and prosody in naturalistic child-directed speech4
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Real-time spoken word recognition in deaf and hard of hearing preschoolers: Effects of phonological competition4
Pseudo-relatives and restrictive-relatives in child Mandarin4
Marked pointing facilitates learning part names: A test of lexical constraint versus social pragmatic accounts of word learning4
Phonological Working Memory and Sentence Production in School-Age Children with Typical Language, Dyslexia, and Comorbid Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorder4
Null subject comprehension and production revisited: a look at English and Italian4
Narrative performance and sociopragmatic abilities in preschool children are linked to multimodal imitation skills – CORRIGENDUM4
Neurocomputational modeling of speech motor development4
Size sound symbolism in mothers’ speech to their infants4
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Child phonological responses to variegation in adult words: A cross-linguistic study4
Maternal parenting style and self-regulatory private speech content use in preschool children4
Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping4
Bilingual children reach early language milestones at the same age as monolingual peers3
Examining Dutch children’s vocabularies across infancy and toddlerhood: Demographic effects are age-specific and task-specific3
Singleton consonant onset acquisition in monolingual Granada Spanish-speaking preschoolers with typical versus protracted phonological development: Impacts of word structure and feature constraints3
Produced, but not ‘productive’: Mandarin-speaking pre-schoolers’ challenges acquiring L2 English plural morphology3
The everyday speech environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants3
Motherese Directed at Prelinguistic Infants at Risk for Neurological Disorders: An Exploratory Study3
JCL volume 49 issue 5 Cover and Front matter3
Do You Use Love to Make it Lovely? The Role of Meaning Overlap across Morphological Relatives in the Development of Morphological Representations3
Parentese in infancy predicts 5-year language complexity and conversational turns3
Ontogeny of index-finger pointing3
Parent-child interaction during storybook reading: wordless narrative books versus books with text3
Object shape and depth of word representations in preschoolers – ERRATUM3
Stop contrast acquisition in child Kriol: Evidence of stable transmission of phonology post Creole formation3
Mean Length of Utterance: A study of early language development in four Southern Bantu languages3
Remote collection of language samples from three-year-olds3
Bilingual Vocabulary Development in Mexican Indigenous Infants: The Effects of Language Exposure from Home and Mothers’ Language Dominance3
Sources of individual differences in the dual language development of heritage bilinguals3
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
Syntactic Structural Development in Chinese deaf Children Aged 4–7 Years with Cochlear Implants3
The Role of Home Literacy Environment in Word Reading and Listening Comprehension in Chinese3
Exploring the relations between teachers’ high-quality language features and preschoolers and kindergarteners’ vocabulary learning3
The acquisition of the semantics of Japanese numeral classifiers: The methodological value of nonsense3
Panda” or “Bear, cat”: Mandarin-speaking preschoolers use duration and pitch to distinguish compounds and lists3
Contributions of Abstract Extratextual Talk and Interactive Style to Preschoolers’ Vocabulary Development2
Utterance-Initial Prosodic Differences Between Statements and Questions in Infant-Directed Speech2
The effects of overhearing on vocabulary learning in ethnic majority and minority preschool children2
Current practices of Portuguese speech-language pathologists with preschool-age children with pragmatic impairment: A cross-sectional survey2
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 clarity of word repetitions in American English infant-directed speech2
JCL volume 49 issue 6 Cover and Back matter2
How reliable is assessment of children’s sentence comprehension using a self-directed app? A comparison of supported versus independent use2
Grammaticality judgments in autism: Deviance or delay – CORRIGENDUM2
Developing early lexical composition in Mandarin-speaking children: A longitudinal study2
Young minds’ quest for regularity: Evidence from the Turkish causative2
Developmental change in children’s speech processing of auditory and visual cues: An eyetracking study2
Maternal input, not transient elevated depression and anxiety symptoms, predicts 2-year-olds’ vocabulary development2
Spoken or sung? Examining word learning in child-directed speech and in song2
Computational cognitive modeling for syntactic acquisition: Approaches that integrate information from multiple places2
Syntactic bootstrapping with clausal complements of adjectives2
Learning speaker- and addressee-centered demonstratives in Ticuna2
The Relationship between Parenting Styles, Child’s Gender, and Gender-Shift Use in Arabic Child-Directed Speech2
The Language ENvironment Analysis system (LENA): A validation study with Italian-learning children2
Infants aged 12 months use the gender feature in determiners to anticipate upcoming words: an eye-tracking study2
Relating the prosody of infant-directed speech to children’s vocabulary size2
The development of Hebrew zero and pronominal subject realization in the context of first and second person2
Accent the positive: An investigation into five-year-olds’ implicit attitudes towards different regional accents2
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
Vowels and consonants matter equally to British English-learning 11-month-olds’ familiar word form recognition2
“Mom said it in quotation marks!” Irony comprehension and metapragmatic awareness in 8-year-olds2
Comparing parent-child interaction during wordless book reading, print book reading and imaginative play2
Learning to comprehend and explain spatial metaphors for time in Chinese2
Acquisition of demonstratives in cross-linguistic perspective2
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Commonalities, differences, and differences that matter between monolingual and bilingual development1
The Developmental Puzzle of Irony Understanding: Is Epistemic Vigilance the Missing Piece?1
Word segmentation from transcriptions of child-directed speech using lexical and sub-lexical cues1
The effect of masks on infants’ ability to fast-map and generalize new words1
Leamos Juntos! Bilingual books support Latine parents’ Spanish language use during book-sharing interactions1
Preschool children’s discourse competence in different genres and how it relates to iconic gestures1
Analogy is indispensable but rule is a must: Insights from Turkish1
Gendered speech development in early childhood: Evidence from a longitudinal study of vowel and consonant acoustics1
Predictors of sentence recall performance in children with and without DLD: Complexity matters1
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Comprehension and processing of the universal quantifier in children, adolescents and adults1
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
Cognitive predictors of language abilities in primary school children: A cascaded developmental view1
Twenty-month-olds categorically discriminate similar sounding vowels regardless of vocabulary level, an event related potentials (ERP) study1
Children’s acquisition of word order variation: A study of subject placement in embedded clauses in Norwegian1
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
Computational modelling of language acquisition: an introduction1
Cognitive skills differentially influence narrative macrostructure in bilinguals’ L1 and L21
Adapting language development research paradigms to online testing: Data from preferential looking, word learning and vocabulary assessment in toddlers1
JCL volume 49 issue 5 Cover and Back matter1
Combining observational and experimental approaches to the development of language and communication in rural samples: Opportunities and challenges1
L1 acquisition of the tense-aspect markers -ess (past-perfective) and -ko iss (imperfective) in Korean1
Reviewers 20221
The role of age of arrival and language environment factors in Arabic heritage language development: A longitudinal study1
Production of only/zhi(you)-Focus by Bilingual Children and Parents in Naturalistic Interactions: A Multi-Domain Analysis1
Monolingual and bilingual children’s production of complex syntactic structures1
An observational study of parental language during play and mealtime in toddlers at variable likelihood for autism1
Testing the relationship between preferences for infant-directed speech and vocabulary development: A multi-lab study1
Same name, different representational levels? Misalignment of indirect parent-reported and direct alternative forced choice measures of emotion word comprehension in preschool children1
Language in educational apps for pre-schoolers. A comparison of grammatical constructions and psycholinguistic features in apps, books and child directed speech1
Novel word learning ability in 24-month-olds: The interactive role of mother’s work status and education level1
Mandarin-learning toddlers’ sensitivity to noun phrase word order: An investigation of an early bias for language universals1
Singleton consonant onset acquisition in monolingual Granada Spanish-speaking preschoolers with typical versus protracted phonological development: Impacts of word structure and feature constraints – 1
An Evaluation of LENA Start™ Using Measures Derived from Parent–Child Interactions1
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
The role of infinitival clauses in the dialogues of German-speaking children and adults1
Vocabulary trajectories in German-speaking children from 18 months to three years: a growth mixture model1
Feedback type matters in children’s word learning1
Literacy and early language development: Insights from computational modelling1
Navajo Verbs in Child Speech1
Co-speech gesture comprehension in autistic children1
Comprehension and production of English plural morphology by school-age deaf and hard-of-hearing children1
Development of derivational morphological knowledge in monolingual and bilingual children: Effects of modality and lexicality1
Emergent bilingual children during the silent period: A scoping review of their communication strategies and classroom environments1
The production of /s/-stop clusters by pre-schoolers with hearing loss1
Mandarin-learning 19-month-old toddlers’ sensitivity to word order cues that differentiate unaccusative and unergative verbs1
Which phonological and lexical factors best influence whether a word is produced and pronounced well?1
“They sure aren’t from around here”: Children’s perception of accent distance in L1 and L2 varieties of English1
The comprehension of relative clauses in Mandarin Children with suspected specific language impairment1
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