OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Child 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
So many variables, but what causes what?	140
Syntactic priming as implicit learning in German child language	48
Neural correlates of lexical-tone and vowel-quality processing in 6- and 9-month-old German-learning infants and adults	15
Processing adjectives in development: Evidence from eye-tracking	14
Children’s engagement and caregivers’ use of language-boosting strategies during shared book reading: A mixed methods approach	14
Bilingual Toddlers’ Vocabulary Growth Interacts with Existing Knowledge and Cross-Linguistic Similarity	14
Parents tune their vowels to the emergence of children’s words	13
Lexical Trajectories in Toddlers from Low-Income Bilingual Immigrant and Monolingual Families in Italy	12
Parents’ talk about conceptual categories with infants: stability, variability, and implications for expressive language development	11
Individual Differences in Bilingual Child Language Acquisition: A plunge into a Complex and Dynamic Network	11
Overuse of familiar phrases by individuals with Williams syndrome masks differences in language processing	10
No concurrent correlations between parental mental state talk and toddlers’ language abilities – ERRATUM	9
The relationship between maternal input, culture, and the strength of noun bias in Palestinian-Arabic-learning infants	9
Realistic and broad-scope learning simulations: first results and challenges	9
The distributional and embodied contexts of verbs in caregiver-infant interactions	9
Early home learning environment and children’s concurrent and longitudinal language development	8
How is vowel production in Italian affected by geminate consonants and stress patterns?	8
The complexity of opportunities to respond used by mothers and fathers of children with Down syndrome: A preliminary investigation	7
Different paths to multilingualism in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Naturalistic and non-interactive	7
The Acquisition of Verbal Morphology by Child Classroom EFL Learners in Russia and China: The Effect of Age and L1	7
Children Learn Causatives Despite Pervasive Ellipsis: Evidence from Turkish	7
Acquisition of the feature [+spread glottis] in Icelandic	7
Reviewers 2024	7
Comprehension of complex sentences containing temporal connectives: How children are led down the event-semantic kindergarten-path	6
Object Shape and Depth of Word Representations in Preschoolers	6

Enhancing Phonological Awareness in First and Second Language by Jyutping Training: Evidence From Cantonese-English Bilingual Children	6
Collecting language acquisition data from understudied urban communities: A reply to Cristia et al.	6
Individual differences differentially influence language domains and learning mechanisms	6
Argument ordering in simple sentences is affected by age of first language acquisition: Evidence from late first language signers of ASL	6
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–III	6
Diversifying language acquisition research can be (partly) achieved in urban societies and with simplified methodologies: Insights from multilingual Ghana	5
Parent Responsivity, Language Input, and the Development of Simple Sentences	5
Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping	5
No concurrent correlations between parental mental state talk and toddlers’ language abilities	5
Rules and exceptions: A Tolerance Principle account of the possessive suffix in Northern East Cree	5
Flexible Use of Word Learning Strategies: Monolingual and Bilingual Children’s Word Learning Under Different Language Contexts	5
Frequency, perceptual salience, and semantic complexity: The acquisition of possessor inflection in Northern East Cree	5
The relationship between working memory, production, and comprehension: evidence from children’s errors in complex wh questions	5
Filling lexical gaps and more: code-switching for the power of expression by young bilinguals	5
Influence of caregiver input and language experience on the production of coda laterals by English–Malay bilingual preschoolers in multi-accent Singapore	5
Positive Valence Contributes to Hyperarticulation in Maternal Speech to Infants and Puppies	5
Child phonological responses to variegation in adult words: A cross-linguistic study	4
The acquisition of English modal constructions: a corpus-based analysis	4
Examining Dutch children’s vocabularies across infancy and toddlerhood: Demographic effects are age-specific and task-specific	4
Phonological Variation in Child-Directed Speech is Modulated by Lexical Frequency	4
Neurocomputational modeling of speech motor development	4
Acoustic characteristics of stop consonants in Vietnamese children and adults	4
Null subject comprehension and production revisited: a look at English and Italian	4
Size sound symbolism in mothers’ speech to their infants	4
Beyond breadth of vocabulary: Vocabulary depth can also be impacted by school’s socioeconomic status	4
Maternal parenting style and self-regulatory private speech content use in preschool children	4
Age-related changes in lexical tones and intonation in Cantonese infant-directed speech: A longitudinal study	4
The language of mechanical support in children: Is it “Sticking,” “Hanging,” or simply “On”?	4
There might be more to syntactic bootstrapping than being pragmatic: A look at grammatical person and prosody in naturalistic child-directed speech	4
Pseudo-relatives and restrictive-relatives in child Mandarin	4
Real-time spoken word recognition in deaf and hard of hearing preschoolers: Effects of phonological competition	4
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 interaction	4
Reviewers 2023	4
Socio-economic status and other potential risk factors for language development in the first year of life	4
Assessing two methods of webcam-based eye-tracking for child language research	4
Phonological Working Memory and Sentence Production in School-Age Children with Typical Language, Dyslexia, and Comorbid Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorder	3
The acquisition of the semantics of Japanese numeral classifiers: The methodological value of nonsense	3
The Relationship between Parenting Styles, Child’s Gender, and Gender-Shift Use in Arabic Child-Directed Speech	3
How strong is the relationship between caregiver speech and language development? A meta-analysis	3
Computational cognitive modeling for syntactic acquisition: Approaches that integrate information from multiple places	3
Spoken or sung? Examining word learning in child-directed speech and in song	3
Remote collection of language samples from three-year-olds	3
Stop contrast acquisition in child Kriol: Evidence of stable transmission of phonology post Creole formation	3
Do You Use Love to Make it Lovely? The Role of Meaning Overlap across Morphological Relatives in the Development of Morphological Representations	3
Singleton consonant onset acquisition in monolingual Granada Spanish-speaking preschoolers with typical versus protracted phonological development: Impacts of word structure and feature constraints	3
Parentese in infancy predicts 5-year language complexity and conversational turns	3
Syntactic Structural Development in Chinese deaf Children Aged 4–7 Years with Cochlear Implants	3
Effortful control and expressive language in deaf or hard-of-hearing children: The contributions of caregiver language and parenting stress	3
The clarity of word repetitions in American English infant-directed speech	3
Vowels and consonants matter equally to British English-learning 11-month-olds’ familiar word form recognition	3

Risk of early language deprivation among deaf bilinguals with early signing experience: Evidence from American Sign Language basic word order and bilingual proficiency	3
Exposure to Foreign Languages through Live Interaction Can Facilitate Children’s Acceptance of Multiple Labeling Conventions across Languages	3
JCL volume 49 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	3
Bilingual Vocabulary Development in Mexican Indigenous Infants: The Effects of Language Exposure from Home and Mothers’ Language Dominance	3
Motherese Directed at Prelinguistic Infants at Risk for Neurological Disorders: An Exploratory Study	3
Exploring the relations between teachers’ high-quality language features and preschoolers and kindergarteners’ vocabulary learning	3
Sources of individual differences in the dual language development of heritage bilinguals	3
Bilingual children reach early language milestones at the same age as monolingual peers	3
Mean Length of Utterance: A study of early language development in four Southern Bantu languages	3
“Panda” or “Bear, cat”: Mandarin-speaking preschoolers use duration and pitch to distinguish compounds and lists	3
Utterance-Initial Prosodic Differences Between Statements and Questions in Infant-Directed Speech	3
Phonetic development in late childhood: Longitudinal evidence from Gheg-speaking children	3
Current practices of Portuguese speech-language pathologists with preschool-age children with pragmatic impairment: A cross-sectional survey	3
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 Disor	3
The effects of overhearing on vocabulary learning in ethnic majority and minority preschool children	3
The everyday speech environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants	3
Object shape and depth of word representations in preschoolers – ERRATUM	3
The Role of Home Literacy Environment in Word Reading and Listening Comprehension in Chinese	3
Ontogeny of index-finger pointing	3