OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Child Language is 2. 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
JCL volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	67
Receptive and expressive vocabulary development in children learning English as an additional language: Converging evidence from multiple datasets	34
JCL volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	29
Parent-child interaction during storybook reading: wordless narrative books versus books with text	28
The comprehension of relative clauses in Mandarin Children with suspected specific language impairment	24
Bilingual Toddlers’ Vocabulary Growth Interacts with Existing Knowledge and Cross-Linguistic Similarity	18
Processing adjectives in development: Evidence from eye-tracking	15
Inhibitory control and verb inflection in Italian preschool children	14
Reviewers 2021	13
JCL volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	13
Use of pointing in parent-child interactions by hearing children of deaf and hearing parents: A follow-up from 1- to 3-years of age	11
JCL volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	11
So many variables, but what causes what?	10
What does the Sentence Structure component of the CELF-IV index, in monolinguals and bilinguals?	10
The role of infinitival clauses in the dialogues of German-speaking children and adults	10
A cross-linguistic examination of young children’s everyday language experiences	10
JCL volume 49 issue 6 Cover and Back matter	10
Phonological Working Memory and Sentence Production in School-Age Children with Typical Language, Dyslexia, and Comorbid Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorder	9
JCL volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	8
Learning to express causal events in Mandarin Chinese: A multimodal perspective	8
Pseudo-relatives and restrictive-relatives in child Mandarin	8
Acquisition of variability in Akan Phonology: Labio-palatalized consonants and front rounded vowels	8
Building on cultural and linguistic strengths and recognizing life challenges - a commentary on Paradis’ “Sources of individual differences in the dual language development of heritage bilinguals”	8
Ditransitive structures in child language acquisition: An investigation of production and comprehension in children aged five to seven	8
An Evaluation of LENA Start™ Using Measures Derived from Parent–Child Interactions	7

Neural correlates of lexical-tone and vowel-quality processing in 6- and 9-month-old German-learning infants and adults	6
Bilingual children reach early language milestones at the same age as monolingual peers	6
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	6
The dynamics of initiation in caregiver–child conversational interactions	6
Structural complexity reduction in English–French bilingual children’s event encoding	6
Adapting language development research paradigms to online testing: Data from preferential looking, word learning and vocabulary assessment in toddlers	6
Factors structuring lexical development in toddlers: The effects of parental education, language exposure, and age	5
Word segmentation from transcriptions of child-directed speech using lexical and sub-lexical cues	5
Marked pointing facilitates learning part names: A test of lexical constraint versus social pragmatic accounts of word learning	5
Internal state language factor structure and development in toddlerhood: Insights from WordBank	5
Parents tune their vowels to the emergence of children’s words	5
Children’s engagement and caregivers’ use of language-boosting strategies during shared book reading: A mixed methods approach	5
Uncovering the development of linguistic knowledge in lesser studied languages	5
That kid is a grasshopper! Metaphor development from 3 to 9 years of age	5
Interest, home environment, and young Chinese children’s development of English as a second/foreign language	5
Ontogeny of index-finger pointing	5
Parentese in infancy predicts 5-year language complexity and conversational turns	5
The acquisition of English modal constructions: a corpus-based analysis	5
Commonalities, differences, and differences that matter between monolingual and bilingual development	5
JCL volume 49 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	4
Speech representation used by Mandarin Chinese-speaking children aged three to six years	4
Examining Dutch children’s vocabularies across infancy and toddlerhood: Demographic effects are age-specific and task-specific	4
Socioeconomic status correlates with measures of Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system: a meta-analysis	4
The timescales of word learning in children with language delays: In-the-moment mapping, retention, and generalization	4
JCL volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	4
Mandarin-learning 19-month-old toddlers’ sensitivity to word order cues that differentiate unaccusative and unergative verbs	4
Uh and um in autism: The case of hesitation marker usage in Dutch-speaking autistic preschoolers	4
Sources of children’s difficulties with non-canonical sentence structures: Insights from Mandarin	4
An Investigation of Hand Use in Preschool Children: Vocabulary and Social Competence Predict Cognitive Development	4
JCL volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	4
JCL volume 48 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	4
Do You Use Love to Make it Lovely? The Role of Meaning Overlap across Morphological Relatives in the Development of Morphological Representations	4
Syntactic priming as implicit learning in German child language	4
Running or crossing? Children's expression of voluntary motion in English, German, and French	4
Sources of individual differences in the dual language development of heritage bilinguals	4
Profiles of word-finding difficulties in school-aged children	4
JCL volume 50 issue 1 Front matter	4
Context-Dependent Learning of Linguistic Disjunction	3
JCL volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	3
Parents’ talk about conceptual categories with infants: stability, variability, and implications for expressive language development	3
Developmental differences in perceptual anticipation underlie different sensitivities to coarticulatory dynamics	3
Stop contrast acquisition in child Kriol: Evidence of stable transmission of phonology post Creole formation	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
The impact of internal and external factors across language domains and features in sequential bilingual acquisition	3
Realistic and broad-scope learning simulations: first results and challenges	3
Touching while listening: Does infants’ haptic word processing speed predict vocabulary development?	3
Impact of talker variability on language development in two-year-olds	3
Cognitive predictors of language abilities in primary school children: A cascaded developmental view	3
The distributional and embodied contexts of verbs in caregiver-infant interactions	3
The Development of Abstract Word Meanings	3

Frequency, redundancy, and context in bilingual acquisition	3
Produced, but not ‘productive’: Mandarin-speaking pre-schoolers’ challenges acquiring L2 English plural morphology	3
More than just a happy talk? Evidence for functional pitch and utterance length modifications in infant-, spouse-, and dog-directed communication	2
How is vowel production in Italian affected by geminate consonants and stress patterns?	2
Exploring the relations between teachers’ high-quality language features and preschoolers and kindergarteners’ vocabulary learning	2
Novel word learning ability in 24-month-olds: The interactive role of mother’s work status and education level	2
“And they had a big, big, very long fight:” The development of evaluative language in preschoolers' oral fictional stories told in a peer-group context	2
Individual Differences in Bilingual Child Language Acquisition: A plunge into a Complex and Dynamic Network	2
Parental use of causal language for preterm and full-term children: A longitudinal study	2
Mean Length of Utterance: A study of early language development in four Southern Bantu languages	2
Syntactic Structural Development in Chinese deaf Children Aged 4–7 Years with Cochlear Implants	2
Singleton consonant onset acquisition in monolingual Granada Spanish-speaking preschoolers with typical versus protracted phonological development: Impacts of word structure and feature constraints –	2
Overuse of familiar phrases by individuals with Williams syndrome masks differences in language processing	2
Motherese Directed at Prelinguistic Infants at Risk for Neurological Disorders: An Exploratory Study	2
Frequent vs. infrequent words shape toddlers’ real-time sentence comprehension	2
“They sure aren’t from around here”: Children’s perception of accent distance in L1 and L2 varieties of English	2
Children’s use of demonstrative words: spatial deictics beyond infancy	2
Same name, different representational levels? Misalignment of indirect parent-reported and direct alternative forced choice measures of emotion word comprehension in preschool children	2
Bilingual Vocabulary Development in Mexican Indigenous Infants: The Effects of Language Exposure from Home and Mothers’ Language Dominance	2
The influence of the temporal characteristics of events on adults’ and children’s pronoun resolution	2
Subsegmental representation in child speech production: structured variability of stop consonant voice onset time in American English and Cantonese	2
Print exposure predicts pronoun comprehension strategies in children – CORRIGENDUM	2
Object shape and depth of word representations in preschoolers – ERRATUM	2
Variation in quality of maternal input and development of coda stops in English-speaking children in Singapore	2
Enhancing adolescent parent interactions in communication through facilitative playgroups	2
JCL volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2
The everyday speech environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants	2
The influence of prominence cues in 7- to 10-year-olds’ pronoun resolution: Disentangling order of mention, grammatical role, and semantic role	2
Children’s acquisition of word order variation: A study of subject placement in embedded clauses in Norwegian	2
Task effects in children’s word recall: Expanding the reverse production effect	2
No concurrent correlations between parental mental state talk and toddlers’ language abilities – ERRATUM	2
The acquisition and use of relative clauses in Turkish-learning children's conversational interactions: a cross-linguistic approach – CORRIGENDUM	2
The emergence of subjects in Lebanese two-year-olds	2