OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language Acquisition is 0. 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
Exploring syntactically encoded evidentiality	15
QUD sensitivity in the computation of scalar implicatures in second language acquisition	12
More hard words: Learning emotion and mental state adjectives from linguistic context	8
Relative clause production abilities of Hebrew-speaking children with ASD	6
L2 speech learning of European Portuguese /l/ and /ɾ/ by L1-Mandarin learners: Experimental evidence and theoretical modelling	5
Assessing the acquisition of Romani in Roma children	5
First language attrition and second language attainment of Mandarin-speaking immigrants in Hong Kong: Evidence from prosodic focus	5
Modelling the developmental path in the acquisition of /l/-final irregular plurals by Portuguese children	5
Learning embedded verb placement in Norwegian: Evidence for early overgeneralization	5
Investigating language acquisition in communication sciences and disorders: A case for language diversity	5
Correction	4
The extragrammaticality of the acquisition of adjunct control	4
L2 within-language morphological competition during spoken word recognition	4
Using syntax and semantics to acquire subjective adjective meanings	3
Kein subjects are hard: Exploring German-speaking children’s behavior with negative indefinites	3
Feature selection, feature reassembly, and the role of Universal Grammar: The acquisition of wh-questions by Japanese and Chinese learners of English	3
The acquisition of Hindi split-ergativity and differential object marking by Dutch L1 speakers: systematicity and variation	3
Event-related potentials in the study of L2 sentence processing: A scoping review of the decade 2010-2020	3
Acquisition of Russian noun case by bilingual children: lexical cues to case assignment in real and novel words	3
The cum-sine pattern in German child language: An argument for antonym decomposition	3
Children’s early negative auxiliaries are true auxiliaries	2
Mapping modal verbs to meanings: an elicited production study on “force” and “flavor” with young preschoolers	2
Distributional signatures of superordinate nouns	2
Subject position in Greek and Spanish monolingual and bilingual production: Exploring the influence of verb type and definiteness	2
Correction	2

Acquiring recursive structures through distributional learning	2
Japanese children’s knowledge of the locality ofzibunandkare	2
Word-level reading skills of Brazilian children with developmental language disorder	2
A case study of the American Sign Language patterns of a natively-exposed Deaf autistic signer	2
Why second-language speakers sometimes, but not always, derive scalar inferences like first-language speakers: Effects of task demands	2
The knowledge of binding principles in early child grammar: Experimental evidence from 30-month-old toddlers	2
Non-verbal predicate negation in child Emirati Arabic	1
The acquisition of wh-questions: Beyond structural economy and input frequency	1
Experiencer troubles: A reappraisal of the predicate-based asymmetry in child passives	1
Ambiguous pronoun resolution in Greek-speaking preschool children	1
Using ultrasound tongue imaging to study covert contrasts in second-language learners’ acquisition of English vowels	1
Mandarin non-interrogative wh -words distinguish between children with Developmental Language Disorder and Language-Impaired autistic children	1
Obviating the mood, but mostly under control: Spanish heritage speakers’ acquisition of the binding constraints of desiderative complements	1
The repetition of relative clauses in Mandarin children with Developmental Language Disorder	1
Early knowledge of word order in Palestinian Arabic: An eye-tracking study	1
Acquiring constraints on filler-gap dependencies from structural collocations: Assessing a computational learning model of island-insensitivity in Norwegian	1
Parser-grammar transparency and the development of syntactic dependencies	1
A protracted developmental trajectory for English-learning children’s detection of consonant mispronunciations in newly learned words	1
Difficulties with pronouns in autism: Experimental results from Thai children with autism	1
Acquisition of emphatic consonants by Ammani Arabic-speaking children	1
Acquisition of modal readings of the Imperfect tense in L2 Spanish	1
Smashing verb learning through parental sound symbolic input in preterm and full-term children	0
Correction	0
Role of Theory of Mind in children’s derivation of ad hoc conversational implicatures	0
The acquisition of the verbal passive: The role of verb type	0
Acquisition of overt and covert and : support for the semantic subset principle	0
Note on Special Issue	0
Acquisition of English adjectival resultatives: Support for the Compounding Parameter	0
Focus effect unveils children’s local processing of pronouns and reflexives	0
His face is not smiling but Neke !: A preliminary study of 21-month-old infants’ use of mutual exclusivity in learning facial expression labels	0
Does early gesture usage contribute alongside oral language to later theory of mind performance and metaphor comprehension? Indications from a longitudinal study with children aged 1–9 years	0
Fast passives, slow relatives	0
Piecewise Structural Equation Modeling of the collective implicature in child language	0
English-learning preschoolers can correctly parse and interpret negative sentences to guide their interpretations of novel noun and verb meanings	0
Input factors in the acquisition of evidentiality by Turkish heritage language children and adults in the United States	0
Considering the whole paradigm: Preschoolers’ comprehension of agreement is not uniformly late	0
Effects of age of acquisition and category size on signed verbal fluency	0
Lexical skills in children with and without autism in the context of Arabic diglossia: Evidence from vocabulary and narrative tasks	0
Sentence repetition task for European Portuguese: results from a study with monolingual and Portuguese-German bilingual children	0
L2 representation and processing of Spanish focus	0
Applying given-before-new principle in L2 English datives development	0
Object relatives with postverbal subject in Italian-speaking children and adults: The role of encyclopedic knowledge in detecting sentence ambiguity	0
Acquisition of empathy in child Japanese	0
Are theory of mind and metaphor comprehension causally related? A training study in middle childhood	0
The effects of language input on word order in German as a heritage and majority language	0
The Comprehension and Production of Passive Constructions by Afrikaans and isiXhosa First Language Grade 1 Children	0
Language acquisition and language processing: Finding new connections	0
Word knowledge and lexical access in monolingual and bilingual migrant children: Impact of word properties	0
Cognitive inhibition explains children’s production of medial wh-phrases	0
Parent American Sign Language skills correlate with child–but not toddler–ASL vocabulary size	0

Child heritage speakers’ acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive in volitional and adverbial clauses	0
The differentiation of early word meanings from global to specific categories: Towards a verification of the “semantic pluripotency hypothesis”	0
Arabic morpheme per utterance: a morphological measure of child language development in spoken Arabic	0
The link between lexical semantic features and children’s comprehension of English verbal be-passives	0
Not a matter of a degree : American Sign Language (ASL) signing children and acquisition of gradability	0
Learning to predict and predicting to learn: Before and beyond the syntactic bootstrapper	0
Exploring nonlocal subject–verb agreement in L2 English: The role of proficiency and language experience	0
Morphological generalization in bilingual language production: Age of acquisition determines variability	0
Discourse with few words: Coherence statistics, parent-infant actions on objects, and object names	0
Not all English Resultative Constructions (ERCs) are equal: The acquisition of ERC by Spanish speakers	0
The study of children with developmental language disorder beyond English: a tutorial	0
English derived word recognition by Chinese‐English bilinguals: Testing the nature and time course of the component processes	0
When morphology is not enough: The acquisition of voice in monolingual Greek children and bilingual children with Greek as a heritage language	0
Look at that: Spatial deixis reveals experience-related differences in prediction	0
Wh-word acquisition in Czech: Exploring the growing trees hypothesis	0
Syntactic bootstrapping attitude verbs despite impoverished morphosyntax	0
Phonetic imitation in L2 speech: Immediate imitation of English consonant glottalization by speakers of Polish	0
Development of a screening tool to identify babies at risk of language delay in India: A preliminary study	0
Do children knowwhanything? 3-year-olds know the ambiguity ofwh-phrases in Mandarin	0
Verb agreement production in Arabic-speaking children with developmental language disorder	0
Structural diversity does not affect the acquisition of recursion: The case of possession in German	0
Social biases can lead to less communicatively efficient languages	0