OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language Acquisition 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction	19
Sì and no : How Italian children and adults answer positive and negative polar questions	14
The development of speech disfluencies in non-stuttering Greek-speaking children during conversational and narrative discourse	11
Feature selection, feature reassembly, and the role of Universal Grammar: The acquisition of wh-questions by Japanese and Chinese learners of English	10
Word-level reading skills of Brazilian children with developmental language disorder	10
Distributional signatures of superordinate nouns	9
Mandarin non-interrogative wh -words distinguish between children with Developmental Language Disorder and language-impaired autistic children	8
Acquisition of modal readings of the Imperfect tense in L2 Spanish	8
Experiencer troubles: A reappraisal of the predicate-based asymmetry in child passives	7
Fast passives, slow relatives	5
Early knowledge of word order in Palestinian Arabic: An eye-tracking study	5
Piecewise Structural Equation Modeling of the collective implicature in child language	5
Focus effect unveils children’s local processing of pronouns and reflexives	5
Child heritage speakers’ acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive in volitional and adverbial clauses	5
Morphological salience matters to aspectual production: Evidence from Mandarin-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder	4
Not a matter of a degree : American Sign Language (ASL) signing children and acquisition of gradability	4
L2 representation and processing of Spanish focus	4
Modelling the developmental path in the acquisition of /l/-final irregular plurals by Portuguese children	3
Kein subjects are hard: Exploring German-speaking children’s behavior with negative indefinites	3
Non-verbal predicate negation in child Emirati Arabic	3
Correction	3
A case study of the American Sign Language patterns of a natively-exposed Deaf autistic signer	3
Ambiguous pronoun resolution in Greek-speaking preschool children	3
Acquiring recursive structures through distributional learning	3
Acquisition of Russian noun case by bilingual children: lexical cues to case assignment in real and novel words	3

Applying given-before-new principle in L2 English datives development	3
Language acquisition and language processing: Finding new connections	2
The Comprehension and Production of Passive Constructions by Afrikaans and isiXhosa First Language Grade 1 Children	2
Learning to predict and predicting to learn: Before and beyond the syntactic bootstrapper	2
Sentence repetition task for European Portuguese: Results from a study with monolingual and Portuguese-German bilingual children	2
Role of Theory of Mind in children’s derivation of ad hoc conversational implicatures	2
Development of a screening tool to identify babies at risk of language delay in India: A preliminary study	2
Arabic morpheme per utterance: a morphological measure of child language development in spoken Arabic	2
Not all English Resultative Constructions (ERCs) are equal: The acquisition of ERC by Spanish speakers	2
Lexical skills in children with and without autism in the context of Arabic diglossia: Evidence from vocabulary and narrative tasks	2
Are theory of mind and metaphor comprehension causally related? A training study in middle childhood	2
Discourse with few words: Coherence statistics, parent-infant actions on objects, and object names	2
Production and comprehension of rhetorical questions in the acquisition of Italian as a first language	2
The study of children with developmental language disorder beyond English: a tutorial	2
Exploring syntactically encoded evidentiality	2
Do children knowwhanything? 3-year-olds know the ambiguity ofwh-phrases in Mandarin	1
Correction	1
Verb agreement production in Arabic-speaking children with developmental language disorder	1
Assessing the acquisition of Romani in Roma children	1
Understanding the descriptive/metalinguistic dichotomy: How preschool children derive intended meanings of negation	1
His face is not smiling but Neke !: A preliminary study of 21-month-old infants’ use of mutual exclusivity in learning facial expression labels	1
Does pointing predict bilingual children’s vocabulary?	1
Relative clause production abilities of Hebrew-speaking children with ASD	1
Obviating the mood, but mostly under control: Spanish heritage speakers’ acquisition of the binding constraints of desiderative complements	1
Parent American Sign Language skills correlate with child–but not toddler–ASL vocabulary size	1
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	1
Difficulties with pronouns in autism: Experimental results from Thai children with autism	1
Conjunction is polarity sensitive in Mandarin	1