OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language Learning and Development 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding How and When Morphosyntax is Acquired: Insights from English Allomorphic Variation and Sesotho ‘Optional’ Noun Class Prefixes	23
Correction	15
Multiple Constraints on Second Language Processing of English Dative Alternation	14
Verbal and More: Multimodality in Adults’ and Toddlers’ Spontaneous Repetitions	14
More Than Looks: Exploring Methods to Test Phonological Discrimination in the Sign Language Kata Kolok	13
Underpinning the On-Line Processing of (Non-)Canonical Sentences in German-Speaking Four-Year-Olds: The Interplay of Cognitive Control and Memory Capacity	12
Thematic Content, Not Number Matching, Drives Syntactic Bootstrapping	11
The Impact of Phonological Biases on Mispronunciation Sensitivity and Novel Accent Adaptation	11
Acknowledgement of Reviewers	9
Children’s Acquisition of Morphosyntactic Variation: A Reply to Commentaries	8
Learning a Language from Inconsistent Input: Regularization in Child and Adult Learners	6
Different in Different Ways: A Network-Analysis Approach to Voice and Prosody in Autism Spectrum Disorder	6
Repetition, but Not Acoustic Differentiation, Facilitates Pseudohomophone Learning by Children	6
Ad-Hoc Conversational Implicatures in Two-Year-Olds	6
Vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension account for SES-differences in how school-aged children infer word meanings from sentences	6
One Is Not Enough: Interactive Role of Word Order, Case-marking, and Verbal Morphology in Children’s Comprehension of Suffixal Passive in Korean	6
Language-Specific Sound-Shape Matching at 12-Months of Age	6
The Impact of Auditory Perceptual Training on the Perception and Production of English Vowels by Cypriot Greek Children and Adults	5
Thinking About Shin & Miller (2022)’s Step 1	5
Children’s Speech Errors Reflect Phonotactics That They Say and Hear	5
List of Reviewers	4
Infants’ Sensitivity to Lexical Tone and Word Stress in Their First Year: A Thai and English Cross-Language Study	4
Announcment of the Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award	4
The Comprehension of Headed and Headless Relative Clauses in Mandarin: Evidence from Monolingual and Mandarin-English Heritage Bilingual Children	4
How Adults and Children Interpret Disjunction under Negation in Dutch, French, Hungarian and Italian: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison	4

Role of Pitch in Toddler Looking toNewandGivenReferents in American English	3
Expressive Pragmatics and Prosody in Young Preschoolers are More Closely Related to Structural Language than to Mentalizing	3
Comprehension of Null and Pronominal Object Sentences in Japanese-speaking Children	3
Difference or Delay? Syntax, Semantics, and Verb Vocabulary Development in Typically Developing and Late-talking Toddlers	3
Limits to resilience: investigating narratives in ASL signers who acquired their first language in adolescence	3
Effects of Processing Limits on Computing Scalar Implicatures: Evidence from Child English and Child Mandarin	2
Acknowledgment of Reviewers	2
Correction	2
Second Language Phonolexical Representations in Italian First-Grade Children Enrolled in an English Immersion Program: Effects of Receptive Vocabulary and Environmental Factors	2
Thanks or Tanks: Training with Tactile Cues Improves Learners’ Accuracy of English Interdental Consonants in an Oral Reading Task	2
20-Month-Old infants’ Use of Noun and Verb Morphosyntactic Cues in Novel Word Learning in Dynamic Events	2
Correction	2
Linguistic Variation in the Acquisition of Morphosyntax: Variable Object Marking in the Speech of Mexican Children and Their Caregivers	2
Affect in Infant-Directed Speech of Swedish-Speaking Mothers and Fathers to 3-, 6-, 9-, and 12-Month-Old Infants	2
Number Stroop Effects in Arabic Digits and ASL Number Signs: The Impact of Age and Setting of Language Acquisition	2
An Online Survey of Picture Book Reading Practices with Children Between the Ages of 0 and 30 Months	2
Culture at Play: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Mother-Child Communication during Toy Play	1
The Influence of Accent Distance on Perceptual Adaptation in Toddlers and Adults	1
Cross-Situational Word Learning in Children and Adults: The Case of Lexical Overlap	1
A Comparison of Perception-Based and Production-Based Training Approaches to Adults’ Learning of L2 Sounds	1
The influence of masks on children's ability to produce new words	1
Discourse Effect on Children’s Interpretation of Pre-Subject Exclusive Zhiyou ‘Only’	1
Announcment of the Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award	1
Word by Word: Everyday Math Talk in the Homes of Hispanic Families	1
A Longitudinal Corpus Analysis of the Quantity, Syntactic, and Lexical Characteristics of Maternal and Paternal Parentese	1
Phoneme identification in bilingual children in Singapore – a preregistered investigation using the CROWN game	1
Auditory Word Recognition Ability in Babble Noise and Phonological Development in Children at 3;6 Years of Age	1
Implicit Learning of Prepositions in Dutch Kindergartners with and without Developmental Language Disorder	1
In their own words: pre-school children’s verbalizations of the appearance-reality distinction	1
The Role of Perspective-Taking in Children’s Quantity Implicatures	0
Children’s Acquisition of Morphosyntactic Variation	0
List of Reviewers	0
Encouraging use of complex language in preschoolers: a classroom-based storybook intervention study	0
Variation by Context: The Importance of Pragmatics and the Discourse	0
Verbal response latency in turn-taking as a measure of language processing in mother-child dialogue	0
The Influence of Exemplar Variability on Young Children’s Construal of Verb Meaning	0
Russian Children and Their Relatives: What Can a Free Word Order Language Reveal About the Subject/Object Asymmetry?	0
How Does English Encode ‘Tight’ Vs. ‘Loose-fit’ Motion Events? It’s Complicated	0
An Exploration of Voice Quality in Mothers Speaking Canadian English to Infants	0
The development of English negative constructions and communicative functions	0
Semantic Cues Facilitate Structural Generalizations in Artificial Language Learning	0
Models of Variable Form Acquisition Should Be Informed by Cross-Dialect Studies of Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)	0
After the Null Subject Parameter: Acquisition of the Null-Overt Contrast in Spanish	0
Associative word learning predicts later vocabulary development: a longitudinal investigation	0
The Causative-Inchoative Alternation and Age-of-Acquisition Effects on Multi-predicate Constructions in Turkish Sign Language	0
Examining weak drop in Israeli Sign Language (ISL) infant-directed signing	0
The Relations between Cardinal Number Knowledge and Quantifier Comprehension	0
Semantic Preview Benefit of Tibetan-Chinese Bilinguals during Chinese Reading	0
“Simpler is better”: Japanese children’s learning of case-markers in transitive sentences	0
The acquisition of relative clauses and noun phrase accessibility: testing the NPAH in Cantonese	0

Early Development of Syllable Structure in French	0
Learning Concrete and Abstract Novel Words in Emotional Contexts: Evidence from Incidental Vocabulary Learning	0
Bilingual advantage in vocabulary development: a longitudinal look at turkish-german preschoolers	0
Investigation of pitch recognition of preschool children aged 3–6 years old in Mandarin	0
Early Acquisition of Plural Morphology in a Classifier Language: Data from Korean 2-4 Year Olds	0
I learn what I like: children’s preferences but not maternal IDS influence word learning from IDS and ADS	0
A Challenge to Whole-word Phonology? A Study of Japanese and Mandarin	0
Acquisition of a rare variant: ne-realization in the negative utterances of French children and their caregivers	0
Announcement of the Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award	0
Objects Shape Activation during Spoken Word Recognition in Preschoolers with Typical and Atypical Language Development: An Eye-tracking Study	0
Verbs drive real-time object state representation during language processing in children under 3 years of age	0
Home Literacy Environment and English as A Second Language Acquisition: A Meta-analysis	0
Are Generics Defaults? A Study on the Interpretation of Generics and Universals in 3 Age-Groups of Spanish-Speaking Individuals	0
Associations Between Joint Attention, Supported Joint Engagement and Language in TD Children and Children with ASD: Potential Sources of Individual and Group Differences in Language Outcomes	0
The Effect of Explicit Instruction on Implicit and Explicit Linguistic Knowledge in Kindergartners	0
Acknowledgement of Reviewers	0
The Type of Feedback Provided Can Affect Morphological Rule Learning of Young Children	0
Learning Verbs in English and Korean: The Roles of Word Order and Argument Drop	0
Phonological Short-Term Memory: When Bilingualism Matters	0
Linguistic and inferential aspects of Hungarian preschool children’s relevance implicature derivation	0
More is sometimes less: verb learning by school-aged l2 learners	0
American Sign Language basic clause comprehension strategies used by late first-language learners: plausibility, animacy, and linguistic structure	0
Longitudinal Examination of Potential Bilingual Advantage Effects for Selective Attention and Cognitive Functioning in Young Children	0
Cross-generational Phonetic Alignment between Mothers and Their Children	0
Announcement of the Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award	0
Copula Omission in Down Syndrome	0
Methodological Triangulation in the Study of Acquisition of Morphosyntactic Variation	0
Variability in Production is the Rule, Not the Exception, at the Onset of Multi-Word Speech	0
Infants’ Lexical Processing: Independent Contributions of Attentional and Clarity Cues	0
Now You See Me, Now You don’t: Children Learn Grammatical Choices During Online Socially Contingent Video and Audio Interactions	0
Introduction to Commentaries on Shin and Miller (2022)	0
Poverty of the Stimulus Without Tears	0
In Support of Varying Approaches to the Study of Variation	0