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1 | The ontogenesis of speech acts | Journal of Child Language | 1975 | 1,231 |
2 | The achievement and antecedents of labelling | Journal of Child Language | 1978 | 855 |
3 | Dual language exposure and early bilingual development | Journal of Child Language | 2012 | 725 |
4 | Children use syntax to learn verb meanings | Journal of Child Language | 1990 | 720 |
5 | A cross-language study of prosodic modifications in mothers' and fathers' speech to preverbal infants | Journal of Child Language | 1989 | 716 |
6 | The child language data exchange system | Journal of Child Language | 1985 | 682 |
7 | Developing language in a developing body: the relationship between motor development and language development | Journal of Child Language | 2010 | 675 |
8 | The development of conversation between mothers and babies | Journal of Child Language | 1977 | 594 |
9 | Child-directed speech: relation to socioeconomic status, knowledge of child development and child vocabulary skill | Journal of Child Language | 2008 | 586 |
10 | Infants' ability to consult the speaker for clues to word reference | Journal of Child Language | 1993 | 538 |
11 | Early lexical development: comprehension and production | Journal of Child Language | 1979 | 514 |
12 | The eyes have it: lexical and syntactic comprehension in a new paradigm | Journal of Child Language | 1987 | 511 |
13 | Continuity in lexical and morphological development: a test of the critical mass hypothesis | Journal of Child Language | 1994 | 506 |
14 | The Child Language Data Exchange System: an update | Journal of Child Language | 1990 | 474 |
15 | Early object labels: the case for a developmental lexical principles framework | Journal of Child Language | 1994 | 473 |
16 | The acquisition and development of language by bilingual children | Journal of Child Language | 1978 | 472 |
17 | Early bilingual development: one language or two? | Journal of Child Language | 1989 | 471 |
18 | Lexically-based learning and early grammatical development | Journal of Child Language | 1997 | 453 |
19 | Language differentiation in early bilingual development | Journal of Child Language | 1995 | 435 |
20 | Developmental and stylistic variation in the composition of early vocabulary | Journal of Child Language | 1994 | 409 |
21 | Early lexical acquisition: rate, content, and the vocabulary spurt | Journal of Child Language | 1990 | 407 |
22 | The prosody of maternal speech: infant age and context related changes | Journal of Child Language | 1983 | 357 |
23 | Gestures and words during the transition to two-word speech | Journal of Child Language | 1996 | 355 |
24 | The validity of a parent report instrument of child language at twenty months | Journal of Child Language | 1989 | 354 |
25 | The differential effect of storybook reading on preschoolers' acquisition of expressive and receptive vocabulary | Journal of Child Language | 1997 | 352 |
26 | Bilingual signed and spoken language acquisition from birth: implications for the mechanisms underlying early bilingual language acquisition | Journal of Child Language | 2001 | 345 |
27 | The ubiquity of frequency effects in first language acquisition | Journal of Child Language | 2015 | 344 |
28 | Why are some verbs learned before other verbs? Effects of input frequency and structure on children's early verb use | Journal of Child Language | 1998 | 337 |
29 | Games, social exchange and the acquisition of language | Journal of Child Language | 1978 | 336 |
30 | Encouraging narratives in preschoolers: an intervention study | Journal of Child Language | 1999 | 327 |
31 | How children talk about what happened | Journal of Child Language | 1976 | 325 |
32 | Adult reformulations of child errors as negative evidence | Journal of Child Language | 2003 | 325 |
33 | Early syntactic creativity: a usage-based approach | Journal of Child Language | 2003 | 324 |
34 | The development of locative expressions in English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish | Journal of Child Language | 1979 | 321 |
35 | Early acquisition of verbs in Korean: a cross-linguistic study | Journal of Child Language | 1995 | 319 |
36 | How the prosodic cues in motherese might assist language learning | Journal of Child Language | 1989 | 315 |
37 | Wordbank: an open repository for developmental vocabulary data | Journal of Child Language | 2017 | 312 |
38 | Measuring early language development in preschool children with autism spectrum disorder using the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory (Infant Form) | Journal of Child Language | 2003 | 302 |
39 | Subject realization and crosslinguistic interference in the bilingual acquisition of Spanish and English: what is the role of the input? | Journal of Child Language | 2003 | 302 |
40 | Holophrases, speech acts and language universals | Journal of Child Language | 1975 | 301 |
41 | The acquisition of the voicing contrast in English: a study of voice onset time in word-initial stop consonants | Journal of Child Language | 1980 | 301 |
42 | Infant gaze following and pointing predict accelerated vocabulary growth through two years of age: a longitudinal, growth curve modeling study | Journal of Child Language | 2008 | 301 |
43 | Feedback to first language learners: the role of repetitions and clarification questions | Journal of Child Language | 1986 | 298 |
44 | Caregiver speech and children's use of nouns versus verbs: A comparison of English, Italian, and Mandarin | Journal of Child Language | 1997 | 290 |
45 | Does frequency count? Parental input and the acquisition of vocabulary | Journal of Child Language | 2008 | 285 |
46 | Relationships between lexical and phonological development in young children* | Journal of Child Language | 2011 | 285 |
47 | Infant babbling and speech | Journal of Child Language | 1976 | 277 |
48 | Characteristics of adult speech which predict children's language development | Journal of Child Language | 1983 | 275 |
49 | Early talk about the past: the origins of conversational stories of personal experience | Journal of Child Language | 1988 | 274 |
50 | Nursery rhymes, phonological skills and reading | Journal of Child Language | 1989 | 272 |