Impact Factor
3.11
Journal Citation Impact
Estimated influence, citation density, publishing volume, and citation integrity from the analytics table.
Citation rate
2.40
327 total citations
h5-index
23
h5 depth signal
Cited share
64.5%
91 of 141
Total citations
327
Citation footprint
Metric signal
1.94
External metric anchor
Self-citation
4.3%
14 self-citations
Citations Trend
Monthly Publications Cadence
Citing Geographic Demographics
United States
219
United Kingdom
124
Canada
84
Germany
55
Netherlands
52
Citing Fields of Research
Linguistics & Language Studies
694
Neurosciences
105
Psychiatry & Psychology
74
Auditory Loss
29
Neurodevelopmental Disorders
26
Publishing Activity & Reach
Volume, recency, access pattern, and citing-community signals from the journal analytics record.
All-time article footprint
3,176
Articles tracked across the journal lifetime
Indexed publication set
141
91 cited publications
Last 12 months
64
5.3 publications/month
Open access share
100.0%
64 OA publications in the last year
Leading citing country
United States
219 citing publications
Leading citing field
Linguistics & Language Studies
694 citing publications
Latest tracked publication
29 September 2026
10 recent records available
Coverage & Indexing History
v5n1,Feb. 1978-
v5n1,Feb. 1978-
Active Coverage
Research Focus & Classification
Indexed Subjects
Linguistics & Language Studies
Broad Categories
Psychology
Linguistics & Language Studies
MeSH Descriptors
Child
Infant
Language Development
Language
Latest Publications
Recent article records with DOI-first linking and condensed abstracts.
01
DOI 10.1017/s0305000926100981
Open DOI
Inflectional Morphology Development and Its Association With Parental Input: Evidence From Kannada-Speaking Preschool Children
Morphological development is a crucial component of early language acquisition. This study examined developmental changes in types and tokens of inflectional morphemes produced among 214 typically developing Kannada-speaking preschool ch...
02
DOI 10.1017/s0305000926100919
Open DOI
The role of cognitive and linguistic abilities on subject personal pronoun expression in Spanish-speaking children
This study analyses subject personal pronoun (SPP) use in Spanish among 82 typically developing children, assessing how executive functions (EFs) and linguistic abilities interact with third-person singular pronoun expression. Researcher...
03
DOI 10.1017/s0305000926100889
Open DOI
Cross-Linguistic and Socioeconomic Differences in the Use of Variation Sets in Children’s Communicative Environments
This study examines variation sets (VS) – structured repetitions of words in different morphosyntactic contexts – in child-directed speech (CDS) compared to adult-directed speech (ADS) across two communities (Argentinian Spanish and Nort...
04
DOI 10.1017/s0305000926100920
Open DOI
Young Children Use the Discourse Marker “But” to Provide Clarifications in Everyday Conversations
To communicate effectively, speakers must monitor and refine their utterances based on what their interlocutors know. Young children’s use of the contrastive marker but offers a window into this ability. Using longitudinal transcripts, w...
05
DOI 10.1017/s0305000926100841
Open DOI
Semantic composition and pragmatic reasoning in preschool children’s interpretation of negated gradable adjectives
Absolute gradable adjectives (e.g., dry ) and relative gradable adjectives (e.g., tall ) interact differently with negation, with only negated absolute gradable adjectives semantically entailing their antonyms (e.g., not dry ⊨ wet ). Thi...
06
DOI 10.1017/s0305000926100877
Open DOI
Age-Related Changes in Implicit Causality and Consequentiality Pronoun Biases
When adults encounter pronouns in sentences like “Sally frightened Mary because she…,” they typically resolve the pronoun to the inferred cause of the event, a phenomenon called implicit causality. Similarly, in sentences like “Because S...
07
DOI 10.1017/s0305000926100816
Open DOI
Late acquisition of pronoun use in European Portuguese: Subject–object asymmetries in Portuguese-German bilingual children
This study investigates the use of subject and object pronouns in European Portuguese (EP) by Portuguese–German bilingual children living in Switzerland and their monolingual peers in Portugal. Written narratives from 61 children aged 10...
08
DOI 10.1017/s0305000926100713
Open DOI
Does young children’s interest in categories influence their familiar word–object recognition?
Over the first 2 years, children learn to recognize many familiar objects when hearing its label. Nonetheless, recognition is influenced by factors such as category size, frequency, and salience. Since a child’s individual interests infl...
09
10
DOI 10.1017/s0305000926100750
Open DOI
Noun-Modifying Clause Construction in Mandarin-Speaking Children.
In Mandarin, the head noun in [modifier clause-de-N] encodes not only the arguments or adjuncts of the clausal verbs (e.g. "John/biscuits/plate" in the event of "John eating biscuits") but also non-argument, non-adjunct participants exte...
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