Most cited papers in Language Development and Disorders
What are the most cited papers in Language Development and Disorders?
The most cited paper in Language Development and Disorders is "Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised: A revised version of a diagnostic interview for caregivers of individuals with possible pervasive developmental disorders" (Catherine Lord, Michael L. Rutter, Ann Le Couteur, 1994), with 9,189 citations. Next come "Mixed-effects modeling with crossed random effects for subjects and items" (8,736) and "Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants" (5,779).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,153 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised: A revised version of a diagnostic interview for caregivers of individuals with possible pervasive developmental disorders Catherine Lord, Michael L. Rutter, Ann Le Couteur · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Oct 1994 | 9,189 |
| 2 | Mixed-effects modeling with crossed random effects for subjects and items R. Harald Baayen, Douglas J. Davidson, Douglas M. Bates · Journal of Memory and Language | 4 Mar 2008 | 8,736 |
| 3 | Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants Jenny R. Saffran, Richard Ν. Aslin, Elissa L. Newport · Science | 13 Dec 1996 | 5,779 |
| 4 | Working Memory Alan Baddeley · Science | 31 Jan 1992 | 5,275 |
| 5 | A theory of lexical access in speech production [target paper] Willem J. M. Levelt, Ardi Roelofs, Antje S. Meyer · Radboud Repository (Radboud University) | 1999 | 5,193 |
| 6 | Automated Talairach Atlas labels for functional brain mapping Jack L. Lancaster, Marty G. Woldorff, Lawrence M. Parsons et al. · Human Brain Mapping | 2000 | 3,449 |
| 7 | The CHILDES project: tools for analyzing talk Brian MacWhinney · Child Language Teaching and Therapy | Jun 1992 | 3,432 |
| 8 | The nature of phonological processing and its causal role in the acquisition of reading skills. Richard K. Wagner, Joseph K. Torgesen · Psychological Bulletin | Mar 1987 | 3,210 |
| 9 | Linguistic Interdependence and the Educational Development of Bilingual Children James Cummins · Review of Educational Research | Jun 1979 | 3,166 |
| 10 | Reading Acquisition, Developmental Dyslexia, and Skilled Reading Across Languages: A Psycholinguistic Grain Size Theory. Johannes Christoph Ziegler, Usha Goswami · Psychological Bulletin | 2005 | 2,851 |
| 11 | Cross-language speech perception: Evidence for perceptual reorganization during the first year of life Janet F. Werker, Richard C. Tees · Infant Behavior and Development | 1984 | 2,827 |
| 12 | Social Cognition, Joint Attention, and Communicative Competence from 9 to 15 Months of Age Malinda Carpenter, Katherine Nagell, Michael Tomasello et al. · Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development | 1998 | 2,751 |
| 13 | Understanding normal and impaired word reading: Computational principles in quasi-regular domains. David C. Plaut, James L. McClelland, Mark S. Seidenberg et al. · Psychological Review | 1996 | 2,737 |
| 14 | Child Development and Emergent Literacy Graver J. Whitehurst, Christopher J. Lonigan · Child Development | Jun 1998 | 2,523 |
| 15 | Natural language and natural selection Steven A. Pinker, Paul Bloom · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Dec 1990 | 2,478 |
| 16 | The Specificity of Environmental Influence: Socioeconomic Status Affects Early Vocabulary Development Via Maternal Speech Erika Hoff · Child Development | 12 Sep 2003 | 2,378 |
| 17 | Phonological recoding and self-teaching: sine qua non of reading acquisition David L. Share · Cognition | May 1995 | 2,354 |
| 18 | Of Human Bonding: Newborns Prefer Their Mothers' Voices Anthony J. DeCasper, William Paul Fifer · Science | 6 Jun 1980 | 2,352 |
| 19 | Early language acquisition: cracking the speech code Patricia K. Kuhl · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 20 Oct 2004 | 2,319 |
| 20 | Working memory and language: an overview Alan Baddeley · Journal of Communication Disorders | May 2003 | 2,313 |
| 21 | Prevalence of Specific Language Impairment in Kindergarten Children J. Bruce Tomblin, Nancy L. Records, Paula R. Buckwalter et al. · Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research | Dec 1997 | 2,300 |
| 22 | FREQUENCY EFFECTS IN LANGUAGE PROCESSING Nick C. Ellis · Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Jun 2002 | 2,229 |
| 23 | The phonological loop as a language learning device. AD Baddeley, Susan Elizabeth Gathercole, Costanza Papagno · Psychological Review | 1998 | 2,222 |
| 24 | The Brain Basis of Language Processing: From Structure to Function Angela Dorkas Friederici · Physiological Reviews | Oct 2011 | 2,215 |
| 25 | Speech Perception in Infants Peter D. Eimas, Einar R. Siqueland, Peter W. Jusczyk et al. · Science | 22 Jan 1971 | 2,172 |
| 26 | Language of Early- and Later-identified Children With Hearing Loss Christine Yoshinaga‐Itano, Allison L. Sedey, Diane K. Coulter et al. · PEDIATRICS | Nov 1998 | 2,163 |
| 27 | Linguistic Experience Alters Phonetic Perception in Infants by 6 Months of Age Patricia K. Kuhl, Karen A. Williams, Francisco P. Lacerda et al. · Science | 31 Jan 1992 | 2,100 |
| 28 | Joint Book Reading Makes for Success in Learning to Read: A Meta-Analysis on Intergenerational Transmission of Literacy Adriana G. Bus, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Anthony D. Pellegrini · Review of Educational Research | Mar 1995 | 2,059 |
| 29 | Learning and development in neural networks: the importance of starting small Jeffrey L. Elman · Cognition | Jul 1993 | 2,032 |
| 30 | On the ontological status of autism: the ‘double empathy problem’ Damian E. M. Milton · Disability & Society | 16 Aug 2012 | 2,027 |
| 31 | Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge Arthur S. Reber · The MIT Press eBooks | 25 Apr 2003 | 2,022 |
| 32 | The Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (LEAP-Q): Assessing Language Profiles in Bilinguals and Multilinguals Viorica Marian, Henrike K. Blumenfeld, Margarita Kaushanskaya · Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research | Aug 2007 | 2,012 |
| 33 | Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition Don X. Sun, Frederick Jelinek · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Jun 1999 | 1,982 |
| 34 | Syntactic persistence in language production J. Kathryn Bock · Cognitive Psychology | Jul 1986 | 1,930 |
| 35 | Contributions of memory circuits to language: the declarative/procedural model Michael T. Ullman · Cognition | 22 Jan 2004 | 1,916 |
| 36 | Event-related brain potentials elicited by syntactic anomaly Lee Osterhout, Phillip J. Holcomb · Journal of Memory and Language | Dec 1992 | 1,884 |
| 37 | How social contexts support and shape language development☆ Erika Hoff · Developmental Review | 27 Jan 2006 | 1,861 |
| 38 | Language Learnability and Language Development Ellen Bialystok, Steven A. Pinker · Modern Language Journal | 1986 | 1,826 |
| 39 | Language control in bilinguals: The adaptive control hypothesis David William Green, Jubin Abutalebi · Journal of Cognitive Psychology | 24 May 2013 | 1,821 |
| 40 | Context and culture in language teaching Rob Gibson · System | Aug 1995 | 1,786 |
| 41 | Early vocabulary growth: Relation to language input and gender. Janellen Huttenlocher, Wendy Haight, Anthony S. Bryk et al. · Developmental Psychology | Mar 1991 | 1,767 |
| 42 | L2 cognitive states and the Full Transfer/Full Access model Bonnie D. Schwartz, Rex A. Sprouse · Second language Research | 1996 | 1,746 |
| 43 | SEMANTIC DEMENTIA John R. Hodges, Karalyn E. Patterson, Susan Oxbury et al. · Brain | 1992 | 1,743 |
| 44 | Monitoring and self-repair in speech Willem J. M. Levelt · Cognition | Jul 1983 | 1,679 |
| 45 | What memory is for Arthur M. Glenberg · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Mar 1997 | 1,665 |
| 46 | Phase 2 of CATALISE: a multinational and multidisciplinary Delphi consensus study of problems with language development: Terminology Dorothy Bishop, Margaret J. Snowling, Paul Andrew Thompson et al. · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry | 30 Mar 2017 | 1,641 |
| 47 | On language and connectionism: Analysis of a parallel distributed processing model of language acquisition Steven A. Pinker, Alan Prince · Cognition | Mar 1988 | 1,637 |
| 48 | Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure Letitia G. Naigles · Language and Speech | 1991 | 1,634 |
| 49 | Natural pedagogy Gergely Csibra, György Gergely · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 14 Mar 2009 | 1,626 |
| 50 | A precursor of language acquisition in young infants Jacques Mehler, Peter W. Jusczyk, Ghislaine Lambertz et al. · Cognition | Jul 1988 | 1,602 |
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