| Statistical learning by 8-month-old infants JR Saffran, RN Aslin, EL Newport Science 274 (5294), 1926-1928, 1996 | 7474 | 1996 |
| Critical period effects in second language learning: The influence of maturational state on the acquisition of English as a second language JS Johnson, EL Newport Cognitive psychology 21 (1), 60-99, 1989 | 5124 | 1989 |
| The child's theory of mind HM Wellman Cambridge/Bradford, 1990 | 4820 | 1990 |
| Maturational constraints on language learning EL Newport Cognitive science 14 (1), 11-28, 1990 | 2773 | 1990 |
| Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults JR Saffran, EK Johnson, RN Aslin, EL Newport Cognition 70 (1), 27-52, 1999 | 1897 | 1999 |
| Word segmentation: The role of distributional cues JR Saffran, EL Newport, RN Aslin Journal of memory and language 35 (4), 606-621, 1996 | 1793 | 1996 |
| Mother, I’d rather do it myself EL Newport, H Gleitman, LR Gleitman Sentence First, Arguments Afterward: Essays in Language and Learning 141, 2020 | 1639 | 2020 |
| Computation of conditional probability statistics by 8-month-old infants RN Aslin, JR Saffran, EL Newport Psychological science 9 (4), 321-324, 1998 | 1511 | 1998 |
| The acquisition of American sign language EL Newport, RP Meier The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition, 881-938, 2017 | 1031* | 2017 |
| Learning at a distance I. Statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies EL Newport, RN Aslin Cognitive psychology 48 (2), 127-162, 2004 | 994 | 2004 |
| Incidental language learning: Listening (and learning) out of the corner of your ear JR Saffran, EL Newport, RN Aslin, RA Tunick, S Barrueco Psychological science 8 (2), 101-105, 1997 | 898 | 1997 |
| Critical period effects on universal properties of language: The status of subjacency in the acquisition of a second language JS Johnson, EL Newport Cognition 39 (3), 215-258, 1991 | 875 | 1991 |
| Regularizing unpredictable variation: The roles of adult and child learners in language formation and change CL Hudson Kam, EL Newport Language learning and development 1 (2), 151-195, 2005 | 835 | 2005 |
| The current status of the motherese hypothesis LR Gleitman, EL Newport, H Gleitman Journal of child language 11 (1), 43-79, 1984 | 627 | 1984 |
| How many seats in a chair T Supalla Understanding language through sign language research, 1978 | 600 | 1978 |
| Segmentation of the speech stream in a non-human primate: Statistical learning in cotton-top tamarins MD Hauser, EL Newport, RN Aslin Cognition 78 (3), B53-B64, 2001 | 591 | 2001 |
| When learners surpass their models: The acquisition of American Sign Language from inconsistent input JL Singleton, EL Newport Cognitive psychology 49 (4), 370-407, 2004 | 530 | 2004 |
| Getting it right by getting it wrong: When learners change languages CLH Kam, EL Newport Cognitive psychology 59 (1), 30-66, 2009 | 498 | 2009 |
| Structural packaging in the input to language learning: Contributions of prosodic and morphological marking of phrases to the acquisition of language JL Morgan, RP Meier, EL Newport Cognitive psychology 19 (4), 498-550, 1987 | 461 | 1987 |
| Motherese: The speech of mothers to young children. EL Newport University of Pennsylvania, 1975 | 459 | 1975 |
