@article{KiddGarcia2022,
  author    = {Kidd, Evan and Garcia, Rowena},
  title     = {How diverse is child language acquisition research?},
  series = {First language},
  volume    = {42},
  journal   = {First language},
  number    = {6},
  publisher = {Sage},
  address   = {London [u.a.]},
  issn      = {0142-7237},
  doi       = {10.1177/01427237211066405},
  pages     = {703 -- 735},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {A comprehensive theory of child language acquisition requires an evidential base that is representative of the typological diversity present in the world's 7000 or so languages. However, languages are dying at an alarming rate, and the next 50 years represents the last chance we have to document acquisition in many of them. Here, we take stock of the last 45 years of research published in the four main child language acquisition journals: Journal of Child Language, First Language, Language Acquisition and Language Learning and Development. We coded each article for several variables, including (1) participant group (mono vs multilingual), (2) language(s), (3) topic(s) and (4) country of author affiliation, from each journal's inception until the end of 2020. We found that we have at least one article published on around 103 languages, representing approximately 1.5\% of the world's languages. The distribution of articles was highly skewed towards English and other well-studied Indo-European languages, with the majority of non-Indo-European languages having just one paper. A majority of the papers focused on studies of monolingual children, although papers did not always explicitly report participant group status. The distribution of topics across language categories was more even. The number of articles published on non-Indo-European languages from countries outside of North America and Europe is increasing; however, this increase is driven by research conducted in relatively wealthy countries. Overall, the vast majority of the research was produced in the Global North. We conclude that, despite a proud history of crosslinguistic research, the goals of the discipline need to be recalibrated before we can lay claim to truly a representative account of child language acquisition.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{McElvenny2017,
  author    = {McElvenny, James},
  title     = {Grammar, typology and the Humboldtian tradition in the work of Georg von der Gabelentz},
  series = {Language \& history : journal of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas},
  volume    = {60},
  journal   = {Language \& history : journal of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas},
  publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group},
  address   = {Abingdon},
  issn      = {1759-7536},
  doi       = {10.1080/17597536.2016.1212580},
  pages     = {1 -- 20},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {A frequently mentioned if somewhat peripheral figure in the historiography of late nineteenth-century linguistics is the German sinologist and general linguist Georg von der Gabelentz (1840-1893). Today Gabelentz is chiefly remembered for several insights that proved to be productive in the development of subsequent schools and subdisciplines. In this paper, we examine two of these insights, his analytic and synthetic systems of grammar and his foundational work on typology. We show how they were intimately connected within his conception of linguistic research, and how this was in turn embedded in the tradition established by Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835), especially as it was further developed by H. Steinthal (1823-1899). This paper goes beyond several previous works with a similar focus by drawing on a wider range of Gabelentz' writings, including manuscript sources that have only recently been published, and by examining specific textual connections between Gabelentz and his predecessors.},
  language  = {en}
}