| The emergent participant: Interactive patterns in the socialization of Tzotzil (Mayan) infants L León Journal of Linguistic anthropology 8 (2), 131-161, 1998 | 180 | 1998 |
| Exploration in the acquisition of geocentric location by Tzotzil children L De León Linguistics 32 (4-5), 857-884, 1994 | 89 | 1994 |
| Parallelism, metalinguistic play, and the interactive emergence of Zinacantec Mayan siblings' culture L De León Research on language and social interaction 40 (4), 405-436, 2007 | 76 | 2007 |
| Verbs, particles, and spatial semantics: Learning to talk about spatial actions in typologically different languages M Bowerman, L De León, S Choi Twenty-Seventh Annual Child Language Research Forum, 101-110, 1995 | 75 | 1995 |
| La llegada del alma: lenguaje, infancia y socialización entre los mayas de Zinacantán L De León Pasquel CIESAS, 2005 | 57 | 2005 |
| Finding the richest path: language and cognition in the acquisition of verticality in Tzotzil (Mayan) L De León Language acquisition and conceptual development, 544-565, 2001 | 54 | 2001 |
| Language socialization and multiparty participation frameworks L De León The handbook of language socialization, 81-111, 2011 | 43 | 2011 |
| Verb roots and caregiver speech in early Tzotzil (Mayan) acquisition L De León Cognition and function in language, 99-119, 1999 | 42 | 1999 |
| Space games in Tzotzil: Creating a context for spatial reference L De León Max Planck Research Group for Cognitive Anthropology, 1991 | 40 | 1991 |
| La llegada del alma. Lenguaje, infancia y socialización entre los mayas de Zinacantán L De León Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social …, 2005 | 38 | 2005 |
| Man and tree & space games SC Levinson, P Brown, E Danzinger, L De León, JB Haviland, ... Space stimuli kit 1.2, 7-14, 1992 | 33 | 1992 |
| An introduction I Macpherson, S Robertson, G Walford Education, privatisation and social justice: Case studies from Africa, South …, 2014 | 32* | 2014 |
| Verbs in Tzotzil (Mayan) early syntactic development L De León International Journal of Bilingualism 3 (2-3), 219-239, 1999 | 29 | 1999 |
| Body parts and location in Tzotzil: Ongoing grammaticalization L De León STUF-Language Typology and Universals 45 (1-4), 570-589, 1992 | 28 | 1992 |
| Socialización, lenguajes y culturas infantiles: estudios interdisciplinarios L De León Pasquel Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores Gia Social (, 2010 | 23 | 2010 |
| Roots or edges? Explaining variation in children’s early verb forms across five Mayan languages C Pye, B Pfeiler, L De León, P Brown, P Mateo Learning indigenous languages: Child language acquisition in Mesoamerica, 15-46, 2007 | 23 | 2007 |
| La llegada del alma L De León Lenguaje, infancia y socialización entre los mayas de Zinacantán. México DF …, 2005 | 19 | 2005 |
| Mayan children's creation of learning ecologies by initiative and cooperative action L De León Advances in child development and behavior 49, 153-184, 2015 | 18 | 2015 |
| " They Just Hand Out with the Old Fela": The Development of Geocentric Location in Young Speakers of Guugu Yimithirr L De León Cognitive Anthropology Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for …, 1995 | 17 | 1995 |
| The acquisition of agreement in four Mayan languages P Brown, B Pfeiler, L de León, C Pye The acquisition of ergativity, 271-306, 2013 | 15 | 2013 |
