Alan Bale

2.6k total citations
42 papers, 771 citations indexed

About

Alan Bale is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Bale has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 771 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Language and Linguistics, 15 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Alan Bale's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (20 papers), Language Development and Disorders (10 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (8 papers). Alan Bale is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (20 papers), Language Development and Disorders (10 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (8 papers). Alan Bale collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Taiwan. Alan Bale's co-authors include David Barner, Neon Brooks, Hrayr Khanjian, Jessica Coon, Thomas R. Shultz, Danny Fox, Péter Kacsuk, Bernhard Schwarz, Dimitrios Skordos and Roman Feiman and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Cognition and Journal of Pragmatics.

In The Last Decade

Alan Bale

36 papers receiving 686 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan Bale Canada	16	462	273	242	174	161	42	771
Valentine Hacquard United States	14	498 1.1×	256 0.9×	219 0.9×	240 1.4×	126 0.8×	39	788
Judith Degen United States	17	321 0.7×	184 0.7×	330 1.4×	238 1.4×	264 1.6×	45	743
Géraldine Légendre United States	18	495 1.1×	297 1.1×	368 1.5×	308 1.8×	191 1.2×	64	975
Pamela A. Downing United States	9	517 1.1×	208 0.8×	306 1.3×	304 1.7×	107 0.7×	13	924
Stephanie Solt Germany	12	309 0.7×	92 0.3×	185 0.8×	132 0.8×	64 0.4×	33	486
Joost Zwarts Netherlands	15	771 1.7×	119 0.4×	372 1.5×	383 2.2×	102 0.6×	46	1.0k
Julien Musolino United States	16	617 1.3×	796 2.9×	277 1.1×	208 1.2×	395 2.5×	30	1.3k
Fred Weerman Netherlands	17	551 1.2×	301 1.1×	262 1.1×	168 1.0×	164 1.0×	55	837
Jean-Pierre Koenig United States	17	873 1.9×	165 0.6×	447 1.8×	429 2.5×	135 0.8×	51	1.2k
James P. Blevins United Kingdom	13	517 1.1×	163 0.6×	356 1.5×	280 1.6×	149 0.9×	25	811

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Bale, Alan, et al.. (2025). The effect of online methods on epistemic inference and scalar implicature. Journal of Pragmatics. 242. 76–92.

Bale, Alan, et al.. (2024). Competence by default: do listeners assume that speakers are knowledgeable when computing conversational inferences?. Journal of Semantics. 42(1-2). 39–55. 1 indexed citations

Bale, Alan & David Nicolas. (2024). Counting individuals and their halves. Linguistics and Philosophy. 47(5). 867–914.

Bale, Alan & Bernhard Schwarz. (2022). Measurements from "per" without complex dimensions. Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory. 1. 543–543. 1 indexed citations

Bale, Alan, Bernhard Schwarz, & David R. Shanks. (2021). Monotonicity Revisited: Mass Nouns and Comparisons of Purity. Journal of Semantics. 38(4). 681–708. 1 indexed citations

Skordos, Dimitrios, Roman Feiman, Alan Bale, & David Barner. (2020). Do Children Interpret ‘or’ Conjunctively?. Journal of Semantics. 37(2). 247–267. 10 indexed citations

Bale, Alan, et al.. (2019). Classifiers, partitions, and measurements: Exploring the syntax and semantics of sortal classifiers. Glossa a journal of general linguistics. 4(1). 6 indexed citations

Bale, Alan & David Barner. (2018). Quantity judgment and the mass-count distinction across languages: Advances, problems, and future directions for research. Glossa a journal of general linguistics. 3(1). 7 indexed citations

Barner, David, et al.. (2018). Most children don't know most. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Bale, Alan, et al.. (2017). Scalar Implicature in Absence of Epistemic Reasoning? The Case of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Language Learning and Development. 14(3). 224–240. 32 indexed citations

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Bale, Alan, Neon Brooks, & David Barner. (2015). Quantity implicature and access to scalar alternatives in language acquisition. Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory. 525–525.

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Bale, Alan, et al.. (2014). Targeting underspecified segments: A formal analysis of feature-changing and feature-filling rules. Lingua. 148. 240–253. 4 indexed citations

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Bale, Alan, et al.. (2014). Ignorance and Inference: Do Problems with Gricean Epistemic Reasoning Explain Children’s Difficulty with Scalar Implicature?. Journal of Semantics. ffu015–ffu015. 32 indexed citations

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Bale, Alan. (2011). Scales and comparison classes. Natural Language Semantics. 19(2). 169–190. 29 indexed citations

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Barner, David, Neon Brooks, & Alan Bale. (2010). Accessing the unsaid: The role of scalar alternatives in children’s pragmatic inference. Cognition. 118(1). 84–93. 187 indexed citations

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Bale, Alan. (2008). A universal scale of comparison. Linguistics and Philosophy. 31(1). 1–55. 49 indexed citations

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Bale, Alan. (2006). The universal scale and the semantics of comparison. eScholarship@McGill (McGill). 15 indexed citations

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Barner, David & Alan Bale. (2004). No nouns, no verbs? A rejoinder to Panagiotidis. Lingua. 115(9). 1169–1179. 10 indexed citations

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Shultz, Thomas R. & Alan Bale. (2001). Neural Network Simulation of Infant Familiarization to Artificial Sentences: Rule‐Like Behavior Without Explicit Rules and Variables. Infancy. 2(4). 501–536. 28 indexed citations

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Shultz, Thomas R. & Alan Bale. (1999). Infant Familiarization to Artificial Sentences: Rule-like Behavior Without Explicit Rules and Variables. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 22(22). 2 indexed citations

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