Alan Prince

14.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
30 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Alan Prince is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Prince has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 11 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 7 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Alan Prince's work include Natural Language Processing Techniques (9 papers), Phonetics and Phonology Research (9 papers) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 papers). Alan Prince is often cited by papers focused on Natural Language Processing Techniques (9 papers), Phonetics and Phonology Research (9 papers) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 papers). Alan Prince collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Italy. Alan Prince's co-authors include John J. McCarthy, Steven Pinker, Paul Smolensky, Sandeep Prasada, John J. Kim, René Kager, John Alderete, Clara C. Levelt, Lise Menn and Wim Zonneveld and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Trends in Neurosciences and Cognition.

In The Last Decade

Alan Prince

26 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Faithfulness and Reduplicative Identity 1988 2026 2000 2013 1995 1988 2004 250 500 750 1000
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Faithfulness and Reduplicative Identity
    1995 1.1k citations John J. McCarthy, Alan Prince Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University) profile →
  2. On language and connectionism: Analysis of a parallel distributed processing model of language acquisition
    1988 943 citations Steven Pinker, Alan Prince Cognition profile →
  3. Optimality Theory
    2004 508 citations Alan Prince, Paul Smolensky profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan Prince United States 17 2.9k 2.1k 2.0k 1.6k 940 30 4.5k
Bruce Hayes United States 25 4.0k 1.4× 2.2k 1.1× 2.4k 1.2× 2.1k 1.3× 907 1.0× 56 5.1k
Paul Kiparsky United States 22 2.2k 0.8× 2.6k 1.2× 1.6k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 444 0.5× 47 4.0k
Bernard Comrie Germany 32 1.4k 0.5× 3.5k 1.7× 1.4k 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 735 0.8× 223 5.0k
Elisabeth Selkirk United States 16 2.9k 1.0× 2.5k 1.2× 1.6k 0.8× 1.5k 0.9× 656 0.7× 25 4.0k
John J. McCarthy United States 38 5.7k 2.0× 3.9k 1.9× 4.1k 2.1× 2.5k 1.6× 649 0.7× 99 6.9k
David R. Dowty United States 17 2.0k 0.7× 4.5k 2.1× 751 0.4× 2.8k 1.7× 799 0.8× 26 6.3k
Dwight Bolinger United States 32 2.4k 0.8× 2.7k 1.3× 1.2k 0.6× 1.3k 0.8× 805 0.9× 127 4.6k
Geoffrey K. Pullum United States 32 1.4k 0.5× 3.6k 1.7× 1.4k 0.7× 2.2k 1.3× 642 0.7× 118 5.3k
Janet B. Pierrehumbert United States 32 5.6k 1.9× 2.6k 1.2× 2.9k 1.5× 3.4k 2.1× 1.1k 1.2× 98 7.3k
Wallace Chafe United States 21 1.8k 0.6× 2.7k 1.3× 890 0.4× 1.0k 0.6× 784 0.8× 84 4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Alan Prince

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Prince

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Prince

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alan Prince. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alan Prince based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alan Prince. Alan Prince is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Prince, Alan & Liya Dreval. (2021). Ag-Au-Sb Ternary Phase Diagram Evaluation. MSI Eureka. 88. 10.19045.2.0–10.19045.2.0. 1 indexed citations
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Prince, Alan, et al.. (2016). From intensional properties to universal support. Language. 92(2). e88–e116. 13 indexed citations
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Brasoveanu, Adrian & Alan Prince. (2010). Ranking and necessity: the Fusional Reduction Algorithm. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 29(1). 3–70. 15 indexed citations
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Alderete, John, et al.. (2005). Contrast Analysis Aids the Learning of Phonological Underlying Forms. Integrative Zoology. 7(4). 34–42. 15 indexed citations
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Kager, René, Lise Menn, Amalia E. Gnanadesikan, et al.. (2004). Constraints in Phonological Acquisition. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 155 indexed citations
6.
Prince, Alan & Paul Smolensky. (2004). Optimality Theory. 508 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tesar, Bruce, et al.. (2003). Surgery in Language Learning. Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University). 28 indexed citations
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Prince, Alan & John J. McCarthy. (2001). Prosodic Morphology: Constraint Interaction and Satisfaction. Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University). 398 indexed citations
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Pinker, Steven & Alan Prince. (1999). 1 The nature of human concepts. 1 indexed citations
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Prince, Alan & Paul Smolensky. (1997). Optimality: From Neural Networks to Universal Grammar. Science. 275(5306). 1604–1610. 165 indexed citations
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McCarthy, John J. & Alan Prince. (1994). Two lectures on prosodic morphology. ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 26 indexed citations
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McCarthy, John J. & Alan Prince. (1994). The Emergence of the Unmarked: Optimality in Prosodic Morphology. Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University). 24(2). 333. 411 indexed citations
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Prince, Alan & Paul Smolensky. (1993). Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar ; CU-CS-696-93. CU Scholar (University of Colorado Boulder). 74 indexed citations
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Pinker, Steven & Alan Prince. (1991). Regular and Irregular Morphology and the Psychological Status of Rules of Grammar. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 17(1). 230–230. 159 indexed citations
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Kim, John J., Steven Pinker, Alan Prince, & Sandeep Prasada. (1991). Why No Mere Mortal Has Ever Flown Out to Center Field. Cognitive Science. 15(2). 173–218. 117 indexed citations
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Pinker, Steven & Alan Prince. (1988). On language and connectionism. 36 indexed citations
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Pinker, Steven & Alan Prince. (1988). On language and connectionism: Analysis of a parallel distributed processing model of language acquisition. Cognition. 28(1-2). 73–193. 943 indexed citations breakdown →
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Prince, Alan & Steven Pinker. (1988). Wickelphone ambiguity. Cognition. 30(2). 189–190. 6 indexed citations
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Prince, Alan & Steven Pinker. (1988). Subsymbols aren't much good outside of a symbol-processing architecture. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 11(1). 46–47. 1 indexed citations
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Prince, Alan. (1987). Planes and copying. Linguistic Inquiry. 18(3). 491–510. 16 indexed citations

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