Alison Wray

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Alison Wray is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Alison Wray has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Language and Linguistics, 20 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Alison Wray's work include Second Language Acquisition and Learning (18 papers), EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (11 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (11 papers). Alison Wray is often cited by papers focused on Second Language Acquisition and Learning (18 papers), EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (11 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (11 papers). Alison Wray collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Singapore. Alison Wray's co-authors include Michael R. Perkins, George W. Grace, Mike Wallace, Tess Fitzpatrick, Ann Marie Ryan, Michael Stubbs, Margaret J. Wright, Camilla Lindholm, Maggie Tallerman and Clive Gamble and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Behavioral and Brain Sciences and Applied Linguistics.

In The Last Decade

Alison Wray

65 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Formulaic Language and the Lexicon 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 400 800 1.2k
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. Formulaic Language and the Lexicon
    2002 1.3k citations Alison Wray profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alison Wray United Kingdom 20 2.1k 1.9k 1.1k 747 687 71 3.5k
Wolfgang U. Dressler Austria 24 2.1k 1.0× 830 0.4× 689 0.6× 620 0.8× 965 1.4× 155 3.6k
N. J. Enfield Netherlands 35 3.0k 1.5× 1.0k 0.5× 604 0.6× 615 0.8× 2.4k 3.6× 138 4.8k
Paul Meara United Kingdom 32 2.3k 1.1× 2.7k 1.4× 1.3k 1.2× 833 1.1× 490 0.7× 112 3.9k
Wallace Chafe United States 21 2.7k 1.3× 784 0.4× 1.0k 1.0× 656 0.9× 1.8k 2.6× 84 4.4k
Pieter Muysken Netherlands 25 2.5k 1.2× 818 0.4× 505 0.5× 405 0.5× 513 0.7× 126 3.6k
Scott Jarvis United States 25 1.5k 0.7× 1.7k 0.9× 1.1k 1.0× 749 1.0× 595 0.9× 43 3.1k
Dan I. Slobin United States 31 3.1k 1.5× 4.1k 2.1× 819 0.8× 279 0.4× 2.9k 4.2× 96 7.2k
Ted Sanders Netherlands 30 1.4k 0.7× 1.1k 0.6× 976 0.9× 729 1.0× 1.1k 1.6× 133 3.3k
Larry Selinker United States 23 2.8k 1.3× 1.7k 0.9× 494 0.5× 1.5k 2.0× 533 0.8× 52 3.8k
Kees de Bot Netherlands 35 2.6k 1.2× 2.5k 1.3× 565 0.5× 1.4k 1.9× 949 1.4× 130 4.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wray, Alison. (2023). Hidden in plain sound: overlooked repetition in Just a Minute. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 14(1). 33–88.
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Wray, Alison, et al.. (2021). Leaving No Stone Unturned: Flexible Retrieval of Idiomatic Expressions from a Large Text Corpus. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 263–283. 1 indexed citations
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Wray, Alison. (2021). Why Dementia Makes Communication Difficult: A Guide to Better Outcomes. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University).
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Santoro, Antonella, Emily F. Calderbank, Alison Wray, et al.. (2020). Chronic lymphocytic leukemia increases the pool of peripheral blood hematopoietic stem cells and skews differentiation. Blood Advances. 4(24). 6310–6314. 1 indexed citations
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Wallace, Mike & Alison Wray. (2016). Critical reading and writing for postgraduates (3rd edition). ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 3 indexed citations
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Wray, Alison. (2016). The Language of Dementia Science and the Science of Dementia Language. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 36(1). 80–95. 10 indexed citations
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Wray, Alison. (2014). Why Are We So Sure We Know What a Word Is?. Oxford University Press eBooks. 13 indexed citations
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Wray, Alison, et al.. (2013). Projects in Linguistics and Language Studies. 9 indexed citations
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Wray, Alison. (2013). Formulaic language. Language Teaching. 46(3). 316–334. 51 indexed citations
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Wray, Alison. (2012). Patterns of formulaic language in Alzheimer's disease: implications for quality of life. Quality in Ageing and Older Adults. 13(3). 168–175. 6 indexed citations
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Wallace, Mike & Alison Wray. (2011). Critical reading and writing for postgraduates. 2nd ed.. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff. 14 indexed citations
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Wray, Alison. (2011). Perspectives on Formulaic Language: Acquisition and Communication – Edited by David Wood. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. 21(1). 127–133. 1 indexed citations
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Wray, Alison, et al.. (2006). Projects in linguistics: a practical guide, 2nd ed.. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University).
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Mithen, Steven, Iain Morley, Alison Wray, Maggie Tallerman, & Clive Gamble. (2006). The Singing Neanderthals: the Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body, by Steven Mithen. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2005. ISBN 0-297-64317-7 hardback £20 & US$25.2; ix+374 pp.. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 16(1). 97–112. 24 indexed citations
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Wray, Alison & George W. Grace. (2005). The consequences of talking to strangers: Evolutionary corollaries of socio-cultural influences on linguistic form. Lingua. 117(3). 543–578. 165 indexed citations
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Wray, Alison. (2002). The transition to language. Oxford University Press eBooks. 125 indexed citations
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Wallace, Mike & Alison Wray. (2002). The Fall and Rise of Linguists in Education Policy-Making: From “Common Sense” to Common Ground. Language Policy. 1(1). 75–98. 3 indexed citations
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Wray, Alison. (1999). Singers on the trail of ‘authentic’ Early Modern English: the puzzling case of /æ:/ and /ε:/. Transactions of the Philological Society. 97(2). 185–211. 1 indexed citations
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Wray, Alison. (1992). The Focusing Hypothesis. 11 indexed citations
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Wray, Alison. (1992). 4.2 Dichotic Listening Tests. 65. 4 indexed citations

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