Anne Fernald

21.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
97 papers, 13.6k citations indexed

About

Anne Fernald is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Anne Fernald has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 13.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 22 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 19 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Anne Fernald's work include Language Development and Disorders (66 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (35 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (20 papers). Anne Fernald is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (66 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (35 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (20 papers). Anne Fernald collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Netherlands. Anne Fernald's co-authors include Virginia A. Marchman, Adriana Weisleder, Nereyda Hurtado, Patricia K. Kuhl, Casey Lew‐Williams, Thomas R. Simon, Hiromi Morikawa, Thomas Simon, Daniel Swingley and Donna L. Mumme and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Child Development and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Anne Fernald

87 papers receiving 12.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Manuscripts Accepted for Publication

2005 1.9k citations Anne Fernald, Adriana Weisleder et al. Child Development profile →
Talking to Children Matters

2013 844 citations Adriana Weisleder, Anne Fernald Psychological Science profile →
SES differences in language processing skill and vocabulary are evident at 18 months

2012 804 citations Anne Fernald, Virginia A. Marchman et al. Developmental Science profile →
Four-month-old infants prefer to listen to motherese

1985 618 citations Anne Fernald profile →
A cross-language study of prosodic modifications in mothers' and fathers' speech to preverbal infants

1989 590 citations Anne Fernald et al. profile →
Acoustic determinants of infant preference for motherese speech

1987 552 citations Anne Fernald et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Anne Fernald United States	45	9.6k	3.7k	3.5k	1.9k	1.8k	97	13.6k
D. Kimbrough Oller United States	43	6.2k 0.6×	2.5k 0.7×	2.1k 0.6×	906 0.5×	877 0.5×	166	8.3k
Philip S. Dale United States	60	9.6k 1.0×	2.8k 0.8×	2.7k 0.8×	3.6k 1.9×	2.6k 1.5×	226	14.5k
J. Steven Reznick United States	59	6.3k 0.7×	5.5k 1.5×	3.7k 1.1×	3.4k 1.8×	7.2k 4.0×	116	17.2k
Stephanie M. Carlson United States	48	6.4k 0.7×	3.9k 1.1×	2.4k 0.7×	4.4k 2.3×	4.6k 2.6×	105	13.6k
Chris Moore Canada	48	5.5k 0.6×	3.5k 0.9×	1.3k 0.4×	1.2k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	139	8.7k
Colwyn Trevarthen United Kingdom	42	2.8k 0.3×	4.0k 1.1×	1.3k 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	2.0k 1.1×	125	8.5k
Virginia A. Marchman United States	36	6.3k 0.6×	2.6k 0.7×	998 0.3×	1.0k 0.5×	637 0.4×	106	7.8k
Heinz Wimmer Austria	52	12.9k 1.3×	7.1k 1.9×	1.6k 0.5×	3.6k 1.9×	966 0.5×	102	15.6k
J. Bruce Tomblin United States	60	11.3k 1.2×	6.4k 1.7×	1.1k 0.3×	1.9k 1.0×	2.1k 1.2×	146	14.1k
Lauren B. Adamson United States	43	3.9k 0.4×	2.6k 0.7×	531 0.2×	1.6k 0.8×	2.9k 1.6×	105	7.6k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fernald, Anne. (2024). Not Quite So Kind: Mrs. Dalloway and the Problem of Kindness. Modern fiction studies. 70(1). 30–54.

Marchman, Virginia A., et al.. (2024). Early language processing efficiency and pre-literacy outcomes in children born full term and preterm. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 246. 105980–105980.

Bohn, Manuel, et al.. (2022). Spanish‐speaking caregivers’ use of referential labels with toddlers is a better predictor of later vocabulary than their use of referential gestures. Developmental Science. 26(4). e13354–e13354. 3 indexed citations

Marchman, Virginia A., et al.. (2022). Associations between early efficiency in language processing and language and cognitive outcomes in children born full term and preterm: similarities and differences. Child Neuropsychology. 29(6). 886–905. 4 indexed citations

MacDonald, Kyle, Virginia A. Marchman, Anne Fernald, & Michael C. Frank. (2019). Children flexibly seek visual information to support signed and spoken language comprehension.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 149(6). 1078–1096. 10 indexed citations

MacDonald, Kyle, Virginia A. Marchman, Anne Fernald, & Michael C. Frank. (2018). Adults and preschoolers seek visual information to support language comprehension in noisy environments.. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations

MacDonald, Kyle, et al.. (2017). An information-seeking account of eye movements during spoken and signed language comprehension.. Cognitive Science. 2 indexed citations

Fernald, Anne, et al.. (2016). Cultivating American- and Japanese-Style Relatedness Through Mother–Child Conversation. Discourse Processes. 54(4). 317–337.

Marchman, Virginia A., et al.. (2015). Early language processing efficiency predicts later receptive vocabulary outcomes in children born preterm. Child Neuropsychology. 22(6). 649–665. 38 indexed citations

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Weisleder, Adriana & Anne Fernald. (2013). Talking to Children Matters. Psychological Science. 24(11). 2143–2152. 844 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hurtado, Nereyda, Theres Grüter, Virginia A. Marchman, & Anne Fernald. (2013). Relative language exposure, processing efficiency and vocabulary in Spanish–English bilingual toddlers. Bilingualism Language and Cognition. 17(1). 189–202. 83 indexed citations

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Yurovsky, Daniel, Ricardo A. H. Bion, Linda B. Smith, & Anne Fernald. (2012). Mutual Exclusivity and Vocabulary Development. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 2 indexed citations

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Peterson, Linda H., et al.. (2012). The Norton reader : an anthology of nonfiction. W.W. Norton eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Lew‐Williams, Casey & Anne Fernald. (2010). Real-time processing of gender-marked articles by native and non-native Spanish speakers. Journal of Memory and Language. 63(4). 447–464. 157 indexed citations

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Fernald, Anne, Kirsten Thorpe, & Virginia A. Marchman. (2010). Blue car, red car: Developing efficiency in online interpretation of adjective–noun phrases. Cognitive Psychology. 60(3). 190–217. 76 indexed citations

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Hurtado, Nereyda, Virginia A. Marchman, & Anne Fernald. (2008). Does input influence uptake? Links between maternal talk, processing speed and vocabulary size in Spanish‐learning children. Developmental Science. 11(6). F31–9. 328 indexed citations

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Frank, Michael C., Noah D. Goodman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, & Anne Fernald. (2007). Continuity of Discourse Provides Information for Word Learning. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 31(31). 7 indexed citations

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Fernald, Anne, et al.. (2005). Manuscripts Accepted for Publication. Child Development. 76(3). 761–761. 1929 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fernald, Anne. (2000). Speech to Infants as Hyperspeech: Knowledge-Driven Processes in Early Word Recognition. Phonetica. 57(2-4). 242–254. 60 indexed citations

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Swingley, Daniel, et al.. (1999). Continuous processing in word recognition at 24 months. Cognition. 71(2). 73–108. 190 indexed citations

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