April McMahon

3.8k total citations
32 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

April McMahon is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, April McMahon has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Linguistics and Language, 21 papers in Language and Linguistics and 14 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in April McMahon's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (25 papers), Phonetics and Phonology Research (14 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (11 papers). April McMahon is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (25 papers), Phonetics and Phonology Research (14 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (11 papers). April McMahon collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Germany. April McMahon's co-authors include Robert McMahon, Paul Heggarty, Colin Renfrew, Larry Trask, Paul Proulx, Warren Maguire, Paul Foulkes, Robert J. McMahon, Yaron Matras and Nigel Vincent and has published in prestigious journals such as Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Bilingualism Language and Cognition and Lingua.

In The Last Decade

April McMahon

32 papers receiving 897 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
April McMahon United Kingdom	15	648	629	370	369	224	32	1.1k
Johanna Nichols United States	21	816 1.3×	1.2k 2.0×	533 1.4×	440 1.2×	354 1.6×	80	2.0k
Terrence Kaufman United States	15	885 1.4×	1.1k 1.7×	259 0.7×	315 0.9×	164 0.7×	35	1.7k
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann Germany	17	591 0.9×	800 1.3×	140 0.4×	304 0.8×	248 1.1×	59	1.2k
Sarah G. Thomason United States	13	1.4k 2.1×	1.4k 2.2×	241 0.7×	338 0.9×	178 0.8×	48	2.0k
Matthew S. Dryer United States	16	584 0.9×	1.2k 1.9×	307 0.8×	412 1.1×	480 2.1×	45	1.6k
Hans Henrich Hock United States	9	482 0.7×	656 1.0×	127 0.3×	357 1.0×	158 0.7×	39	953
Harald Hammarström Sweden	13	228 0.4×	235 0.4×	334 0.9×	294 0.8×	343 1.5×	60	945
Roger Lass United Kingdom	17	896 1.4×	1.1k 1.7×	201 0.5×	456 1.2×	186 0.8×	67	1.4k
Brian D. Joseph United States	15	424 0.7×	746 1.2×	104 0.3×	239 0.6×	172 0.8×	117	1.0k
Dik Bakker Netherlands	11	255 0.4×	287 0.5×	245 0.7×	108 0.3×	203 0.9×	27	648

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20 of 20 papers shown

McMahon, April & Robert J. McMahon. (2012). Evolutionary Linguistics. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 21 indexed citations

Heggarty, Paul, Warren Maguire, & April McMahon. (2010). Splits or waves? Trees or webs? How divergence measures and network analysis can unravel language histories. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 365(1559). 3829–3843. 49 indexed citations

Maguire, Warren, April McMahon, Paul Heggarty, & Dan Dediu. (2010). The past, present, and future of English dialects: Quantifying convergence, divergence, and dynamic equilibrium. Language Variation and Change. 22(1). 69–104. 15 indexed citations

McMahon, April, et al.. (2010). Phonetic comparison, varieties, and networks. Diachronica. 27(2). 325–340. 2 indexed citations

McMahon, April & Robert McMahon. (2008). Genetics, Historical Linguistics and Language Variation. Language and Linguistics Compass. 2(2). 264–288. 9 indexed citations

McMahon, April, Paul Heggarty, Robert McMahon, & Warren Maguire. (2007). The sound patterns of Englishes: representing phonetic similarity. English Language and Linguistics. 11(1). 113–142. 29 indexed citations

Matras, Yaron, April McMahon, & Nigel Vincent. (2006). Linguistic Areas: Convergence in Historical and Typological Perspective. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 25 indexed citations

McMahon, April. (2005). Introduction. Transactions of the Philological Society. 103(2). 113–119. 2 indexed citations

McMahon, April. (2002). Phonology and the Holy Grail. Lingua. 113(2). 103–115. 3 indexed citations

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McMahon, April. (2000). Lexical Phonology and the History of English. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 45 indexed citations

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McMahon, April. (2000). The Emergence of the optimal? Optimality Theory and sound change. The Linguistic Review. 17(2-4). 4 indexed citations

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McMahon, April. (1996). On the use of the past to explain the present: the history of /r/ in English and Scots. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 73–89. 5 indexed citations

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McMahon, April & Robert McMahon. (1995). LINGUISTICS, GENETICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL EVIDENCE IN THE AMERIND CONTROVERSY*. Transactions of the Philological Society. 93(2). 125–225. 14 indexed citations

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McMahon, April, et al.. (1994). Gestural representation and Lexical Phonology. Phonology. 11(2). 277–316. 28 indexed citations

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McMahon, April. (1994). Understanding Language Change. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 295 indexed citations

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McMahon, April & Paul Foulkes. (1994). Sound Change, Phonological Rules, and Articulatory Phonology. Belgian Journal of Linguistics. 9. 1–20. 7 indexed citations

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McMahon, April. (1993). Topics in the lexical phonology of english. Lingua. 90(4). 357–373. 3 indexed citations

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McMahon, April. (1992). UNDERSPECIFICATION THEORY AND THE ANALYSIS OF DIALECT DIFFERENCES IN LEXICAL PHONOLOGY¹. Transactions of the Philological Society. 90(1). 81–119. 3 indexed citations

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McMahon, April. (1991). Lexical phonology and sound change: the case of the Scottish vowel length rule. Journal of Linguistics. 27(1). 29–53. 19 indexed citations

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McMahon, April. (1990). Vowel shift, free rides and strict cyclicity. Lingua. 80(2-3). 197–225. 10 indexed citations

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