Becky Childs

630 total citations
15 papers, 224 citations indexed

About

Becky Childs is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Becky Childs has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 224 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Linguistics and Language, 7 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 3 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Becky Childs's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (9 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 papers). Becky Childs is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (9 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 papers). Becky Childs collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. Becky Childs's co-authors include Christine Mallinson, Gerard Van Herk, David Herman and Tyler Kendall and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Sociolinguistics, American Speech and Journal of English Linguistics.

In The Last Decade

Becky Childs

14 papers receiving 182 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Becky Childs United States 7 166 89 76 46 22 15 224
Eric A. Anchimbe Germany 9 138 0.8× 158 1.8× 27 0.4× 58 1.3× 31 1.4× 28 220
Minna Nevala Finland 6 65 0.4× 127 1.4× 44 0.6× 62 1.3× 22 1.0× 20 165
Lynda Mugglestone United States 6 106 0.6× 139 1.6× 23 0.3× 38 0.8× 23 1.0× 33 204
Natalie Maynor United States 8 254 1.5× 183 2.1× 89 1.2× 36 0.8× 16 0.7× 15 333
Frans Gregersen Denmark 8 124 0.7× 126 1.4× 57 0.8× 37 0.8× 16 0.7× 33 217
Maya Ravindranath United States 5 174 1.0× 149 1.7× 68 0.9× 33 0.7× 9 0.4× 6 224
Emma Moore United Kingdom 10 273 1.6× 232 2.6× 86 1.1× 71 1.5× 11 0.5× 19 338
Diane Vincent Canada 9 93 0.6× 108 1.2× 35 0.5× 35 0.8× 17 0.8× 27 191
Theresa Heyd Germany 9 71 0.4× 96 1.1× 28 0.4× 65 1.4× 50 2.3× 18 199
Marina Dossena Italy 9 131 0.8× 180 2.0× 36 0.5× 54 1.2× 13 0.6× 51 244

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Fields of papers citing papers by Becky Childs

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Becky Childs

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Becky Childs. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Becky Childs 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 Becky Childs. Becky Childs is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Childs, Becky, et al.. (2021). Investigating Appalachian Englishes: Subregional Variation in the New Appalachia. 27(1). 69–88. 2 indexed citations
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Childs, Becky, et al.. (2020). Valuing a Variety of Voices. American Speech. 95(2). 243–252. 1 indexed citations
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Childs, Becky. (2018). Student Voice and Linguistic Identity: Digital Badging as a Tool for Retention of First Year and First Generation Undergraduates. Journal of English Linguistics. 46(3). 186–198. 3 indexed citations
4.
Childs, Becky & Gerard Van Herk. (2014). Work that –s!: Drag queens, gender, identity, and traditional Newfoundland English. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 18(5). 634–657. 5 indexed citations
5.
Herk, Gerard Van & Becky Childs. (2014). Active Retirees: The Persistence of Obsolescent Features. 205–220. 2 indexed citations
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Mallinson, Christine, Becky Childs, & Gerard Van Herk. (2013). Data collection in sociolinguistics : methods and applications. Routledge eBooks. 106 indexed citations
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Childs, Becky, et al.. (2011). Safe harbour: Ethics and accessibility in sociolinguistic corpus building. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. 7(1). 9 indexed citations
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Childs, Becky, et al.. (2010). Stop Signs: The Intersection of Interdental Fricatives and Identity in Newfoundland. Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania). 16(2). 5–266. 3 indexed citations
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Childs, Becky, et al.. (2009). VOWEL PHONOLOGY AND ETHNICITY IN NORTH CAROLINA. 94(1). 23–47. 6 indexed citations
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Mallinson, Christine & Becky Childs. (2007). Communities of Practice in Sociolinguistic Description. Gender and Language. 1(2). 173–206. 25 indexed citations
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Childs, Becky & Christine Mallinson. (2006). THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LEXICAL ITEMS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF ETHNOLINGUISTIC IDENTITY: A CASE STUDY OF ADOLESCENT SPOKEN AND ONLINE LANGUAGE. American Speech. 81(1). 3–30. 15 indexed citations
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Mallinson, Christine & Becky Childs. (2004). The Intersection of Regional and Ethnic Identity: African American English in Appalachia.. 10. 129–142. 5 indexed citations
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Childs, Becky & Christine Mallinson. (2004). African American English in Appalachia. English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English. 25(1). 27–50. 35 indexed citations
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Herman, David & Becky Childs. (2003). Narrative and Cognition in Beowulf. Style. 37(2). 177. 7 indexed citations
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Childs, Becky, et al.. (1996). Optimizing clinical information systems in complex computing environments. Panel discussion.. PubMed. 10(4). 47–58.

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