Carol W. Pfaff

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 600 citations indexed

About

Carol W. Pfaff is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Carol W. Pfaff has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 600 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Linguistics and Language, 11 papers in Language and Linguistics and 5 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Carol W. Pfaff's work include Multilingual Education and Policy (11 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 papers) and Linguistic Education and Pedagogy (5 papers). Carol W. Pfaff is often cited by papers focused on Multilingual Education and Policy (11 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 papers) and Linguistic Education and Pedagogy (5 papers). Carol W. Pfaff collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Carol W. Pfaff's co-authors include Sandra J. Savignon, Ad Backus, J. Normann Jørgensen, Christoph Schroeder and Florian P. Kühn and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Modern Language Journal and Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

In The Last Decade

Carol W. Pfaff

17 papers receiving 462 citations

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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.

Constraints on Language Mixing: Intrasentential Code-Switching and Borrowing in Spanish/English

1979 351 citations Carol W. Pfaff Language profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carol W. Pfaff Germany	7	382	379	187	95	73	19	600
Maryellen García United States	6	368 1.0×	387 1.0×	96 0.5×	80 0.8×	116 1.6×	9	528
S. N. Sridhar United States	10	357 0.9×	371 1.0×	96 0.5×	189 2.0×	41 0.6×	25	548
Georges Daniel Véronique France	10	190 0.5×	280 0.7×	166 0.9×	59 0.6×	36 0.5×	55	426
Janice L. Jake United States	11	375 1.0×	351 0.9×	160 0.9×	45 0.5×	59 0.8×	13	521
William C. Ritchie United States	9	177 0.5×	378 1.0×	270 1.4×	110 1.2×	130 1.8×	15	576
Clive Perdue France	11	376 1.0×	680 1.8×	373 2.0×	146 1.5×	172 2.4×	24	919
Charlotte Hoffmann United Kingdom	9	221 0.6×	224 0.6×	123 0.7×	110 1.2×	33 0.5×	13	400
Håkan Ringbom Finland	9	211 0.6×	561 1.5×	389 2.1×	301 3.2×	126 1.7×	20	814
Almeida Jacqueline Toribio United States	16	542 1.4×	585 1.5×	178 1.0×	78 0.8×	195 2.7×	45	902
Raphael Berthelé Switzerland	13	185 0.5×	245 0.6×	145 0.8×	118 1.2×	104 1.4×	65	456

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19 of 19 papers shown

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Schroeder, Christoph, et al.. (2015). MULTILIT : manual, criteria of transcription and analysis for German, Turkish and English. 3 indexed citations

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Pfaff, Carol W.. (2011). Multilingual Development in Germany in the Crossfire of Ideology and Politics: Monolingual and Multilingual Expectations, Polylingual Practices. 7(1). 4 indexed citations

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Backus, Ad, J. Normann Jørgensen, & Carol W. Pfaff. (2010). Linguistic Effects of Immigration: Language Choice, Codeswitching, and Change in Western European Turkish. Language and Linguistics Compass. 4(7). 481–495. 5 indexed citations

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Pfaff, Carol W.. (1996). Bilingualism and language development in infancy: Acquisition of Turkish and german by migrant children in Germany. Infant Behavior and Development. 19. 222–222. 1 indexed citations

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Pfaff, Carol W.. (1992). The Issue of Grammaticalization in Early German Second Language. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 14(3). 273–296. 17 indexed citations

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Pfaff, Carol W.. (1991). Turkish in contact with German: Language maintenance and loss among immigrant children in Berlin (West). International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 1991(90). 97–130. 42 indexed citations

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Savignon, Sandra J. & Carol W. Pfaff. (1987). First and Second Language Acquisition Processes. Modern Language Journal. 71(4). 434–434. 91 indexed citations

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Pfaff, Carol W.. (1985). The Problem of Plurifunctionality in Bilingual Language Acquisition.. 24. 95–103. 2 indexed citations

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Pfaff, Carol W.. (1981). Incipient creolization in Gastarbeiterdeutsch?: An experimental sociolinguistic study. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 3(2). 165–178. 3 indexed citations

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Pfaff, Carol W.. (1981). Sociolinguistic problems of immigrants: foreign workers and their children in Germany (a review article). Language in Society. 10(2). 155–188. 8 indexed citations

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Pfaff, Carol W.. (1979). Constraints on Language Mixing: Intrasentential Code-Switching and Borrowing in Spanish/English. Language. 55(2). 291–318. 351 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pfaff, Carol W.. (1976). Hypercorrection and grammar change. Language in Society. 5(1). 105–107. 3 indexed citations

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Pfaff, Carol W.. (1975). English in black and white . By Robbins Burling. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1973. Pp. xiii, 178. $4.95.. Language. 51(3). 770–776. 50 indexed citations

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Pfaff, Carol W.. (1975). Syntactic Constraints on Code-Switching: A Quantitative Study of Spanish/English.. 9 indexed citations

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Pfaff, Carol W.. (1974). A sociolinguistic study of black children in Los Angeles. University Microfilms eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Pfaff, Carol W.. (1972). Tense and Aspect in English.. Seminars in Musculoskeletal Radiology. 27(3). 308–313. 1 indexed citations

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Pfaff, Carol W., et al.. (1972). Development of a Dialect Differentiation Measure for Black English: A Study of Black and Anglo Kindergarten Children.. 36(5). 603–616.

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Pfaff, Carol W., et al.. (1972). Sociolinguistic Variation in the Speech of Young Children: An Experimental Study.. 1 indexed citations

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Pfaff, Carol W.. (1971). Historical and Structural Aspects of Sociolinguistic Variation: The Copula in Black English.. 6 indexed citations

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