Charles Boberg

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Charles Boberg is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles Boberg has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Linguistics and Language, 22 papers in Language and Linguistics and 21 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Charles Boberg's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (33 papers), Phonetics and Phonology Research (21 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (14 papers). Charles Boberg is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (33 papers), Phonetics and Phonology Research (21 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (14 papers). Charles Boberg collaborates with scholars based in Canada and United States. Charles Boberg's co-authors include William Labov, Sharon Ash, Gregory R. Guy, Stephanie Strassel, Dominic Watt and John Nerbonne and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Language and Social Psychology, Journal of Sociolinguistics and World Englishes.

In The Last Decade

Charles Boberg

34 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Atlas of North American English

2006 623 citations William Labov, Sharon Ash et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Charles Boberg Canada	17	1.7k	1.3k	827	240	89	35	1.9k
Joseph Salmons United States	21	1.0k 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	690 0.8×	390 1.6×	119 1.3×	83	1.5k
Katie Drager United States	15	998 0.6×	883 0.7×	601 0.7×	201 0.8×	76 0.9×	32	1.2k
Erik R. Thomas United States	18	1.1k 0.7×	896 0.7×	453 0.5×	184 0.8×	49 0.6×	47	1.3k
Molly Babel Canada	15	703 0.4×	956 0.7×	407 0.5×	346 1.4×	109 1.2×	69	1.2k
Jane Stuart‐Smith United Kingdom	20	888 0.5×	912 0.7×	475 0.6×	273 1.1×	133 1.5×	86	1.3k
Larry M. Hyman United States	30	1.8k 1.0×	2.0k 1.5×	1.6k 2.0×	860 3.6×	132 1.5×	171	2.7k
Michael Kenstowicz United States	19	1.2k 0.7×	1.6k 1.2×	1.5k 1.8×	834 3.5×	232 2.6×	59	2.3k
José Ignacio Hualde United States	23	977 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	1.0k 1.3×	482 2.0×	151 1.7×	135	1.7k
Norval Smith Netherlands	13	643 0.4×	656 0.5×	651 0.8×	322 1.3×	212 2.4×	37	1.2k
Paul Kerswill United Kingdom	19	1.3k 0.8×	740 0.6×	826 1.0×	108 0.5×	58 0.7×	41	1.5k

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All Works

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Boberg, Charles. (2021). Accent in North American Film and Television. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 6 indexed citations

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Boberg, Charles. (2019). A Closer Look at the Short Front Vowel Shift in Canada. Journal of English Linguistics. 47(2). 91–119. 26 indexed citations

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Boberg, Charles, John Nerbonne, & Dominic Watt. (2018). Handbook of Dialectology. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 1 indexed citations

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Boberg, Charles. (2018). New York City English in Film. American Speech. 93(2). 153–185. 6 indexed citations

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Boberg, Charles. (2016). Newspaper Dialectology: Harnessing the Power of the Mass Media to Study Canadian English. American Speech. 91(2). 109–138. 1 indexed citations

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Boberg, Charles, et al.. (2015). English in the Gaspé region of Quebec. English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English. 36(3). 277–314. 2 indexed citations

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Boberg, Charles. (2014). Ethnic divergence in Montreal English. The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique. 59(1). 55–82. 10 indexed citations

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Boberg, Charles. (2012). English as a minority language in Quebec. World Englishes. 31(4). 493–502. 19 indexed citations

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Boberg, Charles. (2011). Reshaping the Vowel System: An Index of Phonetic Innovation in Canadian English. Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania). 17(2). 4. 12 indexed citations

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Boberg, Charles. (2010). The English Language in Canada: Status, History and Comparative Analysis. 47 indexed citations

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Boberg, Charles. (2009). The emergence of a new phoneme: Foreign (a) in Canadian English. Language Variation and Change. 21(3). 355–380. 18 indexed citations

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Boberg, Charles. (2008). Regional Phonetic Differentiation in Standard Canadian English. Journal of English Linguistics. 36(2). 129–154. 73 indexed citations

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Boberg, Charles. (2005). The Canadian shift in Montreal. Language Variation and Change. 17(2). 82 indexed citations

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Labov, William, Sharon Ash, & Charles Boberg. (2005). The Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change. 423 indexed citations

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Boberg, Charles. (2004). Ethnic patterns in the phonetics of Montreal English. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 8(4). 538–568. 58 indexed citations

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Boberg, Charles & Stephanie Strassel. (2000). Short-a in Cincinnati. Journal of English Linguistics. 28(2). 108–126. 26 indexed citations

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Boberg, Charles. (1997). Variation and change in the nativization of foreign (a) in English. ScholarlyCommons (University of Pennsylvania). 8 indexed citations

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Guy, Gregory R. & Charles Boberg. (1997). Inherent variability and the obligatory contour principle. Language Variation and Change. 9(2). 149–164. 58 indexed citations

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Strassel, Stephanie & Charles Boberg. (1996). The Reversal of a Sound Change in Cincinnati. Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania). 3(1). 19. 3 indexed citations

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Guy, Gregory R. & Charles Boberg. (1994). The obligatory contour principle and sociolinguistic variation. 4 indexed citations

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