Charles Clifton

14.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
172 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Charles Clifton is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles Clifton has authored 172 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 65 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 59 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Charles Clifton's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (80 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (46 papers) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (41 papers). Charles Clifton is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (80 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (46 papers) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (41 papers). Charles Clifton collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Spain. Charles Clifton's co-authors include Lyn Frazier, Fernanda Ferreira, Keith Rayner, Manuel Carreiras, Katy Carlson, Jane Ashby, Adrian Staub, Shelia M. Kennison, Cynthia M. Connine and Maria L. Slowiaczek and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Charles Clifton

164 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

The independence of syntactic processing 1986 2026 1999 2012 1986 200 400 600
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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.

  1. The independence of syntactic processing
    1986 745 citations Fernanda Ferreira, Charles Clifton Journal of Memory and Language profile →

Peers

Charles Clifton
Fernanda Ferreira United States
Kathryn Bock United States
Gerry T. M. Altmann United Kingdom
Shravan Vasishth Germany
Holly P. Branigan United Kingdom
John C. Trueswell United States
T. Florian Jaeger United States
Lila R. Gleitman United States
Peter C. Gordon United States
Richard Shillcock United Kingdom
Fernanda Ferreira United States
Charles Clifton
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Fields of papers citing papers by Charles Clifton

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dillon, Brian, Charles Clifton, & Lyn Frazier. (2013). Pushed aside: parentheticals, memory and processing. Language Cognition and Neuroscience. 29(4). 483–498. 22 indexed citations
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Clifton, Charles & Adrian Staub. (2011). Syntactic influences on eye movements during reading. Oxford University Press eBooks. 16 indexed citations
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Breen, Mara & Charles Clifton. (2010). Stress matters: Effects of anticipated lexical stress on silent reading. Journal of Memory and Language. 64(2). 153–170. 77 indexed citations
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Carlson, Katy, Charles Clifton, & Lyn Frazier. (2009). Nonlocal effects of prosodic boundaries. Memory & Cognition. 37(7). 1014–1025. 5 indexed citations
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Frazier, Lyn, et al.. (2008). Processing elided VPs with flawed atecendents: The recycling hypothesis. Journal of Memory and Language. 55. 3 indexed citations
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Swets, Benjamin, Timothy Desmet, Charles Clifton, & Fernanda Ferreira. (2008). Underspecification of syntactic ambiguities: Evidence from self-paced reading. Memory & Cognition. 36(1). 201–216. 144 indexed citations
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Schwarz, Florian, Charles Clifton, & Lyn Frazier. (2007). Strengthening 'or': Effects of Focus and Downward Entailing Contexts on Scalar Implicatures. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 33(1). 9. 7 indexed citations
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Frazier, Lyn, Charles Clifton, & Britta Stolterfoht. (2007). Scale structure: Processing minimum standard and maximum standard scalar adjectives. Cognition. 106(1). 299–324. 21 indexed citations
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Carlson, Katy, et al.. (2006). Prosodic phrasing is central to language comprehension. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 10(6). 244–249. 209 indexed citations
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Frazier, Lyn & Charles Clifton. (2005). The syntax‐discourse divide: processing ellipsis. Syntax. 8(2). 121–174. 78 indexed citations
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Kambe, Gretchen, Susan A. Duffy, Charles Clifton, & Keith Rayner. (2003). An eye-movement-contingent probe paradigm. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 10(3). 661–666. 1 indexed citations
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Frazier, Lyn, Amy J. Schafer, Katy Carlson, & Charles Clifton. (2000). Focus and the interpertation of pitch accent: Disambiguation embedded questions. Language and Speech. 43.
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Frazier, Lyn & Charles Clifton. (2000). On Bound Variable Interpretations: The LF-Only Hypothesis. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 29(2). 125–140. 43 indexed citations
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Clifton, Charles, Lyn Frazier, & Patricia Deevy. (1999). Feature manipulation in sentence comprehension: 2703. The Italian Journal of Linguistics. 11(1). 11–40. 56 indexed citations
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Clifton, Charles. (1993). Thematic roles in sentence parsing.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. 47(2). 222–246. 55 indexed citations
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Clifton, Charles, et al.. (1976). Partially selective search of memory for letters and digits. Memory & Cognition. 4(5). 616–626. 5 indexed citations
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Clifton, Charles. (1973). Must overlearned lists be scanned?. Memory & Cognition. 1(2). 121–123. 7 indexed citations
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Clifton, Charles, et al.. (1973). Recoding processes in recognition: Some effects of presentation rate. Memory & Cognition. 1(3). 387–394. 6 indexed citations
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Clifton, Charles, Sidney Raffel, & M. P. Starr. (1970). A. REV. MICROBIOL.. Annual Review of Microbiology. 24. 6 indexed citations
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Clifton, Charles, et al.. (1968). Verbal Mediation in Four-Year-Old Children. Child Development. 39(2). 505–505. 4 indexed citations

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