Clay Beckner

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 771 citations indexed

About

Clay Beckner is a scholar working on Cultural Studies, Language and Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Clay Beckner has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 771 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Cultural Studies, 8 papers in Language and Linguistics and 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Clay Beckner's work include Language and cultural evolution (9 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (5 papers). Clay Beckner is often cited by papers focused on Language and cultural evolution (9 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (5 papers). Clay Beckner collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States. Clay Beckner's co-authors include Joan Bybee, Richard A. Blythe, Tom Schoenemann, Diane Larsen‐Freeman, Morten H. Christiansen, Nick C. Ellis, John H. Holland, William Croft, Jinyun Ke and Jennifer Hay and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Language.

In The Last Decade

Clay Beckner

15 papers receiving 696 citations

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Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper

2009 497 citations Clay Beckner, Richard A. Blythe et al. Language Learning profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Clay Beckner New Zealand	8	350	219	211	207	184	15	771
Tom Schoenemann United States	4	283 0.8×	176 0.8×	144 0.7×	170 0.8×	147 0.8×	6	597
Jinyun Ke United States	7	293 0.8×	252 1.2×	213 1.0×	170 0.8×	175 1.0×	12	712
Thomas Givon United States	7	687 2.0×	89 0.4×	218 1.0×	381 1.8×	213 1.2×	8	980
Natalia Levshina Germany	14	515 1.5×	131 0.6×	283 1.3×	305 1.5×	270 1.5×	47	843
Michael Franke Germany	16	313 0.9×	139 0.6×	401 1.9×	217 1.0×	38 0.2×	73	872
Jean-Pierre Koenig United States	17	873 2.5×	82 0.4×	447 2.1×	429 2.1×	216 1.2×	51	1.2k
Pamela A. Downing United States	9	517 1.5×	65 0.3×	306 1.5×	304 1.5×	128 0.7×	13	924
Dirk Speelman Belgium	19	727 2.1×	62 0.3×	432 2.0×	233 1.1×	484 2.6×	133	1.2k
Helen de Hoop Netherlands	15	535 1.5×	34 0.2×	234 1.1×	281 1.4×	134 0.7×	89	845
Marion Owen United Kingdom	3	812 2.3×	78 0.4×	309 1.5×	251 1.2×	214 1.2×	7	1.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Clay Beckner

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All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Oh, Yoon Mi, Simon Todd, Clay Beckner, Jen Hay, & Jeanette King. (2023). Assessing the size of non-Māori-speakers’ active Māori lexicon. PLoS ONE. 18(8). e0289669–e0289669. 5 indexed citations

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Oh, Yoon Mi, et al.. (2020). Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 22318–22318. 16 indexed citations

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Rácz, Péter, Clay Beckner, Jennifer Hay, & Janet B. Pierrehumbert. (2020). Morphological Convergence as on-Line Lexical Analogy. Language. 96(4). 735–770. 6 indexed citations

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Rácz, Péter, Clay Beckner, Jennifer Hay, & Janet B. Pierrehumbert. (2020). Morphological convergence as on-line lexical analogy. Language. 1 indexed citations

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Beckner, Clay, et al.. (2017). Persistent Lexical Entrainment in HRI. 63–72. 25 indexed citations

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Beckner, Clay, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, & Jennifer Hay. (2017). The emergence of linguistic structure in an online iterated learning task. Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick). 2(2). 160–176. 24 indexed citations

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Beckner, Clay, et al.. (2015). Participants Conform to Humans but Not to Humanoid Robots in an English Past Tense Formation Task. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 35(2). 158–179. 22 indexed citations

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Rácz, Péter, et al.. (2014). A peer pressure experiment: Recreation of the Asch conformity experiment with robots. University of Canterbury Research Repository (University of Canterbury). 1335–1340. 50 indexed citations

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Rácz, Péter, Clay Beckner, Jennifer Hay, & Janet B. Pierrehumbert. (2014). Rules, Analogy, and Social Factors Codetermine Past-tense Formation Patterns in English. 55–63. 4 indexed citations

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Beckner, Clay. (2013). Quantitative determinants of prefabs: A corpus-based, experimental study of multiword units in the lexicon. UNM’s Digital Repository (University of New Mexico). 1 indexed citations

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Fernández, Francisco Moreno, Clay Beckner, Richard A. Blythe, et al.. (2011). La lengua es un sistema adaptativo complejo. 3 indexed citations

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Beckner, Clay & Joan Bybee. (2009). A Usage‐Based Account of Constituency and Reanalysis. Language Learning. 59(s1). 27–46. 57 indexed citations

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Beckner, Clay, Richard A. Blythe, Joan Bybee, et al.. (2009). Language is a complex adaptive system.. 56 indexed citations

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Beckner, Clay, Richard A. Blythe, Joan Bybee, et al.. (2009). Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper. Language Learning. 59(s1). 1–26. 497 indexed citations breakdown →

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Beckner, Clay & Andrew Wedel. (2009). The Roles of Acquisition and Usage in Morphological Change. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 35(1). 1–1. 4 indexed citations

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