Clifton Pye

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
46 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Clifton Pye is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Clifton Pye has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Language and Linguistics, 19 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 13 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Clifton Pye's work include Language Development and Disorders (19 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (11 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (10 papers). Clifton Pye is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (19 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (11 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (10 papers). Clifton Pye collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Canada. Clifton Pye's co-authors include Nan Bernstein Ratner, Sean M. Redmond, Barbara Pfeiler, Diane Frome Loeb, Kim A. Wilcox, Pedro Reales Mateo, David Ingram and Hannah S. Sarvasy and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Language and Frontiers in Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Clifton Pye

44 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

The CHILDES Project: Tools for analyzing talk . By Brian ... 1985 2026 1998 2012 1994 1985 500 1000 1.5k
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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 CHILDES Project: Tools for analyzing talk . By Brian MacWhinney. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1991. Pp. xi, 360. Cloth $59.95, paper $24.95.
    1994 1.6k citations Clifton Pye Language profile →
  2. Language learnability and language development . By Steven Pinker. (Cognitive science series, 7.) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984. Pp. xi, 435. $29.50.
    1985 945 citations Clifton Pye Language profile →

Peers

Clifton Pye
Michael P Maratsos United States
Kenneth Wexler United States
Ben Ambridge United Kingdom
Janet L. McDonald United States
John Macnamara Canada
Ann M. Peters United States
Katherine Demuth Australia
Jill G. de Villiers United States
Lois Bloom United States
Brian MacWhinney United States
Michael P Maratsos United States
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Clifton Pye

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pye, Clifton, et al.. (2025). A Typological Approach to Child Language Research – The Case of Whole-Word Phonology. Journal of Child Language. 1–32.
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Pye, Clifton & Barbara Pfeiler. (2019). The Acquisition of Directionals in Two Mayan Languages. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 2442–2442. 4 indexed citations
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Pye, Clifton, et al.. (2019). Northern Pame-Spanish language acquisition in the context of incipient language loss. International Journal of Bilingualism. 24(2). 246–265. 3 indexed citations
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Pye, Clifton, et al.. (2017). Analysis of variation in Mayan child phonologies. Lingua. 198. 38–52. 5 indexed citations
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Pye, Clifton & Barbara Pfeiler. (2013). The Comparative Method of language acquisition research: a Mayan case study. Journal of Child Language. 41(2). 382–415. 9 indexed citations
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Pye, Clifton, et al.. (2012). A semantic analysis of 'cut' and 'break' verbs in Sorani Kurdish. 1 indexed citations
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Pye, Clifton. (2011). The poverty of the Mayan stimulus. Journal of Child Language. 39(3). 611–636. 4 indexed citations
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Pye, Clifton, et al.. (2005). Semantic Deficits in Children With Language Impairments. Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools. 36(1). 5–16. 53 indexed citations
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Pye, Clifton. (1994). The CHILDES Project: Tools for analyzing talk . By Brian MacWhinney. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1991. Pp. xi, 360. Cloth $59.95, paper $24.95.. Language. 70(1). 156–159. 1551 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pye, Clifton & David Ingram. (1988). Automating the analysis of child phonology. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. 2(2). 115–137. 2 indexed citations
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Pye, Clifton. (1986). Pye, C. 1986. An Ethnography of Mayan Speech to Children Working Papers in Child Language 1:30-58. The Child Language Program, University of Kansas.. 3 indexed citations
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Pye, Clifton. (1985). Language learnability and language development . By Steven Pinker. (Cognitive science series, 7.) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984. Pp. xi, 435. $29.50.. Language. 61(4). 903–907. 945 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pye, Clifton. (1985). The Acquisition of Transitivity in Quiche Mayan.. 24. 3 indexed citations
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Ratner, Nan Bernstein & Clifton Pye. (1984). Higher pitch in BT is not universal: acoustic evidence from Quiche Mayan. Journal of Child Language. 11(3). 515–522. 73 indexed citations
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Pye, Clifton. (1983). Mayan Telegraphese: Intonational Determinants of Inflectional Development in Quiche Mayan. Language. 59(3). 583–604. 77 indexed citations
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Pye, Clifton. (1980). The Acquisition of Person Markers in Quiche Mayan. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, Number 19.. 2 indexed citations

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