Damián E. Blasí

4.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
43 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Damián E. Blasí is a scholar working on Cultural Studies, Artificial Intelligence and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Damián E. Blasí has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Cultural Studies, 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 10 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Damián E. Blasí's work include Language and cultural evolution (23 papers), Language Development and Disorders (10 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (9 papers). Damián E. Blasí is often cited by papers focused on Language and cultural evolution (23 papers), Language Development and Disorders (10 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (9 papers). Damián E. Blasí collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Switzerland. Damián E. Blasí's co-authors include Morten H. Christiansen, Mark Dingemanse, Gary Lupyan, Padraic Monaghan, Harald Hammarström, Søren Wichmann, Peter F. Stadler, Seán G. Roberts, Caleb Everett and Joseph Henrich and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Damián E. Blasí

39 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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What are hit papers?

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.

Arbitrariness, Iconicity, and Systematicity in Language

2015 368 citations Mark Dingemanse, Damián E. Blasí et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
Sound–meaning association biases evidenced across thousands of languages

2016 272 citations Damián E. Blasí, Søren Wichmann et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science

2022 151 citations Damián E. Blasí, Joseph Henrich et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Damián E. Blasí United States	17	705	495	317	257	243	43	1.6k
Dan Dediu Netherlands	21	478 0.7×	671 1.4×	233 0.7×	326 1.3×	205 0.8×	78	1.5k
Mónica Tamariz United Kingdom	14	380 0.5×	564 1.1×	338 1.1×	191 0.7×	308 1.3×	52	1.2k
Balthasar Bickel Switzerland	21	545 0.8×	450 0.9×	226 0.7×	840 3.3×	350 1.4×	93	1.6k
Hannah Cornish United Kingdom	10	262 0.4×	685 1.4×	195 0.6×	251 1.0×	244 1.0×	16	996
James R. Hurford United Kingdom	16	443 0.6×	595 1.2×	299 0.9×	509 2.0×	258 1.1×	46	1.3k
Florencia Reali United States	16	228 0.3×	395 0.8×	374 1.2×	270 1.1×	254 1.0×	44	1.0k
Mark Dingemanse Netherlands	26	1.8k 2.6×	311 0.6×	721 2.3×	927 3.6×	296 1.2×	93	2.6k
Bodo Winter United Kingdom	30	1.6k 2.3×	231 0.5×	565 1.8×	662 2.6×	393 1.6×	103	2.6k
Massimo Piattelli‐Palmarini United States	15	290 0.4×	499 1.0×	552 1.7×	412 1.6×	208 0.9×	45	1.5k
Søren Wichmann Germany	26	467 0.7×	906 1.8×	108 0.3×	520 2.0×	491 2.0×	125	2.1k

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Koile, Ezequiel & Damián E. Blasí. (2025). Decimal systems around the world. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1937). 20240211–20240211. 4 indexed citations

Raviv, Limor, Damián E. Blasí, & Vera Kempe. (2025). Children are not the main agents of language change.. Psychological Review.

Blasí, Damián E., et al.. (2024). The evolutionary dynamics of how languages signal who does what to whom. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 7259–7259. 4 indexed citations

Michaelis, Susanne Maria, Hannah J. Haynie, Sam Passmore, et al.. (2023). Societies of strangers do not speak less complex languages. Science Advances. 9(33). eadf7704–eadf7704. 19 indexed citations

Haynie, Hannah J., Damián E. Blasí, Hedvig Skirgård, et al.. (2023). Grambank’s Typological Advances Support Computational Research on Diverse Languages. 147–149. 1 indexed citations

Blasí, Damián E., et al.. (2023). Grammars Across Time Analyzed (GATA): a dataset of 52 languages. Scientific Data. 10(1). 835–835. 1 indexed citations

Koile, Ezequiel, Simon J. Greenhill, Damián E. Blasí, Remco Bouckaert, & Russell D. Gray. (2022). Phylogeographic analysis of the Bantu language expansion supports a rainforest route. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(32). e2112853119–e2112853119. 25 indexed citations

Barbieri, Chiara, Damián E. Blasí, Alexandros G. Sotiropoulos, et al.. (2022). A global analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(47). e2122084119–e2122084119. 14 indexed citations

Blasí, Damián E., Joseph Henrich, Evangelia Adamou, David Kemmerer, & Asifa Majid. (2022). Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 26(12). 1153–1170. 151 indexed citations breakdown →

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Blasí, Damián E., et al.. (2022). Dependency-Length Minimization and its Limits: A Possible Role for a Probabilistic Version of the Final-Over-Final Condition. Language. 98(3). 397–418. 4 indexed citations

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Blasí, Damián E., Ina Bornkessel‐Schlesewsky, Itziar Laka, et al.. (2022). Cross-linguistic differences in case marking shape neural power dynamics and gaze behavior during sentence planning. Brain and Language. 230. 105127–105127. 8 indexed citations

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Bräuer, Juliane & Damián E. Blasí. (2021). Dogs display owner-specific expectations based on olfaction. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 3291–3291. 9 indexed citations

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Stoll, Sabine, et al.. (2021). Does morphological complexity affect word segmentation? Evidence from computational modeling. Cognition. 220. 104960–104960. 2 indexed citations

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Sauppe, Sebastian, Nathalie Giroud, Damián E. Blasí, et al.. (2021). Neural signatures of syntactic variation in speech planning. PLoS Biology. 19(1). e3001038–e3001038. 20 indexed citations

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Aguirre‐Fernández, Gabriel, Damián E. Blasí, & Marcelo R. Sánchez‐Villagra. (2020). Panpipes as units of cultural analysis and dispersal. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 2. e17–e17. 6 indexed citations

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Blasí, Damián E., et al.. (2018). A universal cue for grammatical categories in the input to children: Frequent frames. Cognition. 175. 131–140. 16 indexed citations

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Bhattacharya, Tanmoy, Damián E. Blasí, William Croft, et al.. (2018). Studying language evolution in the age of big data. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 3(2). 94–129. 6 indexed citations

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Blasí, Damián E., Susanne Maria Michaelis, & Martín Haspelmath. (2017). Grammars are robustly transmitted even during the emergence of creole languages. Nature Human Behaviour. 1(10). 723–729. 42 indexed citations

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Kirby, Kathryn R., Russell D. Gray, Simon J. Greenhill, et al.. (2016). D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity. PLoS ONE. 11(7). e0158391–e0158391. 156 indexed citations

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Dingemanse, Mark, Damián E. Blasí, Gary Lupyan, Morten H. Christiansen, & Padraic Monaghan. (2015). Arbitrariness, Iconicity, and Systematicity in Language. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 19(10). 603–615. 368 indexed citations breakdown →

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