David Beaver

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

David Beaver is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Beaver has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 20 papers in Language and Linguistics and 12 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in David Beaver's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (19 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (11 papers) and Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (10 papers). David Beaver is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (19 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (11 papers) and Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (10 papers). David Beaver collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and United Kingdom. David Beaver's co-authors include Brady Clark, Judith Tonhauser, Mandy Simons, Craige Roberts, James W. Pennebaker, Cindy K. Chung, Gary M. Lavergne, Elizabeth Coppock, Emiel Krahmer and Cleo Condoravdi and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Language and Frontiers in Psychology.

In The Last Decade

David Beaver

56 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

When Small Words Foretell Academic Success: The Case of College Admissions Essays

2014 367 citations James W. Pennebaker, Cindy K. Chung et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Beaver United States	24	1.5k	1.1k	770	486	264	61	2.6k
Laurence R. Horn United States	18	1.9k 1.3×	961 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	703 1.4×	360 1.4×	39	3.0k
Bart Geurts Netherlands	27	1.8k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	991 1.3×	714 1.5×	712 2.7×	67	3.2k
Scott Soames United States	26	1.0k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	1.9k 2.5×	1.5k 3.1×	292 1.1×	102	3.4k
D. Terence Langendoen United States	18	1.4k 1.0×	819 0.7×	733 1.0×	241 0.5×	460 1.7×	64	2.7k
Margaret E. Winters United States	9	1.9k 1.3×	563 0.5×	1.3k 1.7×	342 0.7×	191 0.7×	30	2.8k
Gerald Gazdar United Kingdom	18	1.7k 1.1×	1.5k 1.3×	657 0.9×	446 0.9×	223 0.8×	40	2.8k
Angelika Kratzer United States	20	3.1k 2.1×	2.0k 1.8×	1.5k 2.0×	1.2k 2.6×	355 1.3×	41	4.3k
Jerrold J. Katz United States	24	1.9k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	1.4k 1.9×	554 1.1×	449 1.7×	84	3.9k
Robert M. Harnish United States	16	857 0.6×	351 0.3×	682 0.9×	458 0.9×	180 0.7×	35	1.8k
Frederick J. Newmeyer United States	27	2.1k 1.4×	948 0.8×	996 1.3×	196 0.4×	416 1.6×	100	3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by David Beaver

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Beaver

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Beaver

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Beaver. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Beaver based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with David Beaver. David Beaver is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Beaver, David & Jason Stanley. (2023). The Politics of Language. Princeton University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Destruel, Émilie, David Beaver, & Elizabeth Coppock. (2019). It's Not What You Expected! The Surprising Nature of Cleft Alternatives in French and English. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 1400–1400. 9 indexed citations

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Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Lauren Gawne, Barbara F. Kelly, et al.. (2017). Reproducible research in linguistics: A position statement on data citation and attribution in our field. Linguistics. 56(1). 1–18. 51 indexed citations

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Simons, Mandy, David Beaver, Craige Roberts, & Judith Tonhauser. (2016). The Best Question: Explaining the Projection Behavior of Factives. Discourse Processes. 54(3). 187–206. 45 indexed citations

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Beaver, David & Brady Clark. (2015). Monotonicity and Focus Sensitivity. Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory. 40–40.

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Coppock, Elizabeth & David Beaver. (2015). Definiteness and determinacy. Linguistics and Philosophy. 38(5). 377–435. 46 indexed citations

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Pennebaker, James W., et al.. (2014). When Small Words Foretell Academic Success: The Case of College Admissions Essays. PLoS ONE. 9(12). e115844–e115844. 367 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tonhauser, Judith, David Beaver, Craige Roberts, & Mandy Simons. (2013). Toward a Taxonomy of Projective Content. Language. 89(1). 66–109. 144 indexed citations

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Velleman, Daniel J., et al.. (2012). It-clefts are IT (Inquiry Terminating) constructions. Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory. 22. 441–441. 37 indexed citations

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Calhoun, Sasha, Jean Carletta, Jason Brenier, et al.. (2010). The NXT-format Switchboard Corpus: a rich resource for investigating the syntax, semantics, pragmatics and prosody of dialogue. Language Resources and Evaluation. 44(4). 387–419. 90 indexed citations

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Nenkova, Ani, et al.. (2007). To Memorize or to Predict: Prominence labeling in Conversational Speech. ScholarlyCommons (University of Pennsylvania). 9–16. 38 indexed citations

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Geurts, Bart, David Beaver, & Emar Maier. (2007). Discourse Representation Theory. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 13 indexed citations

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Beaver, David, Brady Clark, Edward Flemming, T. Florian Jaeger, & Maria Wolters. (2007). When semantics meets phonetics: Acoustical studies of second-occurrence focus. Language. 83(2). 245–276. 69 indexed citations

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Beaver, David & Henk Zeevat. (2007). Accommodation. Oxford University Press eBooks. 38 indexed citations

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Beaver, David & Brady Clark. (2003). Always and Only: Why Not All Focus-Sensitive Operators Are Alike. Natural Language Semantics. 11(4). 323–362. 66 indexed citations

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Benthem, J.F.A.K. van, et al.. (2002). Words, Proofs and Diagrams. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 16 indexed citations

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Beaver, David & Brady Clark. (2002). Monotonicity and Focus Sensitivity. Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory. 12. 40–40. 5 indexed citations

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Beaver, David, et al.. (2002). The Construction of Meaning. 16 indexed citations

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Wolters, Maria & David Beaver. (2001). What does he mean. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 23(23). 5 indexed citations

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Beaver, David. (1999). Presupposition accommodation: a plea for common sense. 21–44. 16 indexed citations

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