Donald Shankweiler

21.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
128 papers, 15.2k citations indexed

About

Donald Shankweiler is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald Shankweiler has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 15.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 65 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 40 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Donald Shankweiler's work include Reading and Literacy Development (80 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (47 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (34 papers). Donald Shankweiler is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (80 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (47 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (34 papers). Donald Shankweiler collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Italy. Donald Shankweiler's co-authors include Michael Studdert‐Kennedy, Isabelle Y. Liberman, Alvin M. Liberman, F. S. Cooper, Bennett A. Shaywitz, Jack Μ. Fletcher, Sally E. Shaywitz, Florian Fischer, R. Todd Constable and Robert K. Fulbright and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Donald Shankweiler

126 papers receiving 13.5k citations

Hit Papers

Perception of the speech code. 1967 2026 1986 2006 1967 1995 1974 1998 1970 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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.

  1. Perception of the speech code.
    1967 2.4k citations Donald Shankweiler, Michael Studdert‐Kennedy et al. profile →
  2. Sex differences in the functional organization of the brain for language
    1995 1.0k citations Bennett A. Shaywitz, Kenneth R. Pugh et al. Nature profile →
  3. Explicit syllable and phoneme segmentation in the young child
    1974 964 citations Isabelle Y. Liberman, Donald Shankweiler et al. profile →
  4. Functional disruption in the organization of the brain for reading in dyslexia
    1998 657 citations Sally E. Shaywitz, Bennett A. Shaywitz et al. profile →
  5. Hemispheric Specialization for Speech Perception
    1970 579 citations Michael Studdert‐Kennedy, Donald Shankweiler profile →
  6. Cerebral organization of component processes in reading
    1996 508 citations K.R. Pugh, Bennett A. Shaywitz et al. Brain profile →

Peers

Donald Shankweiler
Jacques Mehler France
Usha Goswami United Kingdom
Max Coltheart Australia
Franck Ramus France
Paula Tallal United States
Rebecca Treiman United States
Richard Ν. Aslin United States
William D. Marslen‐Wilson United Kingdom
Hua Shu China
Jonathan Grainger France
Jacques Mehler France
Donald Shankweiler
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Fields of papers citing papers by Donald Shankweiler

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Donald Shankweiler

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kukona, Anuenue, David Braze, Clinton L. Johns, et al.. (2016). The real-time prediction and inhibition of linguistic outcomes: Effects of language and literacy skill. Acta Psychologica. 171. 72–84. 30 indexed citations
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Shankweiler, Donald & Carol A. Fowler. (2014). Seeking a reading machine for the blind and discovering the speech code.. History of Psychology. 18(1). 78–99. 6 indexed citations
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Brady, Susan & Donald Shankweiler. (2013). Questioning the Psychological Reality of Onset-Rime as a Level of Phonological Awareness. 113–124. 1 indexed citations
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McRoberts, Gerald W., et al.. (2012). Immediate memory for pseudowords and phonological awareness are associated in adults and pre-reading children. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. 26(7). 577–596. 12 indexed citations
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Macaruso, Paul & Donald Shankweiler. (2010). Expanding the Simple View of Reading in Accounting for Reading Skills in Community College Students. Reading Psychology. 31(5). 454–471. 44 indexed citations
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Braze, David, W. Einar Mencl, Whitney Tabor, et al.. (2010). Unification of sentence processing via ear and eye: An fMRI study. Cortex. 47(4). 416–431. 47 indexed citations
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Shankweiler, Donald, W. Einar Mencl, David Braze, et al.. (2008). Reading Differences and Brain: Cortical Integration of Speech and Print in Sentence Processing Varies With Reader Skill. Developmental Neuropsychology. 33(6). 745–775. 48 indexed citations
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Crain, Stephen, Weijia Ni, & Donald Shankweiler. (2001). Grammatism. Brain and Language. 77(3). 294–304. 11 indexed citations
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Ni, Weijia, Janet Dean Fodor, Stephen Crain, & Donald Shankweiler. (1998). Anomaly Detection: Eye Movement Patterns. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 27(5). 515–539. 77 indexed citations
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Ni, Weijia, et al.. (1996). Tasks and timing in the perception of linguistic anomaly. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 25(1). 25–57. 32 indexed citations
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Pugh, K.R., Bennett A. Shaywitz, Sally E. Shaywitz, et al.. (1996). Cerebral organization of component processes in reading. Brain. 119(4). 1221–1238. 508 indexed citations breakdown →
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Shankweiler, Donald, et al.. (1995). Syntactic Processing in Agrammatic Aphasia by Speakers of a Slavic Language. Brain and Language. 49(1). 50–76. 28 indexed citations
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McRoberts, Gerald W., Michael Studdert‐Kennedy, & Donald Shankweiler. (1995). The role of fundamental frequency in signaling linguistic stress and affect: Evidence for a dissociation. Perception & Psychophysics. 57(2). 159–174. 29 indexed citations
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Shaywitz, Bennett A., Kenneth R. Pugh, R. Todd Constable, et al.. (1995). Sex differences in the functional organization of the brain for language. Nature. 373(6515). 607–609. 1007 indexed citations breakdown →
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Katz, Robert B. & Donald Shankweiler. (1985). Repetitive Naming and the Detection of Word Retrieval Deficits in the Beginning Reader. Cortex. 21(4). 617–625. 13 indexed citations
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Liberman, Isabelle Y., et al.. (1982). Children's Memory for Recurring Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Material in Relation to Reading Ability. Cortex. 18(3). 367–375. 116 indexed citations
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Fischer, Florian, Isabelle Y. Liberman, & Donald Shankweiler. (1978). Reading Reversals and Developmental Dyslexia a Further Study. Cortex. 14(4). 496–510. 54 indexed citations
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Mark, Leonard S., Donald Shankweiler, Isabelle Y. Liberman, & Carol A. Fowler. (1977). Phonetic recoding and reading difficulty in beginning readers. Memory & Cognition. 5(6). 623–629. 71 indexed citations
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Liberman, Isabelle Y., et al.. (1971). Letter Confusions and Reversals of Sequence in the Begining Reader: Implications for Orton’S Theory of Developmental Dyslexia. Cortex. 7(2). 127–142. 104 indexed citations
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Shankweiler, Donald & Katherine S. Harris. (1966). An Experimental Approach to the Problem of Articulation in Aphasia. Cortex. 2(3). 277–292. 84 indexed citations

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