Erik R. Thomas

2.9k total citations
47 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Erik R. Thomas is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Erik R. Thomas has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Linguistics and Language, 29 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 13 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Erik R. Thomas's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (35 papers), Phonetics and Phonology Research (28 papers) and Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (10 papers). Erik R. Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (35 papers), Phonetics and Phonology Research (28 papers) and Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (10 papers). Erik R. Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Switzerland. Erik R. Thomas's co-authors include Walt Wolfram, Jeffrey Reaser, Paul Carter, Malcah Yaeger‐Dror, Jeff Mielke, Guy Bailey, Christopher Carignan, Morgan Sonderegger, Jane Stuart‐Smith and Michael McAuliffe and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and Journal of Phonetics.

In The Last Decade

Erik R. Thomas

44 papers receiving 941 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Erik R. Thomas United States 18 1.1k 896 453 184 49 47 1.3k
Katie Drager United States 15 998 0.9× 883 1.0× 601 1.3× 201 1.1× 76 1.6× 32 1.2k
Lauren Hall‐Lew United Kingdom 18 609 0.5× 440 0.5× 299 0.7× 111 0.6× 50 1.0× 54 773
Charles Boberg Canada 17 1.7k 1.5× 1.3k 1.4× 827 1.8× 240 1.3× 89 1.8× 35 1.9k
Joseph Salmons United States 21 1.0k 0.9× 1.0k 1.1× 690 1.5× 390 2.1× 119 2.4× 83 1.5k
J. K. Chambers Canada 16 836 0.8× 471 0.5× 565 1.2× 96 0.5× 51 1.0× 44 991
Paul Kerswill United Kingdom 19 1.3k 1.2× 740 0.8× 826 1.8× 108 0.6× 58 1.2× 41 1.5k
Abigail C. Cohn United States 12 498 0.4× 601 0.7× 400 0.9× 216 1.2× 97 2.0× 26 792
Stephanie Lindemann United States 11 550 0.5× 404 0.5× 487 1.1× 108 0.6× 75 1.5× 23 866
Molly Babel Canada 15 703 0.6× 956 1.1× 407 0.9× 346 1.9× 109 2.2× 69 1.2k
David Britain United Kingdom 15 617 0.6× 339 0.4× 560 1.2× 94 0.5× 58 1.2× 71 840

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erik R. Thomas

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All Works

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Kamudoni, Paul, Kate Lyden, Oliver Günther, et al.. (2024). Identifying meaningful aspects of health and concepts of interest for assessment in systemic lupus erythematosus: implications for digital clinical measure development. Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes. 8(1). 154–154. 1 indexed citations
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Thomas, Erik R., et al.. (2022). African American English speaking 2nd graders, verbal–s, and educational achievement: Event related potential and math study findings. PLoS ONE. 17(10). e0273926–e0273926. 5 indexed citations
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Thomas, Erik R.. (2020). Sociophonetic trends in studies of Southern U.S. English. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 147(1). 529–540. 4 indexed citations
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Stuart‐Smith, Jane, Morgan Sonderegger, Rachel Macdonald, et al.. (2019). Large-scale Acoustic Analysis of Dialectal and Social Factors in English /s/-retraction. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 6 indexed citations
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Thomas, Erik R.. (2019). 9. A Retrospective on the Low-Back-Merger Shift. 104(1). 180–204. 3 indexed citations
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Thomas, Erik R., et al.. (2017). THE ECONOMIC CALCULUS OF FIELDING AUTONOMOUS FIGHTING VEHICLES COMPLIANT WITH THE LAWS OF ARMED CONFLICT. 18(1). 1. 2 indexed citations
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Thomas, Erik R., et al.. (2012). Incorporating cepstral peak prominence as an acoustic method for assessing variation in voice quality. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 132(3_Supplement). 2088–2088.
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Thomas, Erik R.. (2011). Sociophonetics: An Introduction. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 95 indexed citations
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Thomas, Erik R.. (2011). Sociolinguistic variables and cognition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science. 2(6). 701–716. 7 indexed citations
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Thomas, Erik R.. (2011). Sociophonetics. 63 indexed citations
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Yaeger‐Dror, Malcah & Erik R. Thomas. (2010). African American English speakers and their participation in local sound changes : a comparative study. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 36 indexed citations
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Thomas, Erik R. & Malcah Yaeger‐Dror. (2009). INTRODUCTION. 94(1). 1–20.
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Thomas, Erik R., et al.. (2007). COMPARING PHONETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN AMERICAN SPEECH. The Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis (Memorial University of Newfoundland). 27. 112–116. 3 indexed citations
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Thomas, Erik R. & Norman J. Lass. (2005). Cues used for distinguishing African American and European American voices. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 117(4_Supplement). 2458–2458. 2 indexed citations
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Thomas, Erik R. & Jeffrey Reaser. (2004). Delimiting perceptual cues used for the ethnic labeling of African American and European American voices. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 8(1). 54–87. 74 indexed citations
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Wolfram, Walt & Erik R. Thomas. (2002). The Development of African American English. 154 indexed citations
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Thomas, Erik R.. (2000). APPLYING PHONETIC METHODS TO LANGUAGE VARIATION. American Speech. 75(4). 368–370. 3 indexed citations
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Wolfram, Walt, et al.. (2000). The regional context of earlier African American speech: Evidence for reconstructing the development of AAVE. Language in Society. 29(3). 315–355. 17 indexed citations
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Thomas, Erik R. & Guy Bailey. (1998). Parallels between vowel subsystems of African American Vernacular English and Caribbean Anglophone Creoles. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 13(2). 267–296. 29 indexed citations
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Kuzyakov, Yakov, et al.. (1997). Effect of microrelief on the spatial variability of carbon content of a podzoluvisol in a long term field trial. 3 indexed citations

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