Garland D. Bills

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Garland D. Bills is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Garland D. Bills has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Language and Linguistics, 10 papers in Linguistics and Language and 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Garland D. Bills's work include Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (9 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (8 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 papers). Garland D. Bills is often cited by papers focused on Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (9 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (8 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 papers). Garland D. Bills collaborates with scholars based in . Garland D. Bills's co-authors include Janet Holmes, Joshua A. Fishman, Judith T. Irvine, Jane H. Hill, Leo Loveday, Alan Hudson, Rudolph C. Troike, John J. Gumperz, Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Modern Language Journal and Hispanic American Historical Review.

In The Last Decade

Garland D. Bills

23 papers receiving 931 citations

Hit Papers

An Introduction to Sociol... 1993 2026 2004 2015 1993 100 200 300 400
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. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
    1993 434 citations Garland D. Bills, Janet Holmes Modern Language Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Garland D. Bills 12 776 596 297 173 162 24 1.2k
Timothy C. Frazer United States 16 800 1.0× 807 1.4× 244 0.8× 168 1.0× 248 1.5× 39 1.4k
Ronald Wardhaugh United States 14 1.2k 1.5× 714 1.2× 409 1.4× 148 0.9× 245 1.5× 38 1.8k
David Graddol United Kingdom 11 680 0.9× 510 0.9× 516 1.7× 96 0.6× 100 0.6× 30 1.2k
Christina Bratt Paulston United States 20 657 0.8× 557 0.9× 463 1.6× 150 0.9× 54 0.3× 63 1.2k
Joan M. Fayer Puerto Rico 13 899 1.2× 988 1.7× 487 1.6× 175 1.0× 233 1.4× 27 1.7k
Joan Swann United Kingdom 18 463 0.6× 271 0.5× 454 1.5× 150 0.9× 189 1.2× 36 1.2k
David C. S. Li Hong Kong 19 726 0.9× 719 1.2× 557 1.9× 145 0.8× 144 0.9× 59 1.2k
Kingsley Bolton Hong Kong 20 941 1.2× 965 1.6× 847 2.9× 155 0.9× 150 0.9× 87 1.7k
Nessa Wolfson United States 16 1.4k 1.8× 555 0.9× 704 2.4× 85 0.5× 390 2.4× 22 1.7k
Pier Paolo Giglioli Lithuania 6 381 0.5× 241 0.4× 191 0.6× 237 1.4× 121 0.7× 13 867

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All Works

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Bills, Garland D.. (2010). 2010 Plenary Address: New Mexican Spanish: A Brief History of Time, Space, and Family Values. 29(2). 1. 1 indexed citations
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Bills, Garland D., et al.. (2008). The Spanish Language of New Mexico and Southern Colorado: A Linguistic Atlas. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 36 indexed citations
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Bills, Garland D., et al.. (1999). Spanish Home Language Use and English Proficiency as Differential Measures of Language Maintenance and Shift.. 19(1). 11–27. 17 indexed citations
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Bills, Garland D., et al.. (1999). El cambio lingüístico en el español nuevomexicano: los factores de edad y educación. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 877–886. 1 indexed citations
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Bills, Garland D., et al.. (1999). Ashes to Ashes: The Historical Basis for Dialect Variation in New Mexican Spanish. 53(1). 43–68. 27 indexed citations
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Bills, Garland D.. (1997). Sounds like Life: Sound-Symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua. Janis B. Nuckolls. Journal of Anthropological Research. 53(2). 244–245. 2 indexed citations
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Bills, Garland D.. (1997). New Mexican Spanish: Demise of the Earliest European Variety in the United States. American Speech. 72(2). 154–154. 28 indexed citations
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Bills, Garland D., et al.. (1995). The geography of language shift: distance from the Mexican border and Spanish language claiming in the Southwestern U.S.. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 114(1). 41 indexed citations
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Bills, Garland D., Jane H. Hill, & Judith T. Irvine. (1994). Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse. Modern Language Journal. 78(3). 406–406. 262 indexed citations
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Bills, Garland D. & Janet Holmes. (1993). An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Modern Language Journal. 77(3). 397–397. 434 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bills, Garland D.. (1989). The US Census of 1980 and Spanish in the Southwest. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 1989(79). 11–28. 17 indexed citations
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Bills, Garland D., et al.. (1986). An Introduction to Language and Society. Modern Language Journal. 70(4). 435–435. 7 indexed citations
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Baker, Clayton, et al.. (1984). Spanish and Portuguese in Social Context. Modern Language Journal. 68(4). 414–414. 3 indexed citations
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Bills, Garland D. & John J. Gumperz. (1984). Language and Social Identity. Modern Language Journal. 68(1). 86–86. 6 indexed citations
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Bills, Garland D.. (1984). Arte y dictionario con otras obras en lengua michuacana. Hispanic American Historical Review. 64(3). 597–598. 5 indexed citations
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Bills, Garland D. & Leo Loveday. (1983). The Sociolinguistics of Learning and Using a Non-Native Language. Modern Language Journal. 67(3). 299–299. 70 indexed citations
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Woodbridge, Hensley C., Richard V. Teschner, Garland D. Bills, & Jerry R Craddock. (1976). Spanish and English of United States Hispanos: A Critical, Annotated. Linguistic Bibliography. Modern Language Journal. 60(5/6). 316–316. 5 indexed citations
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Bills, Garland D. & Gary J. Parker. (1971). Ayacucho Quechua Grammar and Dictionary. Language. 47(1). 234–234. 1 indexed citations
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Bills, Garland D., et al.. (1969). An Introduction to Spoken Bolivian Quechua. Americanae (AECID Library). 26 indexed citations

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