Gregory Scontras

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 725 citations indexed

About

Gregory Scontras is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Gregory Scontras has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 725 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Language and Linguistics, 23 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 11 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Gregory Scontras's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (25 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (17 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (13 papers). Gregory Scontras is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (25 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (17 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (13 papers). Gregory Scontras collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Hong Kong. Gregory Scontras's co-authors include Maria Polinsky, Zuzanna Fuchs, Noah D. Goodman, Judith Degen, Lisa M. Shank, Evelina Fedorenko, William Badecker, Michael T. Putnam, Lisa Pearl and Edward Gibson and has published in prestigious journals such as Cognition, Language and Frontiers in Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Gregory Scontras

45 papers receiving 700 citations

Hit Papers

Understanding heritage languages 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150
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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. Understanding heritage languages
    2019 199 citations Maria Polinsky, Gregory Scontras profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gregory Scontras United States 12 427 270 249 212 208 47 725
Michael T. Putnam United States 16 532 1.2× 241 0.9× 396 1.6× 241 1.1× 189 0.9× 70 818
Liliana Sánchez United States 14 483 1.1× 356 1.3× 306 1.2× 95 0.4× 212 1.0× 60 755
Terje Lohndal Norway 15 516 1.2× 121 0.4× 290 1.2× 182 0.9× 130 0.6× 59 635
Almeida Jacqueline Toribio United States 16 585 1.4× 178 0.7× 542 2.2× 169 0.8× 121 0.6× 45 902
Fred Weerman Netherlands 17 551 1.3× 301 1.1× 268 1.1× 262 1.2× 164 0.8× 55 837
Anne Vainikka United States 12 619 1.4× 514 1.9× 183 0.7× 216 1.0× 133 0.6× 36 828
Cécile De Cat United Kingdom 17 362 0.8× 301 1.1× 178 0.7× 109 0.5× 170 0.8× 32 620
Dana McDaniel United States 16 474 1.1× 460 1.7× 143 0.6× 141 0.7× 286 1.4× 36 783
Josef Bayer Germany 14 588 1.4× 119 0.4× 213 0.9× 211 1.0× 153 0.7× 53 706
William Snyder United States 10 492 1.2× 393 1.5× 141 0.6× 147 0.7× 186 0.9× 39 697

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gregory Scontras

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Scontras, Gregory, et al.. (2025). English Restrictive Relative Clauses Are Subject to Crossover Violations. Linguistic Inquiry. 1–13.
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Gotzner, Nicole & Gregory Scontras. (2024). On the Role of Loopholes in Polite Communication: Linking Subjectivity and Pragmatic Inference. Open Mind. 8. 500–510. 2 indexed citations
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Scontras, Gregory. (2024). On the compatibility of models with experiments. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. 14(1). 96–98.
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Etz, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Esports as a Cultural Microcosm for Studying Psycholinguistics. Games and Culture. 19(3). 357–372. 2 indexed citations
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Scontras, Gregory, et al.. (2023). Active Iterative Social Inference in Multi-Trial Signaling Games. Open Mind. 7. 111–129. 1 indexed citations
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Scontras, Gregory, et al.. (2023). Gender-inclusive language as a Rational Speech Act in Spanish. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. 8(1). 5529–5529. 3 indexed citations
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Dyer, William G., et al.. (2023). Evaluating a Century of Progress on the Cognitive Science of Adjective Ordering. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 11. 1185–1200. 2 indexed citations
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Scontras, Gregory, et al.. (2021). Pragmatic factors can explain variation in interpretation preferences for quantifier-negation utterances: A computational approach. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 43(43). 1 indexed citations
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Futrell, Richard, et al.. (2021). Word order affects the frequency of adjective use across languages. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 43(43). 4 indexed citations
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Scontras, Gregory, et al.. (2020). Incremental semantic restriction and subjectivity-based adjective ordering. Movebank. 24(2). 253–270. 4 indexed citations
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Franke, Michael, et al.. (2019). Subjectivity-based adjective ordering maximizes communicative success.. Cognitive Science. 344–350. 6 indexed citations
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Scontras, Gregory, Maria Polinsky, & Zuzanna Fuchs. (2018). In support of representational economy: Agreement in heritage Spanish. Glossa a journal of general linguistics. 3(1). 56 indexed citations
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Scontras, Gregory, et al.. (2017). Modeling scope ambiguity resolution as pragmatic inference: Formalizing differences in child and adult behavior.. Cognitive Science. 4 indexed citations
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Scontras, Gregory & Noah D. Goodman. (2017). Resolving uncertainty in plural predication. Cognition. 168. 294–311. 15 indexed citations
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Scontras, Gregory. (2017). A new kind of degree. Linguistics and Philosophy. 40(2). 165–205. 8 indexed citations
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Scontras, Gregory, Zuzanna Fuchs, & Maria Polinsky. (2015). Heritage language and linguistic theory. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 1545–1545. 93 indexed citations
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Scontras, Gregory, et al.. (2014). Saturating syntax: Linkers and modification in Tagalog. Lingua. 149. 17–33. 7 indexed citations
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Scontras, Gregory. (2013). A unified semantics for number marking, numerals, and nominal structure. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung. 17. 545–562. 8 indexed citations
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Scontras, Gregory, Peter Graff, & Noah D. Goodman. (2012). Comparing pluralities. Cognition. 123(1). 190–197. 2 indexed citations
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Scontras, Gregory & Edward Gibson. (2011). A quantitative investigation of the imperative-and-declarative construction in English. Language. 87(4). 817–829. 6 indexed citations

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