Heike Behrens

2.0k total citations
28 papers, 712 citations indexed

About

Heike Behrens is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Heike Behrens has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 712 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Language and Linguistics, 13 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 8 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Heike Behrens's work include Language Development and Disorders (13 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (9 papers) and Linguistic Education and Pedagogy (4 papers). Heike Behrens is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (13 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (9 papers) and Linguistic Education and Pedagogy (4 papers). Heike Behrens collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Australia. Heike Behrens's co-authors include Michael Tomasello, Elena Lieven, Kirsten Abbot‐Smith, Ulrike Gut, Sabine Stoll, Edith L. Bavin, Shanley Allen, Kamil Ud Deen, Suzanne Curtin and Eve V. Clark and has published in prestigious journals such as Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Cognitive Science and Journal of Child Language.

In The Last Decade

Heike Behrens

24 papers receiving 660 citations

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heike Behrens Germany	11	496	294	178	175	168	28	712
Cecile McKee United States	10	515 1.0×	366 1.2×	102 0.6×	132 0.8×	299 1.8×	29	704
I.M. Krämer Netherlands	6	259 0.5×	304 1.0×	164 0.9×	179 1.0×	226 1.3×	11	598
Tom Roeper United States	12	270 0.5×	255 0.9×	119 0.7×	110 0.6×	182 1.1×	32	506
Dana McDaniel United States	16	460 0.9×	474 1.6×	141 0.8×	151 0.9×	286 1.7×	36	783
Angeliek van Hout Netherlands	14	410 0.8×	366 1.2×	124 0.7×	206 1.2×	264 1.6×	61	696
Daniel Freudenthal United Kingdom	14	482 1.0×	168 0.6×	193 1.1×	165 0.9×	296 1.8×	34	652
Anne Vainikka United States	12	514 1.0×	619 2.1×	216 1.2×	180 1.0×	133 0.8×	36	828
Yu-Chin Chien United States	9	349 0.7×	251 0.9×	95 0.5×	88 0.5×	191 1.1×	18	540
Cécile De Cat United Kingdom	17	301 0.6×	362 1.2×	109 0.6×	135 0.8×	170 1.0×	32	620
Fred Weerman Netherlands	17	301 0.6×	551 1.9×	262 1.5×	168 1.0×	164 1.0×	55	837

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Pfänder, Stefan, et al.. (2024). Participation practices in mother-child interactions: longitudinal case studies. European Journal of Psychology of Education. 39(3). 1673–1697. 1 indexed citations

Behrens, Heike. (2021). Constructivist Approaches to First Language Acquisition. Journal of Child Language. 48(5). 959–983. 25 indexed citations

Behrens, Heike, et al.. (2016). The role of scaffolding in children’s questions: Implications for (preschool) language assessment from a usage-based perspective. edoc (University of Basel). 4(1). 237–260. 1 indexed citations

Bavin, Edith L., Letitia Naigles, Virginia Valian, et al.. (2015). The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 35 indexed citations

Behrens, Heike. (2014). Introduction. Journal of Child Language. 41(S1). i–iv. 1 indexed citations

Auer, Peter & Heike Behrens. (2013). Sprachwissenschaft : Grammatik - Interaktion - Kognition. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven).

Behrens, Heike. (2009). Usage-based and emergentist approaches to language acquisition. Linguistics. 47(2). 117 indexed citations

Behrens, Heike. (2007). The acquisition of argument structure. edoc (University of Basel). 13(1). 193–216. 2 indexed citations

Abbot‐Smith, Kirsten & Heike Behrens. (2006). How Known Constructions Influence the Acquisition of Other Constructions: The German Passive and Future Constructions. Cognitive Science. 30(6). 995–1026. 88 indexed citations

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Behrens, Heike & Ulrike Gut. (2005). The relationship between prosodic and syntactic organization in early multiword speech. Journal of Child Language. 32(1). 1–34. 32 indexed citations

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Behrens, Heike. (2005). The input–output relationship in first language acquisition. Language and Cognitive Processes. 21(1-3). 2–24. 103 indexed citations

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Lieven, Elena, et al.. (2003). Early syntactic creativity: a usage-based approach. Journal of Child Language. 30(2). 333–370. 203 indexed citations

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Behrens, Heike. (2002). Learning Multiple Regularities: Evidence from Overgeneralization Errors in the German Plural. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 72–83. 16 indexed citations

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Behrens, Heike. (2000). Cognitive-conceptual development and the acquisition of grammatical morphemes. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 450–474.

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Behrens, Heike & Michael Tomasello. (1999). And what about the Chinese?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 22(6). 1014–1014. 1 indexed citations

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Behrens, Heike. (1999). Was macht Verben zu einer besonderen Kategorie im Spracherwerb. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 32–50. 6 indexed citations

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Behrens, Heike. (1998). How difficult are complex verbs? Evidence from German, Dutch and English. Linguistics. 36(4). 21 indexed citations

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Behrens, Heike. (1998). From construction to construction: Commentary on Michael Tomasello's review essay ’The Return of Constructions‘ on Adele Goldberg's (1995). : ’Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure‘.. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 25. 453–455. 4 indexed citations

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Behrens, Heike, et al.. (1982). Progress report on nuclear data research in the Federal Republic of Germany for the period April 1, 1981 to March 31, 1982. OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique). 3 indexed citations

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Behrens, Heike, et al.. (1959). [Review of current concepts of the Turner syndrome & hermaphroditism].. PubMed. 14(5). 195–203.

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