Itziar Laka

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Itziar Laka is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Itziar Laka has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 33 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 29 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Itziar Laka's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (35 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (23 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (22 papers). Itziar Laka is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (35 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (23 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (22 papers). Itziar Laka collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Germany. Itziar Laka's co-authors include Jon Andoni Duñabeitia, Manuel Carreiras, Núria Sebastián‐Gallés, Antoni Rodrı́guez-Fornells, Anna Mestres-Missé, Marta Vergara‐Martínez, Mikel Santesteban, Anoop Mahajan, Manuel Perea and Begoña Díaz and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Brain Research.

In The Last Decade

Itziar Laka

57 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Negation in syntax: on the nature of functional categorie... 1991 2026 2002 2014 1991 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. Negation in syntax: on the nature of functional categories and projections
    1991 460 citations Itziar Laka SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Itziar Laka Spain 18 726 605 579 343 318 64 1.4k
Thomas Roeper United States 17 828 1.1× 331 0.5× 670 1.2× 340 1.0× 355 1.1× 58 1.4k
Julien Musolino United States 16 617 0.8× 395 0.7× 796 1.4× 208 0.6× 277 0.9× 30 1.3k
Ewa Dąbrowska United Kingdom 22 839 1.2× 509 0.8× 959 1.7× 380 1.1× 410 1.3× 64 1.6k
Gary Libben Canada 19 339 0.5× 810 1.3× 942 1.6× 378 1.1× 323 1.0× 63 1.4k
Dominiek Sandra Belgium 17 331 0.5× 668 1.1× 916 1.6× 387 1.1× 258 0.8× 59 1.3k
Roger Hawkins United Kingdom 15 1.3k 1.7× 358 0.6× 1.0k 1.8× 335 1.0× 304 1.0× 41 1.6k
Susanne Carroll Germany 15 1.1k 1.5× 250 0.4× 920 1.6× 237 0.7× 181 0.6× 39 1.5k
Fred Weerman Netherlands 17 551 0.8× 164 0.3× 301 0.5× 168 0.5× 262 0.8× 55 837
Wietske Vonk Netherlands 21 386 0.5× 762 1.3× 727 1.3× 470 1.4× 258 0.8× 33 1.2k
Elabbas Benmamoun United States 20 1.2k 1.7× 232 0.4× 421 0.7× 380 1.1× 445 1.4× 40 1.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Itziar Laka

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Itziar Laka

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Flecken, Monique, Itziar Laka, Moritz M. Daum, et al.. (2023). The Agent Preference in Visual Event Apprehension. Open Mind. 7. 240–282. 15 indexed citations
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Santesteban, Mikel, et al.. (2017). On the Nature of Clitics and Their Sensitivity to Number Attraction Effects. Frontiers in Psychology. 8. 1470–1470. 6 indexed citations
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Ordin, Mikhail, Leona Polyanskaya, Itziar Laka, & Marina Nespor. (2017). Cross-linguistic differences in the use of durational cues for the segmentation of a novel language. Memory & Cognition. 45(5). 863–876. 15 indexed citations
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Acha, Joana, et al.. (2014). Frequency and morphological irregularity are independent variables. Evidence from a corpus study of Spanish verbs. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. 0(0). 5 indexed citations
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Laka, Itziar, et al.. (2013). Word Order Processing in a Second Language: From VO to OV. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 43(6). 815–837. 15 indexed citations
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Laka, Itziar. (2013). On language production principles and the form of language: a más cómo, menos por qué. Frontiers in Psychology. 4. 231–231. 1 indexed citations
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Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni, et al.. (2010). Electrophysiological correlates of the masked translation priming effect with highly proficient simultaneous bilinguals. Brain Research. 1359. 142–154. 51 indexed citations
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Acha, Joana, Itziar Laka, & Manuel Perea. (2009). Reading development in agglutinative languages: Evidence from beginning, intermediate, and adult Basque readers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 105(4). 359–375. 16 indexed citations
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Vergara‐Martínez, Marta, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia, Itziar Laka, & Manuel Carreiras. (2008). ERP correlates of inhibitory and facilitative effects of constituent frequency in compound word reading. Brain Research. 1257. 53–64. 25 indexed citations
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Laka, Itziar. (1992). Negative Complementizers: Interclausal Licensing of Negative Polarity Items. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 22(1). 19. 2 indexed citations
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Laka, Itziar. (1991). Sentence negation in Basque. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 899–926. 2 indexed citations
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Laka, Itziar. (1991). Negation in syntax: on the nature of functional categories and projections. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 25(1). 65–136. 460 indexed citations breakdown →
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Laka, Itziar & Anoop Mahajan. (1989). Functional heads and clause structure. 39 indexed citations
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Laka, Itziar. (1988). Configurational heads in inflectional morphology: the structure of the inflected forms in Basque. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 22(2). 343–365. 19 indexed citations
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Laka, Itziar. (1987). Sabino Arana Goiri eta hiperbizkaiera (Hiperbizkaieraren historiaz III). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 21(1). 13–40. 1 indexed citations
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Laka, Itziar. (1987). Manuel Arriandiaga: berrazterketarako oinarriak (Hiperbizkaieraren historiaz IV). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 21(3). 727–753. 1 indexed citations
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Laka, Itziar. (1987). Manuel Arriandiaga. Euskal aditza Bizkai, Gipuzko, Lapurdi ta Zuberoko izkerantzetan garbiturikoa. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 21(3). 755–811. 1 indexed citations
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Laka, Itziar & Juan Uriagereka. (1986). Barriers for Basque and Vice-Versa. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 17(2). 4. 11 indexed citations
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Laka, Itziar. (1986). Euskal Izkindeako aditza (Hiperbizkaieraren historiaz II). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 20(3). 705–754. 4 indexed citations
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Laka, Itziar. (1985). Parnasorako bidea-ren hizkuntzaz. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 19(1). 217–234. 1 indexed citations

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