James A. Walker

2.8k total citations
41 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

James A. Walker is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, James A. Walker has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Linguistics and Language, 24 papers in Language and Linguistics and 6 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in James A. Walker's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (31 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (23 papers) and Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (7 papers). James A. Walker is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (31 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (23 papers) and Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (7 papers). James A. Walker collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. James A. Walker's co-authors include Michol F. Hoffman, Rena Torres Cacoullos, James Mack, Miriam Meyerhoff, Shana Poplack, Fernand Mossé, Norman E. Eliason, JOHN B. MURPHY, Gerard Van Herk and Sally Boyd and has published in prestigious journals such as Green Chemistry, Language and Language in Society.

In The Last Decade

James A. Walker

38 papers receiving 960 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James A. Walker Canada 14 794 707 274 119 97 41 1.2k
J. O. MORLEY United Kingdom 16 260 0.3× 476 0.7× 424 1.5× 90 0.8× 128 1.3× 37 1.0k
M. G. BARLOW United Kingdom 13 302 0.4× 736 1.0× 426 1.6× 93 0.8× 449 4.6× 123 1.6k
Manuela Wagner Germany 12 76 0.1× 240 0.3× 58 0.2× 254 2.1× 35 0.4× 38 683
J. THOMAS Ghana 6 252 0.3× 1.0k 1.5× 297 1.1× 559 4.7× 16 0.2× 6 1.2k
Mohammad Hossein Keshavarz Iran 13 77 0.1× 262 0.4× 99 0.4× 126 1.1× 34 0.4× 43 664
Mike Baynham United Kingdom 17 394 0.5× 430 0.6× 79 0.3× 484 4.1× 5 0.1× 53 1.2k
Glenn G. Gilbèrt United States 10 637 0.8× 486 0.7× 213 0.8× 83 0.7× 2 0.0× 25 843
Jeff McQuillan United States 13 210 0.3× 212 0.3× 29 0.1× 170 1.4× 9 0.1× 30 699
Larry E. Smith United States 13 700 0.9× 799 1.1× 262 1.0× 472 4.0× 5 0.1× 38 1.2k
John H. McWhorter United States 14 457 0.6× 506 0.7× 155 0.6× 51 0.4× 28 970

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James A. Walker

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All Works

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Walker, James A., et al.. (2025). Approaches to Greek language and identities in Melbourne. Australian Journal of Linguistics. 46(1). 51–79.
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Louro, Celeste Rodríguez, et al.. (2025). Freakin’ Swimming and Everythink : School Practices and Variable (ING) in an Australian Indigenous Boarding School. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 30(1). 15–28. 2 indexed citations
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Walker, James A.. (2024). Soundin(g(k)) ethnic in Toronto. English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English. 45(3). 283–310. 4 indexed citations
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Walker, James A.. (2024). Language in its Social Context. 1 indexed citations
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Nagy, Naomi, Michol F. Hoffman, & James A. Walker. (2020). How do Torontonians hear ethnic identity?. 42. 4 indexed citations
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Walker, James A. & Miriam Meyerhoff. (2020). Pivots of the Caribbean? Low-back vowels in eastern Caribbean English. Linguistics. 58(1). 109–130. 3 indexed citations
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Walker, James A.. (2019). Introduction. 5(1). 1–8.
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Walker, James A. & Michol F. Hoffman. (2016). Ethnolinguistic Variation in Toronto English: Possession and Deontic Modality. 1 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Michol F. & James A. Walker. (2014). 'Toronto has everything', 'Toronto's got it all': Ethnolinguistic Dimensions of have in Toronto English. 1 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Michol F. & James A. Walker. (2010). Ethnolects and the city: Ethnic orientation and linguistic variation in Toronto English. Language Variation and Change. 22(1). 37–67. 137 indexed citations
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Cacoullos, Rena Torres & James A. Walker. (2009). The present of the English future: Grammatical variation and collocations in discourse. Language. 85(2). 321–354. 63 indexed citations
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Nagy, Naomi, James A. Walker, Alexei Kochetov, & Yoonjung Kang. (2009). Heritage Language Variation and Change in Toronto. 3 indexed citations
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Walker, James A.. (2007). “There’s bears back there”. English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English. 28(2). 147–166. 29 indexed citations
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Poplack, Shana, et al.. (2006). An English ''like no other''?: Language Contact and Change in Quebec. The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique. 51(2). 185–213. 40 indexed citations
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Poplack, Shana & James A. Walker. (2003). Pieter Muysken, Bilingual speech: a typology of code-mixing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi+306.. Journal of Linguistics. 39(3). 678–683. 10 indexed citations
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Walker, James A. & JOHN B. MURPHY. (2001). Implementing the North American Industry Classification System at BLS.. Monthly labor review. 124(12). 15–21. 12 indexed citations
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Eliason, Norman E., Fernand Mossé, & James A. Walker. (1954). A Handbook of Middle English.. Modern Language Notes. 69(2). 135–135. 61 indexed citations

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