John H. McWhorter

3.1k total citations
28 papers, 970 citations indexed

About

John H. McWhorter is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John H. McWhorter has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 970 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Linguistics and Language, 13 papers in Language and Linguistics and 2 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in John H. McWhorter's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (15 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (8 papers) and Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (5 papers). John H. McWhorter is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (15 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (8 papers) and Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (5 papers). John H. McWhorter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Denmark. John H. McWhorter's co-authors include Peter Bakker and Mikael Parkvall and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Language in Society and Lingua.

In The Last Decade

John H. McWhorter

26 papers receiving 765 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John H. McWhorter United States 14 506 457 189 155 150 28 970
Yaron Matras United Kingdom 19 1.1k 2.1× 807 1.8× 125 0.7× 148 1.0× 144 1.0× 126 1.7k
Peter Bakker Denmark 11 462 0.9× 354 0.8× 88 0.5× 80 0.5× 62 0.4× 85 786
Lindsay J. Whaley United States 15 612 1.2× 552 1.2× 93 0.5× 159 1.0× 98 0.7× 32 1.1k
Albert Valdman United States 15 617 1.2× 633 1.4× 127 0.7× 206 1.3× 86 0.6× 99 1.1k
Lenore A. Grenoble United States 11 423 0.8× 568 1.2× 77 0.4× 84 0.5× 142 0.9× 52 929
Garland D. Bills 12 776 1.5× 596 1.3× 59 0.3× 162 1.0× 173 1.2× 24 1.2k
Bernd Kortmann Germany 17 855 1.7× 587 1.3× 74 0.4× 391 2.5× 55 0.4× 50 1.3k
Jacques Brès France 11 663 1.3× 651 1.4× 51 0.3× 110 0.7× 194 1.3× 74 1.2k
Diana Masny Canada 14 461 0.9× 230 0.5× 67 0.4× 121 0.8× 119 0.8× 40 896
Patrick Charaudeau France 15 271 0.5× 313 0.7× 93 0.5× 94 0.6× 290 1.9× 83 1.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John H. McWhorter

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McWhorter, John H.. (2018). Functional categories in three Atlantic creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu. By Claire Lefebvre. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 33(1). 212–215. 1 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John H.. (2014). The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 30 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John H.. (2013). Long Time, No Song: Revisiting Fats Waller's Lost Broadway Musical. Daedalus. 142(4). 109–119.
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McWhorter, John H.. (2012). Myths, lies, and half-truths of language usage. Medical Entomology and Zoology.
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McWhorter, John H.. (2009). What else happened to English? A brief for the Celtic hypothesis. English Language and Linguistics. 13(2). 163–191. 11 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John H.. (2008). Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 18 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John H.. (2007). Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 66 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John H.. (2005). Defining Creole. 50 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John H.. (2003). The power of Babel : a natural history of language. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 62 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John H.. (2003). 12. PIDGINS AND CREOLES AS MODELS OF LANGUAGE CHANGE: THE STATE OF THE ART. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics. 23. 202–212. 3 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John H.. (2001). What people ask David Gil and why: Rejoinder to the replies. Linguistic Typology. 5(2-3). 7 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John H.. (2001). The worlds simplest grammars are creole grammars. Linguistic Typology. 5(2-3). 215 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John H.. (2000). Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 175 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John H.. (2000). Word on the street : debunking the myth of "pure" standard english. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 22 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John H.. (1998). Identifying the Creole Prototype: Vindicating a Typological Class. Language. 74(4). 788–818. 122 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John H.. (1997). Wasting Energy on an Illusion: Six Months Later. The Black Scholar. 27(2). 2–5. 8 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John H.. (1997). Towards a new model of creole genesis. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 54 indexed citations
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McWhorter, John H.. (1995). The scarcity of Spanish-based creoles explained. Language in Society. 24(2). 213–244. 17 indexed citations

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