John J. McCarthy

16.3k citations

99 papers · 6.9k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 38

Impact in

Linguistics and Language top 0.01%
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology top 0.05%
- Phonetics and Phonology Research

Papers in

Linguistics and Language 33
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology 32
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 67
- Phonetics and Phonology Research 67

Co-authors: Alan Prince Linda Lombardi Abigail C. Cohn John Alderete Jill N. Beckman Amalia E. Gnanadesikan Suzanne Urbanczyk Wendell Kimper
Journals: Linguistic Inquiry (10 papers)Phonology (8 papers)Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2 papers)Natural Language & Linguistic Theory (2 papers)Language (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Netherlands Germany

In The Last Decade

John J. McCarthy

91 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Faithfulness and Reduplicative Identity 1995 · 1.1k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1995 Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University)
1986 Linguistic Inquiry

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#	Work
1	Harmonic Serialism Supplement to Doing Optimality Theory ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst) ·John J. McCarthy	2010	7
2	Optimality Theory: An overview Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association ·John J. McCarthy	2003	1
3	Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst) ·John J. McCarthy	2003	84
4	Prosodic Morphology: Constraint Interaction and Satisfaction Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University) ·Alan Prince, John J. McCarthy	2001	398
5	Review of Bruce Tesar and Paul Smolensky (2000) Learnability in Optimality Theory Trends in Cognitive Sciences ·John J. McCarthy	2001	1
6	Pretoria : from apartheid's model city to a rising African star? John J. McCarthy, Fahad Saad ALGhassab, Elizabeth Shobe	1998	3
7	Process-specific cons traints in Optimality Theor y Linguistic Inquiry ·John J. McCarthy	1997	37
8	Template form in prosodic morphology ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst) ·John J. McCarthy	1993	44
9	Perspectives on Arabic linguistics IV : papers from the Fourth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics Ellen Broselow, Mushira Eid, John J. McCarthy	1992	6
10	Semitic gutturals and distinctive feature theory ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst) ·John J. McCarthy	1991	17
11	Linear order in phonological representation Linguistic Inquiry ·John J. McCarthy	1989	68
12	Prosodic structure in morphology Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst) ·John J. McCarthy	1984	4
13	Theoretical consequences of Montañes vowel harmony Linguistic Inquiry ·John J. McCarthy	1984	25
14	Syllables and segments . Edited by Alan Bell and Joan B. Hooper. (North-Holland linguistic series, 40.) Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1978. Pp. viii, 247. f 55.00. Language ·John J. McCarthy	1982	56
15	Prosodic Organization in Morphology Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst) ·John J. McCarthy	1982	18
16	Prosodic Structure and Expletive Infixation Language ·John J. McCarthy	1982	68
17	The representation of consonant length in Hebrew Linguistic Inquiry ·John J. McCarthy	1981	4
18	A prosodic theory of nonconcatenative morphology Linguistic Inquiry ·John J. McCarthy	1981	468
19	A note on the accentuation of Damascene Arabic ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst) ·John J. McCarthy	1980	8
20	On stress and syllabification Linguistic Inquiry ·John J. McCarthy	1979	107

About John J. McCarthy

John J. McCarthy is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence and Music, having authored 99 papers that have together received 6.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Phonetics and Phonology Research (67 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (32 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (30 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (15 papers), Speech Recognition and Synthesis (9 papers), Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition (5 papers), Music and Audio Processing (5 papers) and Speech and dialogue systems (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Linguistics and Language (4.1k citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (5.7k citations), Language and Linguistics (3.9k citations), Artificial Intelligence (2.5k citations) and Developmental and Educational Psychology (649 citations). John J. McCarthy has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Alan Prince, Linda Lombardi, Abigail C. Cohn, John Alderete, Jill N. Beckman, Amalia E. Gnanadesikan, Suzanne Urbanczyk, Wendell Kimper, Stuart Davis and Haruo Kubozono. Their work appears in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry, Phonology, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory and Language.

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