John R. Rickford

8.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
56 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

John R. Rickford is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John R. Rickford has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Linguistics and Language, 24 papers in Language and Linguistics and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in John R. Rickford's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (40 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (32 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (12 papers). John R. Rickford is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (40 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (32 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (12 papers). John R. Rickford collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Guyana. John R. Rickford's co-authors include Russell Rickford, Geneva Smitherman, Sharese King, William Labov, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Lesley Milroy, John Baugh, Richard Bauman, Malcah Yaeger‐Dror and Edward Finegan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Language and Language in Society.

In The Last Decade

John R. Rickford

51 papers receiving 2.3k citations

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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.

Style and Sociolinguistic Variation

2002 671 citations Penelope Eckert, John R. Rickford et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
Racial disparities in automated speech recognition

2020 353 citations John R. Rickford et al. profile →
Language and Linguistics on Trial: Hearing Rachel Jeantel (and Other Vernacular Speakers) in the Courtroom and Beyond

2016 127 citations John R. Rickford, Sharese King Language profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	How I Fell in Love with Language, Linguistics, and “Activist Sociolinguistics”: An Autobiographical Essay 2025 ·Annual Review of Linguistics ·John R. Rickford	0
2	Language on Trial 2023 ·Daedalus ·Sharese King, John R. Rickford	2
3	African-American English 2021 ·Salikoko S. Mufwene, John R. Rickford, Guy Bailey, John Baugh	2
4	Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies 2019 ·Cambridge University Press eBooks ·John R. Rickford, Gillian Sankoff	7
5	Language and Linguistics on Trial: Hearing Rachel Jeantel (and Other Vernacular Speakers) in the Courtroom and Beyond breakdown → 2016 ·Language ·John R. Rickford, Sharese King	127
6	Style shifting in a creole-speaking community 2014 ·John R. Rickford	2
7	The sociolinguistics of a short-lived innovation: Tracing the development of quotative all across spoken and internet newsgroup data 2010 ·Language Variation and Change ·Isabelle Buchstaller, John R. Rickford, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Thomas Wasow, Arnold M. Zwicky	19
8	INTENSIVE AND QUOTATIVEALL: SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW 2007 ·American Speech ·John R. Rickford, Thomas Wasow, Arnold M. Zwicky, Isabelle Buchstaller	48
9	Style and Sociolinguistic Variation breakdown → 2002 ·Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Penelope Eckert, John R. Rickford, Judith T. Irvine, Susan Μ. Ervin-Tripp, Richard Bauman, Ronald K. S. Macaulay, William Labov, John Baugh, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Allan Bell, Malcah Yaeger‐Dror, Nikolas Coupland, Howard Giles, Edward Finegan, Lesley Milroy, Dennis R. Preston	671
10	Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English 2000 ·Medical Entomology and Zoology ·John R. Rickford, Russell Rickford, Geneva Smitherman	267
11	Syntactic Variation and Change in Progress: Loss of the Verbal Coda in Topic-Restricting as far as Constructions 1995 ·Language ·John R. Rickford, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	43
12	Textual Evidence on the Nature of Early Barbadian Speech, 1676-1835 1994 ·Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages ·John R. Rickford, Jerome S. Handler	18
13	Comments on ‘ethics, advocacy and empowerment’ 1993 ·Language & Communication ·John R. Rickford	5
14	Peter Trudgill, Dialects in contact (Language in Society 10). Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986. Pp. viii + 174. 1990 ·Language in Society ·John R. Rickford	1
15	Dimensions of a Creole continuum : history, texts, linguistic analysis of Guyanese Creole 1987 ·Stanford University Press eBooks ·John R. Rickford	15
16	Social Contact and Linguistic Diffusion: Hiberno-English and New World Black English 1986 ·Language ·John R. Rickford	47
17	‘Me Tarzan, you Jane!’ Adequacy, expressiveness, and the creole speaker 1986 ·Journal of Linguistics ·John R. Rickford	3
18	Comparative Afro-American : An historical-comparative study of some Afro-American dialects in the New World. By Mervyn Alleyne. Ann Arbor: Karoma, 1980. Two maps. Pp. xii, 252. Cloth $8.50, paper $6.50. 1983 ·Language ·John R. Rickford	1
19	The field of Pidgin‐Creole studies: A review article on Loreto Todd'sPidgins and Creoles.London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974 1977 ·World Literature Written in English ·John R. Rickford	0
20	How Does "Doz" Disappear? (Or: Where Are the Creolists When the Creoles Most Need Them?). 1975 ·John R. Rickford	0

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