Jon Sprouse

5.0k total citations
42 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Jon Sprouse is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jon Sprouse has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Language and Linguistics, 21 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 14 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Jon Sprouse's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (21 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (19 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (11 papers). Jon Sprouse is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (21 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (19 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (11 papers). Jon Sprouse collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Arab Emirates and Norway. Jon Sprouse's co-authors include Diogo Almeida, Colin Phillips, Matthew Wagers, Lisa Pearl, Carson T. Schütze, Dave Kush, Ivano Caponigro, Terje Lohndal, Ciro Greco and Carlo Cecchetto and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Language and Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research.

In The Last Decade

Jon Sprouse

40 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jon Sprouse United States 21 875 653 464 405 378 42 1.6k
Wander Lowie Netherlands 22 1.2k 1.4× 387 0.6× 441 1.0× 1.2k 2.9× 510 1.3× 89 2.3k
Marjolijn Verspoor Netherlands 22 1.5k 1.7× 236 0.4× 602 1.3× 1.4k 3.4× 545 1.4× 89 2.7k
Margaret Thomas United States 18 1.3k 1.5× 309 0.5× 309 0.7× 1.3k 3.1× 356 0.9× 64 2.1k
Nina Hyams United States 15 1.1k 1.2× 208 0.3× 388 0.8× 962 2.4× 399 1.1× 38 1.8k
Caroline F. Rowland United Kingdom 34 839 1.0× 1.1k 1.7× 473 1.0× 2.5k 6.2× 491 1.3× 134 3.3k
Scott Jarvis United States 25 1.5k 1.7× 278 0.4× 1.1k 2.4× 1.7k 4.3× 595 1.6× 43 3.1k
Barbara A. Fox United States 24 1.4k 1.6× 155 0.2× 310 0.7× 275 0.7× 804 2.1× 59 1.8k
Heidi Byrnes United States 26 2.0k 2.3× 206 0.3× 287 0.6× 1.3k 3.3× 384 1.0× 110 3.1k
Ted Sanders Netherlands 30 1.4k 1.7× 577 0.9× 976 2.1× 1.1k 2.8× 1.1k 3.0× 133 3.3k
Kevin R. Gregg United Kingdom 11 2.5k 2.8× 200 0.3× 310 0.7× 1.7k 4.3× 314 0.8× 21 3.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jon Sprouse

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All Works

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Almeida, Diogo, et al.. (2025). A Nearly Exhaustive Experimental Investigation of Bridge Effects in English. Language. 101(1). 72–108.
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Matchin, William, Diogo Almeida, Gregory Hickok, & Jon Sprouse. (2024). A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Phrase Structure and Subject Island Violations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 37(2). 414–442. 1 indexed citations
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Tanaka, Nozomi, et al.. (2021). An experimental reassessment of complex NP islands with NP-scrambling in Japanese. Glossa a journal of general linguistics. 7(1). 6 indexed citations
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Pearl, Lisa & Jon Sprouse. (2021). The acquisition of linking theories: A Tolerance and Sufficiency Principle approach to deriving UTAH and rUTAH. Language Acquisition. 1–32. 4 indexed citations
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Sprouse, Jon, et al.. (2019). Modeling Ungrammaticality: A Self-Organizing Model of Islands.. Cognitive Science. 1178–1184. 3 indexed citations
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Pearl, Lisa & Jon Sprouse. (2019). Comparing solutions to the linking problem using an integrated quantitative framework of language acquisition. Language. 95(4). 583–611. 7 indexed citations
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Kush, Dave, Terje Lohndal, & Jon Sprouse. (2019). On the Island Sensitivity of Topicalization in Norwegian: An Experimental Investigation. Language. 14 indexed citations
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Kush, Dave, Terje Lohndal, & Jon Sprouse. (2019). On the island sensitivity of topicalization in Norwegian: An experimental investigation. Language. 95(3). 393–420. 44 indexed citations
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Kush, Dave, Terje Lohndal, & Jon Sprouse. (2017). Investigating variation in island effects. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 36(3). 743–779. 50 indexed citations
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Schütze, Carson T., Jon Sprouse, & Ivano Caponigro. (2015). Challenges for a theory of islands: A broader perspective on Ambridge, Pine, and Lieven. Language. 91(2). e31–e39. 7 indexed citations
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Matchin, William, Jon Sprouse, & Gregory Hickok. (2014). A structural distance effect for backward anaphora in Broca’s area: An fMRI study. Brain and Language. 138. 1–11. 26 indexed citations
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Sprouse, Jon, Philip Hofmeister, Colin Phillips, et al.. (2013). Experimental Syntax and Island Effects. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 96 indexed citations
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Sprouse, Jon, Matthew Wagers, & Colin Phillips. (2012). A Test of The Relation Between Working-Memory Capacity and Syntactic Island Effects. Language. 88(1). 82–123. 139 indexed citations
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Sprouse, Jon, Matthew Wagers, & Colin Phillips. (2012). Working-memory capacity and island effects: A reminder of the issues and the facts. Language. 88(2). 401–407. 23 indexed citations
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Sprouse, Jon. (2010). A validation of Amazon Mechanical Turk for the collection of acceptability judgments in linguistic theory. Behavior Research Methods. 43(1). 155–167. 362 indexed citations
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Sprouse, Jon. (2008). The Differential Sensitivity of Acceptability Judgments to Processing Effects. Linguistic Inquiry. 39(4). 686–694. 29 indexed citations
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Murphy, Robin R. & Jon Sprouse. (1996). Strategies for Searching an Area with Semi-Autonomous Mobiles Robots. 22–28. 10 indexed citations

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