Kenneth Wexler

7.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
51 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Kenneth Wexler is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenneth Wexler has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 22 papers in Language and Linguistics and 8 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Kenneth Wexler's work include Language Development and Disorders (29 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (18 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (16 papers). Kenneth Wexler is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (29 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (18 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (16 papers). Kenneth Wexler collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Kenneth Wexler's co-authors include Mabel L. Rice, Yu-Chin Chien, Patricia L. Cleave, David Poeppel, Scott L. Hershberger, Tania Ionin, Heejeong Ko, Nina Hyams, Rosalind Thornton and Sean M. Redmond and has published in prestigious journals such as Cognition, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and Language.

In The Last Decade

Kenneth Wexler

48 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

Toward Tense as a Clinical Marker of Specific Language Im... 1995 2026 2005 2015 1996 1995 200 400 600

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kenneth Wexler United States 24 3.3k 1.8k 1.2k 724 407 51 4.0k
Clifton Pye United States 14 2.3k 0.7× 642 0.4× 929 0.8× 629 0.9× 596 1.5× 46 3.1k
Evan Kidd Australia 29 2.3k 0.7× 1.6k 0.9× 573 0.5× 515 0.7× 272 0.7× 121 3.1k
Jill G. de Villiers United States 24 2.1k 0.6× 850 0.5× 569 0.5× 487 0.7× 138 0.3× 43 2.6k
Ben Ambridge United Kingdom 24 2.1k 0.6× 1.5k 0.8× 769 0.7× 698 1.0× 473 1.2× 65 3.2k
Jesse Snedeker United States 32 2.1k 0.6× 1.8k 1.0× 865 0.7× 946 1.3× 515 1.3× 109 3.2k
Michael P Maratsos United States 28 2.0k 0.6× 676 0.4× 872 0.8× 565 0.8× 370 0.9× 59 2.7k
Marilyn May Vihman United Kingdom 35 3.1k 1.0× 682 0.4× 365 0.3× 1.9k 2.6× 321 0.8× 88 3.6k
Yosef Grodzinsky Israel 29 3.3k 1.0× 4.0k 2.3× 1.1k 0.9× 732 1.0× 359 0.9× 69 4.8k
Heather K. J. van der Lely United Kingdom 30 3.0k 0.9× 2.0k 1.2× 233 0.2× 325 0.4× 99 0.2× 51 3.3k
Elena Lieven United Kingdom 47 5.2k 1.6× 2.2k 1.2× 2.3k 2.0× 1.2k 1.7× 1.1k 2.7× 166 6.6k

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All Works

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Reuland, Eric, et al.. (2023). On Realizing External Arguments: A Syntactic and Implicature Theory of the Disjointness Effect for Passives in Adult and Child Grammar. Linguistic Inquiry. 57(1). 87–111. 1 indexed citations
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Perrachione, Tyler K., Kelly Halverson, Adrianne Harris, et al.. (2022). Altered engagement of the speech motor network is associated with reduced phonological working memory in autism. NeuroImage Clinical. 37. 103299–103299. 3 indexed citations
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Wexler, Kenneth, et al.. (2022). Copula Omission in Down Syndrome. Language Learning and Development. 19(1). 49–73. 1 indexed citations
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Horváth, Julia, et al.. (2018). The acquisition of Hebrew idioms: Stages, internal composition, and implications for storage. Glossa a journal of general linguistics. 3(1). 1 indexed citations
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Lu, Chunming, Zhenghan Qi, Adrianne Harris, et al.. (2015). Shared Neuroanatomical Substrates of Impaired Phonological Working Memory Across Reading Disability and Autism. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 1(2). 169–177. 15 indexed citations
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Wexler, Kenneth, et al.. (2004). Why Children Omit Clitics in Some Languages but not in Others: New Evidence from Greek. Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University). 3. 493–504. 28 indexed citations
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Ionin, Tania & Kenneth Wexler. (2002). Why is ‘is’ easier than ‘-s’?: acquisition of tense/agreement morphology by child second language learners of English. Second language Research. 18(2). 95–136. 129 indexed citations
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Wexler, Kenneth, et al.. (2001). Null Subjects in Child Wh-Questions*. 17 indexed citations
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Phillips, Colin, Alec Marantz, Kenneth Wexler, et al.. (2000). Auditory Cortex Accesses Phonological Categories: An MEG Mismatch Study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 12(6). 1038–1055. 198 indexed citations
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Wexler, Kenneth, Carson T. Schütze, & Mabel L. Rice. (1998). Subject Case in Children With SLI and Unaffected Controls: Evidence for the Agr/Tns Omission Model. Language Acquisition. 7(2-4). 317–344. 87 indexed citations
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Guasti, Maria Teresa, Rosalind Thornton, & Kenneth Wexler. (1995). Negation in children's questions: the case of English. 228–239. 24 indexed citations
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Hoekstra, Teun, Bonnie D. Schwartz, & Kenneth Wexler. (1994). Language acquisition studies in generative grammar : papers in honor of Kenneth Wexler from the 1991 GLOW workshops. 34 indexed citations
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Hyams, Nina & Kenneth Wexler. (1993). On the grammatical basis of null subjects in child language. Linguistic Inquiry. 24(3). 421–460. 142 indexed citations
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Poeppel, David & Kenneth Wexler. (1993). The Full Competence Hypothesis of Clause Structure in Early German. Language. 69(1). 1–33. 272 indexed citations
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Wexler, Kenneth. (1990). Innateness and maturation in linguistic development. Developmental Psychobiology. 23(7). 645–660. 21 indexed citations
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Chien, Yu-Chin & Kenneth Wexler. (1987). Children's Acquisition of the Locality Condition for Reflexives and Pronouns.. 8 indexed citations
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Wexler, Kenneth. (1978). A review of John R. Anderson's language, memory, and thought. Cognition. 6(4). 327–351. 13 indexed citations
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Wexler, Kenneth, Peter W. Culicover, & Henry Hamburger. (1975). LEARNING-THEORETIC FOUNDATIONS OF LINGUISTIC UNIVERSALS. Theoretical Linguistics. 2(1-3). 47 indexed citations
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Wexler, Kenneth, et al.. (1973). Trees with structure. Journal of Mathematical Psychology. 10(2). 115–147. 3 indexed citations
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Wexler, Kenneth. (1970). An automaton analysis of the learning of a miniature system of Japanese. 3 indexed citations

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