Letitia Naigles

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
8 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Letitia Naigles is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Letitia Naigles has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 3 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 2 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Letitia Naigles's work include Language Development and Disorders (7 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (4 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (3 papers). Letitia Naigles is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (7 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (4 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (3 papers). Letitia Naigles collaborates with scholars based in United States and Hong Kong. Letitia Naigles's co-authors include Edward Kako, Twila Tardif, Marilyn Shatz, Susan A. Gelman and Anne Fowler and has published in prestigious journals such as Child Development, Journal of Child Language and Cognitive Development.

In The Last Decade

Letitia Naigles

8 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure

1991 665 citations Letitia Naigles Language and Speech profile →
Children use syntax to learn verb meanings

1990 502 citations Letitia Naigles Journal of Child Language profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Letitia Naigles United States	8	1.3k	516	494	368	278	8	1.8k
Michelle Hollander United States	12	1.0k 0.8×	483 0.9×	434 0.9×	333 0.9×	282 1.0×	12	1.5k
Ann M. Peters United States	12	1.1k 0.8×	627 1.2×	460 0.9×	563 1.5×	279 1.0×	19	1.7k
Lise Menn United States	21	914 0.7×	375 0.7×	718 1.5×	747 2.0×	263 0.9×	57	1.6k
Barbara Lust United States	19	895 0.7×	530 1.0×	387 0.8×	232 0.6×	198 0.7×	65	1.3k
Gary Libben Canada	19	942 0.7×	339 0.7×	810 1.6×	378 1.0×	323 1.2×	63	1.4k
Anna Theakston United Kingdom	27	2.0k 1.5×	872 1.7×	924 1.9×	464 1.3×	395 1.4×	79	2.5k
William Badecker United States	25	1.4k 1.0×	427 0.8×	1.5k 3.0×	416 1.1×	301 1.1×	40	1.9k
Thomas Roeper United States	17	670 0.5×	828 1.6×	331 0.7×	340 0.9×	355 1.3×	58	1.4k
Diane Lillo‐Martin United States	20	1.6k 1.2×	959 1.9×	476 1.0×	487 1.3×	110 0.4×	59	1.9k
Dominiek Sandra Belgium	17	916 0.7×	331 0.6×	668 1.4×	387 1.1×	258 0.9×	59	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Letitia Naigles

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Letitia Naigles

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All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Tardif, Twila, Marilyn Shatz, & Letitia Naigles. (1997). Caregiver speech and children's use of nouns versus verbs: A comparison of English, Italian, and Mandarin. Journal of Child Language. 24(3). 535–565. 230 indexed citations

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Naigles, Letitia & Susan A. Gelman. (1995). Overextensions in comprehension and production revisited: preferential-looking in a study of dog, cat, and cow. Journal of Child Language. 22(1). 19–46. 56 indexed citations

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Naigles, Letitia & Edward Kako. (1993). First Contact in Verb Acquisition: Defining a Role for Syntax. Child Development. 64(6). 1665–1665. 80 indexed citations

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Naigles, Letitia & Edward Kako. (1993). First Contact in Verb Acquisition: Defining a Role for Syntax. Child Development. 64(6). 1665–1687. 106 indexed citations

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Naigles, Letitia, et al.. (1992). Developmental shifts in the construction of verb meanings. Cognitive Development. 7(4). 403–427. 43 indexed citations

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Naigles, Letitia. (1991). Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure. Language and Speech. 34(1). 63–79. 665 indexed citations breakdown →

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Naigles, Letitia. (1990). Children use syntax to learn verb meanings. Journal of Child Language. 17(2). 357–374. 502 indexed citations breakdown →

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Naigles, Letitia. (1990). First Language Acquisition: Method, Description, and Explanation. Language and Speech. 33(2). 175–180. 135 indexed citations

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