Malcah Yaeger‐Dror

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Malcah Yaeger‐Dror is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Malcah Yaeger‐Dror has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Linguistics and Language, 21 papers in Language and Linguistics and 8 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Malcah Yaeger‐Dror's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (25 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (16 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (12 papers). Malcah Yaeger‐Dror is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (25 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (16 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (12 papers). Malcah Yaeger‐Dror collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Malcah Yaeger‐Dror's co-authors include Marianna Di Paolo, Lesley Milroy, John Baugh, Richard Bauman, Edward Finegan, John R. Rickford, William Labov, Dennis R. Preston, Penelope Eckert and Susan Μ. Ervin-Tripp and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Language and Journal of Pragmatics.

In The Last Decade

Malcah Yaeger‐Dror

37 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Style and Sociolinguistic Variation 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Style and Sociolinguistic Variation
    2002 671 citations Penelope Eckert, John R. Rickford et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Malcah Yaeger‐Dror United States 14 1.0k 916 473 303 142 38 1.5k
Dennis R. Preston United States 20 1.8k 1.8× 1.5k 1.6× 605 1.3× 378 1.2× 137 1.0× 70 2.3k
Edgar W. Schneider Germany 21 2.1k 2.1× 1.7k 1.8× 513 1.1× 397 1.3× 146 1.0× 84 2.5k
Rajend Mesthrie South Africa 18 1.0k 1.0× 904 1.0× 220 0.5× 306 1.0× 66 0.5× 95 1.3k
Joan M. Fayer Puerto Rico 13 988 1.0× 899 1.0× 233 0.5× 487 1.6× 54 0.4× 27 1.7k
Mark Sebba United Kingdom 18 768 0.8× 748 0.8× 162 0.3× 230 0.8× 123 0.9× 53 1.2k
Scott F. Kiesling United States 18 638 0.6× 569 0.6× 270 0.6× 257 0.8× 166 1.2× 48 1.2k
Laurel J. Brinton Canada 19 615 0.6× 1.5k 1.6× 548 1.2× 354 1.2× 223 1.6× 43 1.7k
Timothy C. Frazer United States 16 807 0.8× 800 0.9× 248 0.5× 244 0.8× 118 0.8× 39 1.4k
Peter Collins Australia 19 544 0.5× 690 0.8× 213 0.5× 234 0.8× 169 1.2× 75 1.3k
Bernd Kortmann Germany 17 587 0.6× 855 0.9× 391 0.8× 159 0.5× 249 1.8× 50 1.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hall‐Lew, Lauren & Malcah Yaeger‐Dror. (2014). New perspectives on linguistic variation and ethnic identity in North America. Language & Communication. 35. 1–8. 15 indexed citations
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Dror, Moshe, Daniel Granot, & Malcah Yaeger‐Dror. (2014). Teaching & Learning Guide for Speech Variation, Utility, and Game Theory. Language and Linguistics Compass. 8(6). 230–242. 2 indexed citations
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Yaeger‐Dror, Malcah. (2014). Religion as a Sociolinguistic Variable. Language and Linguistics Compass. 8(11). 577–589. 8 indexed citations
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Dror, Moshe, Daniel Granot, & Malcah Yaeger‐Dror. (2013). Speech Variation, Utility, and Game Theory. Language and Linguistics Compass. 7(11). 561–579. 4 indexed citations
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Yaeger‐Dror, Malcah & Erik R. Thomas. (2010). African American English speakers and their participation in local sound changes : a comparative study. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 36 indexed citations
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Purnell, Thomas & Malcah Yaeger‐Dror. (2010). Accommodative Tendencies in Multidialect Communication. Journal of English Linguistics. 38(3). 187–192. 2 indexed citations
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Yaeger‐Dror, Malcah, et al.. (2010). The Sociophonetics of Prosodic Contours on NEG in Three Language Communities: Teasing apart Sociolinguistic and Phonetic Influences on Speech. Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh). 2 indexed citations
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Thomas, Erik R. & Malcah Yaeger‐Dror. (2009). INTRODUCTION. 94(1). 1–20.
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Eckert, Penelope, John R. Rickford, Judith T. Irvine, et al.. (2002). Style and Sociolinguistic Variation. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 671 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yaeger‐Dror, Malcah, et al.. (2002). It's not or isn't it? Using large corpora to determine the influences on contraction strategies. Language Variation and Change. 14(1). 79–118. 12 indexed citations
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Yaeger‐Dror, Malcah. (2002). Register and prosodic variation, a cross language comparison. Journal of Pragmatics. 34(10-11). 1495–1536. 25 indexed citations
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Yaeger‐Dror, Malcah. (1998). Factors Influencing the Contrast between Men's and Women's Speech. 21(1). 40. 4 indexed citations
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Yaeger‐Dror, Malcah. (1993). Linguistic analysis of dialect “correction” and its interaction with cognitive salience. Language Variation and Change. 5(2). 189–224. 26 indexed citations
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Yaeger‐Dror, Malcah. (1992). Introduction. Language & Communication. 12(3-4). 181–192. 7 indexed citations
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Yaeger‐Dror, Malcah & William Kemp. (1992). Lexical Classes in Montreal French: The Case of (ε:). Language and Speech. 35(3). 251–293. 21 indexed citations
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Yaeger‐Dror, Malcah & Jay F. Nunamaker. (1992). Register and speech variation.. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 91(4_Supplement). 2388–2388. 1 indexed citations
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Yaeger‐Dror, Malcah. (1985). Intonational Prominence On Negatives in English. Language and Speech. 28(3). 197–230. 21 indexed citations
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