Marie Coppola

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Marie Coppola is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marie Coppola has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 27 papers in Language and Linguistics and 16 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Marie Coppola's work include Hearing Impairment and Communication (37 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (26 papers) and Hand Gesture Recognition Systems (12 papers). Marie Coppola is often cited by papers focused on Hearing Impairment and Communication (37 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (26 papers) and Hand Gesture Recognition Systems (12 papers). Marie Coppola collaborates with scholars based in United States and Italy. Marie Coppola's co-authors include Ann Senghas, Susan Goldin‐Meadow, Steven Pinker, Diane Brentari, Gregory Hickok, John H. Growdon, Michael T. Ullman, Suzanne Corkin, Walter J. Koroshetz and Elissa L. Newport and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Child Development and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Marie Coppola

43 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

A Neural Dissociation within Language: Evidence that the ... 1997 2026 2006 2016 1997 100 200 300 400 500
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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. A Neural Dissociation within Language: Evidence that the Mental Dictionary Is Part of Declarative Memory, and that Grammatical Rules Are Processed by the Procedural System
    1997 543 citations Marie Coppola, Steven Pinker et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marie Coppola United States 18 1.3k 588 585 507 240 48 1.7k
Ann Senghas United States 20 1.1k 0.9× 298 0.5× 585 1.0× 617 1.2× 200 0.8× 44 1.7k
Laura‐Ann Petitto United States 22 1.2k 0.9× 989 1.7× 231 0.4× 339 0.7× 121 0.5× 33 1.9k
Laura Ann Petitto Canada 17 1.5k 1.2× 716 1.2× 537 0.9× 592 1.2× 264 1.1× 20 2.1k
Jennie Pyers United States 20 1.2k 0.9× 531 0.9× 267 0.5× 411 0.8× 216 0.9× 32 1.4k
Edward S. Klima United States 21 1.5k 1.2× 934 1.6× 498 0.9× 630 1.2× 391 1.6× 41 2.4k
Carla L. Hudson Kam United States 15 713 0.6× 505 0.9× 342 0.6× 427 0.8× 44 0.2× 36 1.4k
Marina Nespor Italy 30 2.3k 1.8× 1.2k 2.0× 651 1.1× 2.3k 4.5× 109 0.5× 65 4.0k
Ann M. Peters United States 12 1.1k 0.9× 460 0.8× 627 1.1× 563 1.1× 32 0.1× 19 1.7k
Steven Frisson United Kingdom 20 678 0.5× 761 1.3× 410 0.7× 673 1.3× 38 0.2× 50 1.5k
Olga Capirci Italy 21 1.3k 1.1× 329 0.6× 463 0.8× 376 0.7× 323 1.3× 43 1.8k

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All Works

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Coppola, Marie, et al.. (2025). Early Language Access and STEAM Education: Keys to Optimal Outcomes for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students. Education Sciences. 15(7). 915–915. 1 indexed citations
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Coppola, Marie, et al.. (2025). What skills and knowledge should speech-language pathologists have to work with deaf/hard of hearing children who use signed language?. The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 30(2). 289–290.
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Coppola, Marie. (2024). Homesign Research, Gesture Studies, and Sign Language Linguistics: The Bigger Picture of Homesign and Homesigners. Topics in Cognitive Science. 17(3). 492–507. 1 indexed citations
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Coppola, Marie, et al.. (2023). The Importance of Early Number Concepts for Learning Mathematics in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children. Pace Digital Repository (Pace University). 5(2). 4 indexed citations
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Brownell, Hiram, et al.. (2023). Language experience matters for the emergence of early numerical concepts. npj Science of Learning. 8(1). 57–57.
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Senghas, Ann, et al.. (2022). Potentially recursive structures emerge quickly when a new language community forms. Cognition. 232. 105261–105261. 3 indexed citations
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Brentari, Diane, et al.. (2021). Community interactions and phonemic inventories in emerging sign languages. Phonology. 38(4). 571–609. 6 indexed citations
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Rissman, Lilia, et al.. (2020). The communicative importance of agent-backgrounding: Evidence from homesign and Nicaraguan Sign Language. Cognition. 203. 104332–104332. 11 indexed citations
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Goldin‐Meadow, Susan, et al.. (2015). Forging a morphological system out of two dimensions: Agentivity and number. Open Linguistics. 1(1). 596–613. 12 indexed citations
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Bender, Andrea, Sieghard Beller, Karenleigh A. Overmann, et al.. (2014). The Role of Culture and Language for Numerical Cognition. Cognitive Science. 36(36). 1 indexed citations
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Coppola, Marie & Diane Brentari. (2014). From iconic handshapes to grammatical contrasts: longitudinal evidence from a child homesigner. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 830–830. 22 indexed citations
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Richie, Russell, Charles Yang, & Marie Coppola. (2013). Modeling the Emergence of Lexicons in Homesign Systems.. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 4 indexed citations
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Brentari, Diane, et al.. (2013). Acquiring Word Class Distinctions in American Sign Language: Evidence from Handshape. Language Learning and Development. 9(2). 130–150. 17 indexed citations
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Coppola, Marie, Elizabet Spaepen, & Susan Goldin‐Meadow. (2013). Communicating about quantity without a language model: Number devices in homesign grammar. Cognitive Psychology. 67(1-2). 1–25. 40 indexed citations
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Coppola, Marie, et al.. (2012). Mothers Do Not Drive Structure in Adult Homesign Systems: Evidence from Comprehension. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 6 indexed citations
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Brentari, Diane & Marie Coppola. (2012). What sign language creation teaches us about language. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science. 4(2). 201–211. 36 indexed citations
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Kim, John J., Gary Marcus, Steven Pinker, Michelle Hollander, & Marie Coppola. (1994). Sensitivity of children's inflection to grammatical structure. Journal of Child Language. 21(1). 173–209. 77 indexed citations

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