Nancy Hedberg

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Nancy Hedberg is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Nancy Hedberg has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Language and Linguistics, 11 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 8 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Nancy Hedberg's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (14 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (8 papers). Nancy Hedberg is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (14 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (8 papers). Nancy Hedberg collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Philippines. Nancy Hedberg's co-authors include Jeanette Κ. Gundel, Ron Zacharski, Juan Manuel Sosa, Daniel Chang, Yue Wang, Chung–hye Han and Jennifer Hinnell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and Language.

In The Last Decade

Nancy Hedberg

28 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Cognitive Status and the Form of Referring Expressions in Discourse

1993 926 citations Jeanette Κ. Gundel, Nancy Hedberg et al. Language profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nancy Hedberg Canada	14	922	592	437	298	297	28	1.4k
Ron Zacharski United States	10	715 0.8×	466 0.8×	401 0.9×	250 0.8×	262 0.9×	18	1.1k
Jeanette Κ. Gundel United States	20	1.3k 1.4×	770 1.3×	634 1.5×	367 1.2×	428 1.4×	54	2.0k
Gregory Ward United States	23	1.3k 1.4×	900 1.5×	641 1.5×	319 1.1×	289 1.0×	58	1.9k
Ellen F. Prince United States	16	1.2k 1.3×	607 1.0×	633 1.4×	164 0.6×	176 0.6×	27	1.7k
Raffaella Zanuttini United States	16	1.3k 1.4×	498 0.8×	462 1.1×	220 0.7×	215 0.7×	34	1.6k
Chung–hye Han Canada	16	841 0.9×	337 0.6×	475 1.1×	112 0.4×	153 0.5×	62	1.2k
Anna Cardinaletti Italy	17	1.0k 1.1×	331 0.6×	432 1.0×	117 0.4×	246 0.8×	106	1.2k
Daniel Büring United States	19	1.3k 1.4×	603 1.0×	652 1.5×	168 0.6×	130 0.4×	35	1.5k
Anatol Stefanowitsch Germany	14	1.1k 1.2×	528 0.9×	612 1.4×	131 0.4×	292 1.0×	37	1.5k
Klaus von Heusinger Germany	14	1.1k 1.2×	463 0.8×	439 1.0×	156 0.5×	171 0.6×	70	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nancy Hedberg

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All Works

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Chang, Daniel, Nancy Hedberg, & Yue Wang. (2016). Effects of musical and linguistic experience on categorization of lexical and melodic tones. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 139(5). 2432–2447. 18 indexed citations

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Hedberg, Nancy, et al.. (2014). The meaning of intonation in yes-no questions in American English: A corpus study. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. 13(2). 321–368. 24 indexed citations

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Gundel, Jeanette Κ., Nancy Hedberg, & Ron Zacharski. (2012). Underspecification of Cognitive Status in Reference Production: Some Empirical Predictions. Topics in Cognitive Science. 4(2). 249–268. 19 indexed citations

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Han, Chung–hye, et al.. (2012). Processing Strategies and ResumptivePronouns in English. 153–161. 7 indexed citations

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Hedberg, Nancy, et al.. (2010). The prosody and meaning of wh-questions in American English. paper 045–0. 22 indexed citations

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Hedberg, Nancy. (2010). Centering and noun phrase realization in Kaqchikel Mayan. Journal of Pragmatics. 42(7). 1829–1841. 2 indexed citations

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Hedberg, Nancy, et al.. (2008). Early and late nuclei in yes-no questions: tails or high rises?. 229–232. 4 indexed citations

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Gundel, Jeanette Κ. & Nancy Hedberg. (2008). Reference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Nature. 348(6302). 649–51. 18 indexed citations

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Gundel, Jeanette Κ. & Nancy Hedberg. (2008). Reference. 1 indexed citations

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Hedberg, Nancy. (2007). Yes-No Questions, Information Structure, and Prosody. 3 indexed citations

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Hedberg, Nancy, et al.. (2006). Tonal constituents and meanings of yes-no questions in american English. paper 055–0. 4 indexed citations

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Gundel, Jeanette Κ., Nancy Hedberg, & Ron Zacharski. (2005). Pronouns without NP antecedents: how do we know when a pronoun is referential?. 351–364. 21 indexed citations

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Hedberg, Nancy, et al.. (2004). Meanings and configurations of questions in English. 309–312. 20 indexed citations

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Hedberg, Nancy & Juan Manuel Sosa. (2002). The prosody of questions in natural discourse. 375–378. 28 indexed citations

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Hedberg, Nancy. (2000). The Referential Status of Clefts. Language. 76(4-Part1). 891–920. 90 indexed citations

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Hedberg, Nancy, et al.. (1998). On Nominal Complements And Adjuncts. 1 indexed citations

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Gundel, Jeanette Κ., Nancy Hedberg, & Ron Zacharski. (1993). Cognitive Status and the Form of Referring Expressions in Discourse. Language. 69(2). 274–307. 926 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gundel, Jeanette Κ., Nancy Hedberg, & Ron Zacharski. (1990). Givenness, Implicature, and the Form of Referring Expressions. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 16(1). 442–442. 8 indexed citations

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Hedberg, Nancy. (1990). Discourse Pragmatics and Cleft Sentences in English. University Microfilms International eBooks. 50 indexed citations

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Gundel, Jeanette Κ., Nancy Hedberg, & Ron Zacharski. (1989). Givenness, implicature and demonstrative expressions in English discourse: the Chicago Linguistic Society. Part II:. 89–103. 4 indexed citations

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