Penelope Brown

32.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
70 papers, 16.6k citations indexed

About

Penelope Brown is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, Penelope Brown has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 16.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Language and Linguistics, 23 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 11 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in Penelope Brown's work include Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (21 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (16 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (13 papers). Penelope Brown is often cited by papers focused on Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (21 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (16 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (13 papers). Penelope Brown collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United States. Penelope Brown's co-authors include Stephen C. Levinson, John J. Gumperz, Stephen C. Levinson, N. J. Enfield, Gertie Hoymann, Tanya Stivers, Kyung-Eun Yoon, Trine Heinemann, Federico Rossano and Makoto Hayashi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Penelope Brown

65 papers receiving 13.8k citations

Hit Papers

Politeness : Some Universals in Language Usage 1978 2026 1994 2010 1987 1987 1978 2009 1999 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Penelope Brown Netherlands 25 10.6k 5.0k 4.7k 2.5k 2.5k 70 16.6k
Gail Jefferson United States 26 14.1k 1.3× 5.8k 1.2× 6.5k 1.4× 2.2k 0.9× 2.3k 0.9× 47 19.6k
Harvey Sacks United States 15 15.5k 1.5× 6.4k 1.3× 7.0k 1.5× 2.4k 0.9× 2.6k 1.0× 20 22.1k
Charles Goodwin United States 35 8.1k 0.8× 3.5k 0.7× 4.6k 1.0× 1.6k 0.6× 1.5k 0.6× 63 14.3k
John J. Gumperz United States 26 7.6k 0.7× 3.9k 0.8× 2.4k 0.5× 1.6k 0.6× 4.0k 1.6× 71 12.7k
Emanuel A. Schegloff United States 46 22.8k 2.2× 9.7k 1.9× 10.6k 2.3× 3.1k 1.2× 3.6k 1.4× 70 30.3k
Μ. Α. Κ. Halliday Australia 34 8.4k 0.8× 7.4k 1.5× 4.0k 0.9× 433 0.2× 2.6k 1.1× 90 17.0k
Jean‐Marc Dewaele United Kingdom 65 7.5k 0.7× 3.0k 0.6× 2.8k 0.6× 5.5k 2.2× 1.8k 0.7× 264 14.2k
David Crystal United Kingdom 41 4.5k 0.4× 2.3k 0.5× 1.5k 0.3× 664 0.3× 2.2k 0.9× 262 9.8k
Deborah Tannen United States 39 4.0k 0.4× 2.5k 0.5× 1.7k 0.4× 1.2k 0.5× 1.2k 0.5× 103 8.6k
Zoltán Dörnyei United Kingdom 69 19.1k 1.8× 12.4k 2.5× 2.5k 0.5× 3.3k 1.3× 3.9k 1.6× 114 27.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Penelope Brown

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All Works

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Norcliffe, Elisabeth, et al.. (2023). Anticipatory Processing in a Verb‐Initial Mayan Language: Eye‐Tracking Evidence During Sentence Comprehension in Tseltal. Cognitive Science. 47(1). e13292–e13292. 9 indexed citations
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Brown, Penelope, Mark A. Sicoli, & Olivier Le Guen. (2021). Cross-speaker repetition and epistemic stance in Tzeltal, Yucatec, and Zapotec conversations. Journal of Pragmatics. 183. 256–272. 13 indexed citations
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Casillas, Marisa, Penelope Brown, & Stephen C. Levinson. (2020). Early language experience in a Papuan community. Journal of Child Language. 48(4). 792–814. 60 indexed citations
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Casillas, Marisa, Penelope Brown, & Stephen C. Levinson. (2019). Early Language Experience in a Tseltal Mayan Village. Child Development. 91(5). 1819–1835. 128 indexed citations
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Bowerman, Melissa & Penelope Brown. (2014). Crosslinguistic perspectives on argument structure. Routledge eBooks.
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Kendrick, Kobin H., Penelope Brown, Mark Dingemanse, et al.. (2014). Sequence organization: A universal infrastructure for action. Max Planck Digital Library. 6 indexed citations
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Brown, Penelope. (2012). Time and Space in Tzeltal: Is the Future Uphill?. Frontiers in Psychology. 3. 212–212. 32 indexed citations
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Brown, Penelope, Olivier Le Guen, & Mark A. Sicoli. (2009). Dialogic repetition in Tzeltal, Yucatec, and Zapotec conversation. Max Planck Digital Library. 2 indexed citations
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Bohnemeyer, Jürgen & Penelope Brown. (2007). Standing divided: dispositionals and locative predications in two Mayan languages. Linguistics. 45(5part6). 18 indexed citations
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Brown, Penelope, S. Salenius, John C. Rothwell, & Riitta Hari. (1998). The cortical correlate of the Piper rhythm in man. UCL Discovery (University College London). 15 indexed citations
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Brown, Penelope & Stephen C. Levinson. (1998). Politeness, introduction to the reissue: A review of recent work. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 488–554.
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Brown, Penelope. (1994). The INs and ONs of Tzeltal locative expressions: the semantics of static descriptions of location. Linguistics. 32(4-5). 743–790. 65 indexed citations
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Brown, Penelope & Stephen C. Levinson. (1993). Linguistic and nonlinguistic coding of spatial arrays: Explorations in Mayan cognition. Working Paper 24. Max Planck Digital Library. 20 indexed citations
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Brown, Penelope & Stephen C. Levinson. (1993). "Uphill" and "Downhill" in Tzeltal. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 3(1). 46–74. 92 indexed citations
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Brown, Penelope. (1993). The role of shape in the acquisition of Tzeltal (Mayan) locatives. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 211–220. 3 indexed citations
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Brown, Penelope. (1987). Politeness : Some Universals in Language Usage. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 7327 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brown, Penelope. (1979). Language, interaction, and sex roles in a Mayan community : a study of politeness and the position of women. University Microfilms International eBooks. 10 indexed citations
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Sankoff, Gillian & Penelope Brown. (1976). The Origins of Syntax in Discourse: A Case Study of Tok Pisin Relatives. Language. 52(3). 631–666. 126 indexed citations

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