Ray Jackendoff

40.1k total citations · 9 hit papers
143 papers, 18.1k citations indexed

About

Ray Jackendoff is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Ray Jackendoff has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 18.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Language and Linguistics, 40 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 30 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Ray Jackendoff's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (59 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (31 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (24 papers). Ray Jackendoff is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (59 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (31 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (24 papers). Ray Jackendoff collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Ray Jackendoff's co-authors include Fred Lerdahl, Robert Freidin, Peter Child, Steven E. Boër, Steven Pinker, Peter W. Culicover, Barbara Landau, Adele Ε. Goldberg, Francesco Orilia and Jenny Audring and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Trends in Cognitive Sciences and Brain Research.

In The Last Decade

Ray Jackendoff

139 papers receiving 14.3k citations

Hit Papers

A Generative Theory of Tonal Music 1975 2026 1992 2009 1984 1975 2002 1985 2002 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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.

  1. A Generative Theory of Tonal Music
    1984 2.2k citations Ray Jackendoff et al. profile →
  2. Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar
    1975 2.1k citations Ray Jackendoff et al. Language profile →
  3. Foundations of Language
    2002 1.4k citations Ray Jackendoff profile →
  4. Semantics and Cognition.
    1985 1.4k citations Ray Jackendoff et al. profile →
  5. Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution
    2002 1.0k citations Ray Jackendoff profile →
  6. Consciousness and the Computational Mind
    1987 658 citations Ray Jackendoff profile →
  7. The faculty of language: what's special about it?
    2005 642 citations Ray Jackendoff et al. profile →
  8. “What” and “where” in spatial language and spatial cognition
    1993 560 citations Ray Jackendoff et al. profile →
  9. X syntax : a study of phrase structure
    1977 483 citations Ray Jackendoff profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ray Jackendoff United States 52 8.3k 6.5k 5.6k 4.5k 3.5k 143 18.1k
Herbert H. Clark United States 56 8.9k 1.1× 9.7k 1.5× 5.1k 0.9× 8.2k 1.8× 6.8k 2.0× 100 24.5k
Michael K. Tanenhaus United States 65 3.6k 0.4× 8.2k 1.3× 11.3k 2.0× 4.7k 1.0× 8.7k 2.5× 198 17.2k
Brian MacWhinney United States 55 4.3k 0.5× 4.2k 0.6× 8.0k 1.4× 3.2k 0.7× 10.4k 3.0× 239 17.3k
Jerry A. Fodor United States 48 2.8k 0.3× 7.7k 1.2× 7.5k 1.3× 3.7k 0.8× 5.0k 1.4× 131 20.2k
Anne Cutler Netherlands 69 2.4k 0.3× 11.3k 1.7× 6.8k 1.2× 4.0k 0.9× 8.3k 2.4× 325 16.0k
Willem J. M. Levelt Netherlands 52 3.7k 0.5× 6.5k 1.0× 13.3k 2.4× 2.5k 0.5× 10.8k 3.1× 173 19.4k
Edward Gibson United States 47 3.0k 0.4× 2.6k 0.4× 6.2k 1.1× 3.0k 0.7× 4.4k 1.3× 183 10.3k
Elissa L. Newport United States 47 2.6k 0.3× 4.2k 0.6× 6.0k 1.1× 3.0k 0.7× 10.5k 3.0× 104 15.8k
Roger Lévy United States 38 2.0k 0.2× 3.5k 0.5× 6.4k 1.2× 3.9k 0.9× 4.5k 1.3× 146 13.5k
Martin J. Pickering United Kingdom 63 5.0k 0.6× 5.6k 0.9× 9.8k 1.8× 3.7k 0.8× 7.4k 2.1× 252 15.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Jackendoff, Ray, et al.. (2018). Semantika eta kognizioa: «Semantics and Cognition». 1996. In Shalom Lappin (arg.), The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, Oxford: Blackwell: 539-559.. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 131–157. 1 indexed citations
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Jackendoff, Ray. (2013). Constructions in the Parallel Architecture. Oxford University Press eBooks. 25 indexed citations
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Culicover, Peter W. & Ray Jackendoff. (2012). Same-Except: A Domain-General Cognitive Relation and How Language Expresses It. Language. 88(2). 305–340. 23 indexed citations
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Cohn, Neil, Phillip J. Holcomb, Ray Jackendoff, & Gina R. Kuperberg. (2012). Segmenting Visual Narratives: Evidence for Constituent Structure in Comics.. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 1 indexed citations
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Jackendoff, Ray. (2011). Compounding in the Parallel Architecture and Conceptual Semantics. Oxford University Press eBooks. 40 indexed citations
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Jackendoff, Ray. (2009). The Natural Logic of Morals and Laws. Brooklyn law review. 75(2). 1. 1 indexed citations
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Jackendoff, Ray. (2007). A Parallel Architecture perspective on language processing. Brain Research. 1146. 2–22. 177 indexed citations
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Goldberg, Adele Ε. & Ray Jackendoff. (2004). The English Resultative as a Family of Constructions. Language. 80(3). 532–568. 310 indexed citations
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Jackendoff, Ray & Peter W. Culicover. (2003). The semantic basis of control in english. Language. 79(3). 517–556. 88 indexed citations
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Jackendoff, Ray, et al.. (1999). Possible stages in the evolution of the language capacity. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 3(7). 272–279. 236 indexed citations
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Jackendoff, Ray. (1999). Parallel constraint-based generative theories of language. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 3(10). 393–400. 14 indexed citations
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Jackendoff, Ray, et al.. (1991). More than cool reason. Language. 67(2). 320–338. 36 indexed citations
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Jackendoff, Ray. (1990). On Larson's treatment of the double object construction. Linguistic Inquiry. 21(3). 427–455. 97 indexed citations
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Jackendoff, Ray. (1987). The Status of Thematic Relations in Linguistic Theory. Linguistic Inquiry. 18(3). 369–411. 290 indexed citations
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Yip, Moira, Joan Maling, & Ray Jackendoff. (1987). Case in Tiers. Language. 63(2). 217–250. 134 indexed citations
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Jackendoff, Ray. (1985). Believing and intending: two sides of the same coin. Linguistic Inquiry. 16(3). 445–459. 13 indexed citations
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Jackendoff, Ray. (1981). On Katz's Autonomous Semantics. Language. 57(2). 425–435. 11 indexed citations
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Jackendoff, Ray. (1974). Introduction to the X convention. 6 indexed citations

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