Rex A. Sprouse

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Rex A. Sprouse is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, Rex A. Sprouse has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Language and Linguistics, 11 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 7 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in Rex A. Sprouse's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (10 papers), Language Development and Disorders (9 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 papers). Rex A. Sprouse is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (10 papers), Language Development and Disorders (9 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 papers). Rex A. Sprouse collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Rex A. Sprouse's co-authors include Bonnie D. Schwartz, Laurent Dekydtspotter, Bruce Anderson, Isabelle Darcy, Michael McGuire, Öner Özçelik and Kevin J. Rottet and has published in prestigious journals such as Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Second language Research and Language Acquisition.

In The Last Decade

Rex A. Sprouse

21 papers receiving 991 citations

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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.

L2 cognitive states and the Full Transfer/Full Access model

1996 857 citations Bonnie D. Schwartz, Rex A. Sprouse Second language Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rex A. Sprouse United States	9	917	799	360	358	320	23	1.3k
Donna Lardiere United States	13	872 1.0×	822 1.0×	276 0.8×	307 0.9×	255 0.8×	27	1.2k
Natascha Müller Germany	14	581 0.6×	978 1.2×	276 0.8×	405 1.1×	441 1.4×	53	1.3k
Francesca Filiaci United Kingdom	8	727 0.8×	647 0.8×	360 1.0×	487 1.4×	258 0.8×	8	1.1k
Anne Vainikka United States	12	619 0.7×	514 0.6×	180 0.5×	133 0.4×	183 0.6×	36	828
Ana Teresa Pérez‐Leroux Canada	19	510 0.6×	757 0.9×	195 0.5×	364 1.0×	232 0.7×	62	994
Julia Herschensohn United States	14	554 0.6×	754 0.9×	167 0.5×	506 1.4×	163 0.5×	48	1.0k
Timothy L. Face Portugal	17	874 1.0×	340 0.4×	925 2.6×	170 0.5×	756 2.4×	44	1.4k
Neal Snider United States	9	396 0.4×	542 0.7×	276 0.8×	554 1.5×	94 0.3×	15	1000
Liliana Sánchez United States	14	483 0.5×	356 0.4×	192 0.5×	212 0.6×	306 1.0×	60	755
Alan Juffs United States	14	674 0.7×	922 1.2×	208 0.6×	625 1.7×	98 0.3×	44	1.2k

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All Works

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Schwartz, Bonnie D. & Rex A. Sprouse. (2020). The Full Transfer/Full Access model and L3 cognitive states. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. 11(1). 1–29. 45 indexed citations

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Schwartz, Bonnie D. & Rex A. Sprouse. (2020). In defense of ‘copying and restructuring’. Second language Research. 37(3). 489–493. 5 indexed citations

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Özçelik, Öner & Rex A. Sprouse. (2016). Decreasing dependence on orthography in phonological development. 49–72. 1 indexed citations

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Özçelik, Öner & Rex A. Sprouse. (2016). Emergent knowledge of a universal phonological principle in the L2 acquisition of vowel harmony in Turkish: A ‘four’-fold poverty of the stimulus in L2 acquisition. Second language Research. 33(2). 179–206. 6 indexed citations

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Darcy, Isabelle, et al.. (2012). Direct mapping of acoustics to phonology: On the lexical encoding of front rounded vowels in L1 English– L2 French acquisition. Second language Research. 28(1). 5–40. 56 indexed citations

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Sprouse, Rex A.. (2011). The Interface Hypothesis and Full Transfer/Full Access/Full Parse. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. 1(1). 97–100. 7 indexed citations

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Sprouse, Rex A.. (2010). Review article: The invisibility of SLA theory in mainstream creole linguistics. Second language Research. 26(2). 261–277.

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Rottet, Kevin J. & Rex A. Sprouse. (2008). Tag questions in Welsh. Diachronica. 25(1). 20–53. 1 indexed citations

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Dekydtspotter, Laurent, Bonnie D. Schwartz, & Rex A. Sprouse. (2006). The Comparative Fallacy in L2Processing Research. 33–40. 39 indexed citations

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Dekydtspotter, Laurent, et al.. (2005). Was für N Interrogatives and Quantifier Scope in English-German Interpretation. 86–95. 3 indexed citations

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Dekydtspotter, Laurent, et al.. (2005). Evidence for the C-domain in early Interlanguage. 5. 7–34. 1 indexed citations

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Dekydtspotter, Laurent & Rex A. Sprouse. (2003). L2 Performance: Interlanguage Representations, Computations, and Intuitions. 45–54. 8 indexed citations

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Schwartz, Bonnie D., Laurent Dekydtspotter, & Rex A. Sprouse. (2003). Pouring the Fire with Gasoline: Questioning Conclusions on L2 Argument Structure. 248–259. 4 indexed citations

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Dekydtspotter, Laurent & Rex A. Sprouse. (2001). Mental design and (second) language epistemology: adjectival restrictions of wh-quantifiers and tense in English-French interlanguage. Second language Research. 17(1). 1–35. 50 indexed citations

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Dekydtspotter, Laurent, et al.. (2001). Reflexes of Mental Architecture in Second-Language Acquisition: The Interpretation of Combien Extractions in English-French Interlanguage. Language Acquisition. 9(3). 175–227. 32 indexed citations

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Dekydtspotter, Laurent, et al.. (2000). The Interpretation of Quantification at a Distance in English-French Interlanguage: Domain Specificity and Second-Language Acquisition. Language Acquisition. 8(4). 265–320. 39 indexed citations

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Dekydtspotter, Laurent, Rex A. Sprouse, & Bruce Anderson. (1997). The Interpretive Interface in L2 Acquisition: The Process-Result Distinction in English-French Interlanguage Grammars. Language Acquisition. 6(4). 297–332. 73 indexed citations

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Schwartz, Bonnie D. & Rex A. Sprouse. (1996). L2 cognitive states and the Full Transfer/Full Access model. Second language Research. 12(1). 40–72. 857 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sprouse, Rex A.. (1996). Appreciating the poverty of the stimulus in second language acquisition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 19(4). 742–743. 1 indexed citations

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Sprouse, Rex A.. (1990). On the syntax of the double object construction in selected Germanic languages. University Microfilms International eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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