Robbins Burling

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Robbins Burling is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Political Science and International Relations and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, Robbins Burling has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Language and Linguistics, 14 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 13 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in Robbins Burling's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 papers), Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (7 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (7 papers). Robbins Burling is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 papers), Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (7 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (7 papers). Robbins Burling collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and India. Robbins Burling's co-authors include John Baugh, Joshua A. Fishman, R. W. Stewart, M. Miyake, Alex E. Hay, Gerald Cannon Hickey, Frank M. LeBar, S. Pond, Merritt Ruhlen and J. R. Wilson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Robbins Burling

82 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Language in the inner city: studies in the Black English Vernacular. By William Labov. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972. Pp. xxiv, 412. $6.95.

1975 1.8k citations Robbins Burling Language profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robbins Burling United States	28	1.2k	1.1k	712	706	585	92	4.2k
Jane H. Hill United States	31	2.0k 1.6×	2.0k 1.8×	697 1.0×	655 0.9×	408 0.7×	102	4.6k
Charles F. Hockett United States	23	1.9k 1.6×	867 0.8×	1.8k 2.5×	331 0.5×	1.1k 1.9×	64	5.0k
Colin Renfrew United Kingdom	57	441 0.4×	268 0.2×	253 0.4×	767 1.1×	113 0.2×	216	10.5k
R. M. W. Dixon Australia	33	2.6k 2.1×	1.5k 1.4×	1.1k 1.5×	208 0.3×	259 0.4×	121	4.1k
Suzanne Romaine United States	26	1.6k 1.3×	1.8k 1.7×	368 0.5×	281 0.4×	146 0.2×	157	3.4k
Keith H. Basso United States	15	408 0.3×	296 0.3×	208 0.3×	515 0.7×	41 0.1×	33	2.1k
Quentin D. Atkinson New Zealand	31	570 0.5×	604 0.6×	692 1.0×	1.5k 2.2×	113 0.2×	85	4.5k
Timothy Shanahan United States	39	1.0k 0.8×	900 0.8×	305 0.4×	1.0k 1.4×	4.9k 8.3×	152	8.1k
Simon J. Greenhill Germany	32	798 0.7×	932 0.9×	645 0.9×	886 1.3×	102 0.2×	85	4.1k
Harry J. Crockett United States	16	1.0k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	653 0.9×	531 0.8×	97 0.2×	36	2.7k

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Burling, Robbins. (2010). The simian tongue: The long debate about animal language. By Gregory Radick. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 577. ISBN 9780226702247. $45 (Hb).. Language. 86(1). 244–247. 1 indexed citations

Burling, Robbins, et al.. (2007). Den talande apan : hur språket uppkom.

Burling, Robbins, et al.. (2006). Comparative phonology of the Boro-Garo languages. 11 indexed citations

Burling, Robbins. (2005). The Talking Ape. 45 indexed citations

Burling, Robbins. (1999). Apes, language, and the human mind. By Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Stuart G. Shanker, and Talbot J. Taylor New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 244.. Language. 75(3). 591–593. 206 indexed citations

Burling, Robbins. (1994). Language, culture, and society: An introduction to linguistic anthropology. By Zdenek Salzmann. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 317. Cloth $59.00, paper $22.95.. Language. 70(2). 354–356. 13 indexed citations

Burling, Robbins. (1993). Lunatic lovers of language : Imaginary languages and their inventors. By Marina Yaguello. Translated by Catherine Slater. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991. Pp. xviii, 223. $39.50.. Language. 69(1). 168–170. 11 indexed citations

Burling, Robbins & John Baugh. (1985). Black Street Speech: Its History, Structure, and Survival. Language. 61(1). 204–204. 178 indexed citations

Burling, Robbins. (1980). Variational semantics in Tibeto-Burman: The ‘organic’ approach to linguistic comparison. By James A. Matisoff. (Occasional papers of the Wolfenden Society on Tibeto-Burman Linguistics, 6.) Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1978. Pp. xviii, 331. $21.95.. Language. 56(4). 888–891. 39 indexed citations

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Burling, Robbins. (1977). Naga Pidgin : a sociolinguistic study of inter-lingual communication pattern in Nagaland. By M. V. Sreedhar. (CIIL occasional monograph series, 8.) Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, 1974. Pp. 239. Rs. 10.00.. Language. 53(1). 243–245. 1 indexed citations

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Burling, Robbins. (1975). Language in the inner city: studies in the Black English Vernacular. By William Labov. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972. Pp. xxiv, 412. $6.95.. Language. 51(2). 505–509. 1802 indexed citations breakdown →

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Burling, Robbins & Joshua A. Fishman. (1972). Sociolinguistics: A Brief Introduction. Language. 48(1). 233–233. 161 indexed citations

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Burling, Robbins. (1970). American Kinship Terms Once More. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. 26(1). 15–24. 12 indexed citations

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Matisoff, James A. & Robbins Burling. (1968). Proto Lolo-Burmese. Language. 44(4). 879–879. 25 indexed citations

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Burling, Robbins. (1966). The Addition of Final Stops in the History of Maru (Tibeto-Burman). Language. 42(3). 581–581. 8 indexed citations

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Jones, Robert B. & Robbins Burling. (1963). A Garo grammar. Language. 39(1). 152–152. 11 indexed citations

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Burling, Robbins, et al.. (1960). The ecological significance of some early sea temperature records from Otago Harbour. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 3(4). 563–571. 3 indexed citations

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Burling, Robbins, et al.. (1959). A section of ¹⁴ C activities of sea water between 9°s and 66°s in the South‐West Pacific Ocean. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 2(4). 799–824. 14 indexed citations

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Burling, Robbins. (1959). The phase velocity of wave‐components under the action of wind. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 2(1). 66–87. 1 indexed citations

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Burling, Robbins. (1959). Proto-Bodo. Language. 35(3). 433–433. 3 indexed citations

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