Roy C. Major

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Roy C. Major is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics and Language and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Roy C. Major has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 23 papers in Linguistics and Language and 13 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Roy C. Major's work include Phonetics and Phonology Research (29 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (22 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (7 papers). Roy C. Major is often cited by papers focused on Phonetics and Phonology Research (29 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (22 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (7 papers). Roy C. Major collaborates with scholars based in United States and Japan. Roy C. Major's co-authors include David Crystal, Ferenc Bunta, Chandrika Balasubramanian, Michael C. Faudree, Eun Yi Kim, Susan Fitzmaurice and John Goldsmith and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Modern Language Journal and TESOL Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Roy C. Major

38 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics

1992 1.4k citations Roy C. Major, David Crystal Modern Language Journal profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	ACCENTS AND SPEECH IN TEACHING ENGLISH PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY 2005 ·Studies in Second Language Acquisition ·Roy C. Major	1
2	Gender and stylistic variation in second language phonology 2004 ·Language Variation and Change ·Roy C. Major	56
3	Foreign Accent 2001 ·Roy C. Major	211
4	Chronological and Stylistic Aspects of Second Language Acquisition of Consonant Clusters 1999 ·Language Learning ·Roy C. Major	6
5	The Similarity Differential Rate Hypothesis 1999 ·Language Learning ·Roy C. Major, Eun Yi Kim	30
6	INTERLANGUAGE PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY 1998 ·Studies in Second Language Acquisition ·Roy C. Major	28
7	Chunking and Phonological Memory: A Response to Ellis 1996 ·Studies in Second Language Acquisition ·Roy C. Major	2
8	NATIVE AND NONNATIVE PHONOLOGICAL REPRESENTATIONS 1995 ·IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching ·Roy C. Major	8
9	Crosscurrents in second language acquisition and linguistic theories . (Language acquisition and language disorders, 2.) Ed. by Thom Huebner and Charles A. Ferguson Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1991. Pp. vii, 435. $130.00. 1993 ·Language ·Roy C. Major	84
10	Losing English as a First Language 1992 ·Modern Language Journal ·Roy C. Major	16
11	A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics breakdown → 1992 ·Modern Language Journal ·Roy C. Major, David Crystal	1379
12	Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology: An Introduction 1992 ·Modern Language Journal ·Roy C. Major, John Goldsmith	2
13	BALANCING FORM AND FUNCTION 1988 ·IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching ·Roy C. Major	8
14	Language acquisition of a bilingual child: A sociolinguistic perspective. By Alvino E. Fantini. Clevedon, Avon, England: Multilingual Matters, 1985. Pp. xi, 265. $25.00. 1987 ·Language ·Roy C. Major	0
15	English voiceless stop production by speakers of Brazilian Portuguese 1987 ·Journal of Phonetics ·Roy C. Major	46
16	Variation in Second Language Phonology. 1987 ·Roy C. Major	3
17	Stress and rhythm in Brazilian Portuguese 1985 ·Language ·Roy C. Major	35
18	Stress-timing in Brazilian Portuguese 1981 ·Journal of Phonetics ·Roy C. Major	33
19	Prosody in Brazilian Portuguese phonology 1979 ·University Microfilms International eBooks ·Roy C. Major	3
20	Phonological Differentiation of a Bilingual Child 1976 ·OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network) ·Roy C. Major	17

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