Sharon Unsworth

3.2k total citations
62 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Sharon Unsworth is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, Sharon Unsworth has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 25 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 13 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in Sharon Unsworth's work include Language Development and Disorders (43 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (37 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (25 papers). Sharon Unsworth is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (43 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (37 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (25 papers). Sharon Unsworth collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and France. Sharon Unsworth's co-authors include Aafke Hulk, Leonie Cornips, Antonella Sorace, Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, Susanne Brouwer, Elise de Bree, Kees de Bot, Josje Verhagen, James M. McQueen and Roeland van Hout and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Psychology and Language Learning.

In The Last Decade

Sharon Unsworth

59 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sharon Unsworth Netherlands 22 1.1k 540 448 431 220 62 1.4k
Tanja Kupisch Germany 19 864 0.8× 405 0.8× 708 1.6× 635 1.5× 404 1.8× 90 1.5k
Ludovica Serratrice United Kingdom 23 1.3k 1.2× 767 1.4× 379 0.8× 847 2.0× 392 1.8× 65 1.8k
Paola E. Dussias United States 26 1.6k 1.4× 1.6k 3.0× 299 0.7× 723 1.7× 448 2.0× 64 2.2k
Aafke Hulk Netherlands 16 965 0.9× 433 0.8× 452 1.0× 675 1.6× 295 1.3× 73 1.4k
Jürgen M. Meisel Germany 18 1.1k 1.0× 427 0.8× 533 1.2× 902 2.1× 267 1.2× 49 1.7k
Virginia Yip Hong Kong 16 850 0.8× 550 1.0× 534 1.2× 667 1.5× 402 1.8× 58 1.5k
Niclas Abrahamsson Sweden 13 704 0.6× 327 0.6× 386 0.9× 568 1.3× 436 2.0× 31 1.2k
Susanne Carroll Germany 15 920 0.8× 250 0.5× 259 0.6× 1.1k 2.5× 237 1.1× 39 1.5k
Theres Grüter United States 16 782 0.7× 561 1.0× 147 0.3× 326 0.8× 229 1.0× 42 990
Suzanne Flynn United States 14 723 0.7× 456 0.8× 309 0.7× 695 1.6× 273 1.2× 57 1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sharon Unsworth

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All Works

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Cat, Cécile De, Arief Gusnanto, Philippe Prévost, et al.. (2025). How detailed do measures of bilingual language experience need to be? A cost–benefit analysis using the Q-BEx questionnaire. Bilingualism Language and Cognition. 1–12.
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Kootstra, Gerrit Jan, et al.. (2024). The Role of Cognates and Language Distance in Simultaneous Bilingual Children's Productive Vocabulary Acquisition. Language Learning. 75(2). 347–378. 2 indexed citations
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Unsworth, Sharon, et al.. (2024). Individual differences in structural priming in bilingual and monolingual children: the influence of perspective-taking. Language and Cognition. 16(4). 1026–1052. 2 indexed citations
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Kootstra, Gerrit Jan, et al.. (2023). Cross-linguistic influence in the simultaneous bilingual child's lexicon: An eye-tracking and primed picture selection study. Bilingualism Language and Cognition. 27(3). 377–387. 4 indexed citations
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Brouwer, Susanne, et al.. (2023). Morphosyntactic predictive processing in adult heritage speakers: effects of cue availability and spoken and written language experience. Language Cognition and Neuroscience. 39(1). 118–135. 8 indexed citations
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Cat, Cécile De, et al.. (2022). How to quantify bilingual experience? Findings from a Delphi consensus survey. Bilingualism Language and Cognition. 26(1). 112–124. 26 indexed citations
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Kootstra, Gerrit Jan, et al.. (2021). Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous and early sequential bilingual children: a meta-analysis. Journal of Child Language. 49(5). 897–929. 40 indexed citations
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Unsworth, Sharon, et al.. (2020). Testing the validity of the Cross-Linguistic Lexical Task as a measure of language proficiency in bilingual children. Journal of Child Language. 48(6). 1101–1125. 23 indexed citations
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McQueen, James M., et al.. (2020). Perception of English phonetic contrasts by Dutch children: How bilingual are early-English learners?. PLoS ONE. 15(3). e0229902–e0229902. 5 indexed citations
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Bosch, Jasmijn & Sharon Unsworth. (2020). Cross-linguistic influence in word order. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. 11(6). 783–816. 19 indexed citations
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Oolbekkink-Marchand, Helma, et al.. (2019). Stimulating language awareness in the foreign language classroom: exploring EFL teaching practices. Language Learning Journal. 50(1). 59–73. 10 indexed citations
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Unsworth, Sharon, Vicky Chondrogianni, & Barbora Skarabela. (2018). Experiential Measures Can Be Used as a Proxy for Language Dominance in Bilingual Language Acquisition Research. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 1809–1809. 41 indexed citations
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Broersma, Mirjam, et al.. (2018). Language balance and switching ability in children acquiring English as a second language. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 173. 168–186. 28 indexed citations
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Brouwer, Susanne, Simone Sprenger, & Sharon Unsworth. (2017). Processing grammatical gender in Dutch: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 159. 50–65. 27 indexed citations
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Unsworth, Sharon. (2016). Early child L2 acquisition: Age or input effects? Neither, or both?. Journal of Child Language. 43(3). 608–634. 64 indexed citations
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Silva‐Corvalán, Carmen, Silvina Montrul, François Grosjean, et al.. (2015). Language Dominance in Bilinguals. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 110 indexed citations
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Unsworth, Sharon, et al.. (2012). The role of age of onset and input in early child bilingualism in Greek and Dutch. Applied Psycholinguistics. 35(4). 765–805. 125 indexed citations
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Unsworth, Sharon, et al.. (2011). On the Role of Age of Onset and Input in Early Child Bilingualism in Greek and Dutch. KNAW research portal (Royal Academy of Art and Sciences (KNAW)). 10 indexed citations
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Unsworth, Sharon, et al.. (2011). Bilingual acquisition of Greek voice morphology and Dutch gender: What do they have in common?. KNAW Research Portal (The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences). 590–602. 10 indexed citations

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