Yuen Ren Chao

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Yuen Ren Chao is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuen Ren Chao has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Linguistics and Language, 4 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 4 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Yuen Ren Chao's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (4 papers) and Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism (2 papers). Yuen Ren Chao is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (4 papers) and Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism (2 papers). Yuen Ren Chao collaborates with scholars based in United States. Yuen Ren Chao's co-authors include Oldřich Švarný, Anwar S. Dil, P. Kratochvíl, E. G. Pulleyblank, Alvin P. Cohen, John Fought, Chauncey S. Goodrich and M. B. Emeneau and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Language and Modern Language Journal.

In The Last Decade

Yuen Ren Chao

22 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A Grammar of Spoken Chinese

1972 1.4k citations Yuen Ren Chao et al. Journal of the American Oriental Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yuen Ren Chao United States	9	915	805	525	521	307	25	1.7k
Oldřich Švarný	2	802 0.9×	721 0.9×	452 0.9×	481 0.9×	271 0.9×	2	1.4k
Samuel Jay Keyser United States	14	1.5k 1.7×	1.3k 1.6×	918 1.7×	836 1.6×	259 0.8×	38	2.3k
Jim Miller United Kingdom	10	565 0.6×	550 0.7×	262 0.5×	514 1.0×	361 1.2×	26	1.4k
Stephen Wadley United States	5	1.2k 1.3×	587 0.7×	507 1.0×	486 0.9×	446 1.5×	8	1.9k
David Pesetsky United States	19	1.4k 1.6×	727 0.9×	517 1.0×	735 1.4×	783 2.6×	28	2.5k
Fred W. Householder United States	15	473 0.5×	382 0.5×	273 0.5×	237 0.5×	89 0.3×	49	994
Edith A. Moravcsik United States	14	977 1.1×	629 0.8×	496 0.9×	358 0.7×	276 0.9×	37	1.5k
Geoffrey S. Nathan United States	11	642 0.7×	1.3k 1.7×	953 1.8×	578 1.1×	193 0.6×	32	1.7k
Masayoshi Shibatani Japan	16	969 1.1×	516 0.6×	386 0.7×	428 0.8×	137 0.4×	40	1.3k
Gregory Ward United States	23	1.3k 1.4×	900 1.1×	456 0.9×	641 1.2×	289 0.9×	58	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuen Ren Chao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yuen Ren Chao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yuen Ren Chao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yuen Ren Chao. Yuen Ren Chao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Pulleyblank, E. G., Yuen Ren Chao, & Anwar S. Dil. (1977). Aspects of Chinese Sociolinguistics.. Pacific Affairs. 50(3). 510–510. 29 indexed citations

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Cohen, Alvin P., Yuen Ren Chao, & Anwar S. Dil. (1977). Aspects of Chinese Sociolinguistics: Essays by Yuen Ren Chao. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 97(3). 410–410. 12 indexed citations

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Chao, Yuen Ren. (1976). Aspects of Chinese sociolinguistics : essays. 11 indexed citations

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Chao, Yuen Ren. (1975). Yuen Ren Chao's autobiography : first 30 years, from 1892-1921.. 1 indexed citations

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Chao, Yuen Ren. (1972). With Bertrand Russell in China. Russell the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies. 0(0). 2 indexed citations

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Chao, Yuen Ren. (1972). With Bertrand Russell in China. Russell the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies. 0(7). 1 indexed citations

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Chao, Yuen Ren. (1972). Where Chao went wrong in matters of language. The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique. 17(2-3). 105–108. 1 indexed citations

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Chao, Yuen Ren. (1971). Some Contrastive Aspects of the Chinese National Language Movement.. 1 indexed citations

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Kratochvíl, P. & Yuen Ren Chao. (1970). A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. Language. 46(2). 513–513. 27 indexed citations

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Chao, Yuen Ren. (1970). The Changchow Dialect. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 90(1). 45–45. 5 indexed citations

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Fought, John & Yuen Ren Chao. (1970). Language and Symbolic Systems. Modern Language Journal. 54(4). 301–301. 4 indexed citations

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Chao, Yuen Ren, et al.. (1969). Language and Symbolic Systems. Philosophy East and West. 19(4). 455–455. 21 indexed citations

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Chao, Yuen Ren. (1969). Dimensions of Fidelity in Translation With Special Reference to Chinese. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 29. 109–109. 8 indexed citations

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Chao, Yuen Ren, et al.. (1968). Language and Symbolic Systems. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 88(2). 386–386. 19 indexed citations

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Chao, Yuen Ren. (1967). Contrastive Aspects of the Wu Dialects. Language. 43(1). 92–92. 20 indexed citations

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Chao, Yuen Ren. (1956). Chinese Terms of Address. Language. 32(1). 217–217. 49 indexed citations

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Chao, Yuen Ren. (1956). Linguistic Prerequisites for a Speech Writer. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 28(6). 1107–1109. 1 indexed citations

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Chao, Yuen Ren. (1955). Notes on Chinese Grammar and Logic. Philosophy East and West. 5(1). 31–31. 7 indexed citations

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Emeneau, M. B., et al.. (1954). Statements for the Conference on Archiving. International Journal of American Linguistics. 20(2). 83–88. 1 indexed citations

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Chao, Yuen Ren. (1953). Popular Chinese Plant Words a Descriptive Lexico-Grammatical Study. Language. 29(3). 379–379. 6 indexed citations

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