swap_horiz Ellen Bialystok Alternatives

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Leonard Bloomfield

Leonard Bloomfield was an influential American linguist who led the development of American structural linguistics in th...

American Morphology Historical Structuralism

9.2 Excellent

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William Labov

William Labov is an American linguist widely recognized as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistic...

Modern American Variation Sociolinguistics

9.2 Excellent

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Nikolai Trubetzkoy

Prince Nikolai Trubetzkoy was a prominent Russian linguist whose work became foundational to the field of structural pho...

Russian Historical Phonology Prague School

9.2 Excellent

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H. Paul Grice

H. Paul Grice was a British philosopher of language whose work formed the foundation of modern pragmatics. He is best kn...

Philosophy British Pragmatics Implicature

9.2 Excellent

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Lila Gleitman

Lila Gleitman (1929–2021) was an American psycholinguist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She was a lead...

American Acquisition Semantics Psycholinguistics

8.6 Great

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Ray Jackendoff

Ray Jackendoff is an American linguist and cognitive scientist who has made significant contributions to the study of se...

American Cognition Semantics Syntax

8.5 Great

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Elizabeth Bates

Elizabeth Bates was an American cognitive scientist and developmental psychologist known for her research in language ac...

American Acquisition Cognition Psycholinguistics

8.4 Great

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Stephen C. Levinson

Stephen C. Levinson is a British linguist known for his contributions to pragmatics, linguistic relativity, and cognitiv...

British Cognition Typology Pragmatics

8.4 Great

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Brian MacWhinney

Brian MacWhinney is an American psycholinguist and professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known fo...

American Acquisition Computational Psycholinguistics

8.3 Great

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Dan I. Slobin

Dan I. Slobin is an American psycholinguist known for research on language acquisition and the relationship between lang...

American Acquisition Typology Psycholinguistics

8.3 Great

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Edwin Pulleyblank

Edwin G. Pulleyblank was a Canadian sinologist and linguist whose research focused on the historical phonology and gramm...

Canadian Historical Chinese Phonology

8.3 Great

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Keren Rice

Keren Rice is a Canadian linguist known for fieldwork and scholarship on Athabaskan languages, particularly Slavey, also...

Canadian Fieldwork Phonology Athabaskan

8.2 Great

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Eve V. Clark

Eve V. Clark is an American psycholinguist and a professor emerita at Stanford University, recognized for her research o...

American Acquisition Semantics Psycholinguistics

8.2 Great

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Dan Sperber

Dan Sperber is a French social and cognitive scientist born in 1942, currently Emeritus Director of Research at the Inst...

French Cognition Pragmatics Relevance

8.2 Great

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Deirdre Wilson

Deirdre Wilson is a British linguist and emeritus professor of linguistics at University College London. With French ant...

British Cognition Pragmatics Relevance

8.1 Great

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François Grosjean

François Grosjean is a French-born psycholinguist whose research focuses on bilingualism, language processing, and the e...

Language Swiss Psycholinguistics Bilingualism

8.0 Great

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Jean Aitchison

Jean Aitchison is a prominent British linguist and a former professor of Language and Communication at the University of...

British Lexicon Psycholinguistics Language Change

7.8 Good

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Lisa Travis

Lisa Travis is a Canadian linguist and a prominent professor in the Department of Linguistics at McGill University. She...

Canadian Generative Syntax Austronesian

7.8 Good

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Diane Massam

Diane Massam is a Canadian linguist and professor emerita at the University of Toronto. She specializes in syntactic the...

Canadian Fieldwork Syntax Austronesian

7.7 Good

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Ross King

Ross King is a Canadian linguist and academic born in 1961, currently serving as a professor at the University of Britis...

Korean Language Canadian Historical

7.4 Good