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Ray Jackendoff

Tufts University ORCID

257

Works

40,116

Citations

77

h-index

142

i10-index

Research Topics

Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Natural Language Processing Techniques

Affiliations

Leiden University2023–2023

Tufts University2002–2025

Santa Fe Institute2009–2009

Center for Applied Linguistics2003–2003

Brooklyn Law School2009–2009

Top Works

Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar

Robert Freidin,Ray Jackendoff

19754,648 citations

Language and cultural evolution

Historical Linguistics and Language Studies

A Generative Theory of Tonal Music

Peter Child,Fred Lerdahl,et al.

19843,789 citations

Foundations of Language

20023,171 citations

Semantics and Cognition.

Steven E. Boër,Ray Jackendoff

19852,184 citations

Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

20021,862 citations

The faculty of language: what's special about it?

Steven Pinker,Ray Jackendoff

20051,399 citations

Peter W. Culicover,Ray Jackendoff

20051,053 citations

“What” and “where” in spatial language and spatial cognition

Barbara Landau,Ray Jackendoff

19931,030 citations

Consciousness and the Computational Mind

1987933 citations