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D-Index
30
Citations
6796
World Ranking
7638
National Ranking
3715

Overview

Gregory Ward is a researcher affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States whose work spans multiple disciplines within arts, humanities, and psychology. Their publications address topics related to language teaching and learning, discourse analysis, innovative instructional methods, as well as aspects of color science and applications.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Psychology

Within these broad fields, they have contributed to several subfields such as:

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Literature and Literary Theory
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Social Psychology

Ward's research focuses on several thematic areas, particularly:

  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • Color Science and Applications
  • Color perception and design

Their recent papers highlight this range of interests. One publication from 2025, titled "Exploring undergraduate EFL students' growth in knowledge of elements in argumentation and their writing performance", appeared in the Applied Linguistics Review. Another work from 2022, titled "Color Matching between Regular Display and LED Lighting Tiles in Automotive", was published in the Color and Imaging Conference.

Gregory Ward frequently collaborates with several scholars including Tingting Zhang, Lawrence Jun Zhang, Jérémie Gerhardt, Hyunjin Yoo, and Tara Akhavan. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary connections spanning their research topics and publication venues.

The venues where Ward commonly publishes work include:

  • Applied Linguistics Review
  • Color and Imaging Conference

Best Publications

  • The handbook of pragmatics

    Laurence R. Horn;Gregory L. Ward

  • Information status and noncanonical word order in English

    Betty J. Birner;Gregory L. Ward

  • Implicating Uncertainty: The Pragmatics of Fall-Rise Intonation

    Gregory Ward;Julia Hirschberg

  • Definiteness and the English Existential

    Gregory Ward;Betty J. Birner

  • The Semantics and Pragmatics of Preposing

    Gregory L. Ward

  • A Pragmatic Analysis of So-Called Anaphoric Islands

    Gregory Ward;Richard Sproat;Gail McKoon

  • The Influence of Pitch Range, Duration, Amplitude and Spectral Features on the Interpretation of the Rise-Fall-Rise Intonation Contour in English

    Julia Hirschberg;Gregory Ward

  • Uniqueness, Familiarity, and the Definite Article in English

    Betty Birner;Gregory Ward

  • Information Structure and Non‐canonical Syntax

    Gregory Ward;Betty Birner

  • On the topicalization of indefinite NPs

    Gregory L. Ward;Ellen F. Prince

  • Discourse and Information Structure

    Gregory Ward;Betty J. Birner

  • On the Non-Unified Nature of Scalar Implicature: An Empirical Investigation

    Ryan Doran;Rachel E. Baker;Yaron McNabb;Meredith Larson

  • A novel experimental paradigm for distinguishing between what is said and what is implicated

    Ryan Doran;Gregory Ward;Meredith Larson;Yaron McNabb

  • The interpretation of the high-rise question contour in English

    Julia Hirschberg;Gregory Ward

  • Drawing the boundaries of meaning : neo-Gricean studies in pragmatics and semantics in honor of Laurence R. Horn

    Betty J. Birner;Gregory L. Ward

  • A pragmatic analysis of tautological utternances

    Gregory L. Ward;Julia Hirschberg

  • Morphosyntactic and Pragmatic Factors Affecting the Accessibility of Discourse Entities

    Gail McKoon;Gregory Ward;Roger Ratcliff;Richard Sproat

  • Syntactic Prominence Effects On Discourse Processes

    Gail McKoon;Roger Ratcliff;Gregory Ward;Richard Sproat

  • The semantics and pragmatics of and everything

    Gregory Ward;Betty Birner

  • Testing theories of language processing: an empirical investigation of the on-line lexical decision task.

    Gail McKoon;Roger Ratcliff;Gregory Ward

  • Accent and Bound Anaphora

    Julia Hirschberg;Gregory Ward

  • Equatives and Deferred Reference

    Gregory L. Ward

  • On the grammar and semantics of sentence accents By Carlos Gussenhoven (review)

    Julia Hirschberg;Gregory Ward

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurence R. Horn
Laurence R. Horn Yale University
Gail McKoon
Gail McKoon The Ohio State University
Roger Ratcliff
Roger Ratcliff The Ohio State University
Janet B. Pierrehumbert
Janet B. Pierrehumbert University of Oxford

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