2026 Jeffrey Lidz: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	47	3455	3183	1664	1509	162	7278

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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1664

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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7278

World Ranking

3455

National Ranking

1664

Overview

Jeffrey Lidz is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans multiple intersecting fields primarily centered on psychology and the arts and humanities.

The main fields of study for Lidz include:

Psychology
Arts and Humanities

Within these fields, their work delves into several subfields, notably:

Developmental and Educational Psychology
Language and Linguistics
Cognitive Neuroscience
Artificial Intelligence
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

The core topics addressed in their research are:

Language Development and Disorders
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Child and Animal Learning Development
Reading and Literacy Development
Language and cultural evolution
Natural Language Processing Techniques

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

"Eighteen-month-old infants represent nonlocal syntactic dependencies," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"The mental representation of universal quantifiers," 2021, Linguistics and Philosophy
"Linguistic meanings as cognitive instructions," 2021, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
"On the Acquisition of Attitude Verbs," 2021, Annual Review of Linguistics
"Determiners are 'conservative' because their meanings are not relations: evidence from verification," 2021, Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory

Lidz frequently collaborates with a core group of coauthors, including:

Tyler Knowlton
Justin Halberda
Laurel Perkins
Paul M. Pietroski
Valentine Hacquard

The primary venues in which Lidz's work is published comprise:

Language Acquisition
Glossa Psycholinguistics
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Annual Review of Linguistics

Best Publications

Understanding how input matters: verb learning and the footprint of universal grammar.

Jeffrey Lidz;Henry Gleitman;Lila Gleitman

363
Citations
V-Raising and Grammar Competition in Korean: Evidence from Negation and Quantifier Scope

Chung-hye Han;Jeffrey Lidz;Julien Musolino

330
Citations
Children's command of quantification.

Jeffrey Lidz;Julien Musolino

285
Citations
Why children aren't universally successful with quantification

Julien Musolino;Jeffrey Lidz

280
Citations
Bootstrapping lexical and syntactic acquisition.

Anne Christophe;Séverine Millotte;Savita Bernal;Jeffrey Lidz

266
Citations
What infants know about syntax but couldn't have learned: experimental evidence for syntactic structure at 18 months

Jeffrey Lidz;Sandra Waxman;Jennifer Freedman

257
Citations
Early Word Learning.

Sandra R. Waxman;Jeffrey L. Lidz

248
Citations
Early World Learning

Sandra R. Waxman;Jeffrey L. Lidz

239
Citations
How Nature Meets Nurture: Universal Grammar and Statistical Learning

Jeffrey Lidz;Annie Gagliardi

227
Citations
Equal Treatment for All Antecedents: How Children Succeed with Principle B

Anastasia Conroy;Eri Takahashi;Jeffrey Lidz;Collin Phillips

219
Citations
Meaning and Context in Children's Understanding of Gradable Adjectives

Kristen Syrett;Christopher Kennedy;Jeffrey Lidz

178
Citations
The Meaning of ‘Most’: Semantics, Numerosity and Psychology

Paul Pietroski;Paul Pietroski;Jeffrey Lidz;Jeffrey Lidz;Tim Hunter;Tim Hunter;Justin Halberda;Justin Halberda

170
Citations
Twenty Four-Month-Old Infants' Interpretations of Novel Verbs and Nouns in Dynamic Scenes.

Sandra R. Waxman;Jeffrey L. Lidz;Irena E. Braun;Tracy Lavin

161
Citations
Syntax Constrains the Acquisition of Verb Meaning

Savita Bernal;Jeffrey Lidz;Séverine Millotte

146
Citations
The Grammar of Accusative Case in Kannada

Jeffrey Lidz

134
Citations
No Fear of Commitment: Children’s Incremental Interpretation in English and Japanese Wh-Questions

Akira Omaki;Imogen Davidson White;Takuya Goro;Jeffrey Lidz

128
Citations
Interface transparency and the psychosemantics of most

Jeffrey Lidz;Paul Pietroski;Justin Halberda;Tim Hunter

120
Citations
The Development of "Most" Comprehension and Its Potential Dependence on Counting Ability in Preschoolers

Justin Halberda;Len Taing;Jeffrey Lidz

113
Citations
Linking Parser Development to Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge

Akira Omaki;Jeffrey Lidz

106
Citations
Relation-sensitive retrieval: Evidence from bound variable pronouns

Dave Kush;Jeffrey Lidz;Colin Phillips

83
Citations
The Oxford handbook of developmental linguistics

Jeffrey Lidz;Peter Joe

73
Citations
University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics

Ann Bunger;Jeffrey Lidz

60
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Justin Halberda Johns Hopkins University

Sandra R. Waxman Northwestern University

Colin Phillips University of Maryland, College Park

Lila R. Gleitman University of Pennsylvania

Anne Christophe École Normale Supérieure

Meredith L. Rowe Harvard University

Maria Polinsky University of Maryland, College Park

External Links

Personal website of Jeffrey Lidz

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