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D-Index
42
Citations
11056
World Ranking
4627
National Ranking
34

Jennifer Hay publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jennifer Hay sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 114 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Jennifer Hay D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jennifer Hay sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

Jennifer Hay is affiliated with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields, including psychology, medicine, and social sciences, with a focus on subfields such as developmental and educational psychology, linguistics and language, experimental and cognitive psychology, language and linguistics, and artificial intelligence.

Their work covers multiple main topics, including linguistic variation and morphology, phonetics and phonology research, language development and disorders, multilingual education and policy, reading and literacy development, language, discourse, communication strategies, and natural language processing techniques.

Jennifer Hay has published research in frequently appearing venues such as Laboratory Phonology Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, Language, Linguistics Vanguard, PLoS ONE, and Language Learning.

Key recent papers include:

  • Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • From categories to gradience: Auto-coding sociophonetic variation with random forests, 2020, Laboratory Phonology Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology
  • Expert-augmented automated machine learning optimizes hemodynamic predictors of spinal cord injury outcome, 2022, PLoS ONE
  • Social Priming in Speech Perception: Revisiting Kangaroo/Kiwi Priming in New Zealand English, 2022, Brain Sciences
  • Proto-Lexicon Size and Phonotactic Knowledge are Linked in Non-Māori Speaking New Zealand Adults, 2022, Laboratory Phonology Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology

Frequent co-authors include Lynn Clark, Janet B. Pierrehumbert, Simon Todd, Clay Beckner, and Jeanette King.

Jennifer Hay was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Scalar Structure Underlies Telicity in "Degree Achievements"

    Jennifer Hay;Christopher Kennedy;Beth Levin

  • Functions of humor in the conversations of men and women

    Jennifer Hay

  • Factors influencing speech perception in the context of a merger-in-progress

    Jennifer Hay;Paul Warren;Katie Drager

  • The pragmatics of humor support

    Jennifer Hay

  • Multimodal markers of irony and sarcasm

    Salvatore Attardo;Jodi Eisterhold;Jennifer Hay;Isabella Poggi

  • Stuffed toys and speech perception

    Jennifer Hay;Katie Drager

  • Lexical frequency in morphology: Is everything relative?

    Jennifer Hay

  • Causes and Consequences of Word Structure

    Jennifer Hay

  • Shifting paradigms: gradient structure in morphology.

    Jennifer B. Hay;R. Harald Baayen

  • New Zealand English: Its Origins and Evolution

    Elizabeth Gordon;Lyle Campbell;Jennifer Hay;Margaret Maclagan

  • From fush to feesh : Exemplar priming in speech perception

    Jennifer Hay;Aaron Nolan;Katie Drager

  • Gradient Grammar: An Effect of Animacy on the Syntax of give in New Zealand and American English

    Joan Bresnan;Jennifer Hay

  • Parsing and productivity

    Jennifer Hay;Harald Baayen

  • What Constrains Possible Suffix Combinations? On the Interaction of Grammatical and Processing Restrictions in Derivational Morphology

    Jennifer Hay;Ingo Plag

  • From Speech Perception to Morphology: Affix Ordering Revisited

    Jennifer Hay

  • Tracking word frequency effects through 130 years of sound change.

    Jennifer B. Hay;Janet B. Pierrehumbert;Abby J. Walker;Patrick LaShell

  • Phonetic Interpretation Papers in Laboratory Phonology VI: Speech perception, well-formedness and the statistics of the lexicon

    Jennifer Hay;Janet Pierrehumbert;Mary E. Beckman

  • New Zealand English

    Jennifer Hay;Margaret A. Maclagan

  • Phoneme inventory size and population size

    Jennifer Hay;Laurie Bauer

  • Word frequency effects in sound change as a consequence of perceptual asymmetries: An exemplar-based model.

    Simon Todd;Janet B. Pierrehumbert;Janet B. Pierrehumbert;Jennifer Hay

  • Humour as an ethnic boundary marker in New Zealand interaction

    Janet Holmes;Jennifer Hay

  • Ladies first? Phonology, frequency, and the naming conspiracy.

    Saundra K. Wright;Jennifer Hay;Tessa Bent

  • How Rhoticity Became /r/-sandhi

    Jennifer Hay;Andrea Sudbury

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet B. Pierrehumbert
Janet B. Pierrehumbert University of Oxford
Peter Trudgill
Peter Trudgill University of Fribourg
Paul Foulkes
Paul Foulkes University of York
Catherine T. Best
Catherine T. Best Haskins Laboratories
R. Harald Baayen
R. Harald Baayen University of Tübingen
Joan Bresnan
Joan Bresnan Stanford University
Christoph Bartneck
Christoph Bartneck University of Canterbury
Jane Stuart-Smith
Jane Stuart-Smith University of Glasgow
LouAnn Gerken
LouAnn Gerken University of Arizona
Wei Gao
Wei Gao University of Auckland

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