2026 Kenneth Wexler: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

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Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	44	4000	3691	1903	1724	112	15693

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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15693

World Ranking

4000

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1903

Research.com Recognitions

1985 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1981 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Kenneth Wexler is a researcher affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their work spans multiple disciplines within neuroscience, psychology, and the arts and humanities. The primary focus of their research lies in developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and language and linguistics, with additional contributions related to genetics and public health.

The scientist's research encompasses several main topics, including:

Language Development and Disorders
Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Down Syndrome and Intellectual Disability Research
Williams Syndrome Research
Historical Linguistics and Language Studies

Wexler's scholarly output includes papers published in multiple venues such as NeuroImage Clinical, Language Learning and Development, Linguistic Inquiry, and SSRN Electronic Journal. Notable recent papers are:

Altered Engagement of the Speech Motor Network is Associated with Reduced Phonological Working Memory in Autism, 2022, NeuroImage Clinical
Copula Omission in Down Syndrome, 2022, Language Learning and Development
On Realizing External Arguments: A Syntactic and Implicature Theory of the Disjointness Effect for Passives in Adult and Child Grammar, 2023, Linguistic Inquiry
Altered Engagement of the Speech Motor Network is Associated with Reduced Phonological Working Memory in Autism, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal

Their work involves collaboration with several frequent co-authors, including Amanda O'Brien, Tyler K. Perrachione, Lisa Wisman Weil, Yoel Sanchez Araujo, and Kelly Halverson.

Kenneth Wexler has received recognition in the form of fellowships from established institutions: the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1985 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1981.

Best Publications

Formal Principles of Language Acquisition

Kenneth Wexler;Peter W. Culicover

1653
Citations
The Maturation of Syntax

Hagit Borer;Kenneth Wexler

1569
Citations
Toward Tense as a Clinical Marker of Specific Language Impairment in English-Speaking Children

Mabel L. Rice;Kenneth Wexler

1222
Citations
Specific language impairment as a period of extended optional infinitive.

Mabel L. Rice;Kenneth Wexler;Patricia L. Cleave

1117
Citations
The full competence hypothesis of clause structure in early German

David Poeppel;Kenneth Wexler

923
Citations
Very early parameter setting and the unique checking constraint: A new explanation of the optional infinitive stage

Ken Wexler

896
Citations
Parameters and Learnability in Binding Theory

Kenneth Wexler;M. Rita Manzini

878
Citations
Tense Over Time: The Longitudinal Course of Tense Acquisition in Children With Specific Language Impairment

Mabel L. Rice;Kenneth Wexler;Scott Hershberger

730
Citations
ARTICLE SEMANTICS IN L2 ACQUISITION: THE ROLE OF SPECIFICITY

Tania Ionin;Heejeong Ko;Kenneth Wexler

688
Citations
Auditory Cortex Accesses Phonological Categories: An MEG Mismatch Study

Colin Phillips;Thomas Pellathy;Alec Marantz;Elron Yellin

387
Citations
Why is ‘is’ easier than ‘-s’?: acquisition of tense/agreement morphology by child second language learners of English

Tania Ionin;Kenneth Wexler

359
Citations
Bi-unique relations and the maturation of grammatical principles

Hagit Borer;Ken Wexler

334
Citations
On the grammatical basis of null subjects in child language

Nina Hyams;Kenneth Wexler

328
Citations
Grammaticality judgments of an extended optional infinitive grammar: Evidence from English-speaking children with specific language impairment.

Mabel L. Rice;Kenneth Wexler;Sean M. Redmond

275
Citations
Principle B, VP Ellipsis, and Interpretation in Child Grammar

Rosalind Jean Thornton;Kenneth Wexler

271
Citations
The breakdown of binding relations.

Y. Grodzinsky;K. Wexler;Yu-Chin Chien;S. Marakovitz

228
Citations
Subject Case in Children With SLI and Unaffected Controls: Evidence for the Agr/Tns Omission Model

Kenneth Wexler;Carson T. Schütze;Mabel Rice

217
Citations
Task-induced asymmetry of the auditory evoked M100 neuromagnetic field elicited by speech sounds.

D. Poeppel;E. Yellin;C. Phillips;T.P.L. Roberts

195
Citations
The Development of Lexical Anaphors and Pronouns.

Kenneth Wexler;Yu-Chin Chien

184
Citations
Feature Checking and Object Clitic Omission in Child Catalan and Spanish

Kenneth Wexler;Anna Gavarró;Vincent Torrens

169
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mabel L. Rice University of Kansas

David Poeppel New York University

Timothy P.L. Roberts Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

John D. E. Gabrieli MIT

Alec Marantz New York University

Colin Phillips University of Maryland, College Park

Helen Tager-Flusberg Boston University

Janet Marquis University of Kansas

Phillip J. Holcomb San Diego State University

Stephen Crain Macquarie University

External Links

Personal website of Kenneth Wexler

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