2026 Letitia R. Naigles: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	45	6575	6120	3567	3237	126	12093

Overview

Letitia R. Naigles is a researcher affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with notable contributions in the subfields of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Genetics, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The main topics of Naigles' research focus on Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Language Development and Disorders, Family and Disability Support Research, Reading and Literacy Development, Child and Animal Learning Development, Behavioral and Psychological Studies, and Hearing Impairment and Communication.

Naigles has published extensively, with several papers appearing in key venues. Frequent publication venues include Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Reading and Writing, Cognitive Science, Frontiers in Psychology, and Journal of Child Language.

Some recent publications include:

"Language Growth in Young Children with Autism: Interactions Between Language Production and Social Communication" (2020, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders)
"Caregiver linguistic alignment to autistic and typically developing children: A natural language processing approach illuminates the interactive components of language development" (2023, Cognition)
"Comprehension of grammatical aspect markers le and zai in a diverse sample of Mandarin-exposed preschool children with autism spectrum disorder" (2021, Reading and Writing)
"Children with ASD use joint attention and linguistic skill in pronoun development" (2020, Language Acquisition)
"Conversation During a Virtual Reality Task Reveals New Structural Language Profiles of Children with ASD, ADHD, and Comorbid Symptoms of Both" (2021, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders)

Naigles collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Deborah Fein, Riccardo Fusaroli, Ethan Weed, Yi Su, and Franziska Baumeister. These collaborations contribute to the breadth and depth of their research, especially in the study of autism and language development.

Best Publications

Children use syntax to learn verb meanings.

Letitia Naigles

1285
Citations
How Children Use Input to Acquire a Lexicon

Erika Hoff;Letitia Naigles

1163
Citations
Optimal Outcome in Individuals with a History of Autism

Deborah Fein;Marianne Barton;Inge-Marie Eigsti;Elizabeth Kelley

694
Citations
Caregiver speech and children's use of nouns versus verbs: A comparison of English, Italian, and Mandarin*

Twila Tardif;Marilyn Shatz;Letitia Naigles

543
Citations
Why are some verbs learned before other verbs? Effects of input frequency and structure on children's early verb use

Letitia R. Naigles;Erika Hoff-Ginsberg

507
Citations
The use of multiple frames in verb learning via syntactic bootstrapping

Letitia R. Naigles

390
Citations
Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure:

Letitia Naigles

317
Citations
Residual Language Deficits in Optimal Outcome Children with a History of Autism

Elizabeth Kelley;Elizabeth Kelley;Jennifer J. Paul;Jennifer J. Paul;Deborah Fein;Letitia R. Naigles

307
Citations
Speaking of Motion: Verb Use in English and Spanish

Letitia R. Naigles;Ann R. Eisenberg;Edward T. Kako;Melissa Highter

282
Citations
Longitudinal Analyses of Expressive Language Development Reveal Two Distinct Language Profiles Among Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Saime Tek;Laura Mesite;Deborah Fein;Letitia Naigles

263
Citations
Is he floating across or crossing afloat? Cross-influence of L1 and L2 in Spanish–English bilingual adults

Jill Hohenstein;Ann Eisenberg;Letitia Naigles

251
Citations
Intervention for Optimal Outcome in Children and Adolescents with a History of Autism

Alyssa J. Orinstein;Molly Helt;Eva Troyb;Katherine E. Tyson

225
Citations
Motion-Verb Generalizations in English and Spanish: Influences of Language and Syntax

Letitia R. Naigles;Paula Terrazas

223
Citations
Form is easy, meaning is hard: resolving a paradox in early child language

Letitia R. Naigles

201
Citations
Do children with autism spectrum disorders show a shape bias in word learning

Saime Tek;Gul Jaffery;Deborah Fein;Letitia R. Naigles

186
Citations
Input to verb learning: Evidence for the plausibility of syntactic bootstrapping

Letitia R. Naigles;Erika Hoff-Ginsberg

179
Citations
Narrative Performance of Optimal Outcome Children and Adolescents with a History of an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Joyce Suh;Inge-Marie Eigsti;Letitia Naigles;Marianne Barton

165
Citations
Processes of Language Acquisition in Children With Autism: Evidence from Preferential Looking

Lauren D. Swensen;Elizabeth Kelley;Deborah Fein;Letitia R. Naigles

161
Citations
Flexibility in early verb use : evidence from a multiple-n dairy study : I. Introduction

Letitia R. Naigles;Erika Hoff;Donna Vear;Michael Tomasello

161
Citations
Grammatical language impairment in autism spectrum disorder: Exploring language phenotypes beyond standardized testing

Kacie Wittke;Ann M. Mastergeorge;Sally Ozonoff;Sally J. Rogers

156
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Deborah Fein University of Connecticut

Erika Hoff Florida Atlantic University

Inge-Marie Eigsti University of Connecticut

Sandra R. Waxman Northwestern University

Michael Tomasello Duke University

Robert T. Schultz Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Sally J. Rogers University of California, Davis

Riccardo Fusaroli Aarhus University

Sally J Ozonoff University of California, Davis

Sotaro Kita University of Warwick

External Links

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