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50
Citations
33294
World Ranking
2659
National Ranking
1290

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1972 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Paul Kay is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily in Environmental Science and Arts and Humanities, with a focus on Language and Linguistics, Pollution, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology among other subfields.

The main topics of their work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Syntax, Semantics, and Linguistic Variation, as well as Natural Language Processing Techniques. Additional areas of interest cover Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies, Categorization, Perception, and Language, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies.

Paul Kay's recent scholarly contributions include:

  • "Investigating on the toxicity and bio-magnification potential of synthetic glitters on Artemia salina," 2023, published in Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • "Can we learn from the past? Towards better analogies and historical inference in society-environmental change research," 2022, published in Global Environmental Change
  • "Multifaceted effects of microplastics on soil-plant systems: Exploring the role of particle type and plant species," 2024, published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Comparison of two methods of hue scaling," 2020, published in Journal of the Optical Society of America A
  • "Toxicological impacts of plastic microfibers from face masks on Artemia salina: An environmental assessment using Box-Behnken design," 2024, published in Marine Environmental Research

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors including Devlina Das Pramanik, Francisco M. Goycoolea, Zhangling Chen, Laura Carter, and Steven A. Banwart.

Their published works appear in various venues with multiple papers in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, alongside contributions to Marine Pollution Bulletin, The Science of The Total Environment, Global Environmental Change, and Marine Environmental Research.

In addition to journal articles, Paul Kay has authored a book titled Unrealized Arguments and the Grammar of Context, published by Cambridge University Press in 2025.

Recognition of their contributions includes membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 1997 and a fellowship at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded in 1972.

Best Publications

  • Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution

    Paul Kay

  • Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions: The Case of Let Alone

    Charles J. Fillmore;Paul Kay;Mary Catherine O'Connor

  • Grammatical constructions and linguistic generalizations: The What's X doing Y? construction

    Paul Kay;Charles J. Fillmore

  • What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?

    Paul Kay;Willett Kempton

  • Universals and cultural variation in turn taking in conversation

    Tanya Stivers;Nicholas J. Enfield;Penelope Brown;Christina Englert

  • The Linguistic Significance of The Meanings of Basic Color Terms

    Paul Kay;Chad K. McDaniel

  • Prototype semantics: The English Word Lie

    Linda Coleman;Paul Kay

  • Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left

    Aubrey L. Gilbert;Terry Regier;Paul Kay;Richard B. Ivry

  • Language, thought, and color: Whorf was half right

    Terry Regier;Paul Kay

  • Color naming reflects optimal partitions of color space

    Terry Regier;Paul Kay;Naveen Khetarpal

  • Color appearance and the emergence and evolution of basic color lexicons

    Paul Kay;Luisa Maffi

  • Resolving the question of color naming universals

    Paul Kay;Terry Regier

  • Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution

    George A. Collier;Paul Kay

  • Focal colors are universal after all

    Terry Regier;Paul Kay;Richard S. Cook

  • Biocultural Implications of Systems of Color Naming

    Paul Kay;William Merrifield

  • Color naming across languages.

    Paul Kay;Luisa Maffi;William Merrifield

  • Synchronic variability and diachronic change in basic color terms

    Paul Kay

  • Categorical perception of color is lateralized to the right hemisphere in infants, but to the left hemisphere in adults

    A. Franklin;G. V. Drivonikou;L. Bevis;I. R. L. Davies

  • Further Evidence That Whorfian Effects Are Stronger in the Right Visual Field Than the Left

    G. V. Drivonikou;P. Kay;T. Regier;R. B. Ivry

  • Language affects patterns of brain activation associated with perceptual decision.

    Li Hai Tan;Alice H. D. Chan;Paul Kay;Paul Kay;Pek-Lan Khong

  • Word Meanings across Languages Support Efficient Communication

    Terry Regier;Charles Kemp;Paul Kay

  • Semantic fields and lexical structure

    Paul Kay

Frequent Co-Authors

Terry Regier
Terry Regier University of California, Berkeley
Li Hai Tan
Li Hai Tan Shenzhen University
Richard B. Ivry
Richard B. Ivry University of California, Berkeley
Anna Franklin
Anna Franklin University of Sussex
Asifa Majid
Asifa Majid University of York
Kwok-Fai So
Kwok-Fai So University of Hong Kong
William S.-Y. Wang
William S.-Y. Wang Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Geoffrey K. Pullum
Geoffrey K. Pullum University of Edinburgh

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