2026 Ray Jackendoff: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	81	342	293	158	134	216	65167

Research.com Recognitions

2014 - David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition
2003 - Jean Nicod Prize, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
2000 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1999 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1993 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Ray Jackendoff is affiliated with Tufts University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and the arts and humanities, with a strong emphasis on language, cognition, and linguistics.

The main fields of study for Jackendoff include:

Psychology
Arts and Humanities

Subfields in which they have contributed are:

Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Language and Linguistics
Artificial Intelligence
Cultural Studies
Cognitive Neuroscience

The research topics frequently addressed by Jackendoff involve:

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Categorization, perception, and language
Language and cultural evolution
Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Hearing Impairment and Communication
Hand Gesture Recognition Systems

Jackendoff has published extensively in several venues, including:

Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Topics in Cognitive Science
Cognition
Frontiers in Psychology
Sign Language & Linguistics

Best Publications

Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar

Ray S. Jackendoff

9596
Citations
Semantics And Cognition

Ray S. Jackendoff

8218
Citations
A Generative Theory of Tonal Music

Fred Lerdahl;Ray S. Jackendoff

6766
Citations
Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

Ray S. Jackendoff

6453
Citations
X syntax : a study of phrase structure

Ray S. Jackendoff

4320
Citations
The Architecture of the Language Faculty

Ray S. Jackendoff

3155
Citations
Consciousness and the Computational Mind

Ray S. Jackendoff

2764
Citations
The faculty of language: what's special about it? ☆

Steven Pinker;Ray Jackendoff

2014
Citations
“What” and “where” in spatial language and spatial cognition

Barbara Landau;Ray Jackendoff

1747
Citations
The English Resultative as a Family of Constructions

Adele E. Goldberg;R. A. Y. Jackendoff

1151
Citations
Morphological and semantic regularities in the lexicon

Ray Jackendoff

855
Citations
The Status of Thematic Relations in Linguistic Theory

Ray Jackendoff

687
Citations
Parts and boundaries.

Ray Jackendoff

682
Citations
Possible stages in the evolution of the language capacity.

Ray Jackendoff

562
Citations
The nature of the language faculty and its implications for evolution of language (Reply to Fitch, Hauser, and Chomsky)

Ray Jackendoff;Steven Pinker

444
Citations
TWISTIN' THE NIGHT AWAY

Ray Jackendoff

433
Citations
On beyond Zebra: The relation of linguistic and visual information ☆

Ray Jackendoff

418
Citations
A Parallel Architecture perspective on language processing.

Ray Jackendoff

411
Citations
The proper treatment of measuring out, telicity, and perhaps even quantification in English

Ray Jackendoff

396
Citations
Semantics and Cognition.

Francesco Orilia;Ray Jackendoff

148
Citations
More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor

Ray Jackendoff;David Aaron;George Lakoff;Mark Turner

25
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gina R. Kuperberg Tufts University

Neil Cohn Tilburg University

Steven Pinker Harvard University

Barbara Landau Johns Hopkins University

Phillip J. Holcomb San Diego State University

Carol Padden University of California, San Diego

Paul Bloom Columbia University

Lila R. Gleitman University of Pennsylvania

Martin J. Pickering University of Edinburgh

Matthew J. Traxler University of California, Davis

External Links

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