2026 Shana Poplack: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	49	2861	2616	160	151	108	17919

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Current World Ranking

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Social Sciences and Humanities

2861

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160

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108

17919

Social Sciences and Humanities

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Citations

17919

World Ranking

2861

National Ranking

160

Research.com Recognitions

1998 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of the Arts and Humanities

Overview

Shana Poplack is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada, contributing extensively to the fields of Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities.

Their research primarily focuses on Linguistics and Language, with significant work in the following subfields:

Linguistics and Language
Language and Linguistics
Artificial Intelligence
Law
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

The main topics of study include:

Linguistic Variation and Morphology
Multilingual Education and Policy
Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Phonetics and Phonology Research

Poplack's frequent coauthors encompass:

Nathalie Dion
Suzanne Robillard
John C. Paolillo
Rena Torres Cacoullos
Dora LaCasse

Publications have appeared in various venues, including:

Language
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
Language Variation and Change
Cahiers internationaux de sociolinguistique
Anthropen

Key recent papers authored or coauthored by Poplack include:

Revisiting phonetic integration in bilingual borrowing (2020, Language)
Revisiting phonetic integration in bilingual borrowing (2020, Language)
Cartographie de la variation et du changement morphosyntaxique en français: leçons à retenir (2021, Cahiers internationaux de sociolinguistique)

Poplack holds the distinction of being a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, awarded in 1998 by the Academy of the Arts and Humanities.

Best Publications

“Sometimes I'll start a sentence in Spanish Y TERMINO EN ESPAÑOL”: Toward a typology of code-switching

Shana Poplack

5128
Citations
The social correlates and linguistic processes of lexical borrowing and assimilation

Shana Poplack;David Sankoff;Christopher Miller

1127
Citations
A formal grammar for code‐switching 1

David Sankoff;Shana Poplack

916
Citations
8. Contrasting patterns of codeswitching in two communities

Shana Poplack

743
Citations
Contrasting patterns of code-switching in two communities

Shana Poplack

658
Citations
African American English in the diaspora

Shana Poplack;Sali Tagliamonte

550
Citations
Borrowing: the Synchrony of Integration

Shana Poplack;David Sankoff

500
Citations
Introduction: How Languages Fit Together in Codemixing:

Shana Poplack;Marjory Meechan

419
Citations
The case of the nonce loan in Tamil

David Sankoff;Shana Poplack;Swathi Vanniarajan

404
Citations
The English history of African American English

Shana Poplack

363
Citations
Variation theory and language contact

Shana Poplack

357
Citations
Patterns of language mixture: nominal structure in Wolof-French and Fongbe-French bilingual discourse

Shana Poplack;Marjorie Meechan

340
Citations
Distinguishing language contact phenomena: evidence from Finnish-English bilingualism

Shana Poplack;Susan Wheeler;Anneli Westwood

323
Citations
Code Switching: Linguistic

Shana Poplack

319
Citations
Myths and facts about loanword development

Shana Poplack;Nathalie Dion

306
Citations
There's No Tense Like the Present: Verbal -s Inflection in Early Black English.

Shana Poplack;Sali Tagliamonte

281
Citations
The care and handling of a mega-corpus: The Ottawa-Hull French project

Shana Poplack

280
Citations
Prescription vs. praxis: The evolution of future temporal reference in French

Shana Poplack;Nathalie Dion

256
Citations
Deletion and disambiguation in Puerto Rican Spanish

Shana Poplack

229
Citations
Variation theory and language contact: concepts, methods and data

Shana Poplack

224
Citations
Building social cognitive models of language change.

Daniel J. Hruschka;Daniel J. Hruschka;Morten H. Christiansen;Morten H. Christiansen;Richard A. Blythe;William Croft

216
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Sali A. Tagliamonte University of Toronto

David Sankoff University of Ottawa

Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University

Janet B. Pierrehumbert University of Oxford

William Croft University of New Mexico

External Links

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