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Stephen C. Levinson

Stephen C. Levinson

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
82
Citations
56656
World Ranking
1292
National Ranking
70

Stephen C. Levinson publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen C. Levinson sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 303 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Stephen C. Levinson D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen C. Levinson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 82 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Stephen C. Levinson is affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands. Their research spans several fields, notably psychology, arts and humanities, and social sciences, with a concentration on subfields such as experimental and cognitive psychology, developmental and educational psychology, language and linguistics, cultural studies, and linguistics and language.

Their scholarly work addresses a range of topics, including language, metaphor, and cognition; language, discourse, communication strategies; hearing impairment and communication; language and cultural evolution; categorization, perception, and language; syntax, semantics, linguistic variation; and linguistic variation and morphology.

Levinson has published research in multiple academic venues. These include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Journal of Child Language
  • Journal of Pragmatics

Among their recent papers are:

  • Early language experience in a Papuan community, 2020, Journal of Child Language
  • Turn-taking in human face-to-face interaction is multimodal: gaze direction and manual gestures aid the coordination of turn transitions, 2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Sequence organization: A universal infrastructure for social action, 2020, Journal of Pragmatics
  • The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language, 2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Next speakers plan word forms in overlap with the incoming turn: evidence from gaze-contingent switch task performance, 2020, Language Cognition and Neuroscience

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Levinson include Michael Dunn, Judith Holler, Penelope Brown, Russell D. Gray, and Simon J. Greenhill.

Levinson's contributions extend to book publications, with a notable work titled The Dark Matter of Pragmatics, published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage

    Penelope Brown;Stephen C. Levinson

  • Universals in language usage: Politeness phenomena

    Penelope Brown;Stephen C. Levinson

  • WEIRD languages have misled us, too [Comment on Henrich et al.]

    Asifa Majid;Stephen C. Levinson

  • Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature

    Stephen C. Levinson

  • Space in language and cognition: Explorations in cognitive diversity

    Stephen C. Levinson

  • The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science

    Nicholas Evans;Stephen C. Levinson

  • Activity types and language

    Stephen C. Levinson

  • Rethinking Linguistic Relativity

    John Joseph Gumperz;Stephen C. Levinson

  • Universals and cultural variation in turn taking in conversation

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

  • Rethinking Linguistic Relativity

    Jill Brody;John J. Gumperz;Stephen C. Levinson

  • Frames of reference and Molyneux's question: Cross-linguistic evidence

    Stephen C. Levinson

  • LANGUAGE AND SPACE

    Stephen C. Levinson

  • Can language restructure cognition? The case for space

    Asifa Majid;Melissa Bowerman;Sotaro Kita;Daniel B. M. Haun

  • Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development

    Melissa Bowerman;Stephen C. Levinson

  • It-clefts, informativeness and logical form: Radical pragmatics (revised standard version)

    Jay David Atlas;Stephen C. Levinson

  • On the human ‘interactional engine’

    Stephen C. Levinson

  • Semantic Typology and Spatial Conceptualization

    Eric Pederson;Eve Danziger;David Wilkins;Stephen C. Levinson

  • Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals

    Michael Dunn;Simon J. Greenhill;Stephen C. Levinson;Russell D. Gray

  • Action formation and ascription

    Stephen C. Levinson

  • Timing in turn-taking and its implications for processing models of language

    Stephen C. Levinson;Francisco Torreira

  • Space in language and cognition

    Stephen C. Levinson

  • Returning the tables: language affects spatial reasoning

    Stephen C Levinson;Sotaro Kita;Daniel B.M Haun;Björn H Rasch

  • Turn-taking in Human Communication – Origins and Implications for Language Processing

    Stephen C. Levinson

  • Politeness: Some universals in language use

    P. Brown;S.C. Levinson

  • Roots of Human Sociality : Culture, Cognition and Interaction

    N. J. Enfield;Stephen C. Levinson

  • WEIRD languages have misled us, too.

    Asifa Majid;Stephen C. Levinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Penelope Brown
Penelope Brown Max Planck Society
Asifa Majid
Asifa Majid University of York
N. J. Enfield
N. J. Enfield University of Sydney
Judith Holler
Judith Holler Max Planck Society
Nicholas Evans
Nicholas Evans Australian National University
Daniel B. M. Haun
Daniel B. M. Haun Max Planck Society
Tanya Stivers
Tanya Stivers University of California, Los Angeles
Ivan Toni
Ivan Toni Radboud University
Dorothee J. Chwilla
Dorothee J. Chwilla Radboud University
Sotaro Kita
Sotaro Kita University of Warwick

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