Jennie E Pyers

Jennie E Pyers

Wellesley College

H-index: 25

North America-United States

About Jennie E Pyers

Jennie E Pyers, With an exceptional h-index of 25 and a recent h-index of 17 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Wellesley College, specializes in the field of Language Development, Cognitive Development, Sign Language, Gesture, Language Emergence.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Parent American Sign Language skills correlate with child–but not toddler–ASL vocabulary size

Learning a sign language does not hinder acquisition of a spoken language

From Seed to System: The Emergence of Non-Manual Markers for Wh-Questions in Nicaraguan Sign Language

The iconic motivation for the morphophonological distinction between noun–verb pairs in American Sign Language does not reflect common human construals of objects and actions

Do parents modify child-directed signing to emphasize iconicity?

Deaf children of hearing parents have age-level vocabulary growth when exposed to American Sign Language by 6 months of age

A Threat to ASL Recognition or a Window into Human Language Acquisition?

Gesture helps, only if you need it: Inhibiting gesture reduces tip‐of‐the‐tongue resolution for those with weak short‐term memory

Jennie E Pyers Information

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Position

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Citations(all)

3408

Citations(since 2020)

1321

Cited By

2620

hIndex(all)

25

hIndex(since 2020)

17

i10Index(all)

30

i10Index(since 2020)

25

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Wellesley College

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Jennie E Pyers Skills & Research Interests

Language Development

Cognitive Development

Sign Language

Gesture

Language Emergence

Top articles of Jennie E Pyers

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Parent American Sign Language skills correlate with child–but not toddler–ASL vocabulary size

Language Acquisition

Lauren Berger

Jennie Pyers

Amy Lieberman

Naomi Caselli

2024/4/2

Learning a sign language does not hinder acquisition of a spoken language

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Elana Pontecorvo

Michael Higgins

Joshua Mora

Amy M Lieberman

Jennie Pyers

...

2023/4/12

From Seed to System: The Emergence of Non-Manual Markers for Wh-Questions in Nicaraguan Sign Language

Languages

Annemarie Kocab

Ann Senghas

Jennie Pyers

2022/5/30

The iconic motivation for the morphophonological distinction between noun–verb pairs in American Sign Language does not reflect common human construals of objects and actions

Language and cognition

Jennie E Pyers

Karen Emmorey

2022/12

Do parents modify child-directed signing to emphasize iconicity?

Frontiers in Psychology

Paris Gappmayr

Amy M Lieberman

Jennie Pyers

Naomi K Caselli

2022/8/25

Deaf children of hearing parents have age-level vocabulary growth when exposed to American Sign Language by 6 months of age

The Journal of Pediatrics

Naomi Caselli

Jennie Pyers

Amy M Lieberman

2021/5/1

A Threat to ASL Recognition or a Window into Human Language Acquisition?

Discussing Bilingualism in Deaf Children: Essays in Honor of Robert Hoffmeister

Naomi Caselli

Amy Lieberman

Jennie Pyers

2021/3/31

Gesture helps, only if you need it: Inhibiting gesture reduces tip‐of‐the‐tongue resolution for those with weak short‐term memory

Cognitive Science

Jennie E Pyers

Rachel Magid

Tamar H Gollan

Karen Emmorey

2021/1

The ASL-CDI 2.0: An updated, normed adaptation of the MacArthur bates communicative development inventory for American sign language

Behavior Research Methods

Naomi K Caselli

Amy M Lieberman

Jennie E Pyers

2020/10

Constructing the social mind: Language and false-belief understanding

Jennie E Pyers

2020/8/21

Reduced neural selectivity for mental states in deaf children with delayed exposure to sign language

Nature communications

Hilary Richardson

Jorie Koster-Hale

Naomi Caselli

Rachel Magid

Rachel Benedict

...

2020/6/26

IS THERE AN ICONIC MOTIVATION FOR THE MORPHOPHONOLOGICAL DISTINCTION BETWEEN NOUN-VERB PAIRS IN ASL?

LANGUAGE of

KAREN EMMOREY

JENNIE PYERS

2020/4/14

Degree and not type of iconicity affects sign language vocabulary acquisition.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

Naomi K Caselli

Jennie E Pyers

2020/1

Lexical iconicity is differentially favored under transmission in a new sign language: The effect of type of iconicity

Sign Language & Linguistics

Jennie Pyers

Ann Senghas

2020/10/30

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Co-Authors

H-index: 122
Elizabeth Spelke

Elizabeth Spelke

Harvard University

H-index: 71
Karen Emmorey

Karen Emmorey

San Diego State University

H-index: 57
Jill de Villiers

Jill de Villiers

Smith College

H-index: 50
Tamar Gollan

Tamar Gollan

University of California, San Diego

H-index: 43
Peter A. de Villiers

Peter A. de Villiers

Smith College

H-index: 28
Gigi Luk

Gigi Luk

McGill University

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