Roger W. Wescott

Publications by Year

Research Areas

Linguistic Variation and Morphology, Categorization, perception, and language, Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity, Language and cultural evolution, Lexicography and Language Studies

Most-Cited Works

• → Primate Communication and the Gestural Origin of Language [and Comments and Reply](1973)723 cited
• → The Human Revolution [and Comments and Reply](1964)180 cited
• → The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture [and Comments and Reply](1974)155 cited
• → From Brightness to Hue: An Explanatory Model of Color-Category Evolution [and Comments and Reply](1992)141 cited
• → On the Origins of Language: An Introduction to the Evolution of Human Speech.(1976)137 cited
• → Linguistic Iconism(1971)95 cited
• → Essays in the Science of Culture in Honor of Leslie A. White.(1961)91 cited
• → The Influence of Psychotropic Flora and Fauna on Maya Religion [and Comments and Reply](1974)72 cited
• → Apes, Men and Language.(1976)49 cited
• → Lexicon of Black English(1979)47 cited