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Megan Solon

Arts and Humanities · Indiana University

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Mid career · publishing since 2007
EFL/ESL Teaching and LearningLinguistic Variation and MorphologyPhonetics and Phonology ResearchSecond Language Learning and TeachingMultilingual Education and Policy

Publications

70

Citations

701

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

19

Publishing since 2007

Research summary
AI-generated

Megan Solon studies how people learn and use a second language, with particular attention to Spanish. Her work focuses on pronunciation and sound patterns (sociophonetics), how learners pick up socially-influenced variation in speech, and on methods for measuring language proficiency in research. Some of her work also examines heritage language speakers (people who grew up with a home language) and how language shapes social and political terms.

Second language acquisitionSociophonetics of second-language speechSpanish and heritage language learningLanguage proficiency assessment methodsSociolinguistic variation

Publication activity has fluctuated year to year over the past decade, with peaks around 2018 and 2021 and a recent average of about four publications per year.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

In context
Among 146 mid career Arts and Humanities PIs within our index
Citations: 701cohort median 179
h-index: 14cohort median 6
Publications / year (recent): 4.0cohort median 1.6

Typically publishes in teams of ~3 · 73% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 20 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 4.0/year recently
2017: 4 publications172018: 11 publications182019: 2 publications192020: 2 publications202021: 12 publications12212022: 9 publications222023: 3 publications232024: 1 publication242025: 7 publications2526
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 0 collaborators at the same institution2018: 1 collaborator at the same institution2019: 0 collaborators at the same institution2020: 0 collaborators at the same institution2021: 0 collaborators at the same institution2022: 0 collaborators at the same institution2023: 0 collaborators at the same institution2024: 0 collaborators at the same institution2025: 0 collaborators at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Studies in Second Language Acquisition×7
  • Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics×5
  • Language learning and language teaching×2
  • Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics×2
  • AILA applied linguistics series×2
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Sep 1, 2026.

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