Language and Cognition

Papers
(The median citation count of Language and Cognition is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Review of Sarah Duffy and Michele Feist. Time, metaphor, and language: A cognitive science perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2023, 209 pp.21
Gender is conceptualized in different ways across cultures15
The conceptual nature of the Turkish emotion term ‘Heyecan’14
Metaphors and culturally unique idioms of eating and drinking in Mongolian14
Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood13
Dynamics of English gratitude expression: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK government COVID-19 briefings – ERRATUM13
Better letter: iconicity in the manual alphabets of American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language12
Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny, From signal to symbol: The evolution of language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021, xx + 272 pp., ISBN: 9780262045971.11
Emotional Stroop Test in online and offline experimental procedures: the comparison of two different modes of conducting studies11
Prosody and head gestures as markers of information status in French as a native and foreign language11
Testing the Event Visibility Hypothesis in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS)11
Attentionally modulated motor-to-semantic priming: evidence from a property verification task10
Working memory modulates the effect of music on word learning10
How language influences spatial thinking, categorization of motion events, and gaze behavior: a cross-linguistic comparison10
Backchannel behavior is idiosyncratic9
Praxis, demonstration and pantomime: a motion capture investigation of differences in action performances9
Comparing the cognitive load of gesture and action production: a dual-task study9
Manner, result, and intention: implications for event typology from a cognitive account of verb semantics based on fulfilment types9
The effect of letter-case type on the semantic processing of words and sentences during attentive and mind-wandering states9
What counts as a multimodal metaphor and metonymy? Evolution of inter-rater reliability across rounds of annotation8
The interaction of language and music: a psycholinguistic approach for a shared pitch mechanism (?)8
Ecological affordances and fire metaphors: the salience of injury8
Literally ‘a jerk’: an experimental investigation of expressives in predicative position8
Deliberate synchronization of speech and gesture: effects of neurodiversity and development8
Aesthetic emotional reactions and their verbal expression in a corpus of Japanese travellers’ online reviews7
Categorising emotion words: the influence of response options7
A multifactorial analysis of anaphoric form choice in mandarin7
The impact of L2 English on choice perception, interpretation, and preference for L1 Arabic speakers7
A few or several? Construal, quantity, and argumentativity7
Metonymic relations underlying the one-word utterances of Afrikaans-speaking infants and toddlers6
Catching a CAPTCHA: the impact of variable input on the processing of emerging orthographic representations6
Does word knowledge account for the effect of world knowledge on pronoun interpretation?6
The many facets of inhibitory control and their role in syntactic selection6
The influence of three-gendered grammatical systems on simultaneous bilingual cognition: the case of Ukrainian-Russian bilinguals – CORRIGENDUM5
A self-paced reading study of context effects in the processing of aspectual verbs in Mandarin5
Beyond the conservative hypothesis: a meta-analysis of lexical-semantic processing in Williams syndrome – ERRATUM5
Behavioural dimensions reveal lead-lag patterns in the cognitive internalization of permissive subjects in English, Dutch and German5
Figurative language is (implicitly) more dynamic and emotionally deeper than literal language – CORRIGENDUM5
Better early than late: the temporal dynamics of pointing cues during cross-situational word learning5
Do hand gestures increase perceived prominence in naturally produced utterances?5
Within- and cross-language semantic effects on oral word translation with a word flanker paradigm – ADDENDUM5
The effects of interword spacing and morphological complexity in reading Thai: an eye-tracking study5
On the role of space–valence congruency in bilingual orientational metaphor processing5
Labelling and iconicity facilitate visual categorisation and discrimination5
The role of audience design and goal bias in message generation: Evidence from Chinese source-goal motion events4
From co-speech actions to co-speech gestures? Effects of visibility and information structure on cross-modal synchronization4
Cognitive mechanisms in simile and metaphor comprehension4
Gesture, prosodic prominence and stresslessness in Indonesian4
The heart attack of the Polish health service: metaphors, arguments, and emotional appeals in political debates4
Language control in auditory bilingual comprehension: uncovering novel evidence from the n − 2 repetition paradigm4
Does reading about fictional minds make us more curious about real ones?4
Looking differently at locative events: the cognitive impact of linguistic preferences4
Mapping of individual time units in horizontal space4
Language, but not music, shapes tactile perception4
Lei Lei and Dilin Liu, Conducting Sentiment Analysis. Cambridge University Press, 2021. pp. 104. ISBN 978-1-108-82921-2 (paperback), 978-1-108-90967-9 (E-book)4
Contrasting different context sources in processing lifetime-tense (in)congruence: evidence from cumulative self-paced reading time experiments4
Discourse comprehension and referential processing: effects of contextual distance and semantic plausibility on presupposition processing4
A blending analysis of metaphors and metonymies used to depict the deal of the century by Jordanian cartoonists4
Direction of reading, not writing, shapes concepts of time4
The neural processing of the interaction between accentuation and lexical prediction during spoken sentence comprehension4
Early predictors of auditory comprehension in 36-month-old children born with risk factors for brain damage4
Emotive content and sleep enhance memory for metaphorical language4
How much conversation content is actually social: human conversational behaviour revisited4
Information, iconicity and Zipf’s law of abbreviation in visual languages of global comics4
What is German ‘Angst’ (fear/anxiety)? A corpus approach based on frame analysis4
The intimacy-power relationships in the usage of direct criticism in Chinese: a reflection of rapport management4
Learning speaker-specific linguistic ‘style’ is mediated by deviance from common language use4
Perceptual structure of opposites across sensory modalities4
Masked orthographic neighbor priming effects in Chinese two-character words3
Many ways to decline a noun: Elicitation of children’s novel noun inflection in Estonian – ERRATUM3
The linguistic basis of narrative suspense: narrative suspense depends on potentially inquiry-terminating questions3
Metaphor and multisensoriality drive appreciation in print advertising: an experimental study of visual and linguistic synaesthetic metaphors3
Scalar alternative activation for implicature processing: a lexical decision study with antonyms and negation3
The ambiguous nature of complex semantic types: an experimental investigation3
How flexible is the orthographic processing of flankers? Effects for letter order and letter identification3
Patterns of speech and gesture production in the communications of bilinguals and monolinguals: Do speakers’ proficiency and discourse context matter?3
The meaning of ‘frustration’ across languages3
Exploring metaphorical conceptualizations of ENVY in English and Chinese: A multifactorial corpus analysis3
Emotional Stroop Test in online and offline experimental procedures: the comparison of two different modes of conducting studies – ADDENDUM3
Picture perfect peaks: comprehension of inferential techniques in visual narratives3
Dynamics of English gratitude expression: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK government COVID-19 briefings3
Uncovering echoic mechanisms in verbal irony comprehension3
Russian verbal aspect and the activation of event knowledge: processing typical and atypical location adverbials in perfective and imperfective sentences3
Gender conflicts in German possessives: comparing inanimate to human reference reveals asymmetries3
Corpus evidence for lexical and genre effects in the metaphorical conceptualization of negative self-evaluative emotions: The case of shame and embarrassment3
Inherent linguistic preference outcompetes incidental alignment in cooperative partner choice3
Identifying bilingual reference profiles: a cluster-analysis approach to reference production among Greek–Italian bilingual children3
Explicit instruction improves the comprehension of Spanish object relatives by young monolingual children3
Chunking up speech in real time: linguistic predictors and cognitive constraints3
Does linguistic similarity matter in the foreign language effect in decision making and emotional resonance?3
Multimodal encoding of motion events in speech, gesture and cognition3
Processing manner under high cognitive pressure: Evidence from French–English and English–French simultaneous interpreting3
High ceilings and ingenuine allies: tapping into the idiom meaning knowledge of first and second language speakers of English2
Uyghur–Chinese early successive adult bilinguals’ construal of caused motion events2
Event integration as a driving force of language change: evidence from Chinese 使-shǐ-make2
Introduction to the special issue ‘Multimodal prosody: prosody in the spoken and visual domains’2
Representations of numerals in Tibetan–Mandarin bilinguals2
Interaction does not lead to spontaneous category-based conditioning in an artificial language2
Prosody of focus in Turkish Sign Language2
Individual differences in structural priming in bilingual and monolingual children: the influence of perspective-taking2
Visual support in easy language: The impact of images on comprehension, perceived difficulty and eye movements2
When adding a little is adding too much: how discourse particles force immediate reanalysis and increase processing costs in under-specific contexts2
Speaking but not gesturing predicts event memory: a cross-linguistic comparison2
The organization of semantic associations between senses in language2
Aging and distributional tone learning: the role of pitch memory in older adults’ discrimination of mandarin lexical tones2
Ad hoc concepts and linguistic relativity: towards an experiential and situated view of language–cognition interactions2
I’m whispering a white Christmas: masking relations in hallucinatory speech2
Learning novel words for motion by speakers of structurally different languages2
Attribution of subjective experience to geometric figures in narratives by autistic children and children with developmental language disorder2
A conceptual replication of an implicit test of grammatical gender effects on inanimate concepts2
Mapping the body to the discourse hierarchy in sign language emergence2
Tracing thick and thin concepts through corpora2
A mathematical model of semantic access in lexical and semantic decisions2
Quality, not quantity, impacts the differentiation of near-synonyms2
“Talking heads” in Portuguese sign and spoken languages2
Dresses and ties: the effect of grammatical gender and stereotypical semantic bias in three Spanish-speaking communities2
Comparisons between processing linguistic and mathematical negations from the perspective of the practice effect and working memory2
They really, really, really don’t like to admit they made mistakes: A critical discourse analysis of appraisal in wrongful convictions2
Backchannels in conversations between autistic adults are less frequent and less diverse prosodically and lexically2
Linguistic variation in the interpretation and production of Italian motion event constructions in younger and older adults: evidence for language change?2
The sensitivity to pragmatic-conceptual representations in garden path double relatives in L1 Mandarin – CORRIGENDUM2
Typological differences and cognitive load in manner processing: a corpus-based study of Chinese–English and English–Chinese consecutive interpreting2
Code-switching in text and speech challenges information-theoretic speaker design2
Prosody and head gestures as markers of information status in French as a native and foreign language – ERRATUM2
When more is less: the impact of multimorphemic words on learning word meaning2
Big-Five model of personality and word formation: role of open-mindedness in semantic transparency and economy of expression2
Frequency-based salience of dual meanings in conventional metaphor acquisition: Evidence from toddlers in Urban England2
Contrasting the semantic space of ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’ in English and Japanese2
Early acquisition of figurative meanings in polysemous nouns and verbs2
Lexical influences on predictive mouse cursor movements2
A multimodal approach to polysemy: the senses of touch2
The English conative alternation between complexity effects and lexical biases: a historical perspective2
Who’s afraid of homophones? A multimethodological approach to homophony avoidance1
Predictability effects in degraded speech comprehension are reduced as a function of attention1
The impact of the diversity of language use across social contexts on the recruitment of proactive and reactive cognitive control1
Emotion-dependent linguistic features of autobiographical memory of different specificity1
Egocentric and allocentric memory recall strategies moderate transfer action sentence recognition1
The test of time: experimentally recreating the reanalysis of FINISH as a recent past marker1
Effect of age of first exposure on L2 contextual lexical semantic learning: an ERP investigation1
Perceiving colour through a language lens: a scoping review of experimental work on effects of language on colour perception1
The age of acquisition effect in processing second language words and its relationship with the age of acquisition of the first language1
Past and future time reference processing teased apart in Paiwan, an endangered Formosan language1
What the development of gesture with and without speech can tell us about the effect of language on thought1
Semantic differences in visually similar face emojis1
The long and small of it: language shapes duration estimation in speakers of English and Greek1
Motion events in Swedish and French: a Holistic Spatial Semantics analysis1
The effect of lexicalization biases on cross-situational statistical learning of novel verbs1
Classifiers in competition for categorization1
Grammatical unidirectionality is not reflected in individual preferences when performing artificial semantic extension1
Habitual code-switching between English and Cantonese: bilingual language control reflected by cognitive load in sight translation1
Ideophones are more reliable than metaphors in Japanese pain descriptions1
Multimodal training on L2 Japanese pitch accent: learning outcomes, neural correlates and subjective assessments1
Scalar inference calculation through the lens of degree estimates1
A learning perspective on the emergence of abstractions: the curious case of phone(me)s1
Numbers skyrocket in English but increase in Spanish: metaphoric conceptualization and manner expression in translations1
Role of arousal, subjective significance and valence of affect in task-switching effectiveness1
Variable motion encoding within Chinese: a usage-based perspective1
Degree of bilingualism and executive function in early childhood1
Crossmodal collostructional analysis of English [ADV and ADV] constructions: multimodal constructions or crossmodal collostructions?1
Comparisons between processing linguistic and mathematical negations from the perspective of the practice effect and working memory – ERRATUM1
The perceptual span in traditional Chinese1
The influence of three-gendered grammatical systems on simultaneous bilingual cognition: The case of Ukrainian-Russian bilinguals1
Predictive processing can override perceptual information: evidence from Spanish object relative clauses1
Redefining linguistic categories through network theory1
Foreign to whom? Constraining the moral foreign language effect on bilinguals’ language experience1
Women, blood, and dangerous things: socio-cultural variation in the conceptualization of menstruation1
The effect of L2 proficiency on L1 and L2 embodied effects in a bilingual context1
Syntax and object types contribute in different ways to bilinguals’ comprehension of spatial descriptions1
Sensory modality profiles of antonyms1
Scales and inferences1
Language and executive function relationships in the real world: insights from deafness1
The semantic content of concrete, abstract, specific, and generic concepts1
Risk-taking propensity and its influence on lexical decision performance: a comparative study of high- and low-risk groups1
Functional priority of syntax over semantics in Chinese ‘ba’ construction: evidence from eye-tracking during natural reading1
Musical perception skills predict speech imitation skills: differences between speakers of tone and intonation languages1
The effect of emotional prosody and referent characteristics on novel noun learning1
M. Bolognesi, M. Brdar, & K. Despot (eds.) (2019). Metaphor and metonymy in the digital age. Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language. John Benjamins (Metaphor in Langua1
Semantic information boosts the acquisition of a novel grammatical system in different presentation formats1
Comparing the semantic structures of lexicon of Mandarin and English1
What makes an awfully good oxymoron?1
Event end-state encoding in 13-month-olds—completed and non-completed events are different1
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