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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Review of Sarah Duffy and Michele Feist. Time, metaphor, and language: A cognitive science perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2023, 209 pp.21
Emotional Stroop Test in online and offline experimental procedures: the comparison of two different modes of conducting studies13
Dynamics of English gratitude expression: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK government COVID-19 briefings – ERRATUM13
Prosody and head gestures as markers of information status in French as a native and foreign language11
Metaphors and culturally unique idioms of eating and drinking in Mongolian11
Gender is conceptualized in different ways across cultures11
Better letter: iconicity in the manual alphabets of American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language11
Information structure effects on the processing of nouns and verbs: evidence from event-related brain potentials10
Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood10
The conceptual nature of the Turkish emotion term ‘Heyecan’10
Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny, From signal to symbol: The evolution of language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021, xx + 272 pp., ISBN: 9780262045971.10
The effect of letter-case type on the semantic processing of words and sentences during attentive and mind-wandering states9
Comparing the cognitive load of gesture and action production: a dual-task study8
Attentionally modulated motor-to-semantic priming: evidence from a property verification task8
Backchannel behavior is idiosyncratic8
Working memory modulates the effect of music on word learning8
“Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.” A functional description of time expressions through fingers based on Chinese Sign Language naturalistic data7
Deliberate synchronization of speech and gesture: effects of neurodiversity and development7
The impact of L2 English on choice perception, interpretation, and preference for L1 Arabic speakers7
How language influences spatial thinking, categorization of motion events, and gaze behavior: a cross-linguistic comparison7
Literally ‘a jerk’: an experimental investigation of expressives in predicative position6
Praxis, demonstration and pantomime: a motion capture investigation of differences in action performances6
Aesthetic emotional reactions and their verbal expression in a corpus of Japanese travellers’ online reviews6
Ecological affordances and fire metaphors: the salience of injury6
Does word knowledge account for the effect of world knowledge on pronoun interpretation?6
A few or several? Construal, quantity, and argumentativity6
Manner, result, and intention: implications for event typology from a cognitive account of verb semantics based on fulfilment types6
What counts as a multimodal metaphor and metonymy? Evolution of inter-rater reliability across rounds of annotation6
Categorising emotion words: the influence of response options6
Metonymic relations underlying the one-word utterances of Afrikaans-speaking infants and toddlers6
The many facets of inhibitory control and their role in syntactic selection5
A self-paced reading study of context effects in the processing of aspectual verbs in Mandarin5
On the role of space–valence congruency in bilingual orientational metaphor processing5
How much conversation content is actually social: human conversational behaviour revisited5
The influence of three-gendered grammatical systems on simultaneous bilingual cognition: the case of Ukrainian-Russian bilinguals – CORRIGENDUM5
The effects of interword spacing and morphological complexity in reading Thai: an eye-tracking study5
Beyond the conservative hypothesis: a meta-analysis of lexical-semantic processing in Williams syndrome – ERRATUM5
Within- and cross-language semantic effects on oral word translation with a word flanker paradigm – ADDENDUM5
A multifactorial analysis of anaphoric form choice in mandarin5
Better early than late: the temporal dynamics of pointing cues during cross-situational word learning5
Catching a CAPTCHA: the impact of variable input on the processing of emerging orthographic representations5
Labelling and iconicity facilitate visual categorisation and discrimination5
From co-speech actions to co-speech gestures? Effects of visibility and information structure on cross-modal synchronization4
Emotive content and sleep enhance memory for metaphorical language4
The role of audience design and goal bias in message generation: Evidence from Chinese source-goal motion events4
Mapping of individual time units in horizontal space4
Discourse comprehension and referential processing: effects of contextual distance and semantic plausibility on presupposition processing4
Do hand gestures increase perceived prominence in naturally produced utterances?4
Language, but not music, shapes tactile perception4
Gesture, prosodic prominence and stresslessness in Indonesian4
Cognitive mechanisms in simile and metaphor comprehension4
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
Observers use gesture to disambiguate contrastive expressions of preference4
A blending analysis of metaphors and metonymies used to depict the deal of the century by Jordanian cartoonists4
What is German ‘Angst’ (fear/anxiety)? A corpus approach based on frame analysis4
The heart attack of the Polish health service: metaphors, arguments, and emotional appeals in political debates3
Looking differently at locative events: the cognitive impact of linguistic preferences3
Language control in auditory bilingual comprehension: uncovering novel evidence from the n − 2 repetition paradigm3
Adriana Gordejuela Senosiáin, Flashbacks in Film: A Cognitive and Multimodal Analysis. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. 185 pp. ISBN: 978-0-367-72131-2.3
Dynamics of English gratitude expression: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK government COVID-19 briefings3
The ambiguous nature of complex semantic types: an experimental investigation3
Perceptual structure of opposites across sensory modalities3
Direction of reading, not writing, shapes concepts of time3
Learning speaker-specific linguistic ‘style’ is mediated by deviance from common language use3
The intimacy-power relationships in the usage of direct criticism in Chinese: a reflection of rapport management3
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
Does reading about fictional minds make us more curious about real ones?3
The neural processing of the interaction between accentuation and lexical prediction during spoken sentence comprehension3
Metaphor and multisensoriality drive appreciation in print advertising: an experimental study of visual and linguistic synaesthetic metaphors3
Chunking up speech in real time: linguistic predictors and cognitive constraints3
Explicit instruction improves the comprehension of Spanish object relatives by young monolingual children3
How flexible is the orthographic processing of flankers? Effects for letter order and letter identification3
Gender conflicts in German possessives: comparing inanimate to human reference reveals asymmetries2
Frequency-based salience of dual meanings in conventional metaphor acquisition: Evidence from toddlers in Urban England2
“Talking heads” in Portuguese sign and spoken languages2
Visual support in easy language: The impact of images on comprehension, perceived difficulty and eye movements2
Exploring metaphorical conceptualizations of ENVY in English and Chinese: A multifactorial corpus analysis2
Dresses and ties: the effect of grammatical gender and stereotypical semantic bias in three Spanish-speaking communities2
The picture looks like my music sounds: directional preferences in synesthetic metaphors in the absence of lexical factors2
Event integration as a driving force of language change: evidence from Chinese 使-shǐ-make2
Many ways to decline a noun: Elicitation of children’s novel noun inflection in Estonian – ERRATUM2
Big-Five model of personality and word formation: role of open-mindedness in semantic transparency and economy of expression2
Corpus evidence for lexical and genre effects in the metaphorical conceptualization of negative self-evaluative emotions: The case of shame and embarrassment2
The sensitivity to pragmatic-conceptual representations in garden path double relatives in L1 Mandarin – CORRIGENDUM2
Picture perfect peaks: comprehension of inferential techniques in visual narratives2
Identifying bilingual reference profiles: a cluster-analysis approach to reference production among Greek–Italian bilingual children2
Understanding demonstrative reference in text: a new taxonomy based on a new corpus2
I’m whispering a white Christmas: masking relations in hallucinatory speech2
Early acquisition of figurative meanings in polysemous nouns and verbs2
Individual differences in structural priming in bilingual and monolingual children: the influence of perspective-taking2
Masked orthographic neighbor priming effects in Chinese two-character words2
Mapping the body to the discourse hierarchy in sign language emergence2
Processing manner under high cognitive pressure: Evidence from French–English and English–French simultaneous interpreting2
Representations of numerals in Tibetan–Mandarin bilinguals2
The meaning of ‘frustration’ across languages2
A conceptual replication of an implicit test of grammatical gender effects on inanimate concepts2
Multimodal encoding of motion events in speech, gesture and cognition2
Quality, not quantity, impacts the differentiation of near-synonyms2
Learning novel words for motion by speakers of structurally different languages2
A multimodal approach to polysemy: the senses of touch2
Tracing thick and thin concepts through corpora2
Prosody of focus in Turkish Sign Language2
A mathematical model of semantic access in lexical and semantic decisions2
Attribution of subjective experience to geometric figures in narratives by autistic children and children with developmental language disorder2
Contrasting the semantic space of ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’ in English and Japanese2
Interaction does not lead to spontaneous category-based conditioning in an artificial language2
Inherent linguistic preference outcompetes incidental alignment in cooperative partner choice2
When more is less: the impact of multimorphemic words on learning word meaning2
The age of acquisition effect in processing second language words and its relationship with the age of acquisition of the first language1
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
Comparing the semantic structures of lexicon of Mandarin and English1
Semantic differences in visually similar face emojis1
The test of time: experimentally recreating the reanalysis of FINISH as a recent past marker1
Classifiers in competition for categorization1
Unraveling the force dynamics in conceptual metaphors of COVID-19: a multilevel analysis1
The organization of semantic associations between senses in language1
Emotion-dependent linguistic features of autobiographical memory of different specificity1
High ceilings and ingenuine allies: tapping into the idiom meaning knowledge of first and second language speakers of English1
The semantic content of concrete, abstract, specific, and generic concepts1
Speaking but not gesturing predicts event memory: a cross-linguistic comparison1
Prosody and head gestures as markers of information status in French as a native and foreign language – ERRATUM1
When adding a little is adding too much: how discourse particles force immediate reanalysis and increase processing costs in under-specific contexts1
The impact of the diversity of language use across social contexts on the recruitment of proactive and reactive cognitive control1
The perceptual span in traditional Chinese1
Scalar inference calculation through the lens of degree estimates1
Morphological processing of complex and simple pseudo-words in adults and older adults1
Event end-state encoding in 13-month-olds—completed and non-completed events are different1
The influence of three-gendered grammatical systems on simultaneous bilingual cognition: The case of Ukrainian-Russian bilinguals1
Egocentric and allocentric memory recall strategies moderate transfer action sentence recognition1
Multimodal training on L2 Japanese pitch accent: learning outcomes, neural correlates and subjective assessments1
Redefining linguistic categories through network theory1
The English conative alternation between complexity effects and lexical biases: a historical perspective1
Motion events in Swedish and French: a Holistic Spatial Semantics analysis1
Backchannels in conversations between autistic adults are less frequent and less diverse prosodically and lexically1
Dickens in Chol1
Comparisons between processing linguistic and mathematical negations from the perspective of the practice effect and working memory1
Uyghur–Chinese early successive adult bilinguals’ construal of caused motion events1
Foreign to whom? Constraining the moral foreign language effect on bilinguals’ language experience1
Grammatical unidirectionality is not reflected in individual preferences when performing artificial semantic extension1
Predictive processing can override perceptual information: evidence from Spanish object relative clauses1
Syntax and object types contribute in different ways to bilinguals’ comprehension of spatial descriptions1
Minding the manner: attention to motion events in Turkish–Dutch early bilinguals1
Comparisons between processing linguistic and mathematical negations from the perspective of the practice effect and working memory – ERRATUM1
Perceiving colour through a language lens: a scoping review of experimental work on effects of language on colour perception1
Who’s afraid of homophones? A multimethodological approach to homophony avoidance1
Numbers skyrocket in English but increase in Spanish: metaphoric conceptualization and manner expression in translations1
Ideophones are more reliable than metaphors in Japanese pain descriptions1
The effect of L2 proficiency on L1 and L2 embodied effects in a bilingual context1
Aging and distributional tone learning: the role of pitch memory in older adults’ discrimination of mandarin lexical tones1
Sensory modality profiles of antonyms1
Lexical influences on predictive mouse cursor movements1
Linguistic variation in the interpretation and production of Italian motion event constructions in younger and older adults: evidence for language change?1
Typological differences and cognitive load in manner processing: a corpus-based study of Chinese–English and English–Chinese consecutive interpreting1
They really, really, really don’t like to admit they made mistakes: A critical discourse analysis of appraisal in wrongful convictions1
Scales and inferences1
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