OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood	17
Review of Sarah Duffy and Michele Feist. Time, metaphor, and language: A cognitive science perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2023, 209 pp.	12
Dynamics of English gratitude expression: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK government COVID-19 briefings – ERRATUM	11
Information structure effects on the processing of nouns and verbs: evidence from event-related brain potentials	10
Prosody and head gestures as markers of information status in French as a native and foreign language	10
Many ways to decline a noun: elicitation of children’s novel noun inflection in Estonian	10
Metaphors and culturally unique idioms of eating and drinking in Mongolian	10
The conceptual nature of the Turkish emotion term ‘Heyecan’	9
Better letter: iconicity in the manual alphabets of American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language	9
Emotional Stroop Test in online and offline experimental procedures: the comparison of two different modes of conducting studies	8
Comparing the cognitive load of gesture and action production: a dual-task study	8
Gender is conceptualized in different ways across cultures	8
The effect of letter-case type on the semantic processing of words and sentences during attentive and mind-wandering states	8
Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny, From signal to symbol: The evolution of language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021, xx + 272 pp., ISBN: 9780262045971.	8
How language influences spatial thinking, categorization of motion events, and gaze behavior: a cross-linguistic comparison	7
“Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.” A functional description of time expressions through fingers based on Chinese Sign Language naturalistic data	7
Attentionally modulated motor-to-semantic priming: evidence from a property verification task	7
What counts as a multimodal metaphor and metonymy? Evolution of inter-rater reliability across rounds of annotation	6
The impact of L2 English on choice perception, interpretation, and preference for L1 Arabic speakers	6
Manner, result, and intention: implications for event typology from a cognitive account of verb semantics based on fulfilment types	6
Backchannel behavior is idiosyncratic	6
Deliberate synchronization of speech and gesture: effects of neurodiversity and development	6
Working memory modulates the effect of music on word learning	6
Metonymic relations underlying the one-word utterances of Afrikaans-speaking infants and toddlers	5
Categorising emotion words: the influence of response options	5

On the role of space–valence congruency in bilingual orientational metaphor processing	5
Praxis, demonstration and pantomime: a motion capture investigation of differences in action performances	5
Does word knowledge account for the effect of world knowledge on pronoun interpretation?	5
Catching a CAPTCHA: the impact of variable input on the processing of emerging orthographic representations	5
A few or several? Construal, quantity, and argumentativity	5
Literally ‘a jerk’: an experimental investigation of expressives in predicative position	5
Aesthetic emotional reactions and their verbal expression in a corpus of Japanese travellers’ online reviews	5
The many facets of inhibitory control and their role in syntactic selection	5
The influence of three-gendered grammatical systems on simultaneous bilingual cognition: the case of Ukrainian-Russian bilinguals – CORRIGENDUM	4
The effects of interword spacing and morphological complexity in reading Thai: an eye-tracking study	4
Labelling and iconicity facilitate visual categorisation and discrimination	4
Observers use gesture to disambiguate contrastive expressions of preference	4
How much conversation content is actually social: human conversational behaviour revisited	4
Better early than late: the temporal dynamics of pointing cues during cross-situational word learning	4
Beyond the conservative hypothesis: a meta-analysis of lexical-semantic processing in Williams syndrome – ERRATUM	4
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
The role of audience design and goal bias in message generation: Evidence from Chinese source-goal motion events	4
A self-paced reading study of context effects in the processing of aspectual verbs in Mandarin	4
Do hand gestures increase perceived prominence in naturally produced utterances?	4
Language, but not music, shapes tactile perception	4
Mapping of individual time units in horizontal space	4
Chunking up speech in real time: linguistic predictors and cognitive constraints	3
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
Explicit instruction improves the comprehension of Spanish object relatives by young monolingual children	3
What is German ‘Angst’ (fear/anxiety)? A corpus approach based on frame analysis	3
Perceptual structure of opposites across sensory modalities	3
A blending analysis of metaphors and metonymies used to depict the deal of the century by Jordanian cartoonists	3
Learning speaker-specific linguistic ‘style’ is mediated by deviance from common language use	3
Dynamics of English gratitude expression: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK government COVID-19 briefings	3
The ambiguous nature of complex semantic types: an experimental investigation	3
Does reading about fictional minds make us more curious about real ones?	3
Direction of reading, not writing, shapes concepts of time	3
Language control in auditory bilingual comprehension: uncovering novel evidence from the n − 2 repetition paradigm	3
The intimacy-power relationships in the usage of direct criticism in Chinese: a reflection of rapport management	3
Uncovering echoic mechanisms in verbal irony comprehension	3
The heart attack of the Polish health service: metaphors, arguments, and emotional appeals in political debates	3
The neural processing of the interaction between accentuation and lexical prediction during spoken sentence comprehension	3
Discourse comprehension and referential processing: effects of contextual distance and semantic plausibility on presupposition processing	3
Looking differently at locative events: the cognitive impact of linguistic preferences	3
Corpus evidence for lexical and genre effects in the metaphorical conceptualization of negative self-evaluative emotions: The case of shame and embarrassment	2
Picture perfect peaks: comprehension of inferential techniques in visual narratives	2
Tracing thick and thin concepts through corpora	2
Early acquisition of figurative meanings in polysemous nouns and verbs	2
Frequency-based salience of dual meanings in conventional metaphor acquisition: Evidence from toddlers in Urban England	2
Big-Five model of personality and word formation: role of open-mindedness in semantic transparency and economy of expression	2
The picture looks like my music sounds: directional preferences in synesthetic metaphors in the absence of lexical factors	2
When more is less: the impact of multimorphemic words on learning word meaning	2
Identifying bilingual reference profiles: a cluster-analysis approach to reference production among Greek–Italian bilingual children	2
Individual differences in structural priming in bilingual and monolingual children: the influence of perspective-taking	2
Processing manner under high cognitive pressure: Evidence from French–English and English–French simultaneous interpreting	2

Multimodal encoding of motion events in speech, gesture and cognition	2
A mathematical model of semantic access in lexical and semantic decisions	2
Understanding demonstrative reference in text: a new taxonomy based on a new corpus	2
Attribution of subjective experience to geometric figures in narratives by autistic children and children with developmental language disorder	2
Mapping the body to the discourse hierarchy in sign language emergence	2
A conceptual replication of an implicit test of grammatical gender effects on inanimate concepts	2
Exploring metaphorical conceptualizations of ENVY in English and Chinese: A multifactorial corpus analysis	2
The sensitivity to pragmatic-conceptual representations in garden path double relatives in L1 Mandarin – CORRIGENDUM	2
Inherent linguistic preference outcompetes incidental alignment in cooperative partner choice	2
“Talking heads” in Portuguese sign and spoken languages	2
Gender conflicts in German possessives: comparing inanimate to human reference reveals asymmetries	2
How flexible is the orthographic processing of flankers? Effects for letter order and letter identification	2
The meaning of ‘frustration’ across languages	2
Quality, not quantity, impacts the differentiation of near-synonyms	2
A multimodal approach to polysemy: the senses of touch	2
Interaction does not lead to spontaneous category-based conditioning in an artificial language	2
Many ways to decline a noun: Elicitation of children’s novel noun inflection in Estonian – ERRATUM	2
Representations of numerals in Tibetan–Mandarin bilinguals	2
Masked orthographic neighbor priming effects in Chinese two-character words	2
Prosody of focus in Turkish Sign Language	2
Contrasting the semantic space of ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’ in English and Japanese	2
Semantic differences in visually similar face emojis	1
The semantic content of concrete, abstract, specific, and generic concepts	1
Motion events in Swedish and French: a Holistic Spatial Semantics analysis	1
Unraveling the force dynamics in conceptual metaphors of COVID-19: a multilevel analysis	1
Ideophones are more reliable than metaphors in Japanese pain descriptions	1
High ceilings and ingenuine allies: tapping into the idiom meaning knowledge of first and second language speakers of English	1
Who’s afraid of homophones? A multimethodological approach to homophony avoidance	1
Multimodal training on L2 Japanese pitch accent: learning outcomes, neural correlates and subjective assessments	1
Prosody and head gestures as markers of information status in French as a native and foreign language – ERRATUM	1
Learning novel words for motion by speakers of structurally different languages	1
I’m whispering a white Christmas: masking relations in hallucinatory speech	1
The English conative alternation between complexity effects and lexical biases: a historical perspective	1
Grammatical unidirectionality is not reflected in individual preferences when performing artificial semantic extension	1
Perceiving colour through a language lens: a scoping review of experimental work on effects of language on colour perception	1
Sensory modality profiles of antonyms	1
Foreign to whom? Constraining the moral foreign language effect on bilinguals’ language experience	1
Redefining linguistic categories through network theory	1
Aging and distributional tone learning: the role of pitch memory in older adults’ discrimination of mandarin lexical tones	1
Comparing the semantic structures of lexicon of Mandarin and English	1
They really, really, really don’t like to admit they made mistakes: A critical discourse analysis of appraisal in wrongful convictions	1
Scales and inferences	1
Speaking but not gesturing predicts event memory: a cross-linguistic comparison	1
Typological differences and cognitive load in manner processing: a corpus-based study of Chinese–English and English–Chinese consecutive interpreting	1
Uyghur–Chinese early successive adult bilinguals’ construal of caused motion events	1
Event integration as a driving force of language change: evidence from Chinese 使-shǐ-make	1
When adding a little is adding too much: how discourse particles force immediate reanalysis and increase processing costs in under-specific contexts	1
Classifiers in competition for categorization	1
Egocentric and allocentric memory recall strategies moderate transfer action sentence recognition	1
The influence of three-gendered grammatical systems on simultaneous bilingual cognition: The case of Ukrainian-Russian bilinguals	1
Numbers skyrocket in English but increase in Spanish: metaphoric conceptualization and manner expression in translations	1
Dickens in Chol	1
Minding the manner: attention to motion events in Turkish–Dutch early bilinguals	1
Event end-state encoding in 13-month-olds—completed and non-completed events are different	1
Lexical influences on predictive mouse cursor movements	1
Comparisons between processing linguistic and mathematical negations from the perspective of the practice effect and working memory	1
Linguistic variation in the interpretation and production of Italian motion event constructions in younger and older adults: evidence for language change?	1
Backchannels in conversations between autistic adults are less frequent and less diverse prosodically and lexically	1
Dresses and ties: the effect of grammatical gender and stereotypical semantic bias in three Spanish-speaking communities	1
The organization of semantic associations between senses in language	1