Language and Cognition

Papers
(The median citation count of Language and Cognition is 0. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Many ways to decline a noun: elicitation of children’s novel noun inflection in Estonian12
Dynamics of English gratitude expression: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK government COVID-19 briefings – ERRATUM12
Better letter: iconicity in the manual alphabets of American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language11
The conceptual nature of the Turkish emotion term ‘Heyecan’10
Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood10
Review of Sarah Duffy and Michele Feist. Time, metaphor, and language: A cognitive science perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2023, 209 pp.10
Information structure effects on the processing of nouns and verbs: evidence from event-related brain potentials9
Prosody and head gestures as markers of information status in French as a native and foreign language8
Emotional Stroop Test in online and offline experimental procedures: the comparison of two different modes of conducting studies8
Metaphors and culturally unique idioms of eating and drinking in Mongolian7
Gender is conceptualized in different ways across cultures7
Comparing the cognitive load of gesture and action production: a dual-task study6
Backchannel behavior is idiosyncratic6
Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny, From signal to symbol: The evolution of language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021, xx + 272 pp., ISBN: 9780262045971.6
Working memory modulates the effect of music on word learning6
The effect of letter-case type on the semantic processing of words and sentences during attentive and mind-wandering states6
How language influences spatial thinking, categorization of motion events, and gaze behavior: a cross-linguistic comparison6
“Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.” A functional description of time expressions through fingers based on Chinese Sign Language naturalistic data5
Manner, result, and intention: implications for event typology from a cognitive account of verb semantics based on fulfilment types5
The impact of L2 English on choice perception, interpretation, and preference for L1 Arabic speakers5
The role of relevance for scalar diversity: a usage-based approach5
What counts as a multimodal metaphor and metonymy? Evolution of inter-rater reliability across rounds of annotation5
Better early than late: the temporal dynamics of pointing cues during cross-situational word learning4
Does word knowledge account for the effect of world knowledge on pronoun interpretation?4
A few or several? Construal, quantity, and argumentativity4
Praxis, demonstration and pantomime: a motion capture investigation of differences in action performances4
Catching a CAPTCHA: the impact of variable input on the processing of emerging orthographic representations4
Aesthetic emotional reactions and their verbal expression in a corpus of Japanese travellers’ online reviews4
Literally ‘a jerk’: an experimental investigation of expressives in predicative position4
Categorising emotion words: the influence of response options4
A self-paced reading study of context effects in the processing of aspectual verbs in Mandarin4
The many facets of inhibitory control and their role in syntactic selection4
Metonymic relations underlying the one-word utterances of Afrikaans-speaking infants and toddlers4
Deliberate synchronization of speech and gesture: effects of neurodiversity and development4
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)3
How much conversation content is actually social: human conversational behaviour revisited3
Verb argument structure overgeneralisations for the English intransitive and transitive constructions: grammaticality judgments and production priming3
A blending analysis of metaphors and metonymies used to depict the deal of the century by Jordanian cartoonists3
The influence of three-gendered grammatical systems on simultaneous bilingual cognition: the case of Ukrainian-Russian bilinguals – CORRIGENDUM3
On the role of space–valence congruency in bilingual orientational metaphor processing3
Mapping of individual time units in horizontal space3
Observers use gesture to disambiguate contrastive expressions of preference3
Beyond the conservative hypothesis: a meta-analysis of lexical-semantic processing in Williams syndrome – ERRATUM3
How We Resist Metaphors3
Time heals all wounds: analysis of changes in temporal focus and implicit space–time mappings among survivors of the 2019 China earthquake over time3
The intimacy-power relationships in the usage of direct criticism in Chinese: a reflection of rapport management2
Learning speaker-specific linguistic ‘style’ is mediated by deviance from common language use2
Using depiction for efficient communication in LIS (Italian Sign Language)2
Chunking up speech in real time: linguistic predictors and cognitive constraints2
How flexible is the orthographic processing of flankers? Effects for letter order and letter identification2
The ambiguous nature of complex semantic types: an experimental investigation2
The picture looks like my music sounds: directional preferences in synesthetic metaphors in the absence of lexical factors2
Dynamics of English gratitude expression: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK government COVID-19 briefings2
Language control in auditory bilingual comprehension: uncovering novel evidence from the n − 2 repetition paradigm2
Discourse comprehension and referential processing: effects of contextual distance and semantic plausibility on presupposition processing2
Looking differently at locative events: the cognitive impact of linguistic preferences2
Explicit instruction improves the comprehension of Spanish object relatives by young monolingual children2
Contrasting the semantic space of ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’ in English and Japanese2
Resonance in dialogue: the interplay between intersubjective motivations and cognitive facilitation2
Processing manner under high cognitive pressure: Evidence from French–English and English–French simultaneous interpreting2
Corpus evidence for lexical and genre effects in the metaphorical conceptualization of negative self-evaluative emotions: The case of shame and embarrassment2
Adriana Gordejuela Senosiáin, Flashbacks in Film: A Cognitive and Multimodal Analysis. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. 185 pp. ISBN: 978-0-367-72131-2.2
The heart attack of the Polish health service: metaphors, arguments, and emotional appeals in political debates2
Does reading about fictional minds make us more curious about real ones?2
Picture perfect peaks: comprehension of inferential techniques in visual narratives2
Multimodal encoding of motion events in speech, gesture and cognition2
Masked orthographic neighbor priming effects in Chinese two-character words2
The meaning of ‘frustration’ across languages2
Uncovering echoic mechanisms in verbal irony comprehension2
Many ways to decline a noun: Elicitation of children’s novel noun inflection in Estonian – ERRATUM1
Backchannels in conversations between autistic adults are less frequent and less diverse prosodically and lexically1
Early acquisition of figurative meanings in polysemous nouns and verbs1
The sensitivity to pragmatic-conceptual representations in garden path double relatives in L1 Mandarin – CORRIGENDUM1
Exploring metaphorical conceptualizations of ENVY in English and Chinese: A multifactorial corpus analysis1
Individual differences in structural priming in bilingual and monolingual children: the influence of perspective-taking1
Tracing thick and thin concepts through corpora1
When more is less: the impact of multimorphemic words on learning word meaning1
Understanding demonstrative reference in text: a new taxonomy based on a new corpus1
Typological differences and cognitive load in manner processing: a corpus-based study of Chinese–English and English–Chinese consecutive interpreting1
Identifying bilingual reference profiles: a cluster-analysis approach to reference production among Greek–Italian bilingual children1
Dresses and ties: the effect of grammatical gender and stereotypical semantic bias in three Spanish-speaking communities1
A conceptual replication of an implicit test of grammatical gender effects on inanimate concepts1
A multimodal approach to polysemy: the senses of touch1
“Talking heads” in Portuguese sign and spoken languages1
Representations of numerals in Tibetan–Mandarin bilinguals1
Big-Five model of personality and word formation: role of open-mindedness in semantic transparency and economy of expression1
Learning novel words for motion by speakers of structurally different languages1
Frequency-based salience of dual meanings in conventional metaphor acquisition: Evidence from toddlers in Urban England1
Uyghur–Chinese early successive adult bilinguals’ construal of caused motion events1
Quality, not quantity, impacts the differentiation of near-synonyms1
Mapping the body to the discourse hierarchy in sign language emergence1
Event integration as a driving force of language change: evidence from Chinese 使-shǐ-make1
Inherent linguistic preference outcompetes incidental alignment in cooperative partner choice1
Prosody of focus in Turkish Sign Language1
Literacy effects on artificial grammar learning (AGL) with letters and colors: evidence from preschool and primary school children1
Linguistic variation in the interpretation and production of Italian motion event constructions in younger and older adults: evidence for language change?1
A mathematical model of semantic access in lexical and semantic decisions1
Neurological evidence for the context-independent multisensorial semantics of ideophones in Pastaza Kichwa: an fNIRS study in the Ecuadorian Amazon – CORRIGENDUM0
Animacy effects in the English genitive alternation: comparing native speakers and EFL learner judgments with corpus data0
Scalar inference calculation through the lens of degree estimates0
When sequence matters: the processing of contextually biased German verb–object metaphors0
The Culprit-Hypothesis: how blame attribution influences the interpretation of expressive adjectives0
The immediate integration of semantic selectional restrictions of Chinese social hierarchical verbs with extralinguistic social hierarchical information in comprehension0
A learning perspective on the emergence of abstractions: the curious case of phone(me)s0
Head metonymies and metaphors in Jordanian and Tunisian Arabic: an extended conceptual metaphor theory perspective0
About the same thing in a different way: wording and experienced emotions in the understanding of official letters0
Dual aspectual opposition sensitizes speakers to event stage in conceptualization: Evidence from Russian and English native and non-native speakers0
Sensory modality profiles of antonyms0
Multimodal-ish: prosodic and kinesic aspects of bounded and free uses of ish0
Learning contexts and proficiency matter: L2 real-time sensitivity to conventional and unconventional dative pattern0
Deictic shift in the production of direct and indirect speech0
Motion events in Swedish and French: a Holistic Spatial Semantics analysis0
Feedback quality and divided attention: exploring commentaries on alignment in task-oriented dialogue0
Valence sound symbolism across language families: a comparison between Japanese and German0
Jeannette Littlemore, Metaphors in the Mind: Sources of Variation in Embodied Metaphor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 288, ISBN-13: 978-1-1084-0398-6.0
Egocentric and allocentric memory recall strategies moderate transfer action sentence recognition0
Exploring conceptual representation and grounding through perceptual strength norms in deaf individuals0
Story order in attribution of moral responsibility0
What ratings and corpus data reveal about the vividness of Mandarin ABB words0
Leading voices: dialogue semantics, cognitive science and the polyphonic structure of multimodal interaction0
Semantic differences in visually similar face emojis0
The effect of lexicalization biases on cross-situational statistical learning of novel verbs0
The iconic motivation for the morphophonological distinction between noun–verb pairs in American Sign Language does not reflect common human construals of objects and actions0
Prosody and head gestures as markers of information status in French as a native and foreign language – ERRATUM0
Two measures are better than one: combining iconicity ratings and guessing experiments for a more nuanced picture of iconicity in the lexicon0
Foreign to whom? Constraining the moral foreign language effect on bilinguals’ language experience0
Predictability effects in degraded speech comprehension are reduced as a function of attention0
Visual channel facilitates the comprehension of the intonation of Brazilian Portuguese wh-questions and wh-exclamations: evidence from congruent and incongruent stimuli0
They really, really, really don’t like to admit they made mistakes: A critical discourse analysis of appraisal in wrongful convictions0
Within- and cross-language semantic effects on oral word translation with a word flanker paradigm0
Vocal iconicity in nominal classification0
What makes an awfully good oxymoron?0
Are schematic diagrams valid visual representations of concepts? Evidence from mental imagery in online processing of English prepositions0
The organization of semantic associations between senses in language0
Variable motion encoding within Chinese: a usage-based perspective0
An interplay of inhibitory and facilitative mechanisms during language control: evidence from phonetic-level language switching with a letter-naming task0
Dickens in Chol0
Palatal is for happiness, plosive is for sadness: evidence for stochastic relationships between phoneme classes and sentiment polarity in Hungarian0
Does time extend asymmetrically into the past and the future? A multitask crosscultural study0
Conceptual metaphor in areal perspective: time, space, and contact in the Sinosphere0
Comparing the semantic structures of lexicon of Mandarin and English0
Neurological evidence for the context-independent multisensorial semantics of ideophones in Pastaza Kichwa: an fNIRS study in the Ecuadorian Amazon0
More than just ambivalence: the perception of emotionally ambiguous words on the spaces of origin and activation indexed by behavioural and webcam-based eye-tracking correlates0
Classifiers in competition for categorization0
The how and the when of semantic illusions in native and non-native languages0
Effect of age of first exposure on L2 contextual lexical semantic learning: an ERP investigation0
Facial expressions in different communication settings: A case of whispering and speaking with a face mask in Farsi0
Time as space vs. time as quantity in Spanish: a co-speech gesture study0
What the development of gesture with and without speech can tell us about the effect of language on thought0
‘This you may NNNNNNEVER have heard before’: initial lengthening of accented negative items as vocal-entangled gestures0
List constructions in two signed languages0
Semantic integration of multidimensional perceptual information in L1 sentence comprehension0
Epistemic constructions in L2 Norwegian: a usage-based longitudinal study of formulaic and productive patterns0
Foreign to whom? Constraining the moral foreign language effect on bilinguals’ language experience – CORRIGENDUM0
Do typological differences in the expression of causality influence preschool children’s causal event construal?0
Poetics of reduplicative word formation: evidence from a rating and recall experiment0
The semantic content of concrete, abstract, specific, and generic concepts0
Facial cues to anger affect meaning interpretation of subsequent spoken prosody0
The semantic representation of food is shaped by cultural experience0
The influences of narrative perspective shift and scene detail on narrative semantic processing0
Perceiving colour through a language lens: a scoping review of experimental work on effects of language on colour perception0
Semantic information boosts the acquisition of a novel grammatical system in different presentation formats0
Matched or moved? Asymmetry in high- and low-level visual processing of motion events0
The age of acquisition effect in processing second language words and its relationship with the age of acquisition of the first language0
The sensitivity to pragmatic-conceptual representations in garden path double relatives in L1 Mandarin0
Syntax and object types contribute in different ways to bilinguals’ comprehension of spatial descriptions0
Crossmodal collostructional analysis of English [ADV and ADV] constructions: multimodal constructions or crossmodal collostructions?0
Comprehension of different types of novel metaphors in monolinguals and multilinguals0
Minding the manner: attention to motion events in Turkish–Dutch early bilinguals0
A usage-based approach to metaphor identification and analysis in child speech0
Beyond the conservative hypothesis: a meta-analysis of lexical-semantic processing in Williams syndrome0
Degree of bilingualism and executive function in early childhood0
Sensitivity to syntactic dependency formation in child second language processing: a study of numeral quantifiers in Korean0
Speaking but not gesturing predicts event memory: a cross-linguistic comparison0
Economy or ecology: metaphor use over time in China’s Government Work Reports0
Contrasting the semantic space of ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’ in English and Japanese – CORRIGENDUM0
Past and future time reference processing teased apart in Paiwan, an endangered Formosan language0
Communicative efficiency and the Principle of No Synonymy: predictability effects and the variation ofwant toandwanna0
Who’s afraid of homophones? A multimethodological approach to homophony avoidance0
Risk-taking propensity and its influence on lexical decision performance: a comparative study of high- and low-risk groups0
Prediction of successful reanalysis based on eye-blink rate and reading times in sentences with local ambiguity0
Yoga instructions in Polish and Russian as directive speech acts: a cognitive linguistic perspective0
Breaking the ice in a conversation: abstract words prompt dialogs more easily than concrete ones0
Visual similarity effects in the identification of Arabic letters: evidence with masked priming0
Embodiment of color metaphor: an image-based visual analysis of the Chinese color terms hēi ‘black’ and bái ‘white’0
Ideophones are more reliable than metaphors in Japanese pain descriptions0
Following negative search instructions: the role of visual context0
Feminine fox, not so feminine box: constraints on linguistic relativity effects for grammatical and conceptual gender0
Unraveling the force dynamics in conceptual metaphors of COVID-19: a multilevel analysis0
Individual differences in visual word recognition: the role of epistemically unwarranted beliefs on affective processing and signal detection0
Catching a CAPTCHA: the impact of variable input on the processing of emerging orthographic representations – CORRIGENDUM0
The ups and downs of space and time: topography in Yupno language, culture, and cognition0
An event-related potential study of cross-modal translation recognition in Chinese–English bilinguals: the role of cross-linguistic orthography and phonology0
Language and executive function relationships in the real world: insights from deafness0
Comprehension of different types of novel metaphors in monolinguals and multilinguals – ERRATUM0
Gender bias in morphological inferences0
Metaphor use in depersonalization/derealization0
The influence of three-gendered grammatical systems on simultaneous bilingual cognition: The case of Ukrainian-Russian bilinguals0
Samesaying and double-voiced discourse in Iranian EFL learners’ production of L2 reported speech0
The semantics of spatial demonstratives in Spanish: a Demonstrative Choice Task study0
The effects of word and beat priming on Mandarin lexical stress recognition: an event-related potential study – ADDENDUM0
Numbers skyrocket in English but increase in Spanish: metaphoric conceptualization and manner expression in translations0
Developments in event conceptualisation and event integration in language and mind0
The effects of word and beat priming on Mandarin lexical stress recognition: an event-related potential study0
Displays of anger in Turkish political discourse: a hard choice between cultural norms and political performance of anger0
Morphological processing of complex and simple pseudo-words in adults and older adults0
Women, blood, and dangerous things: socio-cultural variation in the conceptualization of menstruation0
Individual variability and the H* ~ L + H* contrast in English0
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 Langua0
Not all verbal labels grease the wheels of odor categories0
The perceptual span in traditional Chinese0
The effect of emotional prosody and referent characteristics on novel noun learning0
Sound-symbolic association between speech sound and spatial meaning in relation to the concepts of up/down and above/below0
Multimodal training on L2 Japanese pitch accent: learning outcomes, neural correlates and subjective assessments0
When the days are(n’t) numbered: Calendar calculations in transparent and opaque systems0
Scales and inferences0
Musical perception skills predict speech imitation skills: differences between speakers of tone and intonation languages0
The goal-over-source asymmetry in Thai and Korean0
Lexical influences on predictive mouse cursor movements0
Learning two syntactic constructions simultaneously: a case of overshadowing0
Functional priority of syntax over semantics in Chinese ‘ba’ construction: evidence from eye-tracking during natural reading0
The flexibility and representational nature of phonological prediction in listening comprehension: evidence from the visual world paradigm0
Event end-state encoding in 13-month-olds—completed and non-completed events are different0
The role of consciousness in Chinese nominal metaphor processing: a psychophysical approach0
Role of arousal, subjective significance and valence of affect in task-switching effectiveness0
A frame-semantic approach to conceptual metaphors in the domain of emotion0
Redefining linguistic categories through network theory0
Color–emotion associations by speakers of Spanish and Mandarin in verbal and visual tasks: a comparison0
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