OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language and Cognition is 3. 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.)

Article	Citations
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 cultures	15
The conceptual nature of the Turkish emotion term ‘Heyecan’	14
Metaphors and culturally unique idioms of eating and drinking in Mongolian	14
Dynamics of English gratitude expression: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK government COVID-19 briefings – ERRATUM	13
Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood	13
Better letter: iconicity in the manual alphabets of American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language	12
Prosody and head gestures as markers of information status in French as a native and foreign language	11
Testing the Event Visibility Hypothesis in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS)	11
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 studies	11
Attentionally modulated motor-to-semantic priming: evidence from a property verification task	10
Working memory modulates the effect of music on word learning	10
How language influences spatial thinking, categorization of motion events, and gaze behavior: a cross-linguistic comparison	10
Backchannel behavior is idiosyncratic	9
Praxis, demonstration and pantomime: a motion capture investigation of differences in action performances	9
Comparing the cognitive load of gesture and action production: a dual-task study	9
Manner, result, and intention: implications for event typology from a cognitive account of verb semantics based on fulfilment types	9
The effect of letter-case type on the semantic processing of words and sentences during attentive and mind-wandering states	9
What counts as a multimodal metaphor and metonymy? Evolution of inter-rater reliability across rounds of annotation	8
The interaction of language and music: a psycholinguistic approach for a shared pitch mechanism (?)	8
Ecological affordances and fire metaphors: the salience of injury	8
Literally ‘a jerk’: an experimental investigation of expressives in predicative position	8
Deliberate synchronization of speech and gesture: effects of neurodiversity and development	8
Aesthetic emotional reactions and their verbal expression in a corpus of Japanese travellers’ online reviews	7

Categorising emotion words: the influence of response options	7
A multifactorial analysis of anaphoric form choice in mandarin	7
The impact of L2 English on choice perception, interpretation, and preference for L1 Arabic speakers	7
A few or several? Construal, quantity, and argumentativity	7
Metonymic relations underlying the one-word utterances of Afrikaans-speaking infants and toddlers	6
Catching a CAPTCHA: the impact of variable input on the processing of emerging orthographic representations	6
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 selection	6
Figurative language is (implicitly) more dynamic and emotionally deeper than literal language – CORRIGENDUM	5
Better early than late: the temporal dynamics of pointing cues during cross-situational word learning	5
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 – ADDENDUM	5
The effects of interword spacing and morphological complexity in reading Thai: an eye-tracking study	5
On the role of space–valence congruency in bilingual orientational metaphor processing	5
Labelling and iconicity facilitate visual categorisation and discrimination	5
The influence of three-gendered grammatical systems on simultaneous bilingual cognition: the case of Ukrainian-Russian bilinguals – CORRIGENDUM	5
A self-paced reading study of context effects in the processing of aspectual verbs in Mandarin	5
Beyond the conservative hypothesis: a meta-analysis of lexical-semantic processing in Williams syndrome – ERRATUM	5
Behavioural dimensions reveal lead-lag patterns in the cognitive internalization of permissive subjects in English, Dutch and German	5
From co-speech actions to co-speech gestures? Effects of visibility and information structure on cross-modal synchronization	4
Cognitive mechanisms in simile and metaphor comprehension	4
Gesture, prosodic prominence and stresslessness in Indonesian	4
The heart attack of the Polish health service: metaphors, arguments, and emotional appeals in political debates	4
Language control in auditory bilingual comprehension: uncovering novel evidence from the n − 2 repetition paradigm	4
Does reading about fictional minds make us more curious about real ones?	4
Looking differently at locative events: the cognitive impact of linguistic preferences	4
Mapping of individual time units in horizontal space	4
Language, but not music, shapes tactile perception	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
Contrasting different context sources in processing lifetime-tense (in)congruence: evidence from cumulative self-paced reading time experiments	4
Discourse comprehension and referential processing: effects of contextual distance and semantic plausibility on presupposition processing	4
A blending analysis of metaphors and metonymies used to depict the deal of the century by Jordanian cartoonists	4
Direction of reading, not writing, shapes concepts of time	4
The neural processing of the interaction between accentuation and lexical prediction during spoken sentence comprehension	4
Early predictors of auditory comprehension in 36-month-old children born with risk factors for brain damage	4
Emotive content and sleep enhance memory for metaphorical language	4
How much conversation content is actually social: human conversational behaviour revisited	4
Information, iconicity and Zipf’s law of abbreviation in visual languages of global comics	4
What is German ‘Angst’ (fear/anxiety)? A corpus approach based on frame analysis	4
The intimacy-power relationships in the usage of direct criticism in Chinese: a reflection of rapport management	4
Learning speaker-specific linguistic ‘style’ is mediated by deviance from common language use	4
Perceptual structure of opposites across sensory modalities	4
The role of audience design and goal bias in message generation: Evidence from Chinese source-goal motion events	4
The ambiguous nature of complex semantic types: an experimental investigation	3
How flexible is the orthographic processing of flankers? Effects for letter order and letter identification	3
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 languages	3
Exploring metaphorical conceptualizations of ENVY in English and Chinese: A multifactorial corpus analysis	3
Emotional Stroop Test in online and offline experimental procedures: the comparison of two different modes of conducting studies – ADDENDUM	3
Metaphor and multisensoriality drive appreciation in print advertising: an experimental study of visual and linguistic synaesthetic metaphors	3

Scalar alternative activation for implicature processing: a lexical decision study with antonyms and negation	3
Dynamics of English gratitude expression: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK government COVID-19 briefings	3
Uncovering echoic mechanisms in verbal irony comprehension	3
Russian verbal aspect and the activation of event knowledge: processing typical and atypical location adverbials in perfective and imperfective sentences	3
Gender conflicts in German possessives: comparing inanimate to human reference reveals asymmetries	3
Corpus evidence for lexical and genre effects in the metaphorical conceptualization of negative self-evaluative emotions: The case of shame and embarrassment	3
Inherent linguistic preference outcompetes incidental alignment in cooperative partner choice	3
Identifying bilingual reference profiles: a cluster-analysis approach to reference production among Greek–Italian bilingual children	3
Picture perfect peaks: comprehension of inferential techniques in visual narratives	3
Chunking up speech in real time: linguistic predictors and cognitive constraints	3
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 cognition	3
Processing manner under high cognitive pressure: Evidence from French–English and English–French simultaneous interpreting	3
Masked orthographic neighbor priming effects in Chinese two-character words	3
Many ways to decline a noun: Elicitation of children’s novel noun inflection in Estonian – ERRATUM	3
The linguistic basis of narrative suspense: narrative suspense depends on potentially inquiry-terminating questions	3
Explicit instruction improves the comprehension of Spanish object relatives by young monolingual children	3