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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Dynamics of English gratitude expression: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK government COVID-19 briefings – ERRATUM	16
Better letter: iconicity in the manual alphabets of American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language	13
The conceptual nature of the Turkish emotion term ‘Heyecan’	13
Review of Sarah Duffy and Michele Feist. Time, metaphor, and language: A cognitive science perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2023, 209 pp.	12
Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood	10
Emotional Stroop Test in online and offline experimental procedures: the comparison of two different modes of conducting studies	10
Information structure effects on the processing of nouns and verbs: evidence from event-related brain potentials	9
Gender is conceptualized in different ways across cultures	9
Metaphors and culturally unique idioms of eating and drinking in Mongolian	9
Many ways to decline a noun: elicitation of children’s novel noun inflection in Estonian	8
Prosody and head gestures as markers of information status in French as a native and foreign language	7
Comparing the cognitive load of gesture and action production: a dual-task study	7
Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny, From signal to symbol: The evolution of language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021, xx + 272 pp., ISBN: 9780262045971.	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
Backchannel behavior is idiosyncratic	6
The role of relevance for scalar diversity: a usage-based approach	6
Praxis, demonstration and pantomime: a motion capture investigation of differences in action performances	6
The effect of letter-case type on the semantic processing of words and sentences during attentive and mind-wandering states	6
How language influences spatial thinking, categorization of motion events, and gaze behavior: a cross-linguistic comparison	6
Deliberate synchronization of speech and gesture: effects of neurodiversity and development	6
Literally ‘a jerk’: an experimental investigation of expressives in predicative position	6
“Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.” A functional description of time expressions through fingers based on Chinese Sign Language naturalistic data	6
Working memory modulates the effect of music on word learning	6
Manner, result, and intention: implications for event typology from a cognitive account of verb semantics based on fulfilment types	5

Categorising emotion words: the influence of response options	5
Does word knowledge account for the effect of world knowledge on pronoun interpretation?	5
A few or several? Construal, quantity, and argumentativity	4
The influence of three-gendered grammatical systems on simultaneous bilingual cognition: the case of Ukrainian-Russian bilinguals – CORRIGENDUM	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
A self-paced reading study of context effects in the processing of aspectual verbs in Mandarin	4
Metonymic relations underlying the one-word utterances of Afrikaans-speaking infants and toddlers	4
The many facets of inhibitory control and their role in syntactic selection	4
Better early than late: the temporal dynamics of pointing cues during cross-situational word learning	4
Do hand gestures increase perceived prominence in naturally produced utterances?	4
Language, but not music, shapes tactile perception	4
Aesthetic emotional reactions and their verbal expression in a corpus of Japanese travellers’ online reviews	4
Catching a CAPTCHA: the impact of variable input on the processing of emerging orthographic representations	4
On the role of space–valence congruency in bilingual orientational metaphor processing	4
How much conversation content is actually social: human conversational behaviour revisited	4
How We Resist Metaphors	4
Discourse comprehension and referential processing: effects of contextual distance and semantic plausibility on presupposition processing	3
Direction of reading, not writing, shapes concepts of time	3
The neural processing of the interaction between accentuation and lexical prediction during spoken sentence comprehension	3
A blending analysis of metaphors and metonymies used to depict the deal of the century by Jordanian cartoonists	3
Does reading about fictional minds make us more curious about real ones?	3
The heart attack of the Polish health service: metaphors, arguments, and emotional appeals in political debates	3
Observers use gesture to disambiguate contrastive expressions of preference	3
Mapping of individual time units in horizontal space	3
Looking differently at locative events: the cognitive impact of linguistic preferences	3
The intimacy-power relationships in the usage of direct criticism in Chinese: a reflection of rapport management	3
Time heals all wounds: analysis of changes in temporal focus and implicit space–time mappings among survivors of the 2019 China earthquake over time	3
Multimodal encoding of motion events in speech, gesture and cognition	2
Chunking up speech in real time: linguistic predictors and cognitive constraints	2
Learning speaker-specific linguistic ‘style’ is mediated by deviance from common language use	2
Processing manner under high cognitive pressure: Evidence from French–English and English–French simultaneous interpreting	2
Frequency-based salience of dual meanings in conventional metaphor acquisition: Evidence from toddlers in Urban England	2
The picture looks like my music sounds: directional preferences in synesthetic metaphors in the absence of lexical factors	2
Inherent linguistic preference outcompetes incidental alignment in cooperative partner choice	2
Identifying bilingual reference profiles: a cluster-analysis approach to reference production among Greek–Italian bilingual children	2
How flexible is the orthographic processing of flankers? Effects for letter order and letter identification	2
Dynamics of English gratitude expression: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK government COVID-19 briefings	2
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
Picture perfect peaks: comprehension of inferential techniques in visual narratives	2
Exploring metaphorical conceptualizations of ENVY in English and Chinese: A multifactorial corpus analysis	2
Corpus evidence for lexical and genre effects in the metaphorical conceptualization of negative self-evaluative emotions: The case of shame and embarrassment	2
Many ways to decline a noun: Elicitation of children’s novel noun inflection in Estonian – ERRATUM	2
Contrasting the semantic space of ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’ in English and Japanese	2
Uncovering echoic mechanisms in verbal irony comprehension	2
The ambiguous nature of complex semantic types: an experimental investigation	2
Language control in auditory bilingual comprehension: uncovering novel evidence from the n − 2 repetition paradigm	2
Explicit instruction improves the comprehension of Spanish object relatives by young monolingual children	2
The meaning of ‘frustration’ across languages	2
Masked orthographic neighbor priming effects in Chinese two-character words	2

A mathematical model of semantic access in lexical and semantic decisions	2
Resonance in dialogue: the interplay between intersubjective motivations and cognitive facilitation	2
Who’s afraid of homophones? A multimethodological approach to homophony avoidance	1
They really, really, really don’t like to admit they made mistakes: A critical discourse analysis of appraisal in wrongful convictions	1
Redefining linguistic categories through network theory	1
Linguistic variation in the interpretation and production of Italian motion event constructions in younger and older adults: evidence for language change?	1
Big-Five model of personality and word formation: role of open-mindedness in semantic transparency and economy of expression	1
Early acquisition of figurative meanings in polysemous nouns and verbs	1
A conceptual replication of an implicit test of grammatical gender effects on inanimate concepts	1
The sensitivity to pragmatic-conceptual representations in garden path double relatives in L1 Mandarin – CORRIGENDUM	1
Tracing thick and thin concepts through corpora	1
Quality, not quantity, impacts the differentiation of near-synonyms	1
Learning novel words for motion by speakers of structurally different languages	1
Classifiers in competition for categorization	1
Prosody and head gestures as markers of information status in French as a native and foreign language – ERRATUM	1
Lexical influences on predictive mouse cursor movements	1
Ideophones are more reliable than metaphors in Japanese pain descriptions	1
Minding the manner: attention to motion events in Turkish–Dutch early bilinguals	1
Yoga instructions in Polish and Russian as directive speech acts: a cognitive linguistic perspective	1
Event integration as a driving force of language change: evidence from Chinese 使-shǐ-make	1
Attribution of subjective experience to geometric figures in narratives by autistic children and children with developmental language disorder	1
“Talking heads” in Portuguese sign and spoken languages	1
When more is less: the impact of multimorphemic words on learning word meaning	1
Prosody of focus in Turkish Sign Language	1
Typological differences and cognitive load in manner processing: a corpus-based study of Chinese–English and English–Chinese consecutive interpreting	1
Event end-state encoding in 13-month-olds—completed and non-completed events are different	1
Unraveling the force dynamics in conceptual metaphors of COVID-19: a multilevel analysis	1
The English conative alternation between complexity effects and lexical biases: a historical perspective	1
Scales and inferences	1
Speaking but not gesturing predicts event memory: a cross-linguistic comparison	1
Comparing the semantic structures of lexicon of Mandarin and English	1
Comparisons between processing linguistic and mathematical negations from the perspective of the practice effect and working memory	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
A multimodal approach to polysemy: the senses of touch	1
Understanding demonstrative reference in text: a new taxonomy based on a new corpus	1
Mapping the body to the discourse hierarchy in sign language emergence	1
Individual differences in structural priming in bilingual and monolingual children: the influence of perspective-taking	1
Representations of numerals in Tibetan–Mandarin bilinguals	1
Multimodal training on L2 Japanese pitch accent: learning outcomes, neural correlates and subjective assessments	1
Uyghur–Chinese early successive adult bilinguals’ construal of caused motion events	1
The organization of semantic associations between senses in language	1