OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Language and Cognition is 2. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

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	11
Information structure effects on the processing of nouns and verbs: evidence from event-related brain potentials	9
Emotional Stroop Test in online and offline experimental procedures: the comparison of two different modes of conducting studies	9
Gender is conceptualized in different ways across cultures	8
Metaphors and culturally unique idioms of eating and drinking in Mongolian	8
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	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.	7
Comparing the cognitive load of gesture and action production: a dual-task study	7
Deliberate synchronization of speech and gesture: effects of neurodiversity and development	6
The role of relevance for scalar diversity: a usage-based approach	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
Praxis, demonstration and pantomime: a motion capture investigation of differences in action performances	6
The impact of L2 English on choice perception, interpretation, and preference for L1 Arabic speakers	6
Working memory modulates the effect of music on word learning	6
Backchannel behavior is idiosyncratic	6
What counts as a multimodal metaphor and metonymy? Evolution of inter-rater reliability across rounds of annotation	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
Manner, result, and intention: implications for event typology from a cognitive account of verb semantics based on fulfilment types	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
A few or several? Construal, quantity, and argumentativity	5
Does word knowledge account for the effect of world knowledge on pronoun interpretation?	4
The many facets of inhibitory control and their role in syntactic selection	4
The influence of three-gendered grammatical systems on simultaneous bilingual cognition: the case of Ukrainian-Russian bilinguals – CORRIGENDUM	4
Do hand gestures increase perceived prominence in naturally produced utterances?	4
Language, but not music, shapes tactile perception	4
A self-paced reading study of context effects in the processing of aspectual verbs in Mandarin	4
Categorising emotion words: the influence of response options	4
Catching a CAPTCHA: the impact of variable input on the processing of emerging orthographic representations	4
Better early than late: the temporal dynamics of pointing cues during cross-situational word learning	4
How much conversation content is actually social: human conversational behaviour revisited	4
How We Resist Metaphors	4
Metonymic relations underlying the one-word utterances of Afrikaans-speaking infants and toddlers	4
On the role of space–valence congruency in bilingual orientational metaphor processing	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
Observers use gesture to disambiguate contrastive expressions of preference	4
Mapping of individual time units in horizontal space	3
Does reading about fictional minds make us more curious about real ones?	3
Direction of reading, not writing, shapes concepts of time	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
Looking differently at locative events: the cognitive impact of linguistic preferences	3
Learning speaker-specific linguistic ‘style’ is mediated by deviance from common language use	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
Discourse comprehension and referential processing: effects of contextual distance and semantic plausibility on presupposition processing	3
Using depiction for efficient communication in LIS (Italian Sign Language)	3
The heart attack of the Polish health service: metaphors, arguments, and emotional appeals in political debates	3
Dynamics of English gratitude expression: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK government COVID-19 briefings	2
Language control in auditory bilingual comprehension: uncovering novel evidence from the n − 2 repetition paradigm	2
The ambiguous nature of complex semantic types: an experimental investigation	2
Resonance in dialogue: the interplay between intersubjective motivations and cognitive facilitation	2
A mathematical model of semantic access in lexical and semantic decisions	2
Frequency-based salience of dual meanings in conventional metaphor acquisition: Evidence from toddlers in Urban England	2
Masked orthographic neighbor priming effects in Chinese two-character words	2
Uncovering echoic mechanisms in verbal irony comprehension	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
Chunking up speech in real time: linguistic predictors and cognitive constraints	2
Corpus evidence for lexical and genre effects in the metaphorical conceptualization of negative self-evaluative emotions: The case of shame and embarrassment	2
Prosody of focus in Turkish Sign Language	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
Picture perfect peaks: comprehension of inferential techniques in visual narratives	2
Multimodal encoding of motion events in speech, gesture and cognition	2
Explicit instruction improves the comprehension of Spanish object relatives by young monolingual children	2
Processing manner under high cognitive pressure: Evidence from French–English and English–French simultaneous interpreting	2
Exploring metaphorical conceptualizations of ENVY in English and Chinese: A multifactorial corpus analysis	2

The meaning of ‘frustration’ across languages	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
How flexible is the orthographic processing of flankers? Effects for letter order and letter identification	2