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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

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	14
Emotional Stroop Test in online and offline experimental procedures: the comparison of two different modes of conducting studies	10
Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood	10
Review of Sarah Duffy and Michele Feist. Time, metaphor, and language: A cognitive science perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2023, 209 pp.	10
Metaphors and culturally unique idioms of eating and drinking in Mongolian	9
Information structure effects on the processing of nouns and verbs: evidence from event-related brain potentials	9
Prosody and head gestures as markers of information status in French as a native and foreign language	8
Many ways to decline a noun: elicitation of children’s novel noun inflection in Estonian	7
Gender is conceptualized in different ways across cultures	7
The conceptual nature of the Turkish emotion term ‘Heyecan’	7
How language influences spatial thinking, categorization of motion events, and gaze behavior: a cross-linguistic comparison	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
The effect of letter-case type on the semantic processing of words and sentences during attentive and mind-wandering states	6
Backchannel behavior is idiosyncratic	6
Comparing the cognitive load of gesture and action production: a dual-task study	6
What counts as a multimodal metaphor and metonymy? Evolution of inter-rater reliability across rounds of annotation	6
Attentionally modulated motor-to-semantic priming: evidence from a property verification task	6
Working memory modulates the effect of music on word learning	6
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
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	5
Praxis, demonstration and pantomime: a motion capture investigation of differences in action performances	5
Literally ‘a jerk’: an experimental investigation of expressives in predicative position	5
Categorising emotion words: the influence of response options	4

Aesthetic emotional reactions and their verbal expression in a corpus of Japanese travellers’ online reviews	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
On the role of space–valence congruency in bilingual orientational metaphor processing	4
Deliberate synchronization of speech and gesture: effects of neurodiversity and development	4
A few or several? Construal, quantity, and argumentativity	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
How much conversation content is actually social: human conversational behaviour revisited	4
Does word knowledge account for the effect of world knowledge on pronoun interpretation?	4
Metonymic relations underlying the one-word utterances of Afrikaans-speaking infants and toddlers	4
Catching a CAPTCHA: the impact of variable input on the processing of emerging orthographic representations	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
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
Looking differently at locative events: the cognitive impact of linguistic preferences	3
The heart attack of the Polish health service: metaphors, arguments, and emotional appeals in political debates	3
Does reading about fictional minds make us more curious about real ones?	3
How We Resist Metaphors	3
Mapping of individual time units in horizontal space	3
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 intimacy-power relationships in the usage of direct criticism in Chinese: a reflection of rapport management	3
Language, but not music, shapes tactile perception	3
A blending analysis of metaphors and metonymies used to depict the deal of the century by Jordanian cartoonists	3
The neural processing of the interaction between accentuation and lexical prediction during spoken sentence comprehension	3
What is German ‘Angst’ (fear/anxiety)? A corpus approach based on frame analysis	3
Learning speaker-specific linguistic ‘style’ is mediated by deviance from common language use	3
The role of audience design and goal bias in message generation: Evidence from Chinese source-goal motion events	3
Observers use gesture to disambiguate contrastive expressions of preference	3
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
Chunking up speech in real time: linguistic predictors and cognitive constraints	2
The ambiguous nature of complex semantic types: an experimental investigation	2
Inherent linguistic preference outcompetes incidental alignment in cooperative partner choice	2
Prosody of focus in Turkish Sign Language	2
Understanding demonstrative reference in text: a new taxonomy based on a new corpus	2
Identifying bilingual reference profiles: a cluster-analysis approach to reference production among Greek–Italian bilingual children	2
Processing manner under high cognitive pressure: Evidence from French–English and English–French simultaneous interpreting	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
Language control in auditory bilingual comprehension: uncovering novel evidence from the n − 2 repetition paradigm	2
The meaning of ‘frustration’ across languages	2
Tracing thick and thin concepts through corpora	2
Frequency-based salience of dual meanings in conventional metaphor acquisition: Evidence from toddlers in Urban England	2
Many ways to decline a noun: Elicitation of children’s novel noun inflection in Estonian – ERRATUM	2
Masked orthographic neighbor priming effects in Chinese two-character words	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

Corpus evidence for lexical and genre effects in the metaphorical conceptualization of negative self-evaluative emotions: The case of shame and embarrassment	2
The picture looks like my music sounds: directional preferences in synesthetic metaphors in the absence of lexical factors	2
Contrasting the semantic space of ‘shame’ and ‘guilt’ in English and Japanese	2
A mathematical model of semantic access in lexical and semantic decisions	2
Exploring metaphorical conceptualizations of ENVY in English and Chinese: A multifactorial corpus analysis	2