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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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	14
Dynamics of English gratitude expression: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK government COVID-19 briefings – ERRATUM	13
Metaphors and culturally unique idioms of eating and drinking in Mongolian	13
Better letter: iconicity in the manual alphabets of American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language	13
Testing the Event Visibility Hypothesis in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS)	13
Emotional Stroop Test in online and offline experimental procedures: the comparison of two different modes of conducting studies	12
The conceptual nature of the Turkish emotion term ‘Heyecan’	11
Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood	11
Prosody and head gestures as markers of information status in French as a native and foreign language	10
Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny, From signal to symbol: The evolution of language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021, xx + 272 pp., ISBN: 9780262045971.	10
Attentionally modulated motor-to-semantic priming: evidence from a property verification task	10
Working memory modulates the effect of music on word learning	10
The effect of letter-case type on the semantic processing of words and sentences during attentive and mind-wandering states	9
Comparing the cognitive load of gesture and action production: a dual-task study	9
Backchannel behavior is idiosyncratic	9
How language influences spatial thinking, categorization of motion events, and gaze behavior: a cross-linguistic comparison	8
Praxis, demonstration and pantomime: a motion capture investigation of differences in action performances	8
What counts as a multimodal metaphor and metonymy? Evolution of inter-rater reliability across rounds of annotation	8
Manner, result, and intention: implications for event typology from a cognitive account of verb semantics based on fulfilment types	8
Literally ‘a jerk’: an experimental investigation of expressives in predicative position	8
Ecological affordances and fire metaphors: the salience of injury	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
A few or several? Construal, quantity, and argumentativity	7

The impact of L2 English on choice perception, interpretation, and preference for L1 Arabic speakers	7
A multifactorial analysis of anaphoric form choice in mandarin	7
The interaction of language and music: a psycholinguistic approach for a shared pitch mechanism (?)	7
Metonymic relations underlying the one-word utterances of Afrikaans-speaking infants and toddlers	6
The many facets of inhibitory control and their role in syntactic selection	6
Categorising emotion words: the influence of response options	6
Does word knowledge account for the effect of world knowledge on pronoun interpretation?	6
Catching a CAPTCHA: the impact of variable input on the processing of emerging orthographic representations	6
Labelling and iconicity facilitate visual categorisation and discrimination	5
A self-paced reading study of context effects in the processing of aspectual verbs in Mandarin	5
On the role of space–valence congruency in bilingual orientational metaphor processing	5
Better early than late: the temporal dynamics of pointing cues during cross-situational word learning	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
How much conversation content is actually social: human conversational behaviour revisited	5
The influence of three-gendered grammatical systems on simultaneous bilingual cognition: the case of Ukrainian-Russian bilinguals – CORRIGENDUM	5
Figurative language is (implicitly) more dynamic and emotionally deeper than literal language – CORRIGENDUM	5
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)	4
The role of audience design and goal bias in message generation: Evidence from Chinese source-goal motion events	4
Mapping of individual time units in horizontal space	4
Discourse comprehension and referential processing: effects of contextual distance and semantic plausibility on presupposition processing	4
Early predictors of auditory comprehension in 36-month-old children born with risk factors for brain damage	4
Language, but not music, shapes tactile perception	4
Contrasting different context sources in processing lifetime-tense (in)congruence: evidence from cumulative self-paced reading time experiments	4
Emotive content and sleep enhance memory for metaphorical language	4
Gesture, prosodic prominence and stresslessness in Indonesian	4
Cognitive mechanisms in simile and metaphor comprehension	4
Perceptual structure of opposites across sensory modalities	4
Beyond the conservative hypothesis: a meta-analysis of lexical-semantic processing in Williams syndrome – ERRATUM	4
From co-speech actions to co-speech gestures? Effects of visibility and information structure on cross-modal synchronization	4
Information, iconicity and Zipf’s law of abbreviation in visual languages of global comics	4
A blending analysis of metaphors and metonymies used to depict the deal of the century by Jordanian cartoonists	4
What is German ‘Angst’ (fear/anxiety)? A corpus approach based on frame analysis	4
The neural processing of the interaction between accentuation and lexical prediction during spoken sentence comprehension	4
The linguistic basis of narrative suspense: narrative suspense depends on potentially inquiry-terminating questions	3
Scalar alternative activation for implicature processing: a lexical decision study with antonyms and negation	3
Multimodal encoding of motion events in speech, gesture and cognition	3
Chunking up speech in real time: linguistic predictors and cognitive constraints	3
The heart attack of the Polish health service: metaphors, arguments, and emotional appeals in political debates	3
Language control in auditory bilingual comprehension: uncovering novel evidence from the n − 2 repetition paradigm	3
Metaphor and multisensoriality drive appreciation in print advertising: an experimental study of visual and linguistic synaesthetic metaphors	3
Dynamics of English gratitude expression: a corpus-assisted analysis of UK government COVID-19 briefings	3
Corpus evidence for lexical and genre effects in the metaphorical conceptualization of negative self-evaluative emotions: The case of shame and embarrassment	3
Processing manner under high cognitive pressure: Evidence from French–English and English–French simultaneous interpreting	3
How flexible is the orthographic processing of flankers? Effects for letter order and letter identification	3
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.	3
Looking differently at locative events: the cognitive impact of linguistic preferences	3
Direction of reading, not writing, shapes concepts of time	3
Does reading about fictional minds make us more curious about real ones?	3

The ambiguous nature of complex semantic types: an experimental investigation	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
Picture perfect peaks: comprehension of inferential techniques in visual narratives	3
Patterns of speech and gesture production in the communications of bilinguals and monolinguals: Do speakers’ proficiency and discourse context matter?	3
Does linguistic similarity matter in the foreign language effect in decision making and emotional resonance?	3
The intimacy-power relationships in the usage of direct criticism in Chinese: a reflection of rapport management	3
Learning speaker-specific linguistic ‘style’ is mediated by deviance from common language use	3
Uncovering echoic mechanisms in verbal irony comprehension	3
Explicit instruction improves the comprehension of Spanish object relatives by young monolingual children	3
The meaning of ‘frustration’ across languages	3