2026 Anna Papafragou: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	49	2935	2688	1425	1286	148	10428

Overview

Anna Papafragou is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology with a focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, developmental and educational psychology, language and linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.

The main topics of their scholarly work include:

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
Categorization, perception, and language
Child and Animal Learning Development
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Language and cultural evolution
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

They have a substantial publication record with frequent contributions to several journals. The venues where most of their work appears are:

Journal of Memory and Language
Cognition
Cognitive Science
Language Cognition and Neuroscience
Developmental Science

Anna Papafragou has collaborated with multiple researchers on various projects. Frequent co-authors include John C. Trueswell, Yue Ji, Dionysia Saratsli, Alyssa Kampa, and Myrto Grigoroglou.

The following is a selection of recent papers authored or co-authored by Anna Papafragou:

Understanding Other Minds, 2020, Language Learning and Development
Pragmatics and social meaning: Understanding under-informativeness in native and non-native speakers, 2020, Cognition
How children attend to events before speaking: crosslinguistic evidence from the motion domain, 2021, Glossa a journal of general linguistics
Boundedness in event cognition: Viewers spontaneously represent the temporal texture of events, 2022, Journal of Memory and Language
Encoding Motion Events During Language Production: Effects of Audience Design and Conceptual Salience, 2022, Cognitive Science

Their research addresses a variety of subjects including language comprehension and production, event cognition, and developmental aspects of attention and learning.

Best Publications

Scalar implicatures: experiments at the semantics-pragmatics interface.

Anna Papafragou;Julien Musolino

935
Citations
Modality: Issues in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

Anna Papafragou

553
Citations
Shake, rattle, ‘n’ roll: the representation of motion in language and cognition

Anna Papafragou;Christine Massey;Lila Gleitman

534
Citations
Does language guide event perception? Evidence from eye movements

Anna Papafragou;Justin Hulbert;John Trueswell

503
Citations
Epistemic modality and truth conditions

Anna Papafragou

451
Citations
Hard Words

Unknown

329
Citations
When we think about thinking: the acquisition of belief verbs.

Anna Papafragou;Kimberly Cassidy;Lila Gleitman;Lila Gleitman

286
Citations
Evidentiality in language and cognition

Anna Papafragou;Peggy Li;Youngon Choi;Chung-hye Han

278
Citations
When English Proposes What Greek Presupposes: The Cross-Linguistic Encoding of Motion Events.

Anna Papafragou;Christine Massey;Lila Gleitman

275
Citations
Language and Thought.

Lila Gleitman;Anna Papafragou

267
Citations
Children's Computation of Implicatures

Anna Papafragou;Niki Tantalou

247
Citations
The Acquisition of Modality: Implications for Theories of Semantic Representation

Anna Papafragou

218
Citations
Spatial reasoning in Tenejapan Mayans.

Peggy Li;Linda Abarbanell;Lila Gleitman;Anna Papafragou

202
Citations
Perceiving and remembering events cross-linguistically: Evidence from dual-task paradigms

John C. Trueswell;Anna Papafragou

188
Citations
Children's derivation of scalar implicatures: Alternatives and relevance.

Dimitrios Skordos;Anna Papafragou

174
Citations
Asymmetries in the Acquisition of Numbers and Quantifiers

Felicia Hurewitz;Anna Papafragou;Lila Gleitman;Rochel Gelman

159
Citations
Getting the gist of events: recognition of two-participant actions from brief displays.

Alon Hafri;Anna Papafragou;John C. Trueswell

152
Citations
Event categorisation and language: A cross-linguistic study of motion

Anna Papafragou;Stathis Selimis

143
Citations
Thoughts and Utterances: The Pragmatics of Explicit Communication: Robyn Carston; Blackwell, Oxford, 2002

Anna Papafragou

130
Citations
Source‐Goal Asymmetries in Motion Representation: Implications for Language Production and Comprehension

Anna Papafragou

123
Citations
Inference and word meaning : The case of modal auxiliaries

Anna Papafragou

118
Citations
The Acquisition of Epistemic Modality: From Semantic Meaning to Pragmatic Interpretation

Ozge Ozturk;Anna Papafragou

109
Citations
From Event Representation to Linguistic Meaning

Ercenur Ünal;Yue Ji;Anna Papafragou

106
Citations
New Perspectives on Language and Thought

Lila Gleitman;Anna Papafragou

101
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. Trueswell University of Pennsylvania

Lila R. Gleitman University of Pennsylvania

Barbara Landau Johns Hopkins University

Daniel Mirman University of Edinburgh

Jessica F. Cantlon Carnegie Mellon University

A. Mike Burton University of York

Rochel Gelman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Andrew W. Ellis University of York

Paul C. Quinn University of Delaware

Dedre Gentner Northwestern University

External Links

Personal website of Anna Papafragou

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