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49
Citations
10428
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2935
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1425

Anna Papafragou publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anna Papafragou sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 148 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Anna Papafragou D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anna Papafragou sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 49 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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

  • Modality: Issues in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

    Anna Papafragou

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

    Anna Papafragou;Christine Massey;Lila Gleitman

  • Does language guide event perception? Evidence from eye movements

    Anna Papafragou;Justin Hulbert;John Trueswell

  • Epistemic modality and truth conditions

    Anna Papafragou

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

    Anna Papafragou;Kimberly Cassidy;Lila Gleitman;Lila Gleitman

  • Evidentiality in language and cognition

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

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

    Anna Papafragou;Christine Massey;Lila Gleitman

  • Language and Thought.

    Lila Gleitman;Anna Papafragou

  • Children's Computation of Implicatures

    Anna Papafragou;Niki Tantalou

  • The Acquisition of Modality: Implications for Theories of Semantic Representation

    Anna Papafragou

  • Spatial reasoning in Tenejapan Mayans.

    Peggy Li;Linda Abarbanell;Lila Gleitman;Anna Papafragou

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

    John C. Trueswell;Anna Papafragou

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

    Dimitrios Skordos;Anna Papafragou

  • Asymmetries in the Acquisition of Numbers and Quantifiers

    Felicia Hurewitz;Anna Papafragou;Lila Gleitman;Rochel Gelman

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

    Alon Hafri;Anna Papafragou;John C. Trueswell

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

    Anna Papafragou;Stathis Selimis

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

    Anna Papafragou

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

    Anna Papafragou

  • Inference and word meaning : The case of modal auxiliaries

    Anna Papafragou

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

    Ozge Ozturk;Anna Papafragou

  • From Event Representation to Linguistic Meaning

    Ercenur Ünal;Yue Ji;Anna Papafragou

  • New Perspectives on Language and Thought

    Lila Gleitman;Anna Papafragou

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. Trueswell
John C. Trueswell University of Pennsylvania
Lila R. Gleitman
Lila R. Gleitman University of Pennsylvania
Barbara Landau
Barbara Landau Johns Hopkins University
Daniel Mirman
Daniel Mirman University of Edinburgh
Jessica F. Cantlon
Jessica F. Cantlon Carnegie Mellon University
A. Mike Burton
A. Mike Burton University of York
Rochel Gelman
Rochel Gelman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Andrew W. Ellis
Andrew W. Ellis University of York
Paul C. Quinn
Paul C. Quinn University of Delaware
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University

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