2026 Marianne Gullberg: 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	38	5982	5559	78	76	177	5647

Research.com Recognitions

2017 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Marianne Gullberg is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and arts and humanities, with a particular focus on developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, language and linguistics, linguistics and language, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their work addresses a range of topics including hearing impairment and communication, language, metaphor, and cognition, language, discourse, and communication strategies, multilingual education and policy, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, hand gesture recognition systems, and language development and disorders.

Marianne Gullberg's publication record features contributions to significant journals and outlets, including multiple papers published in Frontiers in Psychology (8 publications), Bilingualism Language and Cognition (3 publications), Language Learning (2 publications), Second language Research (2 publications), and Frontiers in Communication (1 publication).

Recent papers associated with their research include:

The Lang-Track-App: Open-Source Tools for Implementing the Experience Sampling Method in Second Language Acquisition Research, 2022, Language Learning
Reviewing the potential of the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) for capturing second language exposure and use, 2021, Second language Research
What's New? Gestures Accompany Inferable Rather Than Brand-New Referents in Discourse, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
Information Status Predicts the Incidence of Gesture in Discourse: An Experimental Study, 2022, Discourse Processes
The semantic content of gestures varies with definiteness, information status and clause structure, 2020, Journal of Pragmatics

Gullberg frequently collaborates with other researchers, with notable coauthors including Jonas Granfeldt, Henriette L. Arndt, Sandra Debreslioska, Eléonore Arbona, and Kilian Seeber.

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to book publications such as The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies, published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

Their recognition includes election as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2017.

Best Publications

Bidirectional crosslinguistic influence in L1-L2 encoding of manner in speech and gesture

Amanda Brown;Marianne Gullberg

249
Citations
Handling Discourse: Gestures, Reference Tracking, and Communication Strategies in Early L2

Marianne Gullberg

241
Citations
Online pronoun resolution in L2 discourse: L1 influence and general learner effects

Leah Roberts;Marianne Gullberg;Peter Indefrey

237
Citations
Gesture as a Communication Strategy in Second Language Discourse: A Study of Learners of French and Swedish

Marianne Gullberg

217
Citations
What speakers do and what addressees look at: visual attention to gestures in human interaction live and on video

Marianne Gullberg;Kenneth Holmqvist

209
Citations
Some reasons for studying gesture and second language acquisition (Hommage à Adam Kendon)

Marianne Gullberg

183
Citations
Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in event conceptualization? Expressions of Path among Japanese learners of English

Amanda Brown;Marianne Gullberg

173
Citations
Keeping an eye on gestures: Visual perception of gestures in face-to-face communication

Marianne Gullberg;Kenneth Holmqvist

166
Citations
Attention to Speech-Accompanying Gestures: Eye Movements and Information Uptake

Marianne Gullberg;Sotaro Kita

165
Citations
Gestures and some key issues in the study of language development

Marianne Gullberg;Kees de Bot;Virginia Volterra

156
Citations
Research techniques for the study of code-switching

Marianne Gullberg;Peter Indefrey;Pieter Muysken

149
Citations
INTRODUCTION TO GESTURE AND SLA: TOWARD AN INTEGRATED APPROACH

Marianne Gullberg;Steven G. McCafferty

142
Citations
Functional connectivity between brain regions involved in learning words of a new language.

Kim Veroude;David G. Norris;Elena Shumskaya;Marianne Gullberg

133
Citations
International Review of Applied Linguistics.

Marianne Gullberg

125
Citations
Methodological reflections on gesture analysis in SLA and bilingualism research

Marianne Gullberg

119
Citations
Put project: The cross-linguistic encoding of placement events

Melissa Bowerman;Marianne Gullberg;Asifa Majid;Bhuvana Narasimhan

105
Citations
Reconstructing verb meaning in a second language. How English speakers of L2 Dutch talk and gesture about placement

Marianne Gullberg

102
Citations
When Speech Stops, Gesture Stops: Evidence From Developmental and Crosslinguistic Comparisons.

Maria Graziano;Marianne Gullberg

95
Citations
Adult language learning after minimal exposure to an unknown natural language

Marianne Gullberg;Leah Roberts;Christine Dimroth;Kim Veroude

90
Citations
Learning to talk and gesture about motion in French

Marianne Gullberg;Henriëtte Hendriks;Maya Hickmann

89
Citations
Changes in encoding of path of motion after acquisition of a second language

Amanda Brown;Marianne Gullberg

80
Citations
Gesture as a communication strategy in second language discourse

Marianne Gullberg

70
Citations
Gestures and second language acquisition

Marianne Gullberg

68
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Indefrey Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Asifa Majid University of York

Melissa Bowerman Max Planck Society

Kees de Bot University of Groningen

Virginia Volterra National Research Council (CNR)

Holger Mitterer University of Malta

Sotaro Kita University of Warwick

Carol Padden University of California, San Diego

Asli Ozyurek Max Planck Society

David G. Norris Radboud University

External Links

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