Much of my research falls into three broad themes, and this page attempts to categorize a subset my papers accordingly: social interaction, ideophones & iconicity and theory & methods. A fourth category, team science, captures contributions to collaborative projects on a range of other topics. Note that not all papers appear here, while some appear in multiple categories (see full list). If you’re more visually oriented, see also publications by figures.

Social interaction

↥ topWork on conversational structure, pragmatic typology, and communicative repair (see also this site for the repair project, 2010-2015).

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Dingemanse, M. Interjections. The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes Preprint at (2023) PDF
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Rasenberg, M., Pouw, W., Özyürek, A. & Dingemanse, M. The multimodal nature of communicative efficiency in social interaction. Sci Rep 12, 19111 (2022). doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-22883-w PDF
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Liesenfeld, A. & Dingemanse, M. Bottom-up discovery of structure and variation in response tokens (‘backchannels’) across diverse languages. in Proceedings of Interspeech 2022 1126–1130 (ISCA, 2022). doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2022-11288 PDF
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Liesenfeld, A. & Dingemanse, M. Building and curating conversational corpora for diversity-aware language science and technology. in Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022) 1178–1192 (2022). PDF
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Dingemanse, M. & Liesenfeld, A. From text to talk: Harnessing conversational corpora for humane and diversity-aware language technology. in Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) 5614–5633 (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022). doi: 10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.385 PDF
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Dingemanse, M., Liesenfeld, A. & Woensdregt, M. Convergent cultural evolution of continuers (mmhm). in The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE) 61–67 (2022). PDF
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Lopez, A., Liesenfeld, A. & Dingemanse, M. Evaluation of Automatic Speech Recognition for Conversational Speech in Dutch, English and German: What Goes Missing? in Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2022) (2022). PDF
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Rasenberg, M., Özyürek, A., Bögels, S. & Dingemanse, M. The Primacy of Multimodal Alignment in Converging on Shared Symbols for Novel Referents. Discourse Processes (2022). doi: 10.1080/0163853X.2021.1992235 PDF
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Dingemanse, M. Between Sound and Speech: Liminal Signs in Interaction. Research on Language and Social Interaction 53, 188–196 (2020). doi: 10.1080/08351813.2020.1712967 PDF
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Rasenberg, M., Özyürek, A. & Dingemanse, M. Alignment in Multimodal Interaction: An Integrative Framework. Cogn Sci 44, (2020). doi: 10.1111/cogs.12911 PDF
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Dingemanse, M. Recruiting assistance and collaboration: a West-African corpus study. in Getting others to do things: A pragmatic typology of recruitments (eds. Floyd, S., Rossi, G. & Enfield, N. J.) 369–421 (Language Science Press, 2020). PDF
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Dingemanse, M., Rossi, G. & Floyd, S. Place reference in story beginnings: a cross-linguistic study of narrative and interactional affordances. Language in Society 46, 129–158 (2017). doi: 10.1017/S0047404516001019 PDF
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Dingemanse, M., Kendrick, K. H. & Enfield, N. J. A coding scheme for other-initiated repair across languages. Open Linguistics 2, 35–46 (2016). doi: 10.1515/opli-2016-0002 PDF
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Baranova, J. & Dingemanse, M. Reasons for requests. Discourse Studies 18, 641–675 (2016). doi: 10.1177/1461445616667154 PDF
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Dingemanse, M., Roberts, S. G., Baranova, J., Blythe, J., Drew, P., Floyd, S., Gisladottir, R. S., Kendrick, K. H., Levinson, S. C., Manrique, E., Rossi, G. & Enfield, N. J. Universal Principles in the Repair of Communication Problems. PLOS ONE 10, e0136100 (2015). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136100
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Dingemanse, M. & Enfield, N. J. Other-initiated repair across languages: towards a typology of conversational structures. Open Linguistics 1, 98–118 (2015). doi: 10.2478/opli-2014-0007 PDF
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Dingemanse, M. Other-initiated repair in Siwu. Open Linguistics 1, 232–255 (2015). doi: 10.1515/opli-2015-0001 PDF
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Dingemanse, M. & Floyd, S. Conversation across cultures. in Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology (eds. Enfield, N. J., Kockelman, P. & Sidnell, J.) 434–464 (Cambridge University Press, 2014). PDF
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Dingemanse, M., Blythe, J. & Dirksmeyer, T. Formats for other-initiation of repair across languages: An exercise in pragmatic typology. Studies in Language 38, 5–43 (2014). doi: 10.1075/sl.38.1.01din PDF
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Dingemanse, M., Torreira, F. & Enfield, N. J. Is ‘Huh?’ a universal word? Conversational infrastructure and the convergent evolution of linguistic items. PLOS ONE 8, e78273 (2013). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078273

Ideophones and iconicity

↥ topWork on form-meaning resemblances and on ideophones, vivid sensory words.

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McLean, B., Dunn, M. & Dingemanse, M. Two measures are better than one: combining iconicity ratings and guessing experiments for a more nuanced picture of iconicity in the lexicon. Language and Cognition 1–24 (2023). doi: 10.1017/langcog.2023.9 PDF
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Winter, B., Sóskuthy, M., Perlman, M. & Dingemanse, M. Trilled /r/ is associated with roughness, linking sound and touch across spoken languages. Sci Rep 12, 1035 (2022). doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-04311-7 PDF
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Nielsen, A. K. S. & Dingemanse, M. Iconicity in Word Learning and Beyond: A Critical Review. Lang Speech 64, 52–72 (2021). doi: 10.1177/0023830920914339 PDF
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Dingemanse, M., Perlman, M. & Perniss, P. Construals of iconicity: experimental approaches to form–meaning resemblances in language. Language and Cognition 12, 1–14 (2020). doi: 10.1017/langcog.2019.48 PDF
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Dingemanse, M. & Thompson, B. Playful iconicity: structural markedness underlies the relation between funniness and iconicity. Language and Cognition 12, 203–224 (2020). doi: 10.1017/langcog.2019.49 PDF
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Dingemanse, M. ‘Ideophone’ as a comparative concept. in Ideophones, Mimetics, Expressives (eds. Akita, K. & Pardeshi, P.) 13–33 (John Benjamins, 2019). PDF
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Akita, K. & Dingemanse, M. Ideophones (Mimetics, Expressives). Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics (2019). doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.477 PDF
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Dingemanse, M. Redrawing the margins of language: Lessons from research on ideophones. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 3, 1–30 (2018). doi: 10.5334/gjgl.444 PDF
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Dingemanse, M. & Akita, K. An inverse relation between expressiveness and grammatical integration: on the morphosyntactic typology of ideophones, with special reference to Japanese. Journal of Linguistics 53, 501–532 (2017). doi: 10.1017/S002222671600030X PDF
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Dingemanse, M. On the margins of language: Ideophones, interjections and dependencies in linguistic theory. in Dependencies in language (ed. Enfield, N. J.) 195–202 (Language Science Press, 2017). PDF
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Dingemanse, M. Expressiveness and system integration. On the typology of ideophones, with special reference to Siwu. STUF – Language Typology and Universals 70, 363–384 (2017). doi: 10.1515/stuf-2017-0018 PDF
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Lockwood, G., Dingemanse, M. & Hagoort, P. Sound-symbolism boosts novel word learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 42, 1274–1281 (2016). doi: 10.1037/xlm0000235 PDF
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Lockwood, G., Hagoort, P. & Dingemanse, M. How iconicity helps people learn new words: neural correlates and individual differences in sound-symbolic bootstrapping. Collabra 2, 1–15 (2016). doi: 10.1525/collabra.42 PDF
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Lockwood, G., Hagoort, P. & Dingemanse, M. Synthesized size-sound sound symbolism. in Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (eds. Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D. & Trueswell, J. C.) 1823–1828 (Cognitive Science Society, 2016). PDF
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Dingemanse, M., Schuerman, W., Reinisch, E., Tufvesson, S. & Mitterer, H. What sound symbolism can and cannot do: testing the iconicity of ideophones from five languages. Language 92, e117–e133 (2016). doi: 10.1353/lan.2016.0034 PDF
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Verhoef, T., Roberts, S. G. & Dingemanse, M. Emergence of systematic iconicity: transmission, interaction and analogy. in Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (eds. Noelle, D., Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S., Yoshimi, J., Matlock, T., Jennings, C. D. & Maglio, P. P.) 2481–2486 (Cognitive Science Society, 2015). PDF
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Lockwood, G. & Dingemanse, M. Iconicity in the lab: a review of behavioural, developmental, and neuroimaging research into sound-symbolism. Frontiers in Psychology 6, 1–14 (2015). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01246 PDF
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Dingemanse, M., Blasi, D. E., Lupyan, G., Christiansen, M. H. & Monaghan, P. Arbitrariness, iconicity and systematicity in language. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 19, 603–615 (2015). doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.07.013 PDF
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Dingemanse, M. Ideophones and reduplication: Depiction, description, and the interpretation of repeated talk in discourse. Studies in Language 39, 946–970 (2015). doi: 10.1075/sl.39.4.05din PDF
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Drijvers, L., Zaadnoordijk, L. & Dingemanse, M. Sound-symbolism is disrupted in dyslexia: Implications for the role of cross-modal abstraction processes. in Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (eds. Noelle, D., Dale, R., Warlaumont, A. S., Yoshimi, J., Matlock, T., Jennings, C. D. & Maglio, P. P.) 602–607 (Cognitive Science Society, 2015). PDF
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Dingemanse, M., Verhoef, T. & Roberts, S. G. The role of iconicity in the cultural evolution of communicative signals. in Proceedings of Evolang X Workshop on Signals, Speech and Signs (eds. Boer, B. de & Verhoef, T.) 11–15 (2014). PDF
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Dingemanse, M. Making new ideophones in Siwu: creative depiction in conversation. Pragmatics and Society 5, 384–405 (2014). doi: 10.1075/ps.5.3.04din PDF
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Dingemanse, M. Ideophones and gesture in everyday speech. Gesture 13, 143–165 (2013). doi: 10.1075/gest.13.2.02din PDF
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Dingemanse, M. Coerced iconicity in writing and speech. SemiotiX XN-8, (2012). PDF
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Dingemanse, M. Advances in the cross-linguistic study of ideophones. Language and Linguistics Compass 6, 654–672 (2012). doi: 10.1002/lnc3.361 PDF
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Dingemanse, M. & Majid, A. The semantic structure of sensory vocabulary in an African language. in Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (eds. Miyake, N., Peebles, D. & Cooper, R. P.) 300–305 (Cognitive Science Society, 2012). PDF
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Dingemanse, M. Ideophones and the aesthetics of everyday language in a West-African society. The Senses and Society 6, 77–85 (2011). doi: 10.2752/174589311X12893982233830 PDF
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Dingemanse, M. Ezra Pound among the Mawu: Ideophones and Iconicity in Siwu. in Semblance and Signification (eds. Michelucci, P., Fischer, O. & Ljungberg, C.) 39–54 (John Benjamins, 2011). PDF

Theory and methods

↥ topWork with a focus on conceptual foundations or methodological contributions.

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Dingemanse, M., Liesenfeld, A., Rasenberg, M., Albert, S., Ameka, F. K., Birhane, A., Bolis, D., Cassell, J., Clift, R., Cuffari, E., De Jaegher, H., Dutilh Novaes, C., Enfield, N. J., Fusaroli, R., Gregoromichelaki, E., Hutchins, E., Konvalinka, I., Milton, D., Rączaszek-Leonardi, J., Reddy, V., Rossano, F., Schlangen, D., Seibt, J., Stokoe, E., Suchman, L. A., Vesper, C., Wheatley, T. & Wiltschko, M. Beyond Single-Mindedness: A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences. Cognitive Science 47, (2023). doi: 10.1111/cogs.13230 PDF
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Dingemanse, M. & Liesenfeld, A. From text to talk: Harnessing conversational corpora for humane and diversity-aware language technology. in Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) 5614–5633 (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022). doi: 10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.385 PDF
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Nielsen, A. K. S. & Dingemanse, M. Iconicity in Word Learning and Beyond: A Critical Review. Lang Speech 64, 52–72 (2021). doi: 10.1177/0023830920914339 PDF
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Dingemanse, M., Perlman, M. & Perniss, P. Construals of iconicity: experimental approaches to form–meaning resemblances in language. Language and Cognition 12, 1–14 (2020). doi: 10.1017/langcog.2019.48 PDF
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Dingemanse, M. Between Sound and Speech: Liminal Signs in Interaction. Research on Language and Social Interaction 53, 188–196 (2020). doi: 10.1080/08351813.2020.1712967 PDF
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Arkel, J. van, Woensdregt, M., Dingemanse, M. & Blokpoel, M. A simple repair mechanism can alleviate computational demands of pragmatic reasoning: simulations and complexity analysis. in Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (2020). doi: 10.18653/v1/2020.conll-1.14 PDF
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Dingemanse, M. Resource-rationality beyond individual minds: the case of interactive language use. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 43, 23–24 (2020). doi: 10.1017/S0140525X19001638 PDF
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Cuskley, C., Dingemanse, M., Kirby, S. & van Leeuwen, T. M. Cross-modal associations and synesthesia: Categorical perception and structure in vowel–color mappings in a large online sample. Behav Res 51, 1651–1675 (2019). doi: 10.3758/s13428-019-01203-7 PDF
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Dingemanse, M. On the margins of language: Ideophones, interjections and dependencies in linguistic theory. in Dependencies in language (ed. Enfield, N. J.) 195–202 (Language Science Press, 2017). PDF
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Dingemanse, M. Brain-to-brain interfaces and the role of language in distributing agency. in Distributed Agency (eds. Enfield, N. J. & Kockelman, P.) 59–66 (Oxford University Press, 2017). PDF
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Dingemanse, M. Folk definitions in linguistic fieldwork. in Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa (eds. Essegbey, J., Henderson, B. & McLaughlin, F.) 215–238 (John Benjamins, 2015). PDF
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Dingemanse, M. Advances in the cross-linguistic study of ideophones. Language and Linguistics Compass 6, 654–672 (2012). doi: 10.1002/lnc3.361 PDF
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Dingemanse, M. The Enduring Spoken Word. Science 323, 1010b–11011 (2009). doi: 10.1126/science.323.5917.1010b PDF

Team science

↥ topA lot of my work is collaborative. The collection below lists team science contributions on topics like synaesthesia, language and perception, and social interaction.

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Winter, B., Lupyan, G., Perry, L. K., Dingemanse, M. & Perlman, M. Iconicity ratings for 14,000+ English words. Behav Res (2023). doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02112-6 PDF
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Dideriksen, C., Christiansen, M. H., Tylén, K., Dingemanse, M. & Fusaroli, R. Quantifying the interplay of conversational devices in building mutual understanding. J Exp Psychol Gen (2022). doi: 10.1037/xge0001301 PDF
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Eijk, L., Rasenberg, M., Arnese, F., Blokpoel, M., Dingemanse, M., Doeller, C. F., Ernestus, M., Holler, J., Milivojevic, B., Özyürek, A., Pouw, W., van Rooij, I., Schriefers, H., Toni, I., Trujillo, J. & Bögels, S. The CABB dataset: A multimodal corpus of communicative interactions for behavioural and neural analyses. NeuroImage 264, 119734 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119734
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Heesen, R., Fröhlich, M., Sievers, C., Woensdregt, M. & Dingemanse, M. Coordinating social action:  A primer for the cross-species investigation of communicative repair. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 377, 20210110 (2022). doi: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0110 PDF
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van Leeuwen, T. M., Wilsson, L., Norrman, H. N., Dingemanse, M., Bölte, S. & Neufeld, J. Perceptual processing links autism and synesthesia: A co-twin control study. Cortex 145, 236–249 (2021). doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.09.016 PDF
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Pouw, W., Dingemanse, M., Motamedi, Y. & Özyürek, A. A Systematic Investigation of Gesture Kinematics in Evolving Manual Languages in the Lab. Cognitive Science 45, e13014 (2021). doi: 10.1111/cogs.13014 PDF
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Kendrick, K. H., Brown, P., Dingemanse, M., Floyd, S., Gipper, S., Hayano, K., Hoey, E., Hoymann, G., Manrique, E., Rossi, G. & Levinson, S. C. Sequence organization: A universal infrastructure for social action. Journal of Pragmatics 168, 119–138 (2020). doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2020.06.009 PDF
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Burghoorn, F., Dingemanse, M., van Lier, R. & van Leeuwen, T. M. The Relation Between Autistic Traits, the Degree of Synaesthesia, and Local/Global Visual Perception. J Autism Dev Disord 50, 12–29 (2020). doi: 10.1007/s10803-019-04222-7 PDF
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van Leeuwen, T. M., van Petersen, E., Burghoorn, F., Dingemanse, M. & van Lier, R. Autistic traits in synaesthesia: atypical sensory sensitivity and enhanced perception of details. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374, 20190024 (2019). doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0024 PDF
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Cuskley, C., Dingemanse, M., Kirby, S. & van Leeuwen, T. M. Cross-modal associations and synesthesia: Categorical perception and structure in vowel–color mappings in a large online sample. Behav Res 51, 1651–1675 (2019). doi: 10.3758/s13428-019-01203-7 PDF
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Dideriksen, C., Fusaroli, R., Tylén, K., Dingemanse, M. & Christiansen, M. H. Contextualizing Conversational Strategies: Backchannel, Repair and Linguistic Alignment in Spontaneous and Task-Oriented Conversations. in Proceedings of CogSci 2019 261–267 (2019). PDF
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Majid, A., Roberts, S. G., Cilissen, L., Emmorey, K., Nicodemus, B., O’Grady, L., Woll, B., LeLan, B., de Sousa, H., Cansler, B. L., Shayan, S., de Vos, C., Senft, G., Enfield, N. J., Razak, R. A., Fedden, S., Tufvesson, S., Dingemanse, M., Ozturk, O., Brown, P., Hill, C., Le Guen, O., Hirtzel, V., van Gijn, R., Sicoli, M. A. & Levinson, S. C. Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, 11369–11376 (2018). doi: 10.1073/pnas.1720419115 PDF
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Floyd, S., Rossi, G., Baranova, J., Blythe, J., Dingemanse, M., Kendrick, K. H., Zinken, J. & Enfield, N. J. Universals and cultural diversity in the expression of gratitude. Royal Society Open Science 5, 180391 (2018). doi: 10.1098/rsos.180391 PDF
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Fusaroli, R., Tylén, K., Garly, K., Steensig, J., Christiansen, M. H. & Dingemanse, M. Measures and mechanisms of common ground: backchannels, conversational repair, and interactive alignment in free and task-oriented social interactions. in Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (eds. Gunzelmann, G., Howes, A., Tenbrink, T. & Davelaar, E.) 2055–2060 (2017). PDF
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van Leeuwen, T. M. & Dingemanse, M. Colour associations in synaesthetes and nonsynaesthetes: A large-scale study in Dutch. Perception 45, 333–334 (2016).
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van Leeuwen, T. M., Dingemanse, M., Todil, B., Agameya, A. & Majid, A. Non-Random Associations of Graphemes with Colors in Arabic. Multisensory Research 29, 223–252 (2016). doi: 10.1163/22134808-00002511 PDF
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San Roque, L., Kendrick, K., Norcliffe, E., Brown, P., Defina, R., Dingemanse, M., Dirksmeyer, T., Enfield, N. J., Floyd, S., Hammond, J., Rossi, G., Tufvesson, S., van Putten, S. & Majid, A. Vision verbs dominate in conversation across cultures, but the ranking of non-visual verbs varies. Cognitive Linguistics (2015). doi: 10.1515/cog-2014-0089 PDF
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Enfield, N. J., Dingemanse, M., Baranova, J., Blythe, J., Brown, P., Dirksmeyer, T., Drew, P., Floyd, S., Gipper, S., Gísladóttir, R., Hoymann, G., Kendrick, K. H., Levinson, S. C., Magyari, L., Manrique, E., Rossi, G., San Roque, L. & Torreira, F. Huh? What? – A first survey in twenty-one languages. in Conversational Repair and Human Understanding (eds. Hayashi, M., Raymond, G. & Sidnell, J.) 343–380 (Cambridge University Press, 2013).