Here you will find all of our publications sorted chronologically. For a list of publications sorted by topic, see our Research page.
In Press
Fairchild, S., & Papafragou, A. (submitted). Selective pragmatic tolerance towards non-native speakers.
Fairchild, S., & Papafragou, A. (submitted). Linguistic cues are privileged over non-linguistic cues in young children's categorization.
Gervits, F., Johanson, M., & Papafragou, A. (submitted). Labels and intentionality in categorization.
Grigoroglou, M., Johanson, M., & Papafragou, A. (submitted). The acquisition of front and back: Conceptual vs. pragmatic factors.
Papafragou, A., Friedberg, C., & Cohen, M. (in press). The role of speaker knowledge in children’s pragmatic inferences. Child Development.
Papafragou, A., Fairchild, S., Cohen, M., & Friedberg, C. (in press). Learning words from speakers with false beliefs. Journal of Child Language.
Grigoroglou, M., & Papafragou, A. (in press). Acquisition of Pragmatics. Invited chapter, In R. Clark & M. Aronoff (Eds.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Online edition: Oxford University Press.
Ünal, E., & Papafragou, A. (in press). The relation between language and mental state reasoning. In J. Proust & M. Fortier (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Approaches to Metacognitive Diversity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Papafragou, A. (in press). Relations between language and thought: Individuation and the count/mass distinction. In C. Lefebvre and H. Cohen (Eds.), Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science. New York: Elsevier. (updated version of 2005 chapter)
Grigoroglou, M., & Papafragou, A. (in press). Spatial terms. In C. Cummins & N. Katsos (Eds.), Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ünal, E., & Papafragou, A. (in press). Evidentials, information sources and cognition. In A. Aikhenvald (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2017
Grigoroglou, M., & Papafragou, A. (2017). Pragmatic aspects of spatial language acquisition and use across languages. Proceedings from the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Ji, Y., & Papafragou, A. (2017). Viewers' sensitivity to abstract event structure. Proceedings from the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Kampa, A., & Papafragou, A. (2017). Gricean epistemic reasoning in 4-year-olds. Proceedings from the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
2016
Landau, B., Johannes, K., Skordos, D., & Papafragou, A. (2016). Containment and support: Core and complexity in spatial language learning. Cognitive Science.
Bunger, A., Skordos, D., Trueswell, J., & Papafragou, A. (2016). How adults and children encode causative events cross-linguistically: Implications for language production and attention. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.
Ünal, E., & Papafragou, A. (2016). Interactions between language and mental representations. Language Learning, 66, 554-580.
Skordos, D., & Papafragou, A. (2016). Children’s derivation of scalar implicatures: alternatives and relevance. Cognition, 153, 6-18.
Johanson, M., & Papafragou, A. (2016). The role of labels and facts in children’s and adults’ categorization. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 144, 130-151.
Ozturk, O., & Papafragou, A. (2016). The acquisition of evidentiality and source monitoring. Language Learning and Development, 12, 199-230.
Ünal, E., & Papafragou, A. (2016). Production-Comprehension asymmetries and the acquisition of evidential morphology. Journal of Memory and Language, 89, 179-199.
Ünal, E., Pinto, A., Bunger, A. & Papafragou, A. (2016). Monitoring sources of event memories: A cross-linguistic investigation. Journal of Memory and Language, 87, 157-176.
Gleitman, L. & Papafragou, A. (2016). New perspectives on language and thought. In K. Holyoak and R. Morrison (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning. New York: Cambridge University Press. (updated version of 2005 chapter)
Papafragou, A. & Skordos, D. (2016). Scalar Implicature. In J. Lidz, W. Snyder and J. Pater (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics, 611-629. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Grigoroglou, M., & Papafragou, A. (2016). Are children flexible speakers? Effects of typicality and listener needs in children's event descriptions. Proceedings from the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Gervits, F., Johanson, M., & Papafragou, A. (2016). Intentionality and the role of labels in categorization. Proceedings from the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Fairchild, S., & Papafragou, A. (2016). Monolinguals' and bilinguals' use of language in forming novel object categories. Proceedings from the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
2015
Ozturk, O., & Papafragou, A. (2015). The acquisition of epistemic modality: From semantic meaning to pragmatic interpretation. Language Learning and Development, 11, 191-214.
Papafragou, A., (2015). The representation of events in language and cognition. In E. Margolis and S. Laurence (eds.), The conceptual mind: New directions in the study of concepts, 327-345. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Johannes, K., Wang, J., Papafragou, A., & Landau, B. (2015). Similarity and variation in the distribution of spatial expressions across three languages. Proceedings from the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
2014
Skordos, D., & Papafragou, A. (2014). Lexical, syntactic, and semantic-geometric factors in the acquisition of motion predicates. Developmental Psychology, 50, 1985-1998.
Johanson, M., & Papafragou, A. (2014). What does children's spatial language reveal aboout spatial concepts? Evidence from the use of containment expressions. Cognitive Science, 38, 1-30.
Papafragou, A., (2014). Motion expression (development of). In P. Brooks, V. Kempe and G. Golson (eds.), Encyclopedia of Language Development.Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Skordos, D., & Papafragou, A. (2014). Scalar inferences in 5-year-olds: the role of alternatives. Proceedings from the 38th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2013
Hafri, A., Papafragou, A., & Trueswell, J. (2013). Getting the gist of events: Recognition of two-participant actions from brief displays. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 880-905.
Bunger, A., Papafragou, A., & Trueswell, J. (2013). Event structure influences language production: Evidence from structural priming in motion event description. Journal of Memory and Language, 69, 299-323.
Unal, E., & Papafragou, A. (2013). Linguistic and conceptual representations of inference as a knowledge source. Proceedings from the 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2012
Bunger, A., Trueswell, J., & Papafragou, A. (2012). The relation between event apprehension and utterance formation in children: Evidence from linguistic omissions. Cognition, 122, 135-149.
Bunger, A., Trueswell, J., & Papafragou, A. (2012). Information packaging for causative events: Cross-linguistic differences and implications for language production and attention. Proceedings from the 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2011
Li, P., Abarbanell, L., Gleitman, L., & Papafragou, A. (2011). Spatial reasoning in Tenejapan Mayans. Cognition, 120, 33-53.
Quinn, P., Doran, M., & Papafragou, A. (2011). Does changing the reference frame affect infant categorization of the spatial relation BETWEEN? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 109, 109-122.
Trueswell, J., Papafragou, A., & Choi, Y. (2011). Syntactic and referential processes: What develops? In E. Gibson & N. Perlmutter (eds.), The processing and acquisition of reference. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Wilson. F., Papafragou, A., Bunger, A., & Trueswell, J. (2011). Rapid extraction of event participants in caused motion events. Proceedings from the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Bunger, A., Trueswell, J., & Papafragou, A. (2011). The influence of conceptual structure on structural priming. Proceedings from the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Johanson, M., & Papafragou, A. (2011). Effects of labels on children’s category boundaries. Proceedings from the 35th Annual Boston University on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2010
Papafragou, A. (2010). Source-goal asymmetries in motion representation: Implications for language production and comprehension. Cognitive Science, 34, 1064-1092.
Trueswell, J., & Papafragou, A. (2010). Perceiving and remembering events cross-linguistically: Evidence from dual-task paradigms. Journal of Memory and Language, 63, 64-82.
Papafragou, A., & Selimis, S. (2010). Lexical and structural biases in the acquisition of motion verbs. Language Learning and Development, 6, 87-115.
Papafragou, A., & Selimis, S. (2010). Event categorisation and language: A cross-linguistic study of motion. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25, 224-260.
Papafragou, A. (2010). Language. In B. Goldstein (ed.), Encyclopedia of Perception. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Papafragou, A. (2010). Language and thought. Atkinson and Hilgard’s Introduction to Psychology. Cengage Learning.
Bosse, S. & Papafragou, A. (2010). Spatial position in language and visual memory: A cross-linguistic comparison. Proceedings from the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Johanson, M. & Papafragou, A. (2010). Universality and variation in the acquisition of path vocabulary. Proceedings from the 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Bunger, A., Trueswell, J., & Papafragou, A. (2010). Seeing and saying: The relation between event apprehension and utterance formulation in children. Proceedings from the 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Skordos, D. & Papafragou, A. (2010). Extracting paths and manners: Linguistic and conceptual biases in the acquisition of spatial language. Proceedings from the 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2009
Johanson, M., Selimis, S., & Papafragou, A. (2009). Cross-linguistic biases in the semantics and acquisition of spatial language. Proceedings from the 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Papafragou, A., & Selimis, S. (2009). On the acquisition of motion verbs cross-linguistically. Proceedings from the 7th International Conference on Greek Linguistics. Ioannina: University of Ioannina.
2008
Papafragou, A., Hulbert, J., & Trueswell, J. (2008). Does language guide event perception? Evidence from eye movements. Cognition, 108, 155-184. Cognition's 2008 'Most Downloaded Articles'
Ozturk, O. & Papafragou, A. (2008). The acquisition of evidentiality and source monitoring. Proceedings from the 32nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2007
Papafragou, A., Cassidy, K., & Gleitman, L. (2007). When we think about thinking: The acquisition of belief verbs. Cognition, 105, 125-165. Cognition's 2007 'Most Downloaded Articles'
Papafragou, A., Li, P., Choi, Y., & Han, C. (2007). Evidentiality in language and cognition. Cognition, 103, 253-299. Cognition's 2007 'Most Downloaded Articles'
Papafragou, A. (2007). Space and the language-cognition interface. In P. Carruthers, S. Laurence & S. Stich (eds.), The innate mind: Foundations and the future. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ozturk, O. & Papafragou, A. (2007). The acquisition of evidentiality in Turkish. Proceedings from the 31st Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. Dept. of Linguistics, UPenn.
Ozturk, O. & Papafragou, A. (2007). Children's acquisition of evidentiality. Proceedings from the 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Papafragou, A. & Selimis, S. (2007). Lexical and structural cues for acquiring motion verbs cross-linguistically. Proceedings from the 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Papafragou, A. & Ozturk, O. (2007). Children's acquisition of epistemic modality. Proceedings from the 30th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. Dept. of Linguistics, UPenn.
Papafragou, A., Massey, C., & Gleitman, L. (2007). Motion event conflation and clause structure. Proceedings from the 39th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. Dept. of Linguistics, University of Chicago.
2006
Papafragou, A. (2006). From scalar semantics to implicature: Children's interpretation of aspectuals. Journal of Child Language, 33, 721-757.
Papafragou, A. (2006). Epistemic modality and truth conditions. Lingua, 116, 1688-1702.
Hurewitz, F., Papafragou, A., Gleitman, L., & Gelman, R. (2006). Asymmetries in the acquisition of numbers and quantifiers. Language Learning and Development, 2, 77-96.
Papafragou, A., Massey, C., & Gleitman, L. (2006). When English proposes what Greek presupposes: The cross-linguistic encoding of motion events. Cognition, 98, B75-87.
Papafragou, A., & Schwarz, N. (2005/6). Most wanted. Language Acquisition, 13 (Special Issue: On the Acquisition of Quantification), 207-251.
2005
Gleitman, L., Cassidy, K., Nappa, R., Papafragou, A., & Trueswell, J. (2005). Hard words. Language Learning and Development, 1, 23-64.
Papafragou, A. (2005). Relations between language and thought: Individuation and the count/mass distinction. In C. Lefebvre & H. Cohen (eds.), Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science. New York: Elsevier Science.
Gleitman, L., & Papafragou, A. (2005). Language and thought. In K. Holyoak & R. Morrison (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning, 633-661. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Li, P., Abarbanell, L.,& Papafragou, A. (2005). Spatial reasoning skills in Tenejapan Mayans. Proceedings from the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
2004
Papafragou, A., & Tantalou, N. (2004). Children's computation of implicatures. Language Acquisition, 12, 71-82.
Papafragou, A. (2004). Review of R. Carston (2002), Thoughts and Utterances. Lingua, 114, 621-628.
2003
Papafragou, A., & Musolino, J. (2003). Scalar implicatures: Experiments at the Semantics-Pragmatics interface. Cognition, 86, 253-282.
Papafragou, A. (2003). Aspectuality and scalar structure. Proceedings from the 27th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2002
Papafragou, A., Massey C., & Gleitman, L. (2002). Shake, rattle, 'n' roll: The representation of motion in language and cognition. Cognition, 84, 189-219.
Papafragou, A. (2002). Modality and theory of mind: Perspectives from language development and autism. In S. Barbiers, F. Beukema & W. van der Wurff (eds.), Modality and its Interaction With the Verbal System, 185-204. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Papafragou, A. (2002). Aspectuality and scalar implicatures. Proceedings from the 26th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. Dept. of Linguistics, UPenn.
Papafragou, A. (2002). Scalar implicatures in language acquisition: Some evidence from Modern Greek. Proceedings from the 38th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. Chicago: CLS.
Papafragou, A., & Musolino, J. (2002). The pragmatics of number. Proceedings from the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 2002.
2001
Papafragou, A. (2001). Mindreading and verbal communication. Mind and Language, 17, 55-67.
Papafragou, A. (2001). Linking early linguistic and conceptual capacities: The role of theory of mind. In A. Cienki, B. Luka & M. Smith (eds.), Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language IV, 169-184. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Papafragou, A., Massey, C., & Gleitman, L. (2001). Motion events in language and cognition. Proceedings from the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2000
Papafragou, A. (2000). On 'speech-act modality'. Journal of Pragmatics, 32, 519-538.
Papafragou, A. (2000). Early communication: Beyond speech-act theory. Proceedings of 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Papafragou, A. (2000). Modality: Issues in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface. Amsterdam/New York: Elsevier Science.
1998
Papafragou, A. (1998). The acquisition of modality: Implications for theories of semantic representation. Mind and Language, 13, 370-99.
Papafragou, A. (1998). Inference and word meaning: The case of modal auxiliaries. Lingua, 105, 1-47.
Papafragou, A. (1998). Experience and concept attainment: Some critical remarks. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics, 10, 109-41.
1997
Papafragou, A. (1997). Modality in language development: A reconsideration of the evidence. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics, 9, 77-105.
1996
Papafragou, A. (1996). On metonymy. Lingua, 99, 169-95.
Papafragou, A. (1996). Figurative language and the semantics-pragmatics distinction. Language and Literature, 5, 179-93.
Papafragou, A. (1996). On generics. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics, 8, 165-98.
1995
Papafragou, A. (1995). Metonymy and relevance. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics, 7, 141-75.