Marcus Perlman

University College Birmingham — United Kingdom

Psychology · Social Sciences

25h-index2.7kcitations95works2.42yr avg
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Research Topics

Multisensory perception and integration(41), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition(39), Hearing Impairment and Communication(27), Language and cultural evolution(16), Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior(14)

Publications95 total

In search of meaning
Science·2026
Trilled /r/ is associated with textural roughness in the vocabularies of spoken languages
2026Open Access
Iconic prosody and its connection to iconic gesture
2026Open Access
Ape iconicity
OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)·2026
Do great apes use iconic gestures?
2026Open Access
Do Great Apes Use Iconic Gestures?
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science·2026Open Access
The ‘design features’ of language revisited
Trends in Cognitive Sciences·2025Open Access
Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures
Cognitive Science·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Infants can create different types of iconic gestures during natural interactions with caregivers
OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)·2025
Reply to: Not just the alveolar trill, but all “r-like” sounds are associated with roughness across languages, pointing to a more general link between sound and touch
Scientific Reports·2025Open Access
The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence·2025· 17 citedOpen Access
The alveolar trill is perceived as jagged/rough by speakers of different languages
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·2024· 14 citedOpen Access
The Sociolinguistic Foundations of Language Modeling
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
The alveolar trill is perceived as jagged/rough by speakers of different languages
2024Open Access
Infants can create iconic gestures during natural interactions with caregivers
Gesture·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Winter, Woodin & Perlman - Defining iconicity for the cognitive sciences
2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Iconicity ratings for 14,000+ English words
Behavior Research Methods·2023· 60 citedOpen Access
Great apes like to spin themselves dizzy, a lot like children do, research shows
2023
Large-scale patterns of number use in spoken and written English
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory·2023· 13 citedOpen Access
Great apes reach momentary altered mental states by spinning
Primates·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Bodo Winter(15), Gary Lupyan(14), Lynn K. Perry(5), Dominic W. Massaro(4), Jing Paul(4), Raymond W. Gibbs(4), Aleksandra Ćwiek(3), Susanne Fuchs(3), Dan Dediu(3), Shigeto Kawahara(3), Grace E. Oh(3), Caterina Petrone(3), Rachid Ridouane(3), Sabine Reiter(3), Jochen Zeller(3), Rick Dale(3), Mark Dingemanse(3), Teenie Matlock(3), Nathaniel Clark(3), Joanne E. Tanner(3)