Shiri Lev‐Ari

Royal Holloway University of London — United Kingdom

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Language and cultural evolution(24), Phonetics and Phonology Research(18), Linguistic Variation and Morphology(18), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism(14), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies(12)

Publications90 total

Sound symbolism highlights relative distinctiveness: Evidence from English vocabulary
Cognition·2025Open Access
The Relationship Between Community Size and Iconicity in Sign Languages
Cognitive Science·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Sorries seem to have the harder words
British Journal of Psychology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Do native and non-native speakers make different judicial decisions?
Bilingualism Language and Cognition·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
The influence of community structure on how communities categorize the world.
Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition·2024· 2 cited
The emergence of word order from a social network perspective
Cognition·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
The Whale and the Microorganism: A Tale of a Classic Example and Linguistic Intuitions
Cognitive Science·2023Open Access
Swear words: we studied speakers of languages from Hindi to Hungarian to find out why obscenities sound the way they do
2022
The sound of swearing: Are there universal patterns in profanity?
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review·2022· 11 citedOpen Access
Here’s why people might discriminate against foreign accents – new research
2021Open Access
Exposing Individuals to Foreign Accent Increases their Trust in What Nonnative Speakers Say
Cognitive Science·2021· 43 citedOpen Access
“Big” Sounds Bigger in More Widely Spoken Languages
Cognitive Science·2021· 6 citedOpen Access
People with larger social networks show poorer voice recognition
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology·2021· 9 citedOpen Access
Richer color vocabulary is correlated with color memory, but its relation to perception is unknown
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2021· 5 citedOpen Access
Effect of social network size on voice recognition
OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)·2021Open Access
Noticing how our social networks are interconnected can influence language change
Language Cognition and Neuroscience·2020· 1 cited
The Role of Social Network Structure in the Emergence of Linguistic Structure
Cognitive Science·2020· 35 citedOpen Access
Network structure and the cultural evolutionof linguistic structure: A group communication experiment
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)·2020
Interacting With Multiple Partners Improves Communication Skills
Cognitive Science·2020· 17 citedOpen Access
Noticing how our social networks are interconnected can influence language change
Figshare·2020Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Sharon Peperkamp(9), Antje S. Meyer(8), Boaz Keysar(6), Limor Raviv(5), Sara Iacozza(3), Vivian Y. Chang(1), Vineet M. Arora(1), Michael Darcy(1), Katarzyna Boduch‐Grabka(1), Leslie Taylor(1), Rolf A. Zwaan(1), Emily V. Ho(1), Natalie Sebanz(1), Zeshu Shao(1), Ryan McKay(1), Marcela San Giacomo(1), Marieke van Heugten(1), Ivet Kancheva(1), Louise Marston(1), Hannah Morris(1)