Lilia Rissman

Rochester Institute of Technology — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

10h-index377citations31works2.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition(21), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation(10), Hearing Impairment and Communication(7), Categorization, perception, and language(7), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies(5)

Publications31 total

Being Alive: How Biology, Agency and Naturalness Predict English Speakers’ Understanding of Life
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Words do not just label concepts: activating superordinate categories through labels, lists, and definitions
Language Cognition and Neuroscience·2024· 4 cited
The Power of the Lexicon: Eliciting Superordinate Categories With and Without Labels
2023Open Access
Universal Constraints on Linguistic Event Categories: A Cross-Cultural Study of Child Homesign
Psychological Science·2023· 4 cited
Gaps in the Lexicon Restrict Communication
Open Mind·2023· 9 citedOpen Access
Lack of Visual Experience Affects Multimodal Language Production: Evidence From Congenitally Blind and Sighted People
Cognitive Science·2023· 10 citedOpen Access
Evidence for a Shared Instrument Prototype from English, Dutch, and German
Cognitive Science·2022· 10 citedOpen Access
Measuring Meaning: Alignment and Misalignment Across Indices of Verb Semantics
Open MIND·2022
A dissociation between conceptual prominence and explicit category learning: Evidence from agent and patient event roles.
Journal of Experimental Psychology General·2021· 8 citedOpen Access
Lions, tigers and bears: Conveying a superordinate category without a superordinate label
eScholarship (California Digital Library)·2021· 1 citedOpen Access
The communicative importance of agent-backgrounding: Evidence from homesign and Nicaraguan Sign Language
Cognition·2020· 31 citedOpen Access
Responding to the Climate Crisis: The Importance of Virtual Conferencing Post-Pandemic
Collabra Psychology·2020· 14 citedOpen Access
English speakers' (in)ability to explicitly recognize agent and patient categories.
eScholarship (California Digital Library)·2020
Thematic roles: Core knowledge or linguistic construct?
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review·2019· 117 citedOpen Access
Agency drives category structure in instrumental events
MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society)·2019Open Access
Effects of blindfolding on verbal and gestural expression of path in auditory motion events
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)·2019Open Access
Event Participants and Verbal Semantics: Non-Discrete Structure in English, Spanish and Mandarin.
Cognitive Science·2019
Occluding the face diminishes the conceptual accessibility of an animate agent
Language Cognition and Neuroscience·2018· 14 citedOpen Access
Conceptual categories scaffold verbal semantic structure: A cross-cultural study of child homesign
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang12)·2018· 1 citedOpen Access
From visual prominence to event construal: influences (and non-influences) of eyegaze
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)·2018· 1 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Susan Goldin‐Meadow(7), Gary Lupyan(6), Asifa Majid(4), Barbara Landau(4), Laura Horton(3), Kyle Rawlins(3), Erica A. Cartmill(2), Amanda L. Woodward(2), Géraldine Légendre(2), Molly Flaherty(1), Ann Senghas(1), Marie Coppola(1), Diane Brentari(1), Miriam A. Novack(1), Cassandra L. Jacobs(1), Saskia Van Putten(1), Ezgi Mamus(1), Laura J. Speed(1), Aslı Özyürek(1), Qiawen Liu(1)