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Data Collection in Multimodal Language and Communication Research: A Flexible Decision Framework

Bauer, A., Trettenbrein, P. C., Amici, F., Ćwiek, A., Krause, L.-M., Kuder, A., Ladewig, S., Schulder, M., Schumacher, P. B., Spruijt, D., Zulberti, C., Fuchs, S., & Schulte-Rüther, M.

Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 9(2), 25152459261442338 · 2026 · Link

The bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems

Ćwiek, A., Fuchs, S., Draxler, C., Asu, E. L., Dediu, D., Hiovain, K., Kawahara, S., Koutalidis, S., Krifka, M., Lippus, P., Lupyan, G., Oh, G. E., Paul, J., Petrone, C., Ridouane, R., Reiter, S., Schümchen, N., Szalontai, Á., Ünal-Logacev, Ö., Zeller, J., Perlman, M. & Winter, B.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1841) · 2022 · Link

Novel vocalizations are understood across cultures

Ćwiek, A., Fuchs, S., Draxler, C., Asu, E. L., Dediu, D., Hiovain, K., Kawahara, S., Koutalidis, S., Krifka, M., Lippus, P., Lupyan, G., Oh, G. E., Paul, J., Petrone, C., Ridouane, R., Reiter, S., Schümchen, N., Szalontai, Á., Ünal-Logacev, Ö., Zeller, J., Winter, B. & Perlman, M.

Scientific Reports, 11, 10108 · 2021 · Link

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2026

Big Team Science for Language Science: Opportunities and Challenges

Faytak, M.*, Kadavá, Š.* (PhD candidate), Xu, C.*, Özsoy, O.*, Akumbu, P.*, Cardoso, A.*, Amengual, M., Arvaniti, A., Belz, M., Bevivino, D., Casillas, J. V., Caudrelier, T., Ćwiek, A., Dokovova, M., Dutta, I., Egurtzegi, A., Forst, H., Foulkes, P., Garcia, R., Grice, M., Hanulíková, A., Hellmuth, S., Kaźmierski, K., Li, X., Lorenzen, J., Mori, M., Nycz, J., Punnoose, R., Quesada Vázquez, L., Rebernik, T., Sawicka-Stępińska, B., Sehyr, Z., Setter, J., Spaniol, M., Urrestarazu-Porta, I., Vella, A., Zhang, C., Zygis, M., Buchanan, E. M., Roettger, T. (* joint first authorship)

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2026

Communicating from head to toe: The physiological processes in multimodal language

Kadavá, Š., Ćwiek, A. & Fuchs, S.

The Handbook of Linguistics and Multimodality (Wiley/Blackwell), to appear · Link

2026

Data Collection in Multimodal Language and Communication Research: A Flexible Decision Framework

Bauer, A., Trettenbrein, P. C., Amici, F., Ćwiek, A., Krause, L.-M., Kuder, A., Ladewig, S., Schulder, M., Schumacher, P. B., Spruijt, D., Zulberti, C., Fuchs, S., & Schulte-Rüther, M.

Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 9(2), 25152459261442338 · Link

2026

Exploring the Guessing-Game Experimental Paradigm: Inferences From Closed- Versus Open-Ended Semantic Space

Kuleshova, S., Ćwiek, A., Hartmann, S., Pleyer, M., Sibierska, M., Placiński, M., Blomberg, J., Żywiczyński, P. & Wacewicz, S.

Cognitive Science, 50(3), e70199 · Link

2026

Index; Konvention; Semiotik; Signifikant; Signifikat; Symbol; Zeichen (7 entries)

Ćwiek, A.

Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Band 10 (de Gruyter Brill)

2026

Self-reported expressibility predicts communicative success: Open dataset, validation, and simulation

Ćwiek, A., Fuchs, S., Pouw, W., & Kadavá, Š.

Behavior Research Methods

2025

A dataset of ideophone-like marked words from German children’s books

Ćwiek, A.

Linguistische Berichte, 282, 83–99 · Link

2025

Arbitrarität; Ideophon; Ikon; Ikonizität; Onomatopoietikon (5 entries)

Ćwiek, A.

Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Band 10 (de Gruyter Brill)

2025

Introduction to the Special Issue on Iconicity and Sound Symbolism

Ćwiek, A., Kreiman, J. & Fuchs, S.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 157(5), 3806–3813 · Link

2025

The Scope and Limits of Iconic Prosody: Head Angle Predicts f0 Changes While Object Size Effects Are Absent

Ćwiek, A. & Fuchs, S.

Open Mind, 9, 1959–1981 · Link

2024

An Outlook for AI Innovation in Multimodal Communication Research

Henlein, A., Bauer, A., Bhattacharjee, R., Ćwiek, A., Gregori, A., Kügler, F., Lemanski, J., Lücking, A., Mehler, A., Prieto, P., Sánchez-Ramón, P., Schepens, J., Schulte-Rüther, M., Schweinberger, S. & von Eiff, C.

Digital Human Modeling and Applications (Springer), 182–234 · Link

2024

Exploring the sound structure of novel vocalizations

Fuchs, S.*, Kadavá, Š.*, Pouw, W., Walker, B., Fay, N., Winter, B. & Ćwiek, A.

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Evolution of Language · Link

2024

Sound symbolism in Japanese names: Machine learning approaches to gender classification

Ngai, C. H., Kilpatrick, A. J. & Ćwiek, A.

PLOS ONE, 19(3) · Link

2024

The alveolar trill is perceived as jagged/rough by speakers of different languages

Ćwiek, A., Anselme, R., Dediu, D., Fuchs, S., Kawahara, S., Oh, G. E., Paul, J., Perlman, M., Petrone, C., Reiter, S., Ridouane, R., Zeller, J. & Winter, B.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156(5), 3468–3479 · Link

2024

Using artificial intelligence to explore sound symbolic expressions of gender in American English

Kilpatrick, A. & Ćwiek, A.

PeerJ Computer Science, 10:e1811 · Link

2024

What do we mean when we say gestures are more expressive than vocalizations? An experimental and simulation study

Kadavá, Š., Ćwiek, A., Fuchs, S. & Pouw, W.

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam · Link

2023

A cross-linguistic, sound symbolic relationship between labial consonants, voiced plosives, and Pokémon friendship

Kilpatrick, A. J.*, Ćwiek, A.* & Kawahara, S.

Frontiers in Psychology, 14 · Link

2023

A Roadmap for Technological Innovation in Multimodal Communication Research

Gregori, A., Amici, F., Brilmayer, I., Ćwiek, A., Fritzsche, L., Fuchs, S., Henlein, A., Herbort, O., Kügler, F., Lemanski, J., Liebal, K., Lücking, A., Mehler, A., Pouw, W., Prieto, P., Sánchez-Ramón, P. G., Schulte-Rüther, M. & von Eiff, C. I.

Digital Human Modeling and Applications (Springer), 402–438 · Link

2023

Attitudes in the German-Polish context based on perceptual evidence

Żygis, M., Błaszczak, J., Ćwiek, A., Saint-Pettersen, M., Wesolek, S. & Gulgowski, P.

Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague · Link

2023

Is gesture-speech physics at work in rhythmic pointing? Evidence from Polish counting-out rhymes

Kadavá, Š., Ćwiek, A., Stoltmann, K., Fuchs, S. & Pouw, W.

Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague · Link

2023

Random forests, sound symbolism and Pokémon evolution

Kilpatrick, A. J., Ćwiek, A., Lewis, E. & Kawahara, S.

PLOS ONE, 18(1) · Link

2022

Iconicity in Language and Speech

Ćwiek, A.

Ph.D. Thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · Link

2022

Sounds Full of Meaning and the Evolution of Language

Fuchs, S. & Ćwiek, A.

Acoustics Today, 18(2), 43–51 · Link

2022

The bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems

Ćwiek, A., Fuchs, S., Draxler, C., Asu, E. L., Dediu, D., Hiovain, K., Kawahara, S., Koutalidis, S., Krifka, M., Lippus, P., Lupyan, G., Oh, G. E., Paul, J., Petrone, C., Ridouane, R., Reiter, S., Schümchen, N., Szalontai, Á., Ünal-Logacev, Ö., Zeller, J., Perlman, M. & Winter, B.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1841) · Link

2021

Novel vocalizations are understood across cultures

Ćwiek, A., Fuchs, S., Draxler, C., Asu, E. L., Dediu, D., Hiovain, K., Kawahara, S., Koutalidis, S., Krifka, M., Lippus, P., Lupyan, G., Oh, G. E., Paul, J., Petrone, C., Ridouane, R., Reiter, S., Schümchen, N., Szalontai, Á., Ünal-Logacev, Ö., Zeller, J., Winter, B. & Perlman, M.

Scientific Reports, 11, 10108 · Link

2019

Exploiting the speech-gesture link to capture fine-grained prosodic prominence impressions and listening strategies

Wagner, P., Ćwiek, A. & Samlowski, B.

Journal of Phonetics, 76, 100911 · Link

2019

Iconic prosody is rooted in sensori-motor properties: fundamental frequency and the vertical space

Ćwiek, A. & Fuchs, S.

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 41, 1572–1578 · Link

2018

The Acoustic Realization of Prosodic Prominence in Polish: Word-level Stress and Phrase-level Accent

Ćwiek, A. & Wagner, P.

9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018, 922–926 · Link

2017

Acoustics and discourse function of two types of breathing signals

Ćwiek, A., Włodarczak, M., Heldner, M. & Wagner, P.

Nordic Prosody: Proceedings of the XIIth Conference, 83–91 · Link

2016

Beat it! – Gesture-based Prominence Annotation as a Window to Individual Prosody Processing Strategies

Wagner, P., Ćwiek, A. & Samlowski, B.

Tagungsband der 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie, 211–214 · Link

2016

Investigating the communicative function of breathing and non-breathing “silent” pauses

Ćwiek, A., Neueder, S. & Wagner, P.

Tagungsband der 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie, 27–29 · Link