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IconicITA: Iconicity ratings of the Italian affective lexicon. [PDF]
PLoS ONEIconicity, defined as the potential of linguistic signs to resemble properties or features of their referents, is increasingly recognized as a general property of language.
Andrea Gregor de Varda +5 more
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The Anatomy of Iconicity: Cumulative Structural Analogies Underlie Objective and Subjective Measures of Iconicity. [PDF]
Open Mind (Camb)The vocabularies of natural languages harbour many instances of iconicity, where words show a perceived resemblance between aspects of form and meaning.
Punselie S, McLean B, Dingemanse M.
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Sign learning of hearing children in inclusive day care centers—does iconicity matter? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 An increasing number of experimental studies suggest that signs and gestures can scaffold vocabulary learning for children with and without special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
Madlen Goppelt-Kunkel +3 more
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Iconicity as Multimodal, Polysemiotic, and Plurifunctional
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Investigations of iconicity in language, whereby interactants coordinate meaningful bodily actions to create resemblances, are prevalent across the human communication sciences. However, when it comes to analysing and comparing iconicity across different
Gabrielle Hodge +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 The arbitrariness of the linguistic sign is a fundamental assumption in modern linguistic theory. In recent years, however, a growing amount of research has investigated the nature of non-arbitrary relations between linguistic sounds and semantics.This ...
David eSchmidtke +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Considerable evidence now shows that all languages, signed and spoken, exhibit a significant amount of iconicity. We examined how the visual-gestural modality of signed languages facilitates iconicity for different kinds of lexical meanings compared to ...
Marcus Perlman +3 more
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Glossa, 2019 Iconicity is when linguistic units are perceived as ‘sounding like what they mean,’ so that phonological structure of an iconic word is what begets its meaning through perceived imitation, rather than an arbitrary semantic link.
Arthur Lewis Thompson, Youngah Do
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Frontiers in Communication, 2017 Previous research found that iconicity—the motivated correspondence between word form and meaning—contributes to expressive vocabulary acquisition. We present two new experiments with two different databases and with novel analyses to give a detailed ...
Dominic W. Massaro, Marcus Perlman
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Iconicity and Sign Lexical Acquisition: A Review
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 The study of iconicity, defined as the direct relationship between a linguistic form and its referent, has gained momentum in recent years across a wide range of disciplines.
Gerardo Ortega, Gerardo Ortega
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Iconicity in Ideophones: Guessing, Memorizing, and Reassessing
Cognitive Sciences, 2023 Iconicity, or the resemblance between form and meaning, is often ascribed to a special status and contrasted with default assumptions of arbitrariness in spoken language.
Thomas Van Hoey +3 more
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