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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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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).
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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 ...
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Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstractIconicity ratings studies have established that there are many English words which native speakers judge as “iconic,” that is, as sounding like what they mean. Here, we explore whether these iconic English words are more likely to be accompanied by iconic gestures.
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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 ...
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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 +2 more
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Iconicity can ground the creation of vocal symbols [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 Studies of gestural communication systems find that they originate from spontaneously created iconic gestures. Yet, we know little about how people create vocal communication systems, and many have suggested that vocalizations do not afford iconicity ...
Marcus Perlman +2 more
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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
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Eye movements unveil sensitivity of naïve listeners to iconicity of Russian onomatopoeic words
Poljarnyj Vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies, 2023 Iconicity between form and meaning of words is considered to be instrumental in relating linguistic forms to sensorimotor experience. Some Russian onomatopoeic words (e.g. bac ‘bang’) depict sounds and indicate action connected to these sounds.
Tuomo Häikiö, Oksana Kanerva
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Does De-Iconization Affect Visual Recognition of Russian and English Iconic Words?
Languages, 2022 Iconic words constitute an integral part of the lexicon of a language, exhibiting form-meaning resemblance. Over the course of time, semantic and phonetic transformations “weaken” the degree of iconicity of a word.
Yulia Lavitskaya +5 more
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