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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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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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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 ...
Rick Dale +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 ...
Arthur Jacobs, Markus Conrad
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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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Characteristics of Iconic High-rise Buildings [PDF]
Journal of Engineering Research - Egypt, 2022 Iconography is a degree given to a building and an objective of its architectural design. The iconic high-rise buildings are important in various fields.
Tarek Gaber +2 more
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Iconicity (of Reading). Lolita
Semiotika (Vilniaus universitetas), 2021 The paper focuses on the issue of iconicity of (printed) literary narrative and proposes the idea of iconic reading (or iconicity of reading). It discusses Peircean notion of iconic sign, examines its use within the field of iconicity studies in language
Irina Melnikova
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Sign learning of hearing children in inclusive day care centers—does iconicity matter?
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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Implications of the “Language as Situated” View for Written Iconicity
Journal of Cognition, 2021 In their review, Murgiano, Motamedi, and Vigliocco (2020) lay out a new perspective in which they argue that language should be understood as a situated phenomenon.
David M. Sidhu, Penny M. Pexman
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