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Effects of Iconicity in Recognition Memory

open access: yesCognitive Sciences, 2023
Iconicity refers to a resemblance between word form and meaning. Previous work has shown that iconic words are learned earlier and processed faster. Here, we examined whether iconic words are recognized better on a recognition memory task.
David M. Sidhu   +2 more
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Eye movements unveil sensitivity of naïve listeners to iconicity of Russian onomatopoeic words

open access: yesPoljarnyj 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?

open access: yesLanguages, 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]

open access: yesJournal 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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Two measures are better than one: Combining iconicity ratings and guessing experiments for a more nuanced picture of iconicity in the lexicon

open access: yesLanguage and Cognition, 2022
Iconicity in language is receiving increased attention from many fields, but our understanding of the roles of iconicity in language is only as good as the measures we use to quantify it.
Bonnie McLean   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Iconicity emerges and is maintained in spoken language.

open access: yesJournal of experimental psychology. General, 2021
Iconicity is the property whereby signs (vocal or manual) resemble their referents. Iconic signs are easy to relate to the world, facilitating learning and processing.
D. Vinson   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Iconicity (of Reading). Lolita

open access: yesSemiotika (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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Iconicity in sign language production: Task matters

open access: yesNeuropsychologia, 2021
The present study explored the influence of iconicity on sign lexical retrieval and whether it is modulated by the task at hand. Lexical frequency was also manipulated to have an index of lexical processing during sign production.
Marc Gimeno-Martínez, Cristina Baus
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Implications of the “Language as Situated” View for Written Iconicity

open access: yesJournal 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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Complex Sentence as Sign of Syntactic Complexity, Realized on Basis of Principle of Iconicity (Experience of Researching German Scientific Discourse)

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2021
The question is considered of how, within a separate fragment of intellectual and communicative activity (using the example of modern German-language scientific and technical discourse), the mechanism for implementing the category of syntactic complexity
T. V. Burdaeva, M. M. Khalikov
doaj   +1 more source

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