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Phonological Iconicity [PDF]

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, Markus eConrad, Arthur M Jacobs   +2 more
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A test of the symbol interdependency hypothesis with both concrete and abstract stimuli. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
In Experiment 1, the symbol interdependency hypothesis was tested with both concrete and abstract stimuli. Symbolic (i.e., semantic neighbourhood distance) and embodied (i.e., iconicity) factors were manipulated in two tasks-one that tapped symbolic ...
Simritpal Kaur Malhi, Lori Buchanan
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On System-Internal and Differential Iconicity in Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing

Signata, 2018
While referential modes of iconicity in signs of writing are well recognized, this paper emphasizes the complementary importance of system-internal modes of iconicity and sign motivation in complex writing systems.
Andréas Stauder
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Iconicity in Signed and Spoken Vocabulary: A Comparison Between American Sign Language, British Sign Language, English, and Spanish

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, Hannah Little, Bill Thompson, Robin L. Thompson   +3 more
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Origin of symbol-using systems: speech, but not sign, without the semantic urge [PDF]

, 2014
Natural language—spoken and signed—is a multichannel phenomenon, involving facial and body expression, and voice and visual intonation that is often used in the service of a social urge to communicate meaning.
Alberts B, Baldwin JM, Darwin C, Darwin C, Deacon TW, Donald M, Fauconnier G, Gross CG, Hauser M, Jablonski NG, Jackendoff R, Judson HF, Kendon A, King BJ, Klima ES, Knight C, Langacker R, Martin I. Sereno, Merker B, Miller SL, Mithen S, Rubens AB, Sereno MI, Sereno MI, Sereno ML, Wills C, Woese CR, Yip M   +27 more
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ICON: Eosinophil Disorders [PDF]

World Allergy Organization Journal, 2012
SUMMARY Eosinophil disorders and related syndromes are a heterogeneous group of conditions characterized by marked persistent blood eosinophilia and involvement of one or more organ systems. The hypereosinophilic (HE) state is defined by a persistent eosinophil count exceeding 1.5 · 10 9 /L blood.
Valent, Peter, Klion, Amy D., Rosenwasser, Lanny J., Arock, Michel, Bochner, Bruce S., Butterfield, Joseph H., Gotlib, Jason, Haferlach, Torsten, Hellmann, Andrzej, Horny, Hans-Peter, Leiferman, Kristin M., Metzgeroth, Georgia, Matsumoto, Kenji, Reiter, Andreas, Roufosse, Florence, Rothenberg, Marc E., Simon, Hans-Uwe, Sotlar, Karl, Vandenberghe, Peter, Weller, Peter F., Gleich, Gerald J.   +20 more
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From mimicry to mime by way of mimesis: Reflections on a general theory of iconicity

Sign Systems Studies, 2010
Practically all theories of iconicity are denunciations of its subject matter (for example, those of Goodman, Bierman and the early Eco). My own theory of iconicity was developed in order to save a particular kind of iconicity, pictoriality, from such ...
Göran Sonesson
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A Complete Real-World Theory of Language Should Explain How Iconicity Remains a Stable Property of Linguistic Systems

Journal of Cognition, 2021
Murgiano et al. make a compelling case for studying iconicity in multimodal face-to-face interaction, but they appear ambivalent about the importance of iconicity at the level of the linguistic system.
Marcus Perlman, Greg Woodin
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A Note on Iconicity and Motivation of Expression [PDF]

, 2007
While iconic effects can be detected at all levels of linguistic analysis, according to the standard position they have little, if any, relevance for the system of language.
Pawelec, Andrzej
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Affective iconic words benefit from additional sound–meaning integration in the left amygdala [PDF]

, 2019
Recent studies have shown that a similarity between sound and meaning of a word (i.e., iconicity) can help more readily access the meaning of that word, but the neural mechanisms underlying this beneficial role of iconicity in semantic processing remain ...
Aryani A., Aryani A., Boersma P., Darwin C., De Saussure F., Deacon T., Frühholz S., Gasser M., Iwasaki N., Jacobs A. M., Jacobs A. M., Jacobs A. M., Jakobson R., Kriegeskorte N., Lockwood G., Lockwood G., Panksepp J., Perniss P., Ramachandran V. S., Schrott R., Turner M.   +20 more
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