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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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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, Rick Dale, Gary Lupyan
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Ikoniczność w tekstach epistolarnych Michaiła Bułhakowa [PDF]
Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2018 The article pertains, in broad terms, to the concept of imaging of an act in language proposed by Ronald W. Langacker within the framework of cognitive grammar.
Beata Rycielska
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Mapping language to the world: the role of iconicity in the sign language input. [PDF]
Developmental Science, 2018 Most research on the mechanisms underlying referential mapping has assumed that learning occurs in ostensive contexts, where label and referent co-occur, and that form and meaning are linked by arbitrary convention alone.
P. Perniss +3 more
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Iconicity ratings for 10,995 Spanish words and their relationship with psycholinguistic variables
Behavior Research Methods, 2020 José A Hinojosa
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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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Arbitrariness, Iconicity, and Systematicity in Language
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2015 Mark Dingemanse +2 more
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Effects of Iconicity in Recognition Memory
Cognitive 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
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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Language 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
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