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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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Getting the picture: iconicity does not affect representation-referent confusion. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Three experiments examined 3- to 5-year-olds' (N = 428) understanding of the relationship between pictorial iconicity (photograph, colored drawing, schematic drawing) and the real world referent.
Marina C Wimmer +3 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 ...
Rick Dale, Gary Lupyan, Marcus Perlman
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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 ...
David eSchmidtke +2 more
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Spatiotemporal aspects of iconicity
, 2013 This article is part of a larger research project that aims to identify a methodicalway of investigating iconicity in the immensely rich field of media, whichincludes art and other kinds of communication.
Elleström, Lars,
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Iconicity as Meaning Miming Meaning and Meaning Miming Form
, 2010 Iconicity consists of mimetic relations between form and meaning. This article is based on the notion of ‘spatial thinking’ and it is argued that there is no form without meaning, and that all meaning has some sort of form.
Elleström, Lars,
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Iconicity and diachronic language change [PDF]
, 2021 Iconicity, the resemblance between the form of a word and its meaning, has effects on behaviour in both communicative symbol development and language learning experiments.
Padraic Monaghan +3 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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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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