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What Is the Buzz About Iconicity? How Iconicity in Caregiver Speech Supports Children's Word Learning

open access: yesCognitive Science, 2021
One cue that may facilitate children's word learning is iconicity, or the correspondence between a word's form and meaning. Some have even proposed that iconicity in the early lexicon may serve to help children learn how to learn words, supporting the ...
Lynn K Perry   +2 more
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Frequency vs. iconicity in explaining grammatical asymmetries [PDF]

open access: yesCognitive Linguistics, 2008
This paper argues that three widely accepted motivating factors subsumed under the broad heading of iconicity, namely iconicity of quantity, iconicity of complexity and iconicity of cohesion, in fact have no role in explaining grammatical asymmetries and
Martin Haspelmath
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Icon abacus and ghost icons

Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 2005
We present two techniques that make document collection visualizations more informative. Icon abacus uses the horizontal position of icon groups to communicate document attributes. Ghost icons show linked documents by adding temporary icons and by highlighting or dimming existing ones.
Eric A. Bier, Adam Perer
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Effects of Iconicity in Recognition Memory [PDF]

open access: yesCognitive Science, 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, Gabriella Vigliocco
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Icon-function relationship in toolbar icons

Displays, 2008
Abstract Icons, widely used in computer programs, are part of the Graphical User Interface (GUI). They facilitate computer use regardless of users’ level of expertise. The authors report the results of a study focused on measuring performance of computer users in correctly and quickly associating toolbar icons and the action they represent in GUI ...
PASSINI, STEFANO   +2 more
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Is an icon iconic?

Language, 2008
To the memory of my wife the metaphysician The word ICON (< L icon , < Gk ∊iκώ v ‘likeness, image, portrait, similitude, semblance‘) has entered the parlance of linguists and philosophers ...
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