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Study on English Translation of Chinese Quantifiers from the Perspective of Cognitive Iconicity: A Pilot Study [PDF]
SHS Web of ConferencesChinese quantifiers are heavily loaded with Chinese culture, making it challenging to translate them into idiomatic English. The majority of earlier studies only examined linguistically the English translations of Chinese quantifiers.
Liu Ying, Lu Weizhong
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Frontiers in Communication, 2017 Previous research found that iconicity—the motivated correspondence between word form and meaning—contributes to expressive vocabulary acquisition. We present two new experiments with two different databases and with novel analyses to give a detailed ...
Dominic W. Massaro, Marcus Perlman
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C. S. Peirce and Intersemiotic Translation [PDF]
, 2015 Intersemiotic translation (IT) was defined by Roman Jakobson (The Translation Studies Reader, Routledge, London, p. 114, 2000) as “transmutation of signs”—“an interpretation of verbal signs by means of signs of nonverbal sign systems.” Despite its ...
Aguiar, Daniella, Queiroz, Joao
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IKONISITAS BUNYI SUKU KATA ZHI DALAM BAHASA CINA
Lite: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya, 2009 Iconicity of sound means a relationship between sound and meaning. The relationship results in index or icon. This study discusses the sound iconicity of zhi syllable in Chinese.
Budi Santoso
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Iconic semiosis and representational efficiency in the London Underground Diagram [PDF]
, 2014 The icon is the type of sign connected to efficient representational features, and its manipulation reveals more information about its object. The London Underground Diagram (LUD) is an iconic artifact and a well-known example of representational ...
Atã, Pedro +2 more
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The iconicity advantage in sign production: The case of bimodal bilinguals [PDF]
, 2017 Recent evidence demonstrates that pictures corresponding to iconic signs are named faster than pictures corresponding to non-iconic signs. The present study investigates the locus of the iconicity advantage in hearing bimodal bilinguals.
Bertone, Carmela +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 ...
Marcus Perlman +2 more
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The road to language learning is not entirely iconic: Iconicity, neighborhood density, and frequency facilitate sign language acquisition [PDF]
, 2017 Iconic mappings between words and their meanings are far more prevalent than once estimated, and seem to support children’s acquisition of new words, spoken or signed.
Caselli, Naomi, Pyers, Jennie
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Getting the picture: iconicity does not affect representation-referent confusion.
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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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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