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Study on English Translation of Chinese Quantifiers from the Perspective of Cognitive Iconicity: A Pilot Study [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences
Chinese 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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Quantifying Iconicity’s Contribution during Language Acquisition: Implications for Vocabulary Learning

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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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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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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A construction grammar account of possessive constructions in Lancashire dialect : some advantages and challenges. [PDF]

, 2007
This study investigates reduction of 1SG possessives in possessive–noun constructions in Lancashire dialect. On the basis of a corpus of twenty-six interviews we show that reduction patterns according to (in)alienability.
Siewierska, Anna, Hollmann, Willem B.
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Icons [PDF]

Applied Categorical Structures, 2008
Categorical orthodoxy has it that collections of ordinary mathematical structures such as groups, rings, or spaces, form categories (such as the category of groups); collections of 1-dimensional categorical structures, such as categories, monoidal categories, or categories with finite limits, form 2-categories; and collections of 2-dimensional ...
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Is Iconic Memory Iconic?

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2019
Short‐term memory in vision is typically thought to divide into at least two memory stores: a short, fragile, high‐capacity store known as iconic memory, and a longer, durable, capacity‐limited store known as visual working memory (VWM). This paper argues that iconic memory stores icons, i.e., image‐like perceptual representations.
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Defining iconicity: An articulation-based methodology for explaining the phonological structure of ideophones

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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The Anatomy of Iconicity: Cumulative Structural Analogies Underlie Objective and Subjective Measures of Iconicity. [PDF]

Open Mind (Camb)
The vocabularies of natural languages harbour many instances of iconicity, where words show a perceived resemblance between aspects of form and meaning.
Punselie S, McLean B, Dingemanse M.
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Iconicity in English and Spanish and Its Relation to Lexical Category and Age of Acquisition.

PLoS ONE, 2015
Signed languages exhibit iconicity (resemblance between form and meaning) across their vocabulary, and many non-Indo-European spoken languages feature sizable classes of iconic words known as ideophones.
Lynn K Perry, Marcus Perlman, Gary Lupyan   +2 more
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