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Cultural evolution leads to vocal iconicity in an experimental iterated learning task
, 2021 Experimental and cross-linguistic studies have shown that vocal iconicity is prevalent in words that carry meanings related to SIZE and SHAPE. Although these studies demonstrate the importance of vocal iconicity and reveal the cognitive biases ...
Niklas Erben Johansson +2 more
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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2020 This study used ERPs to a) assess the neural correlates of cross-linguistic, cross-modal translation priming in hearing beginning learners of American Sign Language (ASL) and deaf highly proficient signers and b) examine whether sign iconicity modulates ...
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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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Neurophysiological Correlates of Frequency, Concreteness, and Iconicity in American Sign Language
Neurobiology of Language, 2020 To investigate possible universal and modality-specific factors that influence the neurophysiological response during lexical processing, we recorded event-related potentials while a large group of deaf adults (n = 40) viewed 404 signs in American Sign ...
K. Emmorey +4 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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Construals of iconicity: experimental approaches to form–meaning resemblances in language
Language and Cognition, 2019 While speculations on form–meaning resemblances in language go back millennia, the experimental study of iconicity is only about a century old. Here we take stock of experimental work on iconicity and present a double special issue with a diverse set of ...
Mark Dingemanse +2 more
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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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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 +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 A key challenge when learning language in naturalistic circumstances is to extract linguistic information from a continuous stream of speech. This study investigates the predictors of such implicit learning among adults exposed to a new language in a new
Julia Elisabeth Hofweber +4 more
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Language and Cognition, 2019 Iconicity is often defined as the resemblance between a form and a given meaning, while transparency is defined as the ability to infer a given meaning based on the form.
Zed Sevcikova Sehyr, K. Emmorey
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