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Origin of symbol-using systems: speech, but not sign, without the semantic urge [PDF]
, 2014 Natural language—spoken and signed—is a multichannel phenomenon, involving facial and body expression, and voice and visual intonation that is often used in the service of a social urge to communicate meaning.
Alberts B +27 more
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Degree and not type of iconicity affects sign language vocabulary acquisition.
Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition, 2020 Lexical iconicity-signs or words that resemble their meaning-is overrepresented in children's early vocabularies. Embodied theories of language acquisition predict that symbols are more learnable when they are grounded in a child's firsthand experiences.
Naomi K. Caselli, Jennie E. Pyers
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A Note on Iconicity and Motivation of Expression [PDF]
, 2007 While iconic effects can be detected at all levels of linguistic analysis, according to the standard position they have little, if any, relevance for the system of language.
Pawelec, Andrzej
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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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Cognition, 2020 A fundamental assumption about language is that, regardless of language modality, it faces the linearization problem, i.e., an event that occurs simultaneously in the world has to be split in language to be organized on a temporal scale.
A. Slonimska, A. Özyürek, O. Capirci
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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 ...
Megan Mott +3 more
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Prototype effects in discourse and the synonymy issue: Two Lakota postpositions [PDF]
, 2003 Despite of being fully synonymous at the semantic level, the postpositions el "locative/directional" and ekta "locative/directional" in Lakota (Siouan, Central North America) display different semantic cores in discourse: the semantic prototype for el is
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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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Sound Symbolism in Foreign Language Phonological Acquisition [PDF]
, 2010 The paper aims at investigating the idea of a symbolic nature of sounds and its implications for in the acquisition of foreign language phonology. Firstly, it will present an overview of universal trends in phonetic symbolism, i.e.
Wrembel, Magdalena
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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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