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Bridging the gap between image and metaphor through cross-modal iconicity

open access: yes, 2017
Our minds are capable of perceiving similarities not only within the same but also across different sensory areas and different cognitive domains.
Lars Elleström, Elleström, Lars,
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Iconicity in English and Spanish and Its Relation to Lexical Category and Age of Acquisition.

open access: yesPLoS 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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Iconicity and Sign Lexical Acquisition: A Review

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
The study of iconicity, defined as the direct relationship between a linguistic form and its referent, has gained momentum in recent years across a wide range of disciplines.
Gerardo Ortega, Gerardo Ortega
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Ikonographie, Ikonizität und Ikonizismus: Drei Begriffe und ihre Bedeutung für die Phraseologieforschung

open access: yesLinguistik Online, 2006
Three key concepts in the research of idioms are discussed: iconography, iconicity, and iconicism. These concepts all have a role to play in phraseology (and beyond), although in quite different ways: Iconography is the mental picture that may be created
Ken Farø
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Breaking Into Language in a New Modality: The Role of Input and Individual Differences in Recognising Signs

open access: yesFrontiers 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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How do we process the segmental and suprasegmental iconicity occurring in the same speech stimuli?

open access: yesLanguage and Cognition
Face-to-face communication often involves multiple iconic cues (gestural, suprasegmental and segmental) to convey meaning. Previous research shows that gestural and suprasegmental iconicity cues, as well as gestural and segmental iconicity cues, often co-
Lari Vainio   +3 more
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Semiotiese fokus op die gedig as estetiese teken-objek

open access: yesLiterator, 1990
In this article the poem “Sitate per pos” by Lina Spies is decoded according to semiotic premises, inter aha Peirce’s triad of icon, symbol and index.
C. van der Merwe, N. J. Snyman
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Dai personaggi iconici ai discorsi iconici. Strategie e trappole di costruzione dell’immaginario collettivo sul femminismo [PDF]

open access: yesOcula, 2020
There are many famous women that, in the last years, has taken the floor, speaking about women (i.e., with the aim to speak about equality and gender violence).
Federica Turco
doaj   +1 more source

Iconicity and semantic transparency in Hong Kong Sign Language: evidence from ratings and three guessing paradigms

open access: yesLanguage and Cognition
This study elicits iconicity ratings for Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) from L1 HKSL Deaf signers and L1 Cantonese hearing non-signers, as well as non-signer guessing accuracy, and compares these norms with other sign languages.
Arthur Lewis Thompson   +5 more
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Do parents modify child-directed signing to emphasize iconicity?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Iconic signs are overrepresented in the vocabularies of young deaf children, but it is unclear why. It is possible that iconic signs are easier for children to learn, but it is also possible that adults use iconic signs in child-directed signing in ways ...
Paris Gappmayr   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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