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Creative writing and iconicity in English as a foreign language [PDF]
Creative writing workshops in high-school English-as-a-foreign-language education have had little attention from researchers so far. Addressing this gap, this paper investigates the creative production of Brazilian high-school students after a workshop ...
Zyngier, Sonia +3 more
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Replicating the Effects of Iconicity in Lexical Decision Task
Iconic words are characterized by a sense of resemblance between their form and their meaning. The most common examples are onomatopoeias such as “cock-a-doodle-doo” or “woof-woof,” but recent research shows that speakers of various languages perceive a
Mahayana C. Godoy +2 more
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This paper discusses the iconicity of the microphone both as a physical object but also as a transducer and shaper of a distinctive mediatized sound. Different facets of iconicity are examined in order to tease out the multiple meanings and usages of ...
Jos Mulder
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Labelling and iconicity facilitate visual categorisation and discrimination
We investigated how the presence of linguistic labels, their iconicity and mode of presentation (cued vs not cued) affect non-linguistic cognitive processing, focussing on the learning and visual discrimination of new categories.
James Scott, Robert Foley, Mirjana Bozic
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Data and code for the analyses and visualizations in 'Triangulating iconicity: cumulative structural analogies underlie objective and subjective measures of iconicity'
Stella Punselie +2 more
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A study of the relation between funniness, iconicity, and structural markedness in 70.000 English ...
Mark Dingemanse, Bill Thompson
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Better letter: iconicity in the manual alphabets of American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language
While iconicity has sometimes been defined as meaning transparency, it is better defined as a subjective phenomenon bound to an individual’s perception and influenced by their previous language experience.
Carl Börstell
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