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Interested in #iconicity and #language?
Then, this Handbook is just for you.
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#Iconicity
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What does #iconicity have to do with duck rabbits? You can now read my new book chapter with Yasamin Motamedi to find out!
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Overview of the triangulation method. Structure mapping grounds the notion of iconicity, ratings capture subjective form-meaning fit, and guessability provides a baseline of guessing accuracy. For instance, Korean tuˈgɯndugɯn ‘heartbeat’ features at least three levels of iconic form-meaning correspondences (A). This predicts it should be rated as highly iconic (B) and should be more guessable than words with fewer detected correspondences (C). Consistent with this, it was rated 4.8 for subjective iconicity and guessed at 80% accuracy. Arrows indicate how measures predict (black) and inform (grey) each other.
One year ago, with Stella Punselie and Bonnie McLean: The Anatomy of Iconicity, in Open Mind doi.org/10.1162/opmi...
In which we combine iconicity ratings, experimental evidence, and structure mapping to identify & explain crosslinguistic patterns of iconic words
#iconicity #cognitivescience
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Two gesture sequences in photos of a white man with a dark sweater (head is censored by a black circle). Both show a gesture form produced for the meaning 'combine', with the top image showing the two hands collecting items from multiple sources and moving to a single spot and the bottom image showing the gesturer presenting each hand and then moving them towards each other in front of the torso, finally contacting with intermeshed fingers.
There is something schematic about the two-handed forms for plurals, such that different participants can choose different gestures for the same meaning, but nonetheless involving an iconic plural mapping onto the two hands.
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We're looking for #Turkish speaking study participants! We are exploring the #iconicity levels of #Turkish words, and your participation would really support our research!
If you’re a native Turkish speaker, 18+, and grew up in Turkey, you can take part in this short (~15 min) anonymous #study. 1/3
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If you are new but curious about #iconicity and #sound #symbolism, or you want to have an update on some new papers in this domain, or simply enjoy listening to some research published in #JASA, listen here! Thank you Kat Setzer, @asa-news.bsky.social and @acwiek.bsky.social !
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What a pleasure it was to join the Across Acoustics podcast by Kat Setzer from @asa-news.bsky.social together with @susfuchs.bsky.social
We talked about our special issue on #iconicity and #sound #symbolism. It was lots of fun! Listen here:
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#linguistics
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New book on ideophones Williams, J. P (ed.). 2025. Capturing expressivity. Contents, methods, and techniques for linguistic research. OUP. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/capturing-expressivity-9780192858931?cc=es&lang=en&
New book on ideophones: TOC Williams, J. P (ed.). 2025. Capturing expressivity. Contents, methods, and techniques for linguistic research. OUP. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/capturing-expressivity-9780192858931?cc=es&lang=en&
New book on ideophones Williams, J. P (ed.). 2025. Capturing expressivity. Contents, methods, and techniques for linguistic research. OUP. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/capturing-expressivity-9780192858931?cc=es&lang=en&
📢 New publication
Interested in #iconicity? Fascinated by #ideophones?
Craving for #fieldwork in this area?
Check out this book and ideas will come...
I explain how to conduct #psycholinguistic research in #minority languages such as #Basque
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social @psylexlab.bsky.social
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🗣💬 #iconicity #sound #symbolism
I'm happy to share a special issue I had the pleasure to edit together with @susfuchs.bsky.social and Jody Kreiman. I'm very grateful to all the contributors for sharing their work as a part of this collection 🎉 pubs.aip.org/jasa/collect...
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Straight to the top of my reading pile: Some of my favourite linguists @superlinguo.bsky.social, Hildebrandt & @suzyjstyles.bsky.social with a new paper on spontaneous multimodal iconicity in earthquake narratives doi.org/10.1080/0726... #iconicity #ideophones
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APRIL MOST READ ARTICLES
#3 "The code of the streets in Beijing: Style-shifting and changing personae in the performance of Beijing male rappers" by Tianxiao Wang
#HipHop #Indexicality #Iconicity #Performance #MandarinChinese
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Using advanced computer vision, we analyzed the relationship between form and meaning on an unprecedented scale for hundreds of thousands of ASL signs. Seven years, multiple sites, and possibly the largest sign language study ever. Replications are already underway worldwide #iconicity #signlanguage
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Two panels (of a larger 8 panel illustration) showing two methods for ideophone research. Left, Multimodal corpus building, used for identifying ideophones, exploring usage domains, orienting ideophones in the wider linguistic system. Right: stimulus-based elicitation, useful for mapping the edges of the ideophone lexicon, uncovering limits, and exploring depictive conventions. Picture used for left is a camera with microphone on a tripod. For right, hands exploring materials (a sponge, a transparent foil) and a tablet showing the image of a waterfall.
New paper! @bonniemclean.bsky.social & Dingemanse 2025, A multi-methods toolkit for documentary research on ideophones — reviewing a diversity of methods and analytical approaches to the documentation of #ideophones.
ideophone.org/new-methods-...
⛓️💥 PDF pure.mpg.de/pubman/item/...
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"The code of the streets in Beijing: Style-shifting and changing personae in the performance of Beijing male rappers" by Tianxiao Wang
#HipHop #Indexicality #Iconicity #Performance #MandarinChinese
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
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MARCH MOST READ ARTICLES
#3 "The code of the streets in Beijing: Style-shifting and changing personae in the performance of Beijing male rappers" by Tianxiao Wang
#HipHop #Indexicality #Iconicity #Performance #MandarinChinese
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Another great paper from our special issue on #iconicity and #sound symbolism!
There are still some more exciting papers to come and soon we will be compiling them to an amazing collection. Thanks to all the contributors! ✨
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Décimo rasgo del euskara: 10. Doble o nada. Tomado del artículo publicado en Archiletras 2024 (2): https://tienda.archiletras.com/producto/archiletras-numero-24/
📢🎯 Rasgo 10. Doble o nada
Seguro que recuerdan el "rico-rico" del cocinero @karlosarguinano.bsky.social
Ahora descubrirán que eso es la reduplicación, un mecanismo común-común en #euskara
#morfología #iconicity #reduplication #scicomm #basque
#HiloEuskara @zaragozaling.bsky.social @archiletras
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Quadrant chart with the x axis showing bouba shape (left) and kiki shape (right) and the y axis bouba texture (top) kiki texture (bottom), filled in with labels in each quadrant: string cheese (top right), pretzel stick (bottom right), cheese puff ball (bottom left) and olive (top right).
Discussing salty snacks with @fbisnath.bsky.social, concluding that they can be categorized in two-dimensional bouba–kiki space. #iconicity #linguistics
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When #iconicity reaches branding...
Perfect blending between iconic #lengthening, #ideophones, and naming.
#Linguistics
Zorionak, @burutustyle.bsky.social
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Move over bouba-kiki!
New study on crossmodal iconicity shows [r] = rough and [l] = smooth, even in langs that conflate them.
The results show "that speech sounds are not just acoustic objects, but they also have a texture and a shape to them".
#iconicity 🐦🐦
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Spoken languages show effects of #iconicity too!
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And if you like the scientific paper on how #iconicity works in #Basque #ideophones
Enjoy!
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And we have one more new paper on #iconicity in JASA looking at gender vs. size cues in pitch. A valuable #sociophonetic perspective on the frequency code by Sasha Calhoun and colleagues!
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New article in our special issue on #Iconicity and Sound Symbolism in JASA showing how #vocalizations differ in their iconic potential from interjections — bridging phonetic and phonological studies on iconicity.
Keep an eye out on Scientific American next week, too! 😉
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Excited to see the community growing. To all you new folks:
Welcome!👋
I am a quantitative #linguist working on human speech. I'm currently interested in #iconicity and #deception. I also actively advocate for reflections on how we do science and how we communicate it via #rstats #dataviz
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When #politicians can rant incoherently and obnoxiously for 90 minutes and still lead in the polls, you know the nature of politics has changed. I explored one aspect of that change in a blog post back when things didn't seem quite this dire doncurren.blogspot.com/2022/11/they... #icons #iconicity
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Sharing a new paper with Kimi Akita, Jiyeon Park & Arthur Thompson. We introduce a new concept of "phonosemantic maps" for typological research on #iconicity, inspired by @haspelmath.bsky.social's semantic maps for tracking patterns of grammaticalistion. Enjoy!
www.bonniemclean.net/news/2024-04...
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PSA for those into #iconicity the deadline for IACS-5 in lovely Lund next August is coming up on Monday next week (January 15th). Topics include
- semiosis, polysemiosis, multimodality
- universal vs culture specific semiosis
- metaphor and metonymy
konferens.ht.lu.se/iacs-5/
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