Iconicity in Signed and Spoken Vocabulary: A Comparison Between American Sign Language, British Sign Language, English, and Spanish

Iconicity in Signed and Spoken Vocabulary: A Comparison Between American Sign Language, British Sign Language, English, and Spanish

Considerable evidence now shows that all languages, signed and spoken, exhibit a significant amount of iconicity. We examined how the visual-gestural modality of signed languages facilitates iconicity for different kinds of lexical meanings compared to the auditory-vocal modality of spoken languages...

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Main Authors: Marcus Perlman, Hannah Little, Bill Thompson, Robin L. Thompson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
sign language
spoken language
iconicity
modality
American Sign Language
British Sign Language
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01433/full

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