Sound symbolism refers to an association between phonemes and stimuli containing
particular perceptual and/or semantic elements (eg, objects of a certain size or shape) …

Ideophones (also known as expressives or mimetics, and including onomatopoeia) have
been systematically studied in linguistics since the 1850s, when they were first described as …

" Sergiovanni documents cases of schools that have successfully reinvented themselves in
order to establish a sense of'community'as the foundation for all curriculum and instruction …

Sound symbolism emerged as a prevalent component in the origin and development of
language. However, as previous studies have either been lacking in scope or in phonetic …

This volume explores new frontiers in the linguistic study of iconic lexemes known as
ideophones, mimetics, and expressives. A large part of the literature on this long-neglected …

How abstract is language? We show that abstractness pervades every corner of language,
going far beyond the usual examples of freedom and justice. In the light of the ubiquity of …

Iconicity–the correspondence between form and meaning–may help young children learn to
use new words. Early‐learned words are higher in iconicity than later learned words …

While speculations on form–meaning resemblances in language go back millennia, the
experimental study of iconicity is only about a century old. Here we take stock of …

Interest in iconicity (the resemblance-based map** between aspects of form and
meaning) is in the midst of a resurgence, and a prominent focus in the field has been the …

In contrast to arbitrariness, a recent perspective is that words contain both arbitrary and
iconic aspects. We investigated iconicity in word recognition, and the possibility that iconic …