Systematic map**s of sound to meaning: A theoretical review

DA Haslett, ZG Cai - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2024 - Springer
The form of a word sometimes conveys semantic information. For example, the iconic word
gurgle sounds like what it means, and busy is easy to identify as an English adjective …

Meaning to form: Measuring systematicity as information

T Pimentel, AD McCarthy, DE Blasi, B Roark… - ar**s are learned earlier
G Cassani, N Limacher - Quarterly Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
By leveraging Phonology-to-Semantics Consistency (PSC), which quantifies form-meaning
systematicity as the semantic similarity between a target word and its phonological nearest …

A Cross‐Modal and Cross‐lingual Study of Iconicity in Language: Insights From Deep Learning

AG de Varda, C Strapparava - Cognitive Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The present paper addresses the study of non‐arbitrariness in language within a deep
learning framework. We present a set of experiments aimed at assessing the pervasiveness …

[PDF][PDF] Finding non-arbitrary form-meaning systematicity using string-metric learning for kernel regression

ED Gutiérrez, R Levy, B Bergen - … of the 54th Annual Meeting of …, 2016 - aclanthology.org
Arbitrariness of the sign—the notion that the forms of words are unrelated to their meanings—
is an underlying assumption of many linguistic theories. Two lines of research have recently …

Iconicity and systematicity in phonaesthemes: A cross-linguistic study

JA Mompean, A Fregier, J Valenzuela - Cognitive Linguistics, 2020 - degruyter.com
This study aims to find out whether speakers of different language backgrounds (English,
French, Spanish, and Macedonian) are sensitive to semantic associations ('fluid'and 'forcible …

Cracking arbitrariness: A data-driven study of auditory iconicity in spoken English

AG de Varda, M Marelli - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2025 - Springer
Auditory iconic words display a phonological profile that imitates their referents' sounds.
Traditionally, those words are thought to constitute a minor portion of the auditory lexicon. In …

[PDF][PDF] Questioning arbitrariness in language: A data-driven study of conventional iconicity.

E Abramova, R Fernández - 2016 - repository.ubn.ru.nl
This paper presents a data-driven investigation of phonesthemes, phonetic units said to
carry meaning associations, thus challenging the traditionally assumed arbitrariness of …