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 …

Research on language and cognition relies extensively on psycholinguistic datasets or
“norms”. These datasets contain judgments of lexical properties like concreteness and age …

Most language use is displaced, referring to past, future, or hypothetical events, posing the
challenge of how children learn what words refer to when the referent is not physically …

Sound symbolism refers to non-arbitrary associations between word forms and meaning,
such as those observed for some properties of sounds and size or shape. Recent evidence …

Kemmerer captured the drastic change in theories of word meaning representations,
contrasting the view that word meaning representations are amodal and universal, with the …

Psycholinguistic studies have shown that there are many variables implicated in language
comprehension and production. At the lexical level, subjective age of acquisition (AoA), the …

Across spoken languages, there are some words whose acoustic features resemble the
meanings of their referents by evoking perceptual imagery, ie, they are iconic (eg, in …

Abstract Words with similar meanings sometimes sound similar, which carries both risks,
such as confusion, and rewards, such as ease of comprehension. It has been argued that …

Iconicity refers to a resemblance between word form and meaning. Previous work has
shown that iconic words are learned earlier and processed faster. Here, we examined …

The condition for artificial agents to possess perceivable intentions can be considered that
they have resolved a form of the symbol grounding problem. Here, the symbol grounding is …