The notion that the form of a word bears an arbitrary relation to its meaning accounts only
partly for the attested relations between form and meaning in the languages of the world …

How does sign language compare with gesture, on the one hand, and spoken language on
the other? Sign was once viewed as nothing more than a system of pictorial gestures without …

It is widely assumed that one of the fundamental properties of spoken language is the
arbitrary relation between sound and meaning. Some exceptions in the form of nonarbitrary …

A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of
language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language …

Sound symbolism is a non-arbitrary relationship between speech sounds and meaning. We
review evidence that, contrary to the traditional view in linguistics, sound symbolism is an …

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) …

Iconicity, a resemblance between properties of linguistic form (both in spoken and signed
languages) and meaning, has traditionally been considered to be a marginal, irrelevant …

Current views about language are dominated by the idea of arbitrary connections between
linguistic form and meaning. However, if we look beyond the more familiar Indo-European …

It is a long established convention that the relationship between sounds and meanings of
words is essentially arbitrary—typically the sound of a word gives no hint of its meaning …

Our understanding of the cognitive and neural underpinnings of language has traditionally
been firmly based on spoken Indo-European languages and on language studied as …