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 …

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 …

The bouba/kiki effect—the association of the nonce word bouba with a round shape and kiki
with a spiky shape—is a type of correspondence between speech sounds and visual …

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 …

▪ Abstract The field of discourse processing has dissected many of the levels of
representation that are constructed when individuals read or listen to connected discourse …

This review covers experimental approaches to sound-symbolism—from infants to adults,
and from Sapir's foundational studies to twenty-first century product naming. It synthesizes …

Signed languages exhibit iconicity (resemblance between form and meaning) across their
vocabulary, and many non-Indo-European spoken languages feature sizable classes of …

Spoken words are highly variable. A single word may never be uttered the same way twice.
As listeners, we regularly encounter speakers of different ages, genders, and accents …

Though auditory pitch is customarily mapped in Western cultures onto spatial verticality
(high–low), both anthropological reports and cognitive studies suggest that pitch may be …