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 …

The field of linguistics concerns itself with understanding the human capacity for language.
Compositionality is a key notion in this research tradition. Compositionality refers to the …

Iconic words and signs are characterized by a perceived resemblance between aspects of
their form and aspects of their meaning. For example, in English, iconic words include peep …

ASL-LEX is a publicly available, large-scale lexical database for American Sign Language
(ASL). We report on the expanded database (ASL-LEX 2.0) that contains 2,723 ASL signs …

A concise overview of key findings and ideas in sign language phonology and its
contributions to related fields, including historical linguistics, morphology, prosody, language …

Considerable evidence now shows that all languages, signed and spoken, exhibit a
significant amount of iconicity. We examined how the visual-gestural modality of signed …

essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of
perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing …

Iconicity is often defined as the resemblance between a form and a given meaning, while
transparency is defined as the ability to infer a given meaning based on the form. This study …

The sign languages of deaf communities and the gestures produced by hearing people are
communicative systems that exploit the manual-visual modality as means of expression …

We use automatic processing of 120,000 sign videos in 31 different sign languages to show
a cross-linguistic pattern for two types of iconic form–meaning relationships in the visual …