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 …

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 …

This volume explores new frontiers in the linguistic study of iconic lexemes known as
ideophones, mimetics, and expressives. A large part of the literature on this long-neglected …

Sound symbolism refers to the non-arbitrary mappings that exist between phonetic
properties of speech sounds and their meaning. Despite there being an extensive literature …

An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic signals is not derived from the
input but results from the brain's internal construction process. When we read a text or listen …

Metacognition–the ability to monitor one's own decisions and representations, their accuracy
and uncertainty–is considered a hallmark of intelligent behavior. Little is known about …

The study of iconicity, defined as the direct relationship between a linguistic form and its
referent, has gained momentum in recent years across a wide range of disciplines. In the …

The existence of sound-symbolism (or a non-arbitrary link between form and meaning) is
well-attested. However, sound-symbolism has mostly been investigated with nonwords in …

The question whether there is a natural connection between sound and meaning or if they
are related only by convention has been debated since antiquity. In linguistics, it is usually …

In contrast to arbitrariness, a recent perspective is that words contain both arbitrary and
iconic aspects. We investigated iconicity in word recognition, and the possibility that iconic …