Two measures are better than one: combining iconicity ratings and guessing experiments for a more nuanced picture of iconicity in the lexicon.

Iconicity in language is receiving increased attention from many fields, but our understanding of iconicity is only as good as the measures we use to quantify it. We collected iconicity measures for 304 Japanese words from English-speaking participants, using rating and guessing tasks. The words inc...

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Published in:	Language & Cognition (Cambridge University Press) Vol. 15; no. 4; pp. 716 - 740
Main Authors:	McLean, Bonnie, Dunn, Michael, Dingemanse, Mark
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Dec2023
Subjects:	Lexicon Japanese language Pictures Workflow Word recognition Measurement
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