Better letter: iconicity in the manual alphabets of American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language
While iconicity has sometimes been defined as meaning transparency, it is better defined as a subjective phenomenon bound to an individual’s perception and influenced by their previous language experience. In this article, I investigate the subjective nature of iconicity through an experiment in whi...
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Cambridge University Press
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| Series: | Language and Cognition |
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| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S186698082400005X/type/journal_article |