The linguistic sign isn’t arbitrary – IAS Excellence Lecture
Iconicity is the perceived resemblance between aspects of a sign’s meaning and aspect of a sign’s form. It occurs across spoken and signed languages, including iconic prosody, co-speech gestures, onomatopoeia, ideophones, and basic vocabulary. A recent wave of experimental, corpus, and typological research has revealed that iconicity is far more widespread than previously thought. In … <a href="https://ias.umk.pl/events/the-linguistic-sign-isnt-arbitrary/">Continued</a>
