Iconicity in Signed and Spoken Vocabulary: A Comparison Between American Sign Language, British Sign Language, English, and Spanish
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01433
Abstract: 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 languages facilitates iconicity for different kinds of lexical meanings compared to… read more here.
Keywords: english spanish; iconicity; signed spoken; language ... See more keywords
Making Referents Seen and Heard Across Signed and Spoken Languages: Documenting and Interpreting Cross-Modal Differences in the Use of Enactment
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.784339
Abstract: Differences in language use and structures between signed and spoken languages have often been attributed to so-called language “modality.” Indeed, this is derived from the conception that spoken languages resort to both the oral-aural channel… read more here.
Keywords: signed spoken; across signed; language; spoken languages ... See more keywords