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title="Special:EditPage/Template:Linguistics"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In functional-<a href="/wiki/Cognitive_linguistics" title="Cognitive linguistics">cognitive linguistics</a>, as well as in <a href="/wiki/Semiotics" title="Semiotics">semiotics</a>, <b>iconicity</b> is the conceived <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/similarity" class="extiw" title="wikt:similarity">similarity</a> or <a href="/wiki/Analogy" title="Analogy">analogy</a> between the form of a <a href="/wiki/Sign_(semiotics)" title="Sign (semiotics)">sign</a> (linguistic or otherwise) and its <a href="/wiki/Meaning_(linguistics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Meaning (linguistics)">meaning</a>, as opposed to <a href="/wiki/Arbitrariness" title="Arbitrariness">arbitrariness</a> (which is typically assumed in <a href="/wiki/Structural_linguistics" title="Structural linguistics">structuralist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Formalist_linguistics" class="mw-redirect" title="Formalist linguistics">formalist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Generative_linguistics" class="mw-redirect" title="Generative linguistics">generative</a> approaches to linguistics). The principle of iconicity is also shared by the approach of <a href="/wiki/Linguistic_typology" title="Linguistic typology">linguistic typology</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Iconic principles: </p> <ul><li>Quantity principle: conceptual complexity corresponds to formal complexity</li> <li>Proximity principle: conceptual distance tends to match with linguistic distance</li> <li>Sequential order principle: the sequential order of events described is mirrored in the speech chain</li></ul> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quantity_principle">Quantity principle</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iconicity&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quantity principle"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The use of quantity of phonetic material to iconically mark increased quality or quantity can be noted in the lengthening of words to indicate a greater degree, such as "looong". It is also common to use <a href="/wiki/Reduplication" title="Reduplication">reduplication</a> to iconically mark increase, as <a href="/wiki/Edward_Sapir" title="Edward Sapir">Edward Sapir</a> is quoted, “The process is generally employed, with self-evident symbolism, to indicate such concepts as distribution, plurality, repetition, customary activity, increase of size, added intensity, continuance” (1921:79). This has been confirmed by the comparative studies of Key (1965) and Moravcsik (1978).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This can be seen, for example, in <a href="/wiki/Amharic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Amharic language">Amharic</a>, where <i><span title="Amharic-language text"><i lang="am">täsäbbärä</i></span></i> means "it was broken" and <i><span title="Amharic-language text"><i lang="am">täsäbb<b>ab</b>ärä</i></span></i> means that "it was shattered". </p><p>Iconic coding principles may be <a href="/wiki/Natural" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural">natural</a> tendencies in language and are also part of our <a href="/wiki/Cognition" title="Cognition">cognitive</a> and <a href="/wiki/Biology" title="Biology">biological</a> make-up. Whether iconicity is a part of language is an open debate in linguistics. For instance, <a href="/wiki/Haspelmath" class="mw-redirect" title="Haspelmath">Haspelmath</a> has argued against iconicity, claiming that most iconic phenomena can be explained by frequency biases: since simpler meanings tend to be more frequent in the language use they tend to lose phonological material. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Onomatopoeia" title="Onomatopoeia">Onomatopoeia</a> (and <a href="/wiki/Mimesis" title="Mimesis">mimesis</a> more broadly) may be seen as a kind of iconicity, though even onomatopoeic sounds have a large degree of arbitrariness. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_evolution_of_language">The evolution of language</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iconicity&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The evolution of language"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Derek_Bickerton" title="Derek Bickerton">Derek Bickerton</a> has posited that iconic signs, both verbal and gestural, were crucial in the evolution of human language. <a href="/wiki/Animal_communication" title="Animal communication">Animal communication</a> systems, Bickerton has argued, are largely composed of <a href="/wiki/Indexicality" title="Indexicality">indexical</a> (and, occasionally, iconic) signs, whereas in human language, "most words are symbolic, and ... without symbolic words we couldn’t have language". The distinction Bickerton draws between these categories is one of <a href="/wiki/Displacement_(linguistics)" title="Displacement (linguistics)">displacement</a>, with the indexical signs of animal communication systems having no capacity for displacement, and the symbolic signs of human language requiring it. Iconic signs, however, "may or may not have it depending on how they’re used ... iconicity, therefore, is the most probable road that our ancestors took into language". </p><p>Using a <a href="/wiki/Niche_construction" title="Niche construction">niche-construction</a> view of human evolution, Bickerton has hypothesized that human ancestors used iconic signs as recruitment signals in the scavenging of dead <a href="/wiki/Megafauna" title="Megafauna">megafauna</a>. This process "would have created new words and deployed old words in new contexts, further weakening the uncoupling of words from situations, from current occurrence—even from fitness", and thus allowing for the creation of symbolic language.<sup id="cite_ref-Bickerton_(2009)_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bickerton_(2009)-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Symbolic_Species" title="The Symbolic Species">The Symbolic Species</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Terrence_Deacon" title="Terrence Deacon">Terrence Deacon</a> argues that the emanation of symbolic capacities unique to language was a critical factor in the evolution of the human brain, and that these symbolic capacities are vital to differentiating animal from human forms of communication, processes of learning, and brain anatomy. "The doorway into this virtual world was opened to us alone by the evolution of language, because language is not merely a mode of communication, it is also the outward expression of an unusual mode of thought—symbolic representation."<sup id="cite_ref-Deacon_(1997)_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Deacon_(1997)-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Endophoric_and_exophoric">Endophoric and exophoric</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iconicity&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Endophoric and exophoric"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Winfried_N%C3%B6th" title="Winfried Nöth">Winfried Nöth</a> distinguishes between endophoric and exophoric iconicity, exophoric where the <a href="/wiki/Signifier" class="mw-redirect" title="Signifier">signifier</a> is iconic with the world beyond language signs, and endophoric where the signifier is iconic to another signifier within language. By endophoric he does not mean "trivial" recurrences like the letter 'e' in one sentence being iconic with the letter 'e' in another sentence, which are not iconic signs of one another according to Nöth.<sup id="cite_ref-ps_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ps-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Textual endophoric iconicity can be divided between intratextual and <a href="/wiki/Intertextual" class="mw-redirect" title="Intertextual">intertextual</a>. An example of intratextual endophoric iconicity is "the various recurrences of the word icon and its derivatives iconic or iconicity....Insofar as the <a href="/wiki/Morpheme" title="Morpheme">morpheme</a> icon refers back to earlier of its recurrences in the text and the traces of them in our memory, it is an iconic sign. Insofar as these morphemes constitute a coherent pattern of relations which create a line of mentation, they form a diagrammatic icon". Intertextual iconicity would include things like <a href="/wiki/Allusion" title="Allusion">allusions</a>, quotations etc.<sup id="cite_ref-ps_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ps-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Specific utterances which adhere to the rules of a language are iconic with one another. <a href="/wiki/Phoneme" title="Phoneme">Phonemes</a> can also be iconic with one another in that they could both be <a href="/wiki/Consonant" title="Consonant">consonants</a> or <a href="/wiki/Plosives" class="mw-redirect" title="Plosives">plosives</a>. Another example is “the relationship between great, greater, greatest….since the <a href="/wiki/Morphology_(linguistics)" title="Morphology (linguistics)">morphological</a> pattern of <a href="/wiki/Adjective" title="Adjective">adjective</a> <a href="/wiki/Adjective#Comparison_(degrees)" title="Adjective">grading</a> is the same as in loud, louder, loudest”.<sup id="cite_ref-ps_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ps-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Calls_and_gestures">Calls and gestures</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iconicity&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Calls and gestures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Iconic calls and gestures mimic the forms of the things they stand for (such as outlining shapes or moving your hands back and forth multiple times to show repetition.) Iconic calls and gestures are not formally considered <a href="/wiki/Language" title="Language">language</a>, or language-like communication in that they do not contrast or possess arbitrary characteristics. Noises that imitate sounds of the surrounding environment (<a href="/wiki/Ideophone" title="Ideophone">ideophones</a>) are also iconic. Though humans possess a repertoire of iconic calls and gestures, other <a href="/wiki/Mammal" title="Mammal">mammals</a> produce few iconic signals. Despite this, a few captive <a href="/wiki/Common_chimpanzee" class="mw-redirect" title="Common chimpanzee">chimpanzees</a> have shown the beginning stages of iconicity. Burling <i>et al.</i> states: "Chimpanzees in the wild do not point, and rarely do so in captivity, however there is a documented case of one named <a href="/wiki/Kanzi" title="Kanzi">Kanzi</a>, described by Savage-Rumbaugh et al., who could indicate direction of travel by "extending his hand". Another chimpanzee, Viki (Hayes and Nissen 1971:107) made motions of kneading or ironing when she wanted to knead dough or iron napkins. <a href="/wiki/Waggle_dance" title="Waggle dance">Bee dances</a> are another example of iconicity in <a href="/wiki/Animal_communication" title="Animal communication">animal communication systems</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Burling1993_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Burling1993-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sign_languages">Sign languages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iconicity&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Sign languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Iconicity is often argued to play a large role in the production and perception of <a href="/wiki/Gesture" title="Gesture">gesture</a>. Proposed ways in which iconicity is achieved is through <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://jeroenarendsen.nl/2007/04/hands-that-act-embody-model-and-draw/">Hands that Act, Embody, Model, and Draw</a>. In sign languages iconicity was often argued to be largely confined to sign formation (comparable to <a href="/wiki/Onomatopoeia" title="Onomatopoeia">onomatopoeia</a>). Some proponents believe that iconicity does not play an actual role in perception and production of signs once they have undergone phonological reduction and become part of the conventionalized vocabulary.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More recently, the possible role of iconicity is being evaluated again. Current research on sign language phonology acknowledges that certain aspects are semantically motivated. Further, the ability to modify sign meaning through phonological changes to signs is gaining attention. The ability to work creatively with sign language in this way has been associated with accomplished, or native signers. </p><p>Iconicity is expressed in the grammatical structure of <a href="/wiki/Sign_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Sign languages">sign languages</a> called classifiers. These are used to give descriptive information about a subject or verb. In <a href="/wiki/American_Sign_language" class="mw-redirect" title="American Sign language">American Sign language</a> (ASL) a grammatical marker denoting “intensity” is characterized by a movement pattern with two parts: an initial pause, followed by a quick completion. When this pattern is added to the adjective GOOD the resulting meaning is VERY-GOOD.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ASL marker for "intensity" is iconic in that the intended meaning (building of pressure, a sudden release) is matched by the articulatory form (a pause, a quick completion). </p><p>Like in vocal languages, developmental trends in ASL shy away from iconicity in favor of arbitrariness. These changes "contribute toward symmetry, fluidity, locational displacement and assimilation".<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, the sign WE used to contain the sign for each individual being described by the WE. So the signer would sign ME + YOU<small>1</small> + YOU<small>2</small> + YOU <small>n</small> + ME. Now the sign has turned into a smooth symbolic sign where the signer makes two touches on the chest, one on each side, with a sweep of the wrist in between. </p><p>On the whole, some researchers stress that iconicity plays an important role in sign languages, while others downplay its role. The reason for this also lies in the fact that it was, for a long time, assumed that it is a major property of natural languages that there is no relation between the surface form of a word and its potential referents (thus, there is no relationship between how the word <i>computer</i> is pronounced and what a computer, for example, looks like, see also <a href="/wiki/Arbitrariness" title="Arbitrariness">arbitrariness</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The idea that iconicity should not play a role in natural languages was, for example, stressed by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Hockett" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Hockett">Charles Hockett</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus, many linguists concerned with sign languages tried to downplay the role of iconicity in sign languages. It was, however, later acknowledged that iconicity also plays a role in many spoken languages (see, for example <a href="/wiki/Japanese_sound_symbolism" title="Japanese sound symbolism">Japanese sound symbolism</a>). Today it is often recognized that sign languages exhibit a greater degree of iconicity compared to spoken languages due to the visual natural of sign languages.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the structure of sign languages also puts limits to the degree of iconicity: From a truly iconic language one would expect that a concept like SMILING would be expressed by mimicking a smile (i.e., by performing a smiling face). All known sign languages, however, do not express the concept of SMILING by a smiling face, but by a manual sign.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Poetry">Poetry</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iconicity&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Poetry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Iconicity often occurs within poetry through the use of onomatopoeia, which may be called auditory iconicity. Sometimes the form of the poem resembles or enacts the poem's content, and in this case, a visual iconicity is present. One poet well known for his visual poems, and therefore visual iconicity, is <a href="/wiki/E._E._Cummings" title="E. E. Cummings">E. E. Cummings</a>. Another poet known for "shape poems" is <a href="/wiki/George_Herbert" title="George Herbert">George Herbert</a>. In his poem "A Wreath" (1633) <sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> each line overlaps the next while the rhyme scheme makes a circle, thus mimicking the form of a wreath. </p><p><br /> A subset of visual iconicity involves a spatial iconicity. For instance, in Cummings's grasshopper poem ("r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r") the word "arriving" begins on the far right of the poem with the "a", the "r" is near the middle of the poem, and the rest of the word is on the left of the poem. The reader must travel a great distance across the poem, therefore, in order to "arrive". The spatial dimension, then, can relate to a temporal dimension. In the poems "The Fish" and "The Moose" by Elizabeth Bishop, temporal iconicity is at work. The amount of time it takes to read "The Fish" coincides with the length of time a fish could live outside of water; likewise, the duration of the long bus ride in "The Moose" coincides with the poem's long first sentence as well as the twenty-some stanzas it takes before the passengers on the bus (and the reader) actually encounters the moose. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Folk_etymology">Folk etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iconicity&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Folk etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Iconicity occurs in rejective <a href="/wiki/Phono-semantic_matching" title="Phono-semantic matching">phono-semantic matching</a>. "Consider Lithuanian <a href="/wiki/Ashkenazic_Hebrew" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashkenazic Hebrew">Ashkenazic Hebrew</a> רע דם <i>ra dom</i> (cf. <a href="/wiki/Yiddish" title="Yiddish">Yiddish</a> <i>ra dam</i>), lit. 'of bad blood' (from <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a> רע דם <i>ra` dam</i> 'of bad blood'). This is a toponymic rejective phono-semantic matching of <a href="/wiki/Polish_language" title="Polish language">Polish</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Radom" title="Radom">Radom</a></i>, the name of a town in Poland (approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) south of <a href="/wiki/Warsaw" title="Warsaw">Warsaw</a>), or of its <a href="/wiki/Yiddish" title="Yiddish">Yiddish</a> adaptation <i>ródem</i> (see <a href="/wiki/Uriel_Weinreich" title="Uriel Weinreich">Uriel Weinreich</a> 1955: 609, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_N._Wexler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul N. Wexler (page does not exist)">Paul Wexler</a> 1991: 42). Thus, if a pogrom had occurred in Radom, it would surely have been rationalized by <i>ra dam</i> ‘of bad blood’. Obviously, providing such an <a href="/wiki/Folk_etymology" title="Folk etymology">etymythological</a> explanation for the pogrom was regarded by some Jews as a mere play on words. However, others might have conceived of <i>ra dam</i> as having deep intrinsic truth, which might have been religiously and homiletically based. One should not forget that at that time it was a common belief that all languages were God-created and that Hebrew was the divine <i>Ursprache</i>."<sup id="cite_ref-See_p_2006_pp._237-258_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-See_p_2006_pp._237-258-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Language_acquisition">Language acquisition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iconicity&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Language acquisition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It has been suggested that iconicity can be used in the teaching of languages. There are two ways this has been suggested. The first being “Horizontal-Iconicity” and the second being vowel magnitude relationships. Horizontal-Iconicity is the phenomenon of opposition of meaning and spelling. For example, in <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_language" title="Egyptian language">Egyptian</a> <span title="Ancient Egyptian-language text"><i lang="egy">mer</i></span>, which means right hand and <span title="Ancient Egyptian-language text"><i lang="egy">rem</i></span>, which means left hand. Because people are more likely to remember things they have more <a href="/wiki/Mnemonic" title="Mnemonic">mnemonic</a> tags for, it is suggested that it may be helpful to point these things out in the teaching of language.<sup id="cite_ref-Croft_1978_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Croft_1978-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Vowel_magnitude">Vowel magnitude</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iconicity&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Vowel magnitude"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Vowel magnitude relationships suggest that, the larger the object, the more likely its name has open vowels such as <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Open_back_rounded_vowel" title="Open back rounded vowel">ɒ</a>/</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/eɪ/</span>, and <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Near-open_front_unrounded_vowel" title="Near-open front unrounded vowel">æ</a>/</span>; the smaller the object, the more likely its name has closed vowel sounds such as <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Close_front_unrounded_vowel" title="Close front unrounded vowel">iː</a>/</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Near-close_near-back_rounded_vowel" title="Near-close near-back rounded vowel">ʊ</a>/</span>, and <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/j/: 'y' in 'yes'">j</span><span title="/uː/: 'oo' in 'goose'">uː</span></span>/</a></span></span>. Open vowel sounds are also more likely to be associated with round shapes and dark or gloomy moods, where closed vowel sounds are more likely to be associated with pointed shapes and happy moods.<sup id="cite_ref-Croft_1978_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Croft_1978-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A test run by <a href="/wiki/Edward_Sapir" title="Edward Sapir">Sapir</a> asked subjects to differentiate between two different sized tables using invented word pairs such as "mal" and "mil". He discovered a word containing <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[a]</span> was at four times more likely to be judged as larger if paired with a word containing <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[i]</span>. Nuckolls states: "Newman discovered that ... as the tongue recedes in articulating vowels from the front to the back of the mouth, and as acoustic frequencies become lower, the vowels are judged to be larger and darker". Bentley and Varron (1933) ran tests asking subjects to differentiate between vowel sounds without providing them, beforehand, contrasting attributes (such as bright and dark.) They found only moderate success rates that decreased when vowel sounds were closer in tone. However, they still found that <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[a]</span> sounds were judged larger or lower than <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[i]</span> sounds.<sup id="cite_ref-Nuckolls_1999_230,_231,_246_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nuckolls_1999_230,_231,_246-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Morphology_(linguistics)" title="Morphology (linguistics)">morphology</a>, examples from degree adjectives, such as long, longer, longest, show that the most extreme degree of length is iconically represented by the word with the greatest number of <a href="/wiki/Phoneme" title="Phoneme">phonemes</a>. <a href="/wiki/Roman_Jakobson" title="Roman Jakobson">Jakobson</a> cites examples of word order mimicking the natural order of ideas. In fact, iconicity is now widely acknowledged to be a significant factor at many levels of linguistic structure.<sup id="cite_ref-Nuckolls_1999_230,_231,_246_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nuckolls_1999_230,_231,_246-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iconicity&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomy_of_syntax" title="Autonomy of syntax">Autonomy of syntax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce" title="Charles Sanders Peirce">Charles Sanders Peirce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gematria" title="Gematria">Gematria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Semiotic_theory_of_Charles_Sanders_Peirce" title="Semiotic theory of Charles Sanders Peirce">Semiotic theory of Charles Sanders Peirce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Semiotics" title="Semiotics">Semiotics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sign_(semiotics)" title="Sign (semiotics)">Sign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sign_relation" title="Sign relation">Sign relation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trichotomy_(philosophy)" title="Trichotomy (philosophy)">Triadic relation</a></li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iconicity&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Luraghi, S. (2010) Introduzione, in Crof & Cruise <i>Linguistica cognitiva</i>, Italian edition, pp.19-20</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/William_Croft_(linguist)" title="William Croft (linguist)">Croft</a> (1999) <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.degruyter.com/view/book/9783110803464/10.1515/9783110803464.61.xml">Some Contributions of Typology to Cognitive Linguistics, and Vice Versa</a></i>, in Janssen, Th and G. Redeker (1999) <i>Cognitive Linguistics: Foundations, Scope and Methodology</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Moravcsik (1978)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Bickerton_(2009)-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Bickerton_(2009)_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFBickerton2009" class="citation book cs1">Bickerton, Derek (2009). <i>Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans</i>. 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Allen Lane the Penguin Press. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/symbolicspeciesc00deac/page/22">22</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-393-03838-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-393-03838-5"><bdi>978-0-393-03838-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=1&rft.btitle=The+Symbolic+Species%3A+The+Co-Evolution+of+Language+and+the+Human+Brain&rft.pages=22&rft.pub=Allen+Lane+the+Penguin+Press&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=978-0-393-03838-5&rft.aulast=Deacon&rft.aufirst=Terrence&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fsymbolicspeciesc00deac%2Fpage%2F22&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIconicity" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ps-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ps_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ps_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ps_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNöth1999" class="citation journal cs1">Nöth, Winfried (Summer 1999). "Peircean Semiotics in the Study of Iconicity in Language". <i>Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society</i>. <b>35</b> (3): 613–619.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Transactions+of+the+Charles+S.+Peirce+Society&rft.atitle=Peircean+Semiotics+in+the+Study+of+Iconicity+in+Language&rft.ssn=summer&rft.volume=35&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=613-619&rft.date=1999&rft.aulast=N%C3%B6th&rft.aufirst=Winfried&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIconicity" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Burling1993-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Burling1993_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBurling1993" class="citation journal cs1">Burling, Robbins (February 1993). "Primate Calls, Human Language, and Nonverbal Communication [and Comments and Reply]". <i>Current Anthropology</i>. <b>34</b> (1). University of Chicago Press: 30–31. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1086%2F204132">10.1086/204132</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2743729">2743729</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:147082731">147082731</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Current+Anthropology&rft.atitle=Primate+Calls%2C+Human+Language%2C+and+Nonverbal+Communication+%26%2391%3Band+Comments+and+Reply%26%2393%3B&rft.volume=34&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=30-31&rft.date=1993-02&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A147082731%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F2743729%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1086%2F204132&rft.aulast=Burling&rft.aufirst=Robbins&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIconicity" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Frishburg (1975).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wilcox (2004)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFrishberg1975" class="citation journal cs1">Frishberg, Nancy (September 1975). "Arbitrariness and Iconicity: Historical Change in American Sign Language". <i>Language</i>. <b>51</b> (3): 696–719. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F412894">10.2307/412894</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/412894">412894</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Language&rft.atitle=Arbitrariness+and+Iconicity%3A+Historical+Change+in+American+Sign+Language&rft.volume=51&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=696-719&rft.date=1975-09&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F412894&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F412894%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Frishberg&rft.aufirst=Nancy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIconicity" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This idea is often traced back to <a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_de_Saussure" title="Ferdinand de Saussure">Ferdinand de Saussure</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hocket proposed 13 features which a natural language should have to count as a natural language. See feature number 8 in: Hockett, Charles (1960): The Origin of Speech. in Scientific American, 203, pp. 89–97.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For the history of research on iconicity in sign languages see, for example: Vermeerbergen, Myriam (2006): Past and current trends in sign language research. In: Language & Communication, 26(2). 168-192.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bross, Fabian (2020). The clausal syntax of German Sign Language. A cartographic approach. Berlin: Language Science Press. Page 25.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWall_(Jr.)1984" class="citation book cs1">Wall (Jr.), John N. (1984). <i>George Herbert: The Country Parson, The Temple</i>. The Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle. p. 312. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-80912298-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-80912298-7"><bdi>0-80912298-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=George+Herbert%3A+The+Country+Parson%2C+The+Temple&rft.pages=312&rft.pub=The+Missionary+Society+of+St.+Paul+the+Apostle&rft.date=1984&rft.isbn=0-80912298-7&rft.aulast=Wall+%28Jr.%29&rft.aufirst=John+N.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIconicity" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-See_p_2006_pp._237-258-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-See_p_2006_pp._237-258_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See p. 246 of <a href="/wiki/Ghil%27ad_Zuckermann" title="Ghil'ad Zuckermann">Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad</a> (2006), "'<a href="/wiki/Folk_etymology" title="Folk etymology">Etymythological</a> <a href="/wiki/Othering" class="mw-redirect" title="Othering">Othering</a>' and the Power of 'Lexical Engineering' in Judaism, Islam and Christianity. 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