Iconicity ratings for 10,995 Spanish words and their relationship with psycholinguistic variables

Hinojosa, José Antonio; Haro, Juan; Magallares, Sara; Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni; Ferré, Pilar

doi:10.3758/s13428-020-01496-z

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“…Several studies have inspected the relationship between iconicity ratings and different semantic dimensions, such as concreteness (Hinojosa et al, 2021;Winter et al, 2022) and perceptual experience (Sidhu & Pexman 2018;Winter et al 2017Winter et al , 2022. Perhaps surprisingly, no study to our knowledge has ever assessed the relationship between iconicity ratings and the construct they are expected to measure, namely perceptual resemblance.…”

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“…We also tested whether our measures were significant predictors of iconicity ratings against a strong baseline of psycholinguistic variables that have been shown to be associated with such construct. Indeed, it has been shown that iconicity ratings are negatively associated with word length (Perry et al, 2015;Winter et al, 2017Winter et al, , 2022, log frequency (Perry et al, 2015(Perry et al, , 2018Winter et al, 2017Winter et al, , 2022, age of acquisition (Perry et al, 2018;Winter et al, 2022), concreteness (Hinojosa et al, 2021;Winter et al, 2022), and contextual diversity ; furthermore, they are positively correlated with perceptual experience (Sidhu & Pexman, 2018;Winter et al, 2017Winter et al, , 2022. In our analyses, we included these measures as covariates, to test the predictive power of our metrics while controlling for other possible confounds.…”

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Cracking Arbitrariness: A Data-driven Study of Auditory Iconicity

Varda¹,

Marelli²

2022

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Auditory iconic words display a phonological profile that imitates their referents’ sounds. Traditionally, those words are thought to constitute a minor portion of the auditory lexicon. In this article, we challenge this assumption by assessing the pervasiveness of onomatopoeia through a novel data-driven procedure. We embed spoken words and natural sounds into a shared auditory space through (a) a short-time Fourier transform, (b) a convolutional neural network trained to classify sounds, and (c) a network trained on speech recognition. Then, we employ the obtained vector representations to measure their objective auditory resemblance. These similarity indexes show that imitation is not limited to some circumscribed semantic categories, but instead can be considered as a widespread mechanism underlying the structure of the English auditory vocabulary. We finally empirically validate our similarity indexes as measures of iconicity against human judgments.

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Cracking Arbitrariness: A Data-driven Study of Auditory Iconicity

Varda¹,

Marelli²

2022

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“…Many dialectal variants of Spanish can be distinguished alongside its large geographical distribution that mainly encompasses Spain and the Americas. Although there is a growing corpus of psycholinguistic research in Spanish developed since the late 1980s and early 1990s (see, for instance, Carreiras et al, 1993;Cuetos & Mitchell, 1988), most normative studies for frequency, word association, affective and other lexical properties refer to Iberian Spanish, the standard variant spoken in Spain (see for instance Fernández et al, 2012;Hinojosa et al, 2021;Stadthagen-Gonzalez et al, 2017), with the notable exception of Aguasvivas et al (2018).…”

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The "Small World of Words" Free Association Norms for Rioplatense Spanish

Cabana¹,

Zugarramurdi²,

Deyne³

2022

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Large scale word association datasets are both important tools used in psycholinguistics and used as models that capture meaning when considered as semantic networks. Here we present word association norms for Rioplatense Spanish, a variant spoken in Argentina and Uruguay. The norms were derived through a large-scale crowd-sourced continued word association task in which participants give three associations to a list of cue words. Covering over 13,000 words and +3.6M responses, it is currently the most extensive dataset available for Spanish. We compare the obtained dataset with previous studies in Dutch and English to investigate the role of grammatical gender and studies that used Iberian Spanish to test generalizability to other Spanish variants. Finally, we evaluated the validity of our data in word processing (lexical decision reaction times) and semantic (similarity judgment) tasks. Our results demonstrate that network measures such as in-degree provide a good prediction of lexical decision response times. Analyzing semantic similarity judgments, showed that results replicate and extend previous findings demonstrating that semantic similarity derived using spreading activation or spectral methods outperform word embeddings trained on text corpora.

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“…It positively influences language learning during infancy (Imai and Kita, 2014; Massaro and Pearlman, 2017; Perniss and Vigliocco, 2014; Perry et al, 2018; Sidhu et al, 2022), and bears a clear relationship with age of acquisition in spoken (e.g. Hinojosa et al, 2020; Perry et al, 2015) and signed languages (e.g. Caselli and Pyers, 2017; Thompson et al, 2012; Vinson et al, 2008).…”

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Sign iconicity helps learning new words for abstract concepts in a foreign language

Rodríguez-Cuadrado

Ojedo

Vicente-Conesa³

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Second Language Research

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Several studies have explored the use of iconic gestures to improve the learning of foreign vocabulary. In this quest, words for abstract concepts have been largely neglected, under the assumption that abstract concepts have poor or non-existent sensory-motor representations. Yet, the Conceptual Metaphor Theory suggests that they are grounded on concrete concepts. Moreover, analyses of signed languages reveal ways in which signs can exploit metonymies and conceptual metaphors to iconically refer to abstract concepts. Here, we explore whether iconic signs from Spanish Sign Language (LSE) can facilitate the learning of foreign words for abstract concepts in hearing participants who do not know any sign language. In two studies, participants were presented with new labels for abstract and concrete concepts in an artificial language (Vimmi). The labels could be accompanied by either a video of an iconic or non-iconic sign taken from the existing vocabulary of LSE, or a static image of the signer. In study 1, participants did not have to enact the signs they were presented with, while in study 2 they did. Both studies showed that iconic signs facilitated the learning of abstract foreign vocabulary, regardless of enactment. The strategies that sign languages use to develop iconic signs for abstract concepts make those signs useful to assist the learning of foreign words by hearing non-signers.

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Iconicity ratings for 10,995 Spanish words and their relationship with psycholinguistic variables

Cited by 15 publications

References 76 publications

Cracking Arbitrariness: A Data-driven Study of Auditory Iconicity

Cracking Arbitrariness: A Data-driven Study of Auditory Iconicity

The "Small World of Words" Free Association Norms for Rioplatense Spanish

Sign iconicity helps learning new words for abstract concepts in a foreign language

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