“…This further suggests that familiarity of (iconic) structures influences iconicity ratings. In fact, although iconicity is a property that can be highly useful for successful cross-linguistic communication such as cross-signing (i.e., communicating across sign languages), it is crucial that the iconic mappings being used can also be interpreted by the interlocutor by being shared across languages (Börstell, 2023;Börstell et al, 2020;Zeshan, 2015Zeshan, , 2019. That is, iconicity 'reflects perceptual and real-world experience' (Motamedi et al, 2019, p. 191), which means that shared experiences are needed to share the perception of whether or notor, rather, to what extentsomething is iconic across individuals, languages and cultures.…”