TY - GEN

T1 - Degrees of iconicity: from theoretical to empirical evidence

AU - Lavitskaya, Yulia V.

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - The current research adopts an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the nature of iconicity in language processing. We integrate the notion of iconicity into the framework of psycholinguistics, by combining empirical and theory-based research from cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and linguistics. The present study contributes to this area of research by investigating the visual recognition of Russian imitative (iconic) words by Russian native speakers. We build on the previous research by taking into consideration different stages of de-iconization (SD) (Flaksman, 2017). The Lexical decision task was performed using iconic words at four SDs as target stimuli, and noniconic and non-words as control stimuli. The results have shown that SDs influence the speed and accuracy of visual recognition of iconic words. The least de-iconized words (SD-1) are recognized significantly slower than the words, which undergo a loss of association between form and meaning (SD-2, SD-3), and the words, which have lost this link (SD-4). We present an account of our findings within the framework of cognitive research.

AB - The current research adopts an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the nature of iconicity in language processing. We integrate the notion of iconicity into the framework of psycholinguistics, by combining empirical and theory-based research from cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and linguistics. The present study contributes to this area of research by investigating the visual recognition of Russian imitative (iconic) words by Russian native speakers. We build on the previous research by taking into consideration different stages of de-iconization (SD) (Flaksman, 2017). The Lexical decision task was performed using iconic words at four SDs as target stimuli, and noniconic and non-words as control stimuli. The results have shown that SDs influence the speed and accuracy of visual recognition of iconic words. The least de-iconized words (SD-1) are recognized significantly slower than the words, which undergo a loss of association between form and meaning (SD-2, SD-3), and the words, which have lost this link (SD-4). We present an account of our findings within the framework of cognitive research.

KW - interdisciplinary approach

KW - iconicity

KW - de-iconization

KW - cognitive research

UR - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I6asKJOMeUinhiEEzoNuxvMi8gAdJ5PW/view?usp=sharing

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 978-5-209-10694-4

SP - 240

EP - 249

BT - Языки и миграция в условиях глобализации = Languages and Migration in a Globalized World

PB - Российский университет дружбы народов

CY - М.

Y2 - 15 December 2020 through 17 December 2020

ER -