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Affective Congruence between Sound and Meaning of Words Facilitates Semantic Decision
2018
Behavioral Sciences
A similarity between the form and meaning of a word (i.e., iconicity) may help language users to more readily access its meaning through direct form-meaning mapping. Previous work has supported this view by providing empirical evidence for this facilitatory effect in sign language, as well as for onomatopoetic words (e.g., cuckoo) and ideophones (e.g., zigzag). Thus, it remains largely unknown whether the beneficial role of iconicity in making semantic decisions can be considered a general
doi:10.3390/bs8060056
pmid:29857513
pmcid:PMC6028912
fatcat:jzdhkjhptrfalfwahnjb2m3br4