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<b class="">Call for submissions: Experimental approaches to iconicity in language<br class="">
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We are inviting submissions for a special issue of <i class="">Language and Cognition</i> on <b class="">Experimental approaches to iconicity in language</b>. We welcome submissions related to any aspect of the many forms and functions of iconicity in natural
language (see below). Papers may feature new experimental findings, or may present novel theoretical syntheses of experimental work on iconicity in language. Manuscripts should be a maximum of 8,000 words, with shorter submissions preferred.<br class="">
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Many researchers in language and cognition now recognize that <i class="">iconicity</i> – resemblance between form and meaning – is a fundamental feature of human languages, spoken and signed alike (Nuckolls 1999; Taub 2001; Perniss, Thompson, & Vigliocco,
2010; Dingemanse et al., 2015; Perry, Perlman & Lupyan, 2015; Ortega, 2017). Iconicity is found across all levels of linguistic structure, spanning discourse, grammar, morphology, lexicon, phonology and phonetics, and even orthography. It is found in the prosody
of speech and sign and in the gestures that accompany linguistic behaviour.<br class="">
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While experimental research on iconicity in speech has long favoured the study of pseudowords like <i class="">bouba</i> and <i class="">kiki</i>, a growing body of experimental research shows that iconicity plays an active role in a number of basic language
processes, cutting across cognition, development, cultural and biological evolution. The special issue aims to feature some of the most exciting new experimental research on the many forms, functions, and timescales of iconicity in human language. <br class="">
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<i class="">Special issue editors<br class="">
</i>Marcus Perlman, University of Birmingham<br class="">
Pamela Perniss, University of Brighton<br class="">
Mark Dingemanse, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics<br class="">
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<b class="">References</b><br class="">
Dingemanse, M., Blasi, D.E., Lupyan, G., Christiansen, M.H., & Monaghan, P. (2015). Arbitrariness, iconicity, and systematicity in language. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19, 603-615.<br class="">
<div class="">Nuckolls, J.B. (1999). The case for sound symbolism. Annual Review of Anthropology, 28, 255-282.<br class="">
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<div class="">Ortega, Gerardo. “Iconicity and Sign Lexical Acquisition: A Review.” Frontiers in Psychology 8 (2017).
<a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01280" class="">https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01280</a>.<br class="">
Perniss, P., Thompson, R.L., & Vigliocco, G. (2010). Iconicity as a general property of language: Evidence from spoken and signed languages. Frontiers in Psychology, 1, 227.<br class="">
Perry, L.K., Perlman, M. & Lupyan, G. (2015). Iconicity in English and Spanish and its relation to lexical category and age of acquisition. PLoS ONE, 10, e0137147.<br class="">
Taub, S. (2001). Language from the body: Iconicity and metaphor in American Sign Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<br class="">
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<b class="">How to submit.</b> If you would like to contribute, please email us an 800-1000-word abstract by 1st April, 2018. Abstracts should be sent to Marcus Perlman (<a href="mailto:m.perlman@bham.ac.uk" class="">m.perlman@bham.ac.uk</a>). We will return
a decision on your abstract by 15th April, and first submissions will be due on 15th August. Manuscripts will be submitted through the <i class="">Language and Cognition</i> submission interface. We aim to put out the complete issue by the beginning of 2019.
Notably, submissions that proceed faster can appear online first.<br class="">
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