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Direct linkCaselli, Naomi K.; Pyers, Jennie E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Lexical iconicity--signs or words that resemble their meaning--is overrepresented in children's early vocabularies. Embodied theories of language acquisition predict that symbols are more learnable when they are grounded in a child's firsthand experiences. As such, pantomimic iconic signs, which use the signer's body to represent a body, might be…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Vocabulary Development, Lexicology, Semantics
