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Direct linkBosworth, Rain G.; Emmorey, Karen – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Iconicity is a property that pervades the lexicon of many sign languages, including American Sign Language (ASL). Iconic signs exhibit a motivated, nonarbitrary mapping between the form of the sign and its meaning. We investigated whether iconicity enhances semantic priming effects for ASL and whether iconic signs are recognized more quickly than…
Descriptors: Priming, Semantics, Familiarity, American Sign Language
