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Iconicity and diachronic language change
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Iconicity, the resemblance between the form of a word and its meaning, has effects on behaviour in both communicative symbol development and language learning experiments. These results have invited speculation about iconicity being a key feature of the origins of language, yet, the presence of iconicity in natural languages seems limited. In a diachronic study of language change, we investigated the extent to which iconicity is a stable property of vocabulary, alongside previously investigated psycholinguistic predictors of change. Analysing 784 English words with data on their historical forms, we found that stable words are higher in iconicity, longer in length, and earlier acquired during development, but that the role of frequency and grammatical category may be less important than previously suggested. Iconicity is revealed as a feature of ultra-conserved words, and potentially also as a property of vocabulary early in the history of language origins.
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URL: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/152301/1/monaghan_roberts_21_cogsci_manuscript.pdf https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/152301/ https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12968
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Language in economics and accounting research: the role of linguistic history
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Language in economics and accounting research: the role of linguistic history
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CHIELD: The causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database
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Cultural influences on word meanings revealed through large-scale semantic alignment
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Multimodality and the origin of a novel communication system in face-to-face interaction
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Multimodality and the origin of a novel communication system in face-to-face interaction
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Cognitive influences in language evolution:Psycholinguistic predictors of loan word borrowing
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Robust, causal, and incremental approaches to investigating linguistic adaptation
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Robust, Causal, and Incremental Approaches to Investigating Linguistic Adaptation
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Dependencies in language: On the causal ontology of linguistic systems
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In: Language Science Press; (2017)
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