Iconicity in Expressives: An Empirical 2026

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Iconicity is a relationship of resemblance or similarity between the two aspects of a sign: its form and its meaning. An iconic sign is one whose form resembles its meaning in some way. The opposite of iconicity is arbitrariness.
Iconic signs: signs where the signifier resembles the signified, e.g., a picture. Indexical Signs: signs where the signifier is caused by the signified, e.g., smoke signifies fire. Denotation: the most basic or literal meaning of a sign, e.g., the word rose signifies a particular kind of flower.
Chomskys theory of universal grammar states that all languages have formal universals and principles in common, with specific options and limits for variation in grammar and features between languages. Chomsky argued that all languages contain similar elements, such as the word classes of nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
In spoken languages, an example of iconicity is the sound [i], which is found in the English word feet, occurs more frequently in words that mean small or tiny, such as English itty bitty teeny .
Iconic principles: Quantity principle: conceptual complexity corresponds to formal complexity. Proximity principle: conceptual distance tends to match linguistic distance. Sequential order principle: the sequential order of events described is mirrored in the speech chain.

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Iconicity refers to the overlap between word form and word meaning, most observable in onomatopoeia, where the word phonologically overlaps with a sound associated with a particular object, for example, woof (Haiman, 2015; Imai Kita, 2014;Winter et al., 2017).

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