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Krebs, Julia; Malaia, Evie; Wilbur, Ronnie B.; Roehm, Dietmar – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Nonsigners viewing sign language are sometimes able to guess the meaning of signs by relying on the overt connection between form and meaning, or iconicity (cf. Ortega, Özyürek, & Peeters, 2020; Strickland et al., 2015). One word class in sign languages that appears to be highly iconic is classifiers: verb-like signs that can refer to location…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Psycholinguistics, Verbs, Morphology (Languages)