A lexical database of British Sign Language (BSL) and German Sign Language (DGS): Iconicity ratings, iconic strategies, and concreteness norms.

Behav Res Methods · 2025 · PMC11982127 · PMID 40205134

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In our study, in contrast, most signs are skewed towards the concrete end of the scale: BSL has an almost normal distribution with a significant trend towards concreteness, and DGS is strongly skewed towards the concrete side of the scale.

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These results suggest that there is an overall trend for concepts with high concreteness ratings to receive high iconicity ratings, but this trend is more pronounced in DGS than BSL (see Fig. 6 ).

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