Playing With Language in the Manual Modality: Which Motions Do Signers Gradiently Modify?

With that said, when we look at the relationship between iconicity and modification within the different sign types, we find that the correlation between iconicity and modification holds for signs produced in neutral space ( r = .47, p = .02), for two‐handed signs ( r = .51, p = .01), and for nondirectional signs ( r = .89, p < .001), and is marginally significant for symmetrical signs ( r = .57, p = .05).

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