Iconicity in Signed and Spoken Vocabulary: A Comparison Between American Sign Language, British Sign Language, English, and Spanish.

Front Psychol · 2018 · PMC6102584 · PMID 30154747

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There was a highly significant interaction between modality and lexical class, χ 1 2 = 43.97, p < 0.001.

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There was a marginally significant interaction between haptic strength and modality, b = -0.21, 95% CI = [-0.42, 0.00], χ 1 2 = 3.82, p = 0.05, suggesting that the relationship between haptic strength and iconicity was stronger in signed languages.

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