Do visual signals really afford more iconicity than acoustic signals?

Qingfeng Tong; Gerardo Ortega; Marcus Perlman

Do visual signals really afford more iconicity than acoustic signals?

Linguistics and Communication

Research output: Contribution to conference (unpublished) › Abstract › peer-review

Original language	English
Pages	117-119
Publication status	Unpublished - 2026
Event	IcoLL2026 (the joint conference of the 4th Iconicity Seminar (IcoSem) and the 15th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL) - Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan Duration: 21 Feb 2026 → … https://ianjoo.github.io/icosem/4

Conference

Conference	IcoLL2026 (the joint conference of the 4th Iconicity Seminar (IcoSem) and the 15th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL)
Abbreviated title	IcoLL2026
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Nagoya
Period	21/02/26 → …
Internet address	https://ianjoo.github.io/icosem/4

Keywords

iconicity
multimodal communication

Access to Document

https://ianjoo.github.io/icosem/IcoLL2026Abstracts.pdf

Cite this

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Do visual signals really afford more iconicity than acoustic signals? / Tong, Qingfeng ; Ortega, Gerardo ; Perlman, Marcus.
2026. 117-119 Abstract from IcoLL2026 (the joint conference of the 4th Iconicity Seminar (IcoSem) and the 15th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL) , Nagoya, Japan.

Research output: Contribution to conference (unpublished) › Abstract › peer-review