@inbook{57fa79c1a4734724af25ce09a0ec4089,
title = "Iconic prosody and its connection to iconic gesture",
abstract = "This chapter examines iconic prosody—how speakers modify their voice in ways that are motivated by their meaning. It argues that iconic prosody is deeply connected to iconic gesture and may occur just as frequently. Section 13.1 presents four detailed examples illustrating the formal and semantic breadth of iconic prosody. Section 13.2 defines iconic prosody against the backdrop of traditional studies of prosody. Section 13.3 discusses pioneering research in the study of iconic prosody, especially Bolinger{\textquoteright}s work on emotional expression and Ohala{\textquoteright}s work on the size-frequency code. Section 13.4 reviews recent experiments showing that iconic prosody can be investigated in the psycholinguistics laboratory, including studies demonstrating people{\textquoteright}s ability to create iconic vocalizations to communicate various meanings. Section 13.5 examines iconic prosody in the wild, where it features in the multimodal context of quotation and ideophones. Finally, Section 13.6 concludes with some key questions for future research on iconic prosody.",
keywords = "expressive voice, frequency code, intonation, pitch, sound symbolism, vocalization, vocal iconicity",
author = "Marcus Perlman",
year = "2026",
month = jan,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192849489.013.0013",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780192849489",
series = "Oxford Handbooks",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
pages = "167–182",
editor = "Olga Fischer and Kimi Akita and Pamela Perniss",
booktitle = "Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language",
address = "United Kingdom",
}