The effects of iconicity on pre-literacy: a psycholinguistic study of written word-figure matching

This work aims at investigating, from the perspective of experimental linguistics, the use of iconicity as a provisional reading strategy used by children during the pre-literacy phase. In the background, we contrast the recruitment of iconicity with the notion of default arbitrariness in language,...

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Main Authors: Isadora Rodrigues Andrade, Ana Luiza H. Tinoco Machado, Aniela Improta França
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2019-10-01
Series:Ilha do Desterro
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/67393