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Cogn Sci
December 2024
Department of English Linguistics, Nagoya University.
Iconicity is a relationship of resemblance between the form and meaning of a sign. Compelling evidence from diverse areas of the cognitive sciences suggests that iconicity plays a pivotal role in the processing, memory, learning, and evolution of both spoken and signed language, indicating that iconicity is a general property of language. However, the language-specific aspect of iconicity, illustrated by the fact that the meanings of ideophones in an unfamiliar language are hard to guess (e.
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December 2024
Centre de Recherche en Psychologie et Neurosciences (CRPN), CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
Speech and co-speech gestures always go hand in hand. Whether we find the precursors of these co-speech gestures in infants before they master their native language still remains an open question. Except for deictic gestures, there is little agreement on the existence of iconic, non-referential and conventional gestures before children start producing their first words.
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October 2024
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, United States of America Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History New Haven United States of America.
Background: The iconic freshwater cichlid fishes (Cichlidae) comprise about 1750 validly named species and hundreds more that are known, but not yet described and named. Cichlids are an important source of protein for millions of people on several continents, are model organisms in studies of evolution, speciation, ecology, development, behaviour and physiology and are popular as aquarium fishes. Yet, comparative studies of cichlid internal anatomy are rare.
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October 2024
Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
Background: The sea spiders (Pycnogonida Latreille, 1810) of the Hunsrück Slate (Lower Devonian, ~400 million years ago) are iconic in their abundance, exquisite pyritic preservation, and in their distinctive body plan compared to extant sea spiders (Pantopoda Gerstäcker, 1863). Consequently, the Hunsrück sea spiders are important in understanding the deep evolutionary history of Pycnogonida, yet they remain poorly characterised, impacting upon attempts to establish a time-calibrated phylogeny of sea spiders.
Methods: Here, we investigated previously described and new material representing four of the five Hunsrück pycnogonids: Poschmann & Dunlop, 2006; Broili, 1928; Broili, 1929; and Kühl, Poschmann & Rust, 2013; as well as a few unidentified specimens.
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