Maria Flaksman

• PhD
• Lecturer at University of Bamberg

This meta-study explores the relationships between humor, phonemic bigram surprisal, emotional valence, and memory recall. Prior research indicates that words with higher phonemic surprisal are more readily remembered, suggesting that unpredictable phoneme sequences promote long-term memory recall. Emotional valence is another well-documented facto...

This meta-study explores the relationships between humor, phonemic bigram surprisal, emotional valence, and memory recall. Prior research indicates that words with higher phonemic surprisal are more readily remembered, suggesting that unpredictable phoneme sequences promote long-term memory recall. Emotional valence is another well-documented facto...

This Dictionary is the first etymological dictionary of English imitative (onomatopoeic, mimetic) words. Imitative words (e.g. crash, bang, achoo) are words with iconic correlation between form and meaning, iconicity being a relationship of resemblance. The dictionary provides extensive information on English words of imitative origin and uncovers...

This article offers a preliminary exploration of sound-imitative (onomatopoeic, mimetic) words in the Icelandic language, examining them both synchronically and diachronically. The words are analysed typologically based on existing phono-semantic classifications, with a particular focus on investigating the influence of regular sound changes in Ice...

The research aims to reveal neural indicators of recognition for iconic words and the possible cross-modal multisensory integration behind this process. The goals of this research are twofold: (1) to register event-related potentials (ERP) in the brain in the process of visual and auditory recognition of Russian imitative words on different de-icon...

This volume investigates iconicity as to both comprehension and production of meaning in language, gesture, pictures, art and literature. It highlights iconic processes in meaning-making and interpretation across different semiotic systems at structurally, historically and pragmatically different levels of iconicity, with special focus on Cognitive...

Iconic words constitute an integral part of the lexicon of a language, exhibiting form-meaning resemblance. Over the course of time, semantic and phonetic transformations “weaken” the degree of iconicity of a word. This iconicity loss is known as the process of de-iconization, which is divided into four stages, and, at each consecutive stage, the d...

В статье изложены результаты исследования особенностей визуального опознания русскоязычных звукоизобразительных (ЗИ) слов носителями языка (N = 106) с помощью метода «Методика принятия лексического решения». Каждому испытуемому было предъявлено 128 стимулов, из которых 64 являлись не-словами и 64 — целевыми стимулами. Целевые стимулы в равных частя...

В статье изложены результаты исследования особенностей визуального опознания русскоязычных звукоизобразительных (ЗИ) слов носителями языка (N = 106) с помощью метода «Методика принятия лексического решения». Каждому испытуемому было предъявлено 128 стимулов, из которых 64 являлись не-словами и 64 — целевыми стимулами. Целевые стимулы в равных част...

The study of iconicity, i.e., of a link between form and meaning in a word based on similarity, has gained increased attention in recent years. Although recent research has shown an important role of iconicity for first language acquisition, its role for the second language (L2) acquisition is still unclear, neither is it understood how the percept...

Introduction. The present paper is a critical study of the classification methodology introduced by S. V. Voronin in 1969. The phonosemantic classification of onomatopoeic (sound imitative) words has been tested on the material of typologically different languages and, in general, has proven itself successful. However, the bulk of empirical evidenc...

Рассматривается вопрос визуального опознания звукоизобразительных слов английского языка на различных стадиях их деиконизации русскоязычными испытуемыми (N = 106) с подтвержденным уровнем владения этим языком (В2-С1). Психосемантическое исследование проведено методом «Лексическое решение». Дана характеристика стимулов, включающих три типа слов: 32...

Intr oduction. The present article is aiming to describe the procedure of stimuli selection for the psycho-semantic experiment on visual perception of imitative words in native (Russian) and non-native language (English). The methodology of the experiment is predominantly based on the implementation of the “lexical decision” method. Thus, the aim o...

Introduction. The universal classification of onomatopoeic words was first introduced in 1969 by Stanislav V. Voronin. In the course of the following fifty years it has been tested on the material of typologically different languages both by the author himself and by other researchers. The aim of this article is to provide a full description of the...

The Iconicity in Language and Literature series has long been dedicated to the recognition and understanding of the pervasiveness of iconicity in language in its many forms and functions. The present volume, divided into four sections, brings together and unifies different perspectives on iconicity. Chapters in the first section (Iconicity in langu...

This volume addresses five different Dimensions of Iconicity. While some contributions examine the phonic dimensions of iconicity that are based on empirical, diachronic and theoretical work, others explore the function of similarity from a cognitive point of view. The section on multimodal dimensions takes into account philosophical, linguistic an...

The article is devoted to the description of iconic words in a reconstructed Proto-Germanic language and to the problems of their detection and study.

Introduction. This article is devoted to the study of imitative (onomatopoeic and mimetic) lexicon of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. The poem is, probably, the most well-known work of Anglo-Saxon literature, characterized by its archaic language as well by its expressivity. The study focuses on quantitative and contextual analysis of the imitative w...