Iconic Design

Iconic Agreement

Two apparently contradictory insights about sign language can be made compatible within a formal semantic analysis: (i) the claim that directional verbs incorporate agreement markers/pronouns (e.g. Lillo-Martin and Meier 2011); (ii) the observation that directional verbs have an iconic component (e.g. Liddell 2003). I sketch formal rules that integrate iconic requirements with standard semantic...

Iconic Features

Sign languages are known to display the same general grammatical properties as spoken languages ('Universal Grammar'), but also to make greater use of iconic mechanisms. In Schlenker et al., to appear, it was argued that loci (= positions in signing space corresponding to discourse referents) can have an iconic semantics, in the sense that certain geometric relations among loci (subset and rela...

Iconic decay in schizophrenia.

Working memory impairment is considered a core deficit in schizophrenia, but the precise nature of this deficit has not been determined. Multiple lines of evidence implicate deficits at the encoding stage. During encoding, information is held in a precategorical sensory store termed iconic memory, a literal image of the stimulus with high capacity but rapid decay. Pathologically increased iconi...

Iconic Control Graph Representation

This paper presents a new representation of control flow graphs which is readable and concise, keeping all pertinent information as it appears in the source code. The iconic control graph provides an exact transformation of the source code. It is a basis for control flow visualization, unstructuredness identification, path crossing and path computation. The representation is programming-languag...

Iconic Learning and Epistemology