IconicITA: Iconicity ratings of the Italian affective lexicon.

ABSTRACT: Iconicity, defined as the potential of linguistic signs to resemble properties or features of their referents, is increasingly recognized as a general property of language. One common approach for quantifying iconicity is to collect iconicity ratings. Although iconicity datasets have been developed for several languages, no comprehensive dataset of iconicity ratings is currently available for Italian. The current study presents IconicITA, the first dataset of Italian iconicity ratings for the 1,121 words of the Italian adaptation of Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW). Ratings were collected from both Italian native speakers (L1) and English native speakers with Italian as a second language (L2). Including L2 participants allowed us to contribute to the debate on whether iconicity rat

SUBMITTER: de Varda AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12685184 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature