Publications
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[pdf] Perlman, M. (in press). Iconic prosody and its connection to iconic gesture. In O. Fischer, K. Akita, and P. Perniss (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language. Oxford University Press.
[pdf] Winter, B., Woodin, G., & Perlman, M. (in press). Defining iconicity for the cognitive sciences. In O. Fischer, K. Akita, and P. Perniss (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language. Oxford University Press.
[pdf] Winter, B., Lupyan, G., Perry, L.K., Dingemanse, M., & Perlman, M. (2023). Iconicity ratings for 14,000+ English words. Behavior Research Methods.
[pdf] Woodin, G., Grieve, J., Perlman, M., Littlemore, J., & Winter, B. (2023). Large-scale patterns of number use in spoken and written English. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.
[pdf] Lameira, A.R. & Perlman, M. (2023). Great apes reach momentary altered mental states by spinning. Primates, 64, 319-323.
[pdf] Winter, B., Sóskuthy, M., Perlman, M., & Dingemanse, M. (2022). Trilled /r/ is associated with roughness, linking sound and touch across spoken languages. Scientific Reports, 12, 1035. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04311-7
[pdf] Ćwiek, A., Fuchs, S., Draxler, C., Asud, E. L., Dediu, D., Hiovain, K., Kawahara, S., Koutalidish, S., Krifka, M., Lippus, P., Lupyan, G., Ohj, G. E., Paul, J., Petrone, C., Ridouane, R., Reiter, S., Schümchen, N., Szalontai, A., Ünal-Logacev, O., Zeller, J., Perlman, M., & Winter, B. (2022). The bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377, 20200390. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0390
[pdf] Green, K. & Perlman, M. (2022). Iconic words may be common in early child interactions because they are more engaging. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution.
[pdf] Leongómez, J. D., Pisanski, K., Reby, D., Sauter, D., Lavan, N., Perlman, M., & Varella Valentova, J. (2021). Voice modulation: From origin and mechanism to social impact. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376, 20200386. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0386
[pdf] Winter, B. & Perlman, M. Size sound symbolism in the English lexicon. (2021). Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 6, 79. https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1646
[pdf] Winter, B. & Perlman, M. Iconicity ratings really do measure iconicity, and they open a new window onto the nature of language. (2021). Linguistics Vanguard, 7, 20200135. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2020-0135
[pdf] Ćwiek, A., Fuchs, S., Draxler, C., Asud, E. L., Dediu, D., Hiovain, K., Kawahara, S., Koutalidish, S., Krifka, M., Lippus, P., Lupyan, G., Ohj, G. E., Paul, J., Petrone, C., Ridouane, R., Reiter, S., Schümchen, N., Szalontai, A., Ünal-Logacev, O., Zeller, J., Winter, B., & Perlman, M. (2021). Novel vocalizations are understood across cultures. Scientific Reports, 11, 10108. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89445-4
[pdf] Woodin, G., Winter, B., Perlman, M., Littlemore, J., & Matlock, T. (2020). ‘Tiny numbers’ are actually tiny: Evidence from gestures in the TV News Archive. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242142
[pdf] Thompson, B., Perlman, M., Lupyan, G., Sevcikova Sehyr, Z., & Emmorey, K. (2020). A data-driven approach to the semantics of iconicity in American Sign Language and English. Language and Cognition, 12, 182-202. 182-202. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2019.52
[pdf] Dingemanse, M., Perlman, M., Perniss, P. (2020). Experimental approaches to iconicity: Operationalizing form-meaning resemblances in language. Language and Cognition, 12, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2019.48
[pdf] Jones, K. & Perlman, M. (2020). Illustrating the creative aspects of sound symbolism: Implications for theories of language evolution. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference (EVOLANG13). Brussels, Belgium.
[pdf] Perlman, M., Little, H., Thompson, B. & Thompson, R.L. (2018). Iconicity in signed and spoken vocabulary: A comparison between American Sign Language, British Sign Language, English, and Spanish. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1433. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01433
[pdf] Winter, B., Perlman, M., & Majid, A. (2018). Vision dominates in perceptual language: English sensory vocabulary is optimized for usage. Cognition, 179, 213-220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.05.008
[pdf] Edmiston, P., Perlman, M., & Lupyan, G. (2018). Repeated imitation makes human vocalizations more word-like. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 285, 20172709. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2709
[pdf] Perlman, M. & Lupyan, G. (2018). People can create iconic vocalizations to communicate various meanings to naive listeners. Scientific Reports, 8, 2634. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-20961-6
[pdf] Perry, L.K., Perlman, M., Winter, B., Massaro, D.W., & Lupyan, G. (2018). Iconicity in the speech of children and adults. Developmental Science, 21, e12572. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12572
[pdf] Perlman, M. (2017). Debunking two myths against vocal origins of language: Language is iconic and multimodal to the core. Interaction Studies, 18, 379-404. https://doi.org/10.1075/is.18.3.05per
[pdf] Winter, B., Perlman, M., Perry, L.K., & Lupyan, G. (2017). Which words are most iconic? Iconicity in English sensory words. Interaction Studies, 18, 433-454. https://doi.org/10.1075/is.18.3.07win
[pdf] Massaro, D.W. & Perlman, M. (2017). Quantifying iconicity’s contribution during language acquisition: Implications for vocabulary learning. Frontiers in Communication, 2: 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2017.00004
[pdf] Perlman, M., & Salmi, R. (2017). Gorillas may use their laryngeal air sacs for whinny-type vocalizations and male display. Journal of Language Evolution, 2, 126-140. https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzx012
[pdf] Tanner, J.E. & Perlman, M. (2017). Moving beyond ‘meaning’: Gorillas combine gestures into sequences for creative display. Language & Communication, 54, 56-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2016.10.006
[pdf] Perry, L.K., Perlman, M., & Lupyan, G. (2015). Iconicity in English and Spanish, and its relation to lexical category and age of acquisition. PLoS ONE, 10, e0137147. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137147