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September 10, 2025Cognitive ScienceOpen Access

Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures

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Quantitative analysis shows high iconicity words drive increased iconic gesture use in speech.

High iconicity words are associated with a gesture rate of 69%, compared to 56% for low iconicity words.
The rate of iconic gestures is higher for high iconicity words at 24%, versus 11% for low iconicity ones.
The research involved analyzing 5,725 tokens from the TV News Archive to assess gesture usage linked to word iconicity.
Findings highlight that iconicity affects both speech and gestures, showing a multimodal interaction in communication.

Wilding et al. (2025) studied this question.

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