Playful iconicity

• Mark Dingemanse, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University (corresponding author)
• Bill D. Thompson, Princeton University

Open data, analyses & supplementary materials for a paper on the relation between funniness and iconicity.

Script files

Main analyses:

• playful_iconicity_paper.md : contains all analyses

Subsidiary Python scripts:

• expand-intersection.py : expands intersection between norm sets
• benchmark-prediction.py : benchmarks predictions
• tag-letter-entropy.py : computes letter entropy
• impute-from-monomorphemic.py : imputes norms from just monomorphemic words

Data files

• experimental-and-imputed-norms-for-funniness-iconicity-logletterfreq.csv: main data file
• other files in data as referenced in the main analyses

Used packages

The most crucial packages in our pipeline are tidyverse, stringr, ggplot2, ppcor, and car; full list is here.