McLean, B., Dunn, M., & Dingemanse, M. (2023). Two measures are better than one: Combining iconicity ratings and guessing experiments for a more nuanced picture of iconicity in the lexicon. Language and Cognition, 1-24. doi:10.1017/langcog.2023.9. 🏆 Best PhD paper at SLE 2021 🧵Summary 📊 Slides
McLean, B. (2021). Revising an implicational hierarchy for the meanings of ideophones, with special reference to Japonic. Linguistic Typology, 25(3), 507–549. ✨ Shiny App
McLean, B., & Dingemanse, M. (in press). A multi-methods toolkit for documentary research on ideophones. In Williams, J.P. (Ed), Capturing Expressivity. Oxford University Press. Preprint at https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/3n85v.
Akita, K., & McLean, B. (2021). Onsyootyoo-tikaku-no niti/ei-taisyoo: Imi-tizu-ni yoru kentoo [A contrastive study of Japanese and English speakers’ sound-symbolic perception: A semantic-map approach]. In K. Shinohara & R. Uno (Eds.), Zikken-ninti-gengogaku [Progress in experimental cognitive linguistics] (pp. 165–189). Hitsuji Shobo.
McLean, B. (2022, August 22). What’s in a name? On the persistence of motivated form-meaning mappings in lexicons. ✨Invited plenary at Societas Linguistica Europaea 55, Bucharest, Romania.