Marc Perlman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 93448 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Marc Perlman |
| NOMBRES | Marc |
| APELLIDO | Perlman |
| FIRMA | PERLMAN M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1269-3882 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Changing Frequency and Functions of Onomatopoeia in Early Interactions
Onomatopoeia – words that mimic sounds like vroom , quack , and beep – are prominent in early vocabularies across languages. Their phonological simplicity may facilitate early production, but they also occur in rich, multimodal caregiver–infant interactions, suggesting a broader communicative role. Using a naturalistic video corpus, we analysed spontaneous interactions between 6 English-speaking parent–child dyads from the onset of word productio…
Do Great Apes Use Iconic Gestures?
Many researchers in cognitive science and linguistics now recognize that iconicity—perceived resemblance between the form and meaning of a signal (e.g., a word, sign, or gesture)—is an essential property of language, playing vital roles in its processing, learning, and historical development. Iconicity is also fundamental to the human ability to create meaningful new signals without reliance on convention. This iconic turn raises a critical quest…
Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures
Iconicity ratings studies have established that there are many English words which native speakers judge as “iconic,” that is, as sounding like what they mean. Here, we explore whether these iconic English words are more likely to be accompanied by iconic gestures. We report a large‐scale quantitative study comparing the gesture rate of words rated as high in iconicity (e.g., swoosh , puffy , crispy ) to those rated as low in iconicity (e.g., ord…
Great apes reach momentary altered mental states by spinning
Among animals, humans stand out in their consummate propensity to self-induce altered states of mind. Archaeology, history and ethnography show these activities have taken place since the beginnings of civilization, yet their role in the emergence and evolution of the human mind itself remains debatable. The means through which modern humans actively alter their experience of self and reality frequently depend on psychoactive substances, but it i…
Infants can create iconic gestures during natural interactions with caregivers
Adults across cultures produce iconic gestures, but little is known about the emergence of iconic gesturing in infants. This study aimed to identify plausible instances of infants’ earliest iconic gestures to learn more about their form and the interactional contexts in which they emerge. We identified the first 10 iconic gestures produced by five English-speaking children in a naturalistic longitudinal video corpus. In identifying gestures, we c…
Size sound symbolism in the English lexicon
Experimental and cross-linguistic evidence suggests that certain speech sounds are associated with size, especially high front vowels with ‘small’ and low back vowels with ‘large’. However, empirical evidence that speech sounds are statistically associated with magnitude across words within a language has been mixed and open to methodological critique. Here, we used a random-forest analysis of a near-exhaustive set of English size adjectives (e.g…
Iconicity ratings really do measure iconicity, and they open a new window onto the nature of language
This paper reviews recent research using participant ratings to measure the iconicity (form-meaning resemblance) of words and signs. This method, by enabling wide coverage of lexical items and cross-linguistic comparison, has revealed systematic patterns in how iconicity is distributed across the vocabularies of different languages. These findings are consistent with established linguistic and psychological theory on iconicity, and they connect i…
Construals of iconicity
While speculations on form–meaning resemblances in language go back millennia, the experimental study of iconicity is only about a century old. Here we take stock of experimental work on iconicity and present a double special issue with a diverse set of new contributions. We contextualise the work by introducing a typology of approaches to iconicity in language. Some approaches construe iconicity as a discrete property that is either present or a…
A data-driven approach to the semantics of iconicity in American Sign Language and English
A growing body of research shows that both signed and spoken languages display regular patterns of iconicity in their vocabularies. We compared iconicity in the lexicons of American Sign Language (ASL) and English by combining previously collected ratings of ASL signs (Caselli, Sevcikova Sehyr, Cohen-Goldberg, & Emmorey, 2017) and English words (Winter, Perlman, Perry, & Lupyan, 2017) with the use of data-driven semantic vectors derived from Engl…
Cross-Cultural Work in Music Cognition
Many foundational questions in the psychology of music require cross-cultural approaches, yet the vast majority of work in the field to date has been conducted with Western participants and Western music. For cross-cultural research to thrive, it will require collaboration between people from different disciplinary backgrounds, as well as strategies for overcoming differences in assumptions, methods, and terminology. This position paper surveys t…
Meta-ideologies of Textuality
Few manifestations of intertextuality are better known than plagiarism and copyright infringement, yet few have been less studied by linguistic anthropologists. A variety of textual ideologies of plagiarism and copyright are evident in English composition pedagogy and intellectual-property law, some more and some less author-centric or committed to the values of individuality and originality. The tension between them is articulated in sophisticat…
Moving beyond 'meaning
Iconicity in English and Spanish and Its Relation to Lexical Category and Age of Acquisition
Signed languages exhibit iconicity (resemblance between form and meaning) across their vocabulary, and many non-Indo-European spoken languages feature sizable classes of iconic words known as ideophones. In comparison, Indo-European languages like English and Spanish are believed to be arbitrary outside of a small number of onomatopoeic words. In three experiments with English and two with Spanish, we asked native speakers to rate the iconicity o…
Quotation as a multimodal construction
Producing Indonesia
Iconicity in vocalization, comparisons with gesture, and implications for theories on the evolution of language
Scholars have often reasoned that vocalizations are extremely limited in their potential for iconic expression, especially in comparison to manual gestures (e.g., Armstrong & Wilcox, 2007; Tomasello, 2008). As evidence for an alternative view, we first review the growing body of research related to iconicity in vocalizations, including experimental work on sound symbolism, cross-linguistic studies documenting iconicity in the grammars and lexicon…
Using space to talk and gesture about numbers
This paper examines naturally occurring gestures produced in descriptions of numbers and quantities in television newscasts. The results of our analysis show that gestures reveal the metaphorical and spatial nature of numerical thinking. That is, speakers’ hands mimic known spatial mappings between space and quantity, including horizontal mappings (smaller quantities left, larger quantities right), vertical mappings (smaller quantities down, larg…
The Rāgs of North Indian Music, Forty Years Later
Research Article| May 01 2011 The Rāgs of North Indian Music, Forty Years Later Marc Perlman Marc Perlman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2011) 55 (2): 318–324. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.55.2.0318 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Marc Perlman; The Rāgs of North Indian Music, Forty Years Later. Ethnomusicology 1 January 2011; …
Language understanding is grounded in experiential simulations
Changing Conventions in the Central Javanese Performing Arts
Over the past two decades, historians have uncovered what seem to be remarkable changes in the Central Javanese performing arts of the colonial period. As a contribution to this enterprise, the roles of both change and continuity in the gamelan musical tradition are examined here, using as a case study the conventions governing the musical accompaniment to the wayang kulit purwa, a shadow-puppet theater in Surakarta (Solo). A notable shift in the…
Music of the Gambuh Theater
Reviewed by: Music of the Gambuh Theater: Bali's Ancient Dance Drama Marc Perlman (bio) Music of the Gambuh Theater: Bali's Ancient Dance Drama. Performed by Seka Gambuh Pura Desa Adat Batuan, The Gambuh Ensemble of Batuan's Village Temple. Produced in cooperation with the Gambuh Preservation Project (Maria Cristina Formaggia, coordinator.) Recording and notes by Wayne Vitale. Vital Records 501, 1999. At the root of the amazing variety of Bali's …
Golden Ears and Meter Readers
Scientific claims to knowledge and the uses of technological artifacts are both inherently contestable, but both are not usually contested together. Consumers of ‘specialty’ audio equipment (known as the ‘high end’), however, connect both forms of resistance. These ‘audiophiles’ construct their own universe of meaning around their equipment; they cultivate a distinctive vocabulary and set of attitudes. In this they resemble other groups of users …
Mode in South-east Asia
Indonesia, Sumatra
Mode
Golden Ears and Meter Readers
Scientific claims to knowledge and the uses of technological artifacts are both inherently contestable, but both are not usually contested together. Consumers of ‘specialty’ audio equipment (known as the ‘high end’), however, connect both forms of resistance. These ‘audiophiles’ construct their own universe of meaning around their equipment; they cultivate a distinctive vocabulary and set of attitudes. In this they resemble other groups of users …
Iconicity in vocalization, comparisons with gesture, and implications for theories on the evolution of language
Scholars have often reasoned that vocalizations are extremely limited in their potential for iconic expression, especially in comparison to manual gestures (e.g., Armstrong & Wilcox, 2007; Tomasello, 2008). As evidence for an alternative view, we first review the growing body of research related to iconicity in vocalizations, including experimental work on sound symbolism, cross-linguistic studies documenting iconicity in the grammars and lexicon…
Quotation as a multimodal construction
The Traditional Javanese Performing Arts in the Twilight of the New Order
As this issue of Indonesia goes to press, the People's Consultative Assembly has taken the decisive step of effectively ratifying the results of the August 30 referendum by which the people of East Timor overwhelmingly declared their choice for national independence.The editors believe this occasion is of sufficient importance to congratulate the Consultative Assembly on the wisdom of its decision, and at the same time to congratulate the people …
The Social Meanings of Modal Practices
Dans cet article, l'A. montre comment certaines pratiques de musique modale dans les orchestres de gamelan du centre de Java sont associees a deux oppositions sociales dans la culture javanaise : centre/peripherie (cour/village), masculin/feminin. Il existerait un meme modele structural qui definirait de meme les principes horizontaux et verticaux dans la musique. Le lien entre les principes musicaux et les categories sociales de la marginalite e…
Moving beyond 'meaning
American Gamelan in the Garden of Eden
Journal Article American Gamelan in the Garden of Eden: Intonation in a Cross-Cultural Encounter Get access Marc Perlman Marc Perlman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Musical Quarterly, Volume 78, Issue 3, Fall 1994, Pages 510–556, https://doi.org/10.1093/mq/78.3.510 Published: 01 October 1994
Using space to talk and gesture about numbers
This paper examines naturally occurring gestures produced in descriptions of numbers and quantities in television newscasts. The results of our analysis show that gestures reveal the metaphorical and spatial nature of numerical thinking. That is, speakers’ hands mimic known spatial mappings between space and quantity, including horizontal mappings (smaller quantities left, larger quantities right), vertical mappings (smaller quantities down, larg…
"Notes on "A Grammar of the Musical Genre Srepegan
Music for Sale
Idioculture
Postmodern Culture - Volume 4, Number 1, September 1993
American Gamelan in the Garden of Eden
Journal Article American Gamelan in the Garden of Eden: Intonation in a Cross-Cultural Encounter Get access Marc Perlman Marc Perlman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Musical Quarterly, Volume 78, Issue 3, Fall 1994, Pages 510–556, https://doi.org/10.1093/mq/78.3.510 Published: 01 October 1994
Metaphor
Conflicting Interpretations
L'A. etudie deux interpretations analytiques presentes chez les musiciens du centre de Java (Indonesie) a propos des relations entre les modes ou pathet dans la musique de gamelan de style Surakarta. L'A. montre que chaque interpretation est plausible car, associees, elles permettent de realiser le systeme modal indique ; celui-ci peut etre interprete de diverses manieres. Il est probable que cette caracteristique soit heritee des anciennes trans…
Trance Gong
Indonesian Traditions on Disc
The Social Meanings of Modal Practices
Dans cet article, l'A. montre comment certaines pratiques de musique modale dans les orchestres de gamelan du centre de Java sont associees a deux oppositions sociales dans la culture javanaise : centre/peripherie (cour/village), masculin/feminin. Il existerait un meme modele structural qui definirait de meme les principes horizontaux et verticaux dans la musique. Le lien entre les principes musicaux et les categories sociales de la marginalite e…
The Traditional Javanese Performing Arts in the Twilight of the New Order
As this issue of Indonesia goes to press, the People's Consultative Assembly has taken the decisive step of effectively ratifying the results of the August 30 referendum by which the people of East Timor overwhelmingly declared their choice for national independence.The editors believe this occasion is of sufficient importance to congratulate the Consultative Assembly on the wisdom of its decision, and at the same time to congratulate the people …
Mode in South-east Asia
Indonesia, Sumatra
Mode
Indonesia
Golden Ears and Meter Readers
Scientific claims to knowledge and the uses of technological artifacts are both inherently contestable, but both are not usually contested together. Consumers of ‘specialty’ audio equipment (known as the ‘high end’), however, connect both forms of resistance. These ‘audiophiles’ construct their own universe of meaning around their equipment; they cultivate a distinctive vocabulary and set of attitudes. In this they resemble other groups of users …
Music of the Gambuh Theater
Reviewed by: Music of the Gambuh Theater: Bali's Ancient Dance Drama Marc Perlman (bio) Music of the Gambuh Theater: Bali's Ancient Dance Drama. Performed by Seka Gambuh Pura Desa Adat Batuan, The Gambuh Ensemble of Batuan's Village Temple. Produced in cooperation with the Gambuh Preservation Project (Maria Cristina Formaggia, coordinator.) Recording and notes by Wayne Vitale. Vital Records 501, 1999. At the root of the amazing variety of Bali's …
Language understanding is grounded in experiential simulations
Changing Conventions in the Central Javanese Performing Arts
Over the past two decades, historians have uncovered what seem to be remarkable changes in the Central Javanese performing arts of the colonial period. As a contribution to this enterprise, the roles of both change and continuity in the gamelan musical tradition are examined here, using as a case study the conventions governing the musical accompaniment to the wayang kulit purwa, a shadow-puppet theater in Surakarta (Solo). A notable shift in the…
The Rāgs of North Indian Music, Forty Years Later
Research Article| May 01 2011 The Rāgs of North Indian Music, Forty Years Later Marc Perlman Marc Perlman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2011) 55 (2): 318–324. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.55.2.0318 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Marc Perlman; The Rāgs of North Indian Music, Forty Years Later. Ethnomusicology 1 January 2011; …
Using space to talk and gesture about numbers
This paper examines naturally occurring gestures produced in descriptions of numbers and quantities in television newscasts. The results of our analysis show that gestures reveal the metaphorical and spatial nature of numerical thinking. That is, speakers’ hands mimic known spatial mappings between space and quantity, including horizontal mappings (smaller quantities left, larger quantities right), vertical mappings (smaller quantities down, larg…
Producing Indonesia
Iconicity in vocalization, comparisons with gesture, and implications for theories on the evolution of language
Scholars have often reasoned that vocalizations are extremely limited in their potential for iconic expression, especially in comparison to manual gestures (e.g., Armstrong & Wilcox, 2007; Tomasello, 2008). As evidence for an alternative view, we first review the growing body of research related to iconicity in vocalizations, including experimental work on sound symbolism, cross-linguistic studies documenting iconicity in the grammars and lexicon…
Iconicity in English and Spanish and Its Relation to Lexical Category and Age of Acquisition
Signed languages exhibit iconicity (resemblance between form and meaning) across their vocabulary, and many non-Indo-European spoken languages feature sizable classes of iconic words known as ideophones. In comparison, Indo-European languages like English and Spanish are believed to be arbitrary outside of a small number of onomatopoeic words. In three experiments with English and two with Spanish, we asked native speakers to rate the iconicity o…
Quotation as a multimodal construction
Moving beyond 'meaning
Linguistics (18 obras) · Philosophy (16 obras) · Psychology (15 obras) · Art (14 obras) · Computer Science (13 obras) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (10 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (9 obras) · Multisensory perception and integration (9 obras) · History (8 obras)