From: The Comparative Translucency of Initial Lexical Items Represented in Five Graphic Symbol Systems and
Sets
J Speech Hear Res. 1990;33(4):717-725. doi:10.1044/jshr.3304.717
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Examples of differences or contrasts among symbols: (a) symbols used to represent abstract concepts of MUSIC across the five systems/sets;
(b) examples of conceptually or experientially based symbols from PCS, Picsyms, and Rebus used to statistically represent verbs; (c) examples
of direct pictorial representation of a referent object (SHOE), and representation of features or objects conceptually associated with the referent
(ZOO and BEACH); (d) Rebus and PCS examples of highly translucent modifier symbols that highlight attributes of concrete nouns.
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