Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Iconicity(also: Iconic Motivation, Sign Iconicity)
- A property of a linguistic sign in which its form resembles or is motivated by its meaning, rather than being arbitrary. In sign languages, iconicity is pervasive: many signs visually depict an action, shape, or spatial relationship associated with the referent (for example,…
- Indirect speech act(also: Indirect request)
- A linguistic utterance whose intended meaning differs from its literal meaning, commonly used in neurotypical communication for politeness or social convention. For example, "Can you pass the salt?" is literally a question about ability but is conventionally understood as a…
- Inflecting Verb(also: Spatial Verb, Agreement Verb, Directional Verb)
- A category of sign language verbs that change their movement path, direction, or orientation based on the spatial locations associated with their subject and object. In American Sign Language, verbs like GIVE, ASK, and TELL move from the location representing the subject toward…
- Interlingua(also: Interlingual Representation, Interlingual MT)
- In machine translation, a language-neutral semantic representation that serves as an intermediate form between the source and target languages. An interlingual MT system first analyses the source text into this representation and then generates the target text from it, so the…
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