This repository contains the data, materials, and documentation associated with **IconicITA**, the first large scale dataset of iconicity ratings for Italian words. The resource provides iconicity norms for 1,121 words from the Italian adaptation of the ANEW (Affective Norms for English Words) database and includes ratings collected from both native Italian speakers (L1) and highly proficient Italian L2 speakers. The project investigates iconicity, namely the degree to which a word's form resembles aspects of its meaning, and its relationship with psycholinguistic variables such as perceptual strength, specificity, concreteness, age of acquisition, and word frequency. By comparing L1 and L2 judgments, the study also explores the extent to which iconicity ratings reflect language specific form meaning correspondences rather than purely semantic information. The repository supports the publication: **de Varda, A. G., Lamarra, T., Ravelli, A. A., Saponaro, C., Giustolisi, B., & Bolognesi, M. (2025). *IconicITA: Iconicity ratings of the Italian affective lexicon*. PLOS ONE, 20(12), e0337947.** The materials made available here are intended to facilitate transparency, reproducibility, and future research on iconicity, lexical semantics, psycholinguistic norms, language processing, and language mediated abstraction.
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