Deep Learning Technology to Recognize American Sign Language Alphabet [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 Historically, individuals with hearing impairments have faced neglect, lacking the necessary tools to facilitate effective communication. However, advancements in modern technology have paved the way for the development of various tools and software ...
Bader Alsharif +4 more
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A Particle of Indefiniteness in American Sign Language [PDF]
Linguistic Discovery, 2003 We describe here the characteristics of a very frequently-occurring ASL indefinite focus particle, which has not previously been recognized as such. We show here that, despite its similarity to the question sign "WHAT", the particle is distinct from that
Carol Neidle +2 more
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The ASL-CDI 2.0: An updated, normed adaptation of the MacArthur Bates Communicative Development Inventory for American Sign Language. [PDF]
Behav Res Methods, 2020 Vocabulary is a critical early marker of language development. The MacArthur Bates Communicative Development Inventory has been adapted to dozens of languages, and provides a bird’s-eye view of children’s early vocabularies which can be informative for ...
Caselli NK, Lieberman AM, Pyers JE.
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Medication-Related Experience of Deaf American Sign Language Users [PDF]
Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2023 Background: Previous studies showed that deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) individuals have low health literacy related to prescription labels. This study examined the DHH's experience with understanding prescription labels and how technology can impact ...
Mariam Paracha +6 more
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Syntactic priming in American Sign Language. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Psycholinguistic studies of sign language processing provide valuable opportunities to assess whether language phenomena, which are primarily studied in spoken language, are fundamentally shaped by peripheral biology. For example, we know that when given
Matthew L Hall +2 more
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The perception of handshapes in American Sign Language [PDF]
Memory & Cognition, 2005 Despite the constantly varying stream of sensory information that surrounds us, we humans can discern the small building blocks of words that constitute language (phonetic forms) and perceive them categorically (categorical perception, CP). Decades of controversy have prevailed regarding what is at the heart of CP, with many arguing that it is due to ...
William J. Idsardi +3 more
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Iconicity in Signed and Spoken Vocabulary: A Comparison Between American Sign Language, British Sign Language, English, and Spanish [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Considerable evidence now shows that all languages, signed and spoken, exhibit a significant amount of iconicity. We examined how the visual-gestural modality of signed languages facilitates iconicity for different kinds of lexical meanings compared to ...
Marcus Perlman +3 more
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Identifying the Correlations Between the Semantics and the Phonology of American Sign Language and British Sign Language: A Vector Space Approach [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Over the history of research on sign languages, much scholarship has highlighted the pervasive presence of signs whose forms relate to their meaning in a non-arbitrary way.
Aurora Martinez del Rio +4 more
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Analysis of the visual spatiotemporal properties of American Sign Language. [PDF]
Vision Res, 2019 Careful measurements of the temporal dynamics of speech have provided important insights into phonetic properties of spoken languages, which are important for understanding auditory perception.
Bosworth RG, Wright CE, Dobkins KR.
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