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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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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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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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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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Phonology Recognition in American Sign Language [PDF]
ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2021 Inspired by recent developments in natural language processing, we propose a novel approach to sign language processing based on phonological properties validated by American Sign Language users. By taking advantage of datasets composed of phonological data and people speaking sign language, we use a pretrained deep model based on mesh reconstruction ...
Tavella, Federico +2 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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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 ...
Stephanie Baker +3 more
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Vision-Based American Sign Language Classification Approach via Deep Learning [PDF]
, 2022 Hearing-impaired is the disability of partial or total hearing loss that causes a significant problem for communication with other people in society. American Sign Language (ASL) is one of the sign languages that most commonly used language used by Hearing impaired communities to communicate with each other.
Elsayed, Nelly +2 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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