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Metaphoricity in the Signs of American Sign Language
Metaphor and Symbol, 1999This article reports the results of two experiments on the judgment and interpretation of isolated signs in American Sign Language (ASL). Experiment 1 investigated the classification of ASL signs into three categories: arbitrary signs, iconic signs, and metaphorical signs.
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Sign Boundaries in American Sign Language
Sign Language Studies, 1984Two experiments addressed these questions: Do deaf signers agree on the location of sign boundaries in American Sign Language? and Where in time are the boundaries located? First 35 ASL sign sequences were edited out of sentence contexts and slowed to 1/10 normal speed.
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The neural representation of language in users of American Sign Language
Journal of Communication Disorders, 2001Studies of American Sign Language (ASL) offer unique insights into the fundamental properties of human language. Neurolinguistic studies explore the effects of left and right hemisphere lesions on the production and comprehension of signed language. Following damage to the left hemisphere perisylvian regions, signers, like users of spoken languages ...
D P, Corina, S L, McBurney
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A quantitative analysis of sign lengthening in American Sign Language
Sign Language & Linguistics, 2014In spoken languages, disfluent speech, narrative effects, discourse information, and phrase position may influence the lengthening of segments beyond their typical duration. In sign languages, however, the primary use of the visual-gestural modality results in articulatory differences not expressed in spoken languages.
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Quantification in American Sign Language
2017After presenting some basic genetic, historical and typological information about American Sign Language, this chapter outlines the quantification patterns it expresses. It illustrates various semantic types of quantifiers, such as generalized existential, generalized universal, proportional, definite and partitive which are defined in the Quantifier ...
Natasha Abner, Ronnie B. Wilbur
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American sign language recognition and training method with recurrent neural network
Expert Systems With Applications, 2021C K M Lee, Kam K H Ng, Chun-Hsien Chen
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Native American Signed Languages
2017Abstract This chapter highlights the linguistic study of Native American signed language varieties, which are broadly referred to as American Indian Sign Language (AISL). It describes how indigenous sign language serves as an alternative to spoken language, how it is acquired as a first or second language, and how it is used both ...
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