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Words in the Bilingual Brain: An fNIRS Brain Imaging Investigation of Lexical Processing in Sign-Speech Bimodal Bilinguals

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014
Early bilingual exposure, especially exposure to two languages in different modalities such as speech and sign, can profoundly affect an individual’s language, culture and cognition.
Ioulia eKovelman   +4 more
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Pengenalan Alfabet American Sign Language Menggunakan K-Nearest Neighbors Dengan Ekstraksi Fitur Histogram Of Oriented Gradients

open access: yesJuTISI (Jurnal Teknik Informatika dan Sistem Informasi), 2020
Sign Language use to communicate to people with dissabilities. American Sign Language (ASL) one of popular sign language. Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) can be use as feature extraction. Then feature stored in database.
Muhammad Ezar Al Rivan   +3 more
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Time Is Ripe to Make Interactional Moves: Bringing Evidence From Four Languages Across Modalities

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2022
Sign language linguistics has largely focused on lexical, phonological, and morpho-syntactic structures of sign languages, leaving the facets of interaction overlooked. One reason underlying the study of smaller units in the initial stages of development
Alysson Lepeut, Emily Shaw
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Forging a morphological system out of two dimensions: Agentivity and number

open access: yesOpen Linguistics, 2015
Languages have diverse strategies for marking agentivity and number. These strategies are negotiated to create combinatorial systems. We consider the emergence of these strategies by studying features of movement in a young sign language in Nicaragua ...
Horton L.   +4 more
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American sign language generation [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the ACL Student Research Workshop on - ACL '05, 2005
Software to translate English text into American Sign Language (ASL) animation can improve information accessibility for the majority of deaf adults with limited English literacy. ASL natural language generation (NLG) is a special form of multimodal NLG that uses multiple linguistic output channels.
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American Sign Language Translator

open access: yesInternational Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology, 2022
Abstract: Sign language is one of the ancient and most natural form of language for communication. Sign Language is being used by many people in the world, but only a small part of the population knows how to interpret the language. Which makes it tough for the Deaf people to communicate with other people. We used the Tensorflow object detection API in
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Historical Linguistics of Sign Languages: Progress and Problems

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
In contrast to scholars and signers in the nineteenth century, William Stokoe conceived of American Sign Language (ASL) as a unique linguistic tradition with roots in nineteenth-century langue des signes française, a conception that is apparent in his ...
Justin M. Power
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Phonological Awareness for American Sign Language [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2014
This paper examines the concept of phonological awareness (PA) as it relates to the processing of American Sign Language (ASL). We present data from a recently developed test of PA for ASL and examine whether sign language experience impacts the use of metalinguistic routines necessary for completion of our task. Our data show that deaf signers exposed
David P, Corina   +2 more
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A Lexical Frequency Analysis of Irish Sign Language

open access: yesTeanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2020
Word frequency has a significant impact on language acquisition and fluency. It is often a point of reference for the teaching and assessing of a language and indeed, as a control for psycholinguistic studies. This paper presents the results of the first
Robert G Smith, Markus Hofmann
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The Structure and Geography of the ASL Signing Community in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Hartford Gatherings of 1850 and 1854

open access: yesCadernos de Linguística
In the early decades of the 19th century, the deaf population in the eastern US and Canada was distributed across a vast area. After the 1817 founding of the American School for the Deaf (ASD) in Hartford, CT and the subsequent establishment of schools ...
Justin M. Power, Richard P. Meier
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