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Iconicity in Signed and Spoken Vocabulary: A Comparison Between American Sign Language, British Sign Language, English, and Spanish

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Development of Method for Categorization on Sign Language Picture using Image Plane Adjustment Technique

open access: yesRMUTL Engineering Journal, 2020
Most image classification is based on applying decision-making algorithms, in conjunction with image preprocessing, in order to extract distinctive features from the images and compute the most appropriate weights used in the decision making.
Chokemongkol Nadee, Krisda Yingkayun
doaj   +1 more source

The perception of handshapes in American Sign Language [PDF]

open access: yesMemory & 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 A, Baker   +3 more
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Classifier Constructions as Procedural Referring Expressions in American Sign Language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The present paper comments on signs of American Sign Language in the perspective of relevance theory. The main claim is that classifiers encode procedural instructions to help the addressee pick out the intended referent for the procedural referring ...
Jones, Stephen, Jones, Sptephen
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Repetition Preferences in Two-Handed Balanced Signs: Vestigial Locomotor Central Pattern Generators Shape Sign Language Phonetics and Phonology

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2021
Language is produced by bodies that evolved to fulfill a variety of functions, most of them non-communicative. Vestigial influences of adaptation for quadrupedal locomotion are still affecting bimanual actions, and have consequences on manual ...
Oksana Tkachman   +3 more
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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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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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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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Learning a Sign Language Does Not Hinder Acquisition of a Spoken Language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to determine whether and how learning American Sign Language (ASL) is associated with spoken English skills in a sample of ASL-English bilingual deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children.
Elana Pontecorvo   +11 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
doaj   +1 more source

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