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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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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
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The perception of handshapes in American Sign Language [PDF]
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]
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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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]
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
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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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]
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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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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