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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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American sign language of the web
CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2004The development of non-western character encodings has empowered linguistic communities all over the world to create their own on-line Webs. However, in the case of sign languages, which convey meaning by gestures moving in time and space, the static and textual nature of the WWW medium has, until now, continued to prevent the development of on-line ...
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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 ...
Ronnie B. Wilbur, Natasha Abner
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Towards an American Sign Language Interface
Artificial Intelligence Review, 1994In this paper, we present two major parts of an interface for American Sign Language (ASL) to computer applications currently under work; a hand tracker and an ASL-parser. The hand tracker extracts information about handshape, position and motion from image sequences.
Brigitte Dorner, Eli Hagen
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The Acquisition of American Sign Language
2017American Sign Language (ASL) is a fully grammaticized language, not a pantomimic communication system, and it displays the various grammatical characteristics typically found in spoken languages of the world, despite the apparent potential for a different type of organization offered by the visual-gestural modalities.
Richard P. Meier, Elissa L. Newport
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American Sign Language in Education of the Deaf
American Annals of the Deaf, 1986American Sign Language is the natural language of deaf individuals. Ameslan should be an integral part of every Total Communication program for the deaf. Through ASL the deaf child can develop into a self-sufficient and proud individual. Ameslan also contributes to the preservation of the deaf community, its heritage, and its culture.
Anne H. Clements, Hugh T. Prickett
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Grammaticalization in American sign language
Language Sciences, 1999Abstract Previous research on American Sign Language, while analyzing the complexity and systematicity of the language from the phonological to the syntactic levels, has overlooked the area of grammaticalization studies as a means of accounting for the current shape of the language. The present study examines the process of grammaticalization in ASL,
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Embodiment and American Sign Language
Gesture, 2016Little is known about how individual signs that occur in naturally produced signed languages are recognized. Here we examine whether sign understanding may be grounded in sensorimotor properties by evaluating a signer’s ability to make lexical decisions to American Sign Language (ASL) signs that are articulated either congruent with
Corina, David P, Gutierrez, Eva
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Taboo expressions in American Sign Language
Lingua, 2012Abstract This is an introduction to taboo expressions in ASL. Several word-formation processes are exploited in coining ASL taboo-terms, most also exploited by non-taboo terms. Further, ASL taboo terms are both entrenched and clever (sometimes humorous). This is expected if the entrenchment vs.
Mirus, G., Fisher, J., Napoli, Donna Jo
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