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Modality-Independent Effects of Phonological Neighborhood Structure on Initial L2 Sign Language Learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The goal of the present study was to characterize how neighborhood structure in sign language influences lexical sign acquisition in order to extend our understanding of how the lexicon influences lexical acquisition in both sign and spoken languages.
Newman, Sharlene D., Williams, Joshua
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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
doaj   +1 more source

Analisis Perbandingan Algoritma Klasifikasi MLP dan CNN pada Dataset American Sign Language

open access: yesJurnal RESTI (Rekayasa Sistem dan Teknologi Informasi), 2021
People who have hearing loss (deafness) or speech impairment (hearing impairment) usually use sign language to communicate. One of the most basic and flexible sign languages ​​is the Alphabet Sign Language to spell out the words you want to pronounce ...
Mohammad Farid Naufal   +6 more
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American Sign Language Club

open access: yes, 2021
The purpose of American Sign Language (ASL) Club is to get club members comfortable with signing an introduction of why they are and where they come from in order to feel prepared to engage in conversation with deaf or hard of hearing ...
American Sign Language Club, University of Maine
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Lexical organization in deaf children who use British Sign Language: Evidence from a semantic fluency task [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
We adapted the semantic fluency task into British Sign Language (BSL). In Study 1, we present data from twenty-two deaf signers aged four to fifteen. We show that the same ‘cognitive signatures’ that characterize this task in spoken languages are also ...
Marshall, C. R.   +9 more
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American Sign Language Comprehension Test: A Tool for Sign Language Researchers [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2015
The American Sign Language Comprehension Test (ASL-CT) is a 30-item multiple-choice test that measures ASL receptive skills and is administered through a website. This article describes the development and psychometric properties of the test based on a sample of 80 college students including deaf native signers, hearing native signers, deaf non-native ...
Peter C, Hauser   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Formational Units in Sign Languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Sign languages and spoken languages have many fascinating differences, caused primarily by the reaction of the human mind to different modalities, but also by some important social differences.
Channon, Rachel, Hulst, Harry van der
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A CNN-Based System for Sign Language Recognition [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the ACS Advances in Computer Science
Sign language plays a vital role in enabling communication for individuals with hearing impairments. To foster meaningful engagement with this community, learning sign language is essential.
Marwa Mustafa, Bassant Sayed
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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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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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