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How Much Can Classifiers Be Analogous To Their Referents? [PDF]

, 2013
Sign Language poetry is especially valued for its presentation of strong visual images. Here, we explore the highly visual signs that British Sign Language and American Sign Language poets create as part of the \u27classifier system\u27 of their ...
Napoli, Donna Jo, Sutton-Spence, R.
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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

Cadernos 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

Teanga: 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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Historical Linguistics of Sign Languages: Progress and Problems

Frontiers 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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Hand in hand: automatic sign Language to English translation [PDF]

, 2007
In this paper, we describe the first data-driven automatic sign-language-to- speech translation system. While both sign language (SL) recognition and translation techniques exist, both use an intermediate notation system not directly intelligible for ...
Dreuw, Philippe, Morrissey, Sara, Ney, Hermann, Stein, Daniel, Way, Andy   +4 more
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Inpatient Food Insecurity and Pediatric Hematology Oncology Hospitalization Outcomes

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children with cancer and blood disorders are at risk for food insecurity (FI). We aimed to describe the association of inpatient food insecurity (IFI) and hospitalization outcomes among patients admitted to the pediatric hematology oncology service. Of 325 caregivers screened for IFI, 60 (18.6%) screened positive.
Joanna M. Robles, Greg Russell, Leila H. DeWitt, Kimberly Montez, Callie L. Brown   +4 more
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Hand Gesture Recognition in Indian Sign Language Using Deep Learning

Engineering Proceedings, 2023
Sign languages are important for the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities, as they provide a means of communication and expression. However, many people outside of the deaf community are not familiar with sign languages, which can lead to communication ...
Harsh Kumar Vashisth, Tuhin Tarafder, Rehan Aziz, Mamta Arora, Alpana   +4 more
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American Sign Language Interpreters and their Influence on the Hearing World [PDF]

, 2018
This honors thesis is going to discuss the hearing community’s perception of American Sign Language and by association the hearing community’s perception of the Deaf community.
Groat, Madison
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American Sign Language Comprehension Test: A Tool for Sign Language Researchers [PDF]

Journal 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, Raylene, Paludneviciene, Wanda, Riddle, Kim B, Kurz, Karen, Emmorey, Jessica, Contreras   +5 more
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Defining Roles in Pediatric Palliative Care: Perspectives From Oncology and Palliative Care Teams

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Early integration of pediatric palliative care (PPC) is associated with improved symptom management, quality of life, and healthcare utilization for children with cancer. Despite this, variation persists in how PPC is understood, operationalized, and integrated within pediatric oncology programs. In particular, ambiguity surrounding
Leeat Granek, Lori Wiener, Stephanie Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Donna Johnston, Fyeza Hasan, Adam Rapoport, Nathasha Datoo, Kimberley Widger, Sumit Gupta, Karen Fergus, Anthony K. C. Chan, Alisha Kassam, Emily McCullogh, Dave Lysecki   +13 more
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