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Sexual health behaviors of Deaf American Sign Language (ASL) users. [PDF]
Disabil Health J, 2015 Little is known about the sexual health behaviors of Deaf American Sign Language (ASL) users.We sought to characterize the self-reported sexual behaviors of Deaf individuals.Responses from 282 Deaf participants aged 18-64 from the greater Rochester, NY area who participated in the 2008 Deaf Health were analyzed.
Heiman E, Haynes S, McKee M.
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Parents align American Sign Language (ASL) input with deaf children's gaze. [PDF]
Lang AcquisDeaf children learning sign language must direct gaze to their caregivers to perceive linguistic input. To determine how much linguistic input children perceive from their parents, we analyzed naturalistic play sessions between signing deaf children (N=24) aged 9-60 months (M=35 months) and their deaf (n = 15) and hearing (n = 9) parents. Sessions were
Gappmayr P, Caselli N, Lieberman AM.
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#ALL Versus ALL in American Sign Language (ASL)
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2020 This paper extends a visible pattern (‘iconicity’) that has been observed in sign language verbs and adjectives to quantification in American Sign Language (ASL). The Event Visibility Hypothesis (EVH) states that boundedness is morphophonologically encoded in articulation of a rapid deceleration of movement at the end of a sign (aka end-marking).
Ronnie Wilbur
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Asl-Skeleton3d and Asl-Phono: Two Novel Datasets For the American Sign Language [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022 Sign language is an essential resource enabling access to communication and proper socioemotional development for individuals suffering from disabling hearing loss. As this population is expected to reach 700 million by 2050, the importance of the language becomes even more essential as it plays a critical role to ensure the inclusion of such ...
Cleison Correia de Amorim +1 more
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Revisiting gradability in American Sign Language (ASL)
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2023 This paper addresses gradability in American Sign Language (ASL). The literature has argued that languages may or may not introduce degree variables, i.e., there is cross-linguistic variation as to whether languages should be analyzed as degree- or degreeless. For ASL, the degree-based analysis has been assumed or explicitly proposed.
Elena Koulidobrova +3 more
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ASL-LEX: A lexical database of American Sign Language [PDF]
Behavior Research Methods, 2016 ASL-LEX is a lexical database that catalogues information about nearly 1,000 signs in American Sign Language (ASL). It includes the following information: subjective frequency ratings from 25-31 deaf signers, iconicity ratings from 21-37 hearing non-signers, videoclip duration, sign length (onset and offset), grammatical class, and whether the sign is ...
Caselli, Naomi K. +3 more
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The Chin as a Domain Widener in American Sign Language (ASL)
Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2022 In this paper, we investigate a grammaticalized facial expression in American Sign Language (ASL) called flat chin, which we propose functions as a general-purpose domain widener, targeting both quantificational domains as well as the scales used by gradable predicates.
L. R. Nikolai, Ezra Keshet
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Techno-talk: An American Sign Language (ASL) Translator
2016 International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), 2016 In this paper, an accurate implementation of American Sign Language Translator is presented. It is a portable electronic hand glove to be used by any deaf/mute person to communicate effectively with the othesr who don't understand sign language. It provides the visual and audible output on an LCD and through a speaker respectively.
ARIF, ARSLAN +4 more
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Validation of the Substance Abuse Screener in American Sign Language (SAS--ASL). [PDF]
Rehabilitation Psychology, 2012 The study objectives were to adapt and validate a substance use disorder (SUD) screening instrument in American Sign Language (ASL) to be used to identify those deaf individuals who have a high probability of having an SUD. The goal was to develop an accurate screening instrument that balanced sensitivity and specificity while imposing minimal response
Debra Guthmann +4 more
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The ASL-LEX 2.0 Project: A Database of Lexical and Phonological Properties for 2,723 Signs in American Sign Language [PDF]
The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2021 Abstract ASL-LEX is a publicly available, large-scale lexical database for American Sign Language (ASL). We report on the expanded database (ASL-LEX 2.0) that contains 2,723 ASL signs. For each sign, ASL-LEX now includes a more detailed phonological description, phonological density and complexity measures, frequency ratings (from deaf ...
Sehyr, Zed Sevcikova +3 more
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