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Vision-Based American Sign Language Classification Approach via Deep Learning
Proceedings of the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2022 Hearing-impaired is the disability of partial or total hearing loss that causes a significant problem for communication with other people in society.
Nelly Elsayed
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Scientific African, 2023 Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) is a communication impairment that affects millions of people worldwide, hindering communication through the vocal cavity and requiring the use of sign language.
Mustapha Deji Dere +3 more
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The Development and Evaluation of a New ASL Text Comprehension Task
Frontiers in Communication, 2020 Being able to comprehend a language entails not only mastery of its syntax, lexicon, or phonology, but also the ability to use language to construct meaning, draw inferences, and make connections to world knowledge. However, most available assessments of
Patrick Rosenburg +3 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 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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JuTISI (Jurnal Teknik Informatika dan Sistem Informasi), 2020 Sign languages have various types, one of which is American Sign Language (ASL). In this study, ASL images from the handshape alphabet were extracted using Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) then these features were used for the classification of ...
Muhammad Ezar Al Rivan +1 more
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Sign Language Studies with Chimpanzees in Sanctuary
Animals, 2023 Adult chimpanzees Tatu and Loulis lived at the Fauna Foundation sanctuary. They had acquired signs of American Sign Language (ASL) while young and continued to use them as adults.
Mary Lee Jensvold +2 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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Fingerspelling as a Novel Gateway into Reading Fluency in Deaf Bilinguals. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Studies have shown that American Sign Language (ASL) fluency has a positive impact on deaf individuals' English reading, but the cognitive and cross-linguistic mechanisms permitting the mapping of a visual-manual language onto a sound-based language have
Adam Stone +5 more
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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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Second language learning of depiction in a different modality: The case of sign language acquisition
Frontiers in Communication, 2023 This study investigated the acquisition of depicting signs (DS) among students learning a signed language as their second-modality and second-language (M2L2) language. Depicting signs, broadly described, illustrate actions and states.
Kim B. Kurz +2 more
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