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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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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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Learning a Sign Language Does Not Hinder Acquisition of a Spoken Language [PDF]
, 2023 PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to determine whether and how learning American Sign Language (ASL) is associated with spoken English skills in a sample of ASL-English bilingual deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children.
Elana Pontecorvo +11 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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