Historical Linguistics of Sign Languages: Progress and Problems
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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Black ASL (American Sign Language) [PDF]
TSOC 165: Introduction to SociologyPresentation about Black ASL (American Sign Language) including it's origin, evolution, current study, and differences between mainstream ASL and Black ...
Thulin, Katrina
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American Sign Language Club [PDF]
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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Second language learning of depiction in a different modality: The case of sign language acquisition
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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Techno-talk: An American Sign Language (ASL) Translator
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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Analisis Perbandingan Algoritma Klasifikasi MLP dan CNN pada Dataset American Sign Language
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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Second Language Working Memory Deficits and Plasticity in Hearing Bimodal Learners of Sign Language
Little is known about the acquisition of another language modality on second language (L2) working memory (WM) capacity. Differential indexing within the WM system based on language modality may explain differences in performance on WM tasks in sign and ...
Williams Joshua +2 more
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Sensor Fusion of Motion-Based Sign Language Interpretation with Deep Learning
Sign language was designed to allow hearing-impaired people to interact with others. Nonetheless, knowledge of sign language is uncommon in society, which leads to a communication barrier with the hearing-impaired community. Many studies of sign language
Boon Giin Lee +2 more
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Validation of the Substance Abuse Screener in American Sign Language (SAS--ASL). [PDF]
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]
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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