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Surprise and the singular plural
American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract Bodymind diversity, disability scholars argue, contributes to community and to ideals of human flourishing. Phenomenologists like Nancy and Arendt, meanwhile, foreground our human pluralism. But what does it mean to inhabit (and invent) a plural “we” across significant bodily difference? And why is the experience of surprise important to it? A
Cheryl Mattingly
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Facial Feature Tracking and Occlusion Recovery in American Sign Language [PDF]
, 1997 Facial features play an important role in expressing grammatical information in signed languages, including American Sign Language(ASL). Gestures such as raising or furrowing the eyebrows are key indicators of constructions such as yes-no questions ...
Castelli, Thomas J. +2 more
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Preparation strategies used by American Sign Language- English interpreters to render President Barack Obama’s inaugural address [PDF]
, 2014 A fundamental principle held by professional American Sign Language-English interpreters is the critical importance of preparing for assignments; however, neither preparation strategies nor their efficacy have been studied in depth. For this study, six
Nicodemus, Brenda +2 more
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Boreas, EarlyView.The last (Wisconsinan) glacial period was punctuated in North America by two glacial maxima, known as the Early and Late Wisconsinan glaciations. In Alaska, these maxima and their subsequent retreats have been the object of dating efforts to reconstruct local climatic events and compare them to global trends.
Bruno Belotti +5 more
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Neural stages of spoken, written, and signed word processing in beginning second language learners
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 We combined magnetoencephalography (MEG) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to examine how sensory modality, language type, and language proficiency interact during two fundamental stages of word processing: (1) an early word encoding stage, and (2) a ...
Matthew K Leonard +7 more
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Forced Transitions: Learning ASL In A Virtual Environment
Northwest Journal of Teacher Education, 2020 Engagement with native language models is essential for second language acquisition. Social distancing mandates made this interaction nearly impossible for students learning American Sign Language (ASL), at a small rural university in western Oregon ...
Kara Gournaris
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A new framework for sign language recognition based on 3D handshape identification and linguistic modeling [PDF]
, 2014 Current approaches to sign recognition by computer generally have at least some of the following limitations: they rely on laboratory conditions for sign production, are limited to a small vocabulary, rely on 2D modeling (and therefore cannot deal with ...
Dilsizian, Mark +4 more
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JMIR Research Protocols, 2017 Background The Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) collects nationally representative data about the American’s public use of health-related information.
P. Kushalnagar +3 more
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Analysis of the visual spatiotemporal properties of American Sign Language. [PDF]
, 2019 Careful measurements of the temporal dynamics of speech have provided important insights into phonetic properties of spoken languages, which are important for understanding auditory perception.
Bosworth, Rain G +2 more
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Activity detection in conversational sign language video for mobile telecommunication [PDF]
, 2008 The goal of the MobileASL project is to increase accessibility by making the mobile telecommunications network available to the signing Deaf community.
Eve A. Riskin +2 more
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