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Constructed Action, the Clause and the Nature of Syntax in Finnish Sign Language [PDF]

Open Linguistics, 2017
This paper investigates the interplay of constructed action and the clause in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). Constructed action is a form of gestural enactment in which the signers use their hands, face and other parts of the body to represent the ...
Jantunen Tommi
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Figure–Ground Spatial Relationships in Finnish Sign Language Discourse [PDF]

Open Linguistics, 2020
This study is about expressing spatial relationships between Figure and Ground in Finnish Sign Language discourse and shows that the variation in this expression is primarily discourse dependent.
De Weerdt Danny
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The macrostructure of narratives produced by children acquiring Finnish Sign Language. [PDF]

J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ
Abstract This article investigates the narrative skills of children acquiring Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). Producing a narrative requires vocabulary, the ability to form sentences, and cognitive skills to construct actions in a logical order for the recipient to understand the story.
Pietarinen H, Kanto L.
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Agent defocusing in two-participant clauses in Finnish Sign Language

Glossa, 2019
This article investigates what strategies are used for defocusing the agent in two-participant clauses in FinSL. The question is approached by analyzing a set of data that consists of videotaped informational texts.
Sanna Nordlund
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Translation as Language Making in Sign Language Revitalisation [PDF]

VAKKI Publications, 2023
This article highlights the translator's crucial role in the revitalisation of the severely endangered FinlandSwedish Sign Language (FinSSL). By giving voice to professional translators, filling in lexical gaps in FinSSL as part of the translation task,
Maria Andersson-Koski, Lieselott Nordman
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Synchronizing eye tracking and optical motion capture: How to bring them together

Journal of Eye Movement Research, 2018
Both eye tracking and motion capture technologies are nowadays frequently used in human sciences, although both technologies are usually used separately.
Birgitta Burger, Anna Puupponen, Tommi Jantunen   +2 more
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Evaluative language in spoken and signed stories told by a deaf child with a cochlear implant: words, signs or paralinguistic expressions?

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2011
In this paper the use and quality of the evaluative language produced by a bilingual child in a story-telling situation is analysed. The subject, an 11-year-old Finnish boy, Jimmy, is bilingual in Finnish sign language (FinSL) and spoken Finnish.
Lea Nieminen, Ritva Takkinen
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An Ethnographic Study of Deaf Refugees Seeking Asylum in Finland

Societies, 2019
Deaf asylum seekers are a marginalized group of people in refugee and forced migration studies. The aim of this paper is to explore and highlight the experiences of deaf asylum seekers in the asylum procedure in Finland.
Nina Sivunen
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Acquisition du lieu d’articulation en langue des signes québécoise chez trois enfants sourds : étude de cas [PDF]

, 2000
Cette étude est la première en acquisition du lieu d’articulation en langue des signes québécoise (LSQ). Il existe peu de recherches sur le sujet en langues signées : Frishberg 1975 ainsi que Siedlecki et Bonvillian 1993 pour la langue des signes ...
Lavoie, Charlen, Villeneuve, Suzanne
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Basic colour terms in five Finno-Ugric languages and Estonian Sign Language: a comparative study

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2012
In this paper we compare five Finno-Ugric languages – Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Udmurt and Komi-Zyrian – and the Estonian Sign Language (unclassified) in different aspects: established basic colour terms, the proportion of basic colour terms and ...
Mari Uusküla, Liivi Hollman, Urmas Sutrop   +2 more
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