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A DESCRIPTION OF TIME LINES IN FINNISH SIGN LANGUAGE

2020
This Master’s thesis focuses on the nature of time lines in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). Sinte described the time lines in ten different sign languages in her paper from 2013. Her work was chosen as the framework for this thesis and the findings from FinSL were compared to the time lines presented in her paper.
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Sociolinguistic Studies of Finnish Sign Language

Journal of Finnish Studies
Abstract This article aims to review the sociolinguistic situation of Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) and signers in Finland in general and provide an overview of some sociolinguistic studies conducted so far on FinSL. In their daily lives, signers, both deaf and hearing, often navigate multiple discourse contexts involving diverse ...
Puupponen, Anna, Kanto, Laura, Kronqvist, Antti, De Weerdt, Danny   +3 more
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L2 motivation among hearing learners of Finnish Sign Language

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
The realisation of the linguistic rights of Deaf individuals is, to a considerable extent, dependent upon whether there are majority language speakers who acquire a sign language as an L2 and use t...
Enikő Marton, Peter D. MacIntyre
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The database system used in the Finnish Sign Language Dictionary Project

Sign Language & Linguistics, 2001
A lexicographic research team started working at the Finnish Association of the Deaf in 1988. Since 1989, one of the researchers from the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland has been working in the team as well. The team’s first project (1988–1998) was to produce a new Finnish Sign Language-Finnish dictionary.
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Constructed action in the narrative tasks of children and adults using Finnish Sign Language

Sign Language & Linguistics
Abstract This article describes the use of a specific type of enactment — constructed action (CA) — by children acquiring Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) and adults who use FinSL as their first language. Constructed action was investigated from the recordings of two narrative tasks performed by ...
Puupponen Anna, Kanto Laura
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The use of constructed action and its relationship with age and sign language development among children acquiring Finnish Sign Language

Sign Language & Linguistics
Abstract Children’s use of constructed action (CA) has been linked to language as well as cognitive and social development, but the relationship among these aspects is not yet well understood. This research explores children’s use of CA in their produced narratives and how its use relates to children’s age and Finnish Sign Language ...
Puupponen Anna, Hernandez Barros Doris, Kanto Laura   +2 more
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L2 motivation among hearing learners of Finnish Sign Language

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Eniko Marton, Peter D Macintyre
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Variation in the use of constructed action according to discourse type and age in Finnish Sign Language

Language and Communication, 2022
Anna Puupponen, Laura Kanto, Tommi Jantunen   +2 more
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Assessing Vocabulary in Deaf and Hearing Children using Finnish Sign Language

Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2021
Laura Kanto, Wolfgang Mann
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Fine temporal structure of Finnish sign language

Speech Prosody 2014, 2014
Daniel Aalto, Stina Ojala
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