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Clausal coordination in Finnish Sign Language [PDF]
Speech Prosody 2016, 2016 peerReviewed
Tommi Jantunen
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Neuroelectrical and behavioral correlates of constructed action recognition in Finnish Sign language [PDF]
NeuroscienceLanguage can be processed with varying levels of attentional involvement; consequently, the interplay between the language and attentional systems in the brain has been extensively studied in spoken languages. However, in sign languages (SLs), this interplay is less well understood. Here, we use Constructed Action (CA) - a meaning-making strategy based
Doris Hernández +6 more
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Language exposure and use among children acquiring Finnish Sign Language
Language AcquisitionLaura Kanto +2 more
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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.
Marko Kortesalo
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Existential sentences in Flemish Sign Language and Finnish Sign Language
SKY Journal of Linguistics, 2016 This paper presents a descriptive and comparative study of existential sentences in Flemish Sign Language and Finnish Sign Language. Existential sentences are used to express the existence or presence of something or someone. This study investigates how expressions of existence or presence are constructed and what the order of Figure and Ground is in ...
Danny De Weerdt
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The alignment of head nods with syntactic units in Finnish Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language
, 2016 Anna Puupponen +2 more
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On the rhythm of head movements in Finnish and Swedish Sign Language sentences
Open Linguistics, 2016 AbstractThis 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 actions, thoughts or feelings of someone they are referring to in the discourse.
Tommi Jantunen +3 more
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Many languages, many modalities: Finnish Sign Language signers as learners of English
, 2015 For a multilingual person, language learning is a process which requires and makes use of many varied characteristics that have developed in multilingual environments. This study deals with the learner beliefs of Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) signers who study at the university. The data for this study consist of student interviews and essays collected
Riitta Kelly, Hannele Dufva, Elina Tapio
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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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