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Head movements in Finnish Sign Language on the basis of Motion Capture data

Sign Language and Linguistics, 2020
This paper reports a study of the forms and functions of head movements produced in the dimension of depth in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). Specifically, the paper describes and analyzes the phonetic forms and prosodic, grammatical, communicative, and textual functions of nods, head thrusts, nodding, and head pulls occurring in FinSL data consisting ...
Puupponen Anna, Burger Birgitta, Jantunen Tommi, Wainio Tuija   +3 more
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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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Early Research on Finnish Sign Language: In the Footsteps of Great Role Models

Sign Language Studies
Research on Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) started in 1982 at Helsinki University. The main drivers behind it were Professor Fred Karlsson, then head of the Department of General Linguistics at Helsinki University and Liisa Kauppinen, who was the executive director of the Finnish Association of the Deaf (and who, in later years, received honorary ...
Terhi Rissanen, Päivi Rainò, Ritva Takkinen   +2 more
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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 (FinSL) skills ...
Puupponen Anna, Hernandez Barros Doris, Kanto Laura   +2 more
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Fine temporal structure of Finnish sign language

Speech Prosody 2014, 2014
Daniel Aalto, Stina Ojala
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L2 motivation among hearing learners of Finnish Sign Language

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Enikö 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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9 Finnish Sign Language

2015
Ritva Takkinen, Tommi Jantunen, Outi Ahonen   +2 more
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Seeing English through signing eyes : Finnish sign language users' views on learning English

2009
peerReviewed
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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
exaly