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The database system used in the Finnish Sign Language Dictionary Project

open access: closedSign 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–
Leena Savolainen
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Iconic strategies in lexical sensory signs in Finnish Sign Language

Cognitive Semiotics, 2021
Iconic strategies—methods of making iconic forms—have been mostly considered in terms of concrete semantic fields such as actions and objects. In this article, I investigate iconic strategies in lexical sensory signs—signs that semantically relate to the
Jarkko Keränen
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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 their L2 skills.
Enikő Marton, P. MacIntyre
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New Generation Wireless Technologies impact on Educational Environments Case: Utilizing Finnish Sign Language in Interpreter Training

open access: closedIEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE'05), 2006
This paper describes the impact of wireless technology development and penetration in creating future educational and research environments. Learning community colleges with city organisations and companies are working out their own solutions without telecom operators.
E. Koskinen   +3 more
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

Fine temporal structure of Finnish sign language

Speech Prosody 2014, 2014
Signs can be divided to syllables and further into transitions and nuclei based on the sign flow of the handshapes. Here, a mixed effects linear regression model is used to describe the variation in the duration of the syllable nuclei in a data set of 341
D. Aalto, Stina Ojala
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Acceleration peaks and sonority in Finnish Sign Language syllables

, 2012
This paper deals with the phonetic syllable and sonority in signed language. Specifically, the paper investigates, on the basis of motion capture data from Finnish Sign Language, the Acceleration Peak Hypothesis, according to which the sonority peak that
Tommi Jantunen
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Sociolinguistic Studies of Finnish Sign Language

open access: closedJournal of Finnish Studies
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
Anna Puupponen   +3 more
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