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Glossa PsycholinguisticsIn this article, we look at sign duration and signing rate in corpora of three sign languages – British Sign Language (BSL), Dutch Sign Language (NGT), and Swedish Sign Language (STS). We investigate whether token frequency and sociolinguistic variables (
Carl Börstell +2 more
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Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Sign Language
Sensors, 2021 AI technologies can play an important role in breaking down the communication barriers of deaf or hearing-impaired people with other communities, contributing significantly to their social inclusion.
Ilias Papastratis +4 more
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Frontiers in Communication, 2022 Functional neuroimaging allows investigation of the timing properties of the brain mechanisms underlying covert language processing. This paper presents a review of the use of the neuroimaging technique called Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) in sign ...
Doris Hernández +3 more
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Numeral Incorporation as Grammaticalization? A Corpus Study on German Sign Language (DGS)
Languages, 2023 Numeral incorporation describes the merging of a numeral sign with a lexical sign to create a single sign with a compositional meaning, e.g., “three weeks.” As a phenomenon of simultaneous morphology, numeral incorporation is unique to sign languages ...
Felicitas Otte +3 more
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Sign Language Typology: The Contribution of Rural Sign Languages [PDF]
Annual Review of Linguistics, 2015 Since the 1990s, the field of sign language typology has shown that sign languages exhibit typological variation at all relevant levels of linguistic description. These initial typological comparisons were heavily skewed toward the urban sign languages of developed countries, mostly in the Western world.
de Vos, C., Pfau, R.
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RULES FOR ESTONIAN SIGN LANGUAGE TRANSCRIPTION; pp. 401–424 [PDF]
Trames, 2009 Estonian Sign Language (ESL) is the native language for approximately 1,500 Estonian dDeaf people. Like other sign languages, ESL has no written form. In the history of ESL research, different transcription systems have been used.
Regina Paabo +2 more
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Acquisition of Sign Languages [PDF]
Annual Review of Linguistics, 2021 Natural sign languages of deaf communities are acquired on the same time scale as that of spoken languages if children have access to fluent signers providing input from birth. Infants are sensitive to linguistic information provided visually, and early milestones show many parallels.
Diane, Lillo-Martin, Jonathan, Henner
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Frontiers in Communication, 2022 Cross-signing—the emergence of an interlanguage between users of different sign languages—offers a rare chance to examine the evolution of a natural communication system in real time. To provide an insight into this process, we analyse an annotated video
Kang-Suk Byun +6 more
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Second language learning of depiction in a different modality: The case of sign language acquisition
Frontiers in Communication, 2023 This study investigated the acquisition of depicting signs (DS) among students learning a signed language as their second-modality and second-language (M2L2) language. Depicting signs, broadly described, illustrate actions and states.
Kim B. Kurz +2 more
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The first signs of language: Phonological development in British Sign Language [PDF]
Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007 A total of 1,018 signs in one deaf child's naturalistic interaction with her deaf mother, between the ages of 19 and 24 months were analyzed. This study summarizes regular modification processes in the phonology of the child sign's handshape, location, movement, and prosody.
Morgan, Gary +2 more
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