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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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Predictive Processing in Sign Languages: A Systematic Review
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The objective of this article was to review existing research to assess the evidence for predictive processing (PP) in sign language, the conditions under which it occurs, and the effects of language mastery (sign language as a first language, sign ...
Tomislav Radošević +2 more
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Production and Comprehension of Prosodic Markers in Sign Language Imperatives
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such as for instance, command, permission or advice, can be distinguished by morphosyntactic structures, but also solely by prosodic cues, which are the focus of ...
Diane Brentari +5 more
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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2002 Do the visuomanual modality and the structure of the sequence of numbers in sign language have an impact on the development of counting and its use by deaf children? The sequence of number signs in Belgian French Sign Language follows a base-5 rule while the number sequence in oral French follows a base-10 rule.
Leybaert, Jacqueline, Van Cutsem, M.N.
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Synchronizing eye tracking and optical motion capture: How to bring them together
Journal of Eye Movement Research, 2018 Both eye tracking and motion capture technologies are nowadays frequently used in human sciences, although both technologies are usually used separately.
Birgitta Burger +2 more
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Figure–Ground Spatial Relationships in Finnish Sign Language Discourse
Open Linguistics, 2020 This study is about expressing spatial relationships between Figure and Ground in Finnish Sign Language discourse and shows that the variation in this expression is primarily discourse dependent.
De Weerdt Danny
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Towards understanding nonmanuality: A semiotic treatment of signers’ head movements
Glossa, 2019 This article discusses a certain type of nonmanual action, signers’ head movements, from a semiotic perspective. It presents a typology of head movements and their iconic, indexical and symbolic features based on Peircean and post-Peircean semiotics. The
Anna Puupponen
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Ambiguities in Sign Languages [PDF]
The Linguistic Review, 2015 AbstractNatural languages come in two different modalities – the aural-auditory modality of spoken languages and the visual-gestural modality of sign languages. The impact of modality on the grammatical system has been discussed at great length in the last 20 years.
Quer, Josep, 1965-, Steinbach, Markus
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Agent defocusing in two-participant clauses in Finnish Sign Language
Glossa, 2019 This article investigates what strategies are used for defocusing the agent in two-participant clauses in FinSL. The question is approached by analyzing a set of data that consists of videotaped informational texts.
Sanna Nordlund
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Sign Language Comprehension: The Case of Spanish Sign Language [PDF]
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2007 This study aims to answer the question, how much of Spanish Sign Language interpreting deaf individuals really understand. Study sampling included 36 deaf people (deafness ranging from severe to profound; variety depending on the age at which they learned sign language) and 36 hearing people who had good knowledge of sign language (most were ...
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