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Agent defocusing in two-participant clauses in Finnish Sign Language

open access: yesGlossa, 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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An overview of the EtsaTrans machine translation system: compilation of an administrative domain

open access: yesLiterator, 2008
The EtsaTrans machine translation system has been in development at the University of the Free State for the last four years and is currently the only machine translation system being developed in South Africa for specialised and nongeneral translation ...
L. Ehlers
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Inclusion and Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students: Finding Asylum in the LRE

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2022
The movement towards inclusive public education for deaf and hard of hearing children (DHH) has steadily gathered momentum during the last fifty years.
Julia A. Silvestri, Maria C. Hartman
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Emerging Sign Languages

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
The emergence of sign language is of special interest because sign languages are the only human languages that can emerge de novo at any time [...]
Wendy Sandler   +2 more
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The ATIS sign language corpus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Systems that automatically process sign language rely on appropriate data. We therefore present the ATIS sign language corpus that is based on the domain of air travel information. It is available for five languages, English, German, Irish sign language,
Morrissey, Sara   +6 more
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Ambiguities in Sign Languages [PDF]

open access: yesThe 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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Hand in hand: automatic sign Language to English translation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In this paper, we describe the first data-driven automatic sign-language-to- speech translation system. While both sign language (SL) recognition and translation techniques exist, both use an intermediate notation system not directly intelligible for ...
Morrissey, Sara   +4 more
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Estonian sign language research 1985–2024: a systematic literature review of methods, data, and research practices

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication
IntroductionThis study presents the first systematic literature review of research on Estonian Sign Language (EVK) published between 1985 and 2024.MethodsUsing Okoli's eight-step systematic literature review (SLR) model, we identified and screened 52 ...
Jari Pärgma   +3 more
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Techniques Deployed by Spoken and Sign Language Public Service Interpreters: A Comparative Study

open access: yesPółrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium, 2019
Deaf people are among those who, due to their insufficient knowledge of Polish, are compelled to use interpreting services in all settings. In order to exercise their right to full access to information within both public and private services, they need ...
Agnieszka Dominika Biernacka   +1 more
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Metaphor in Sign Languages [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
Metaphor abounds in both sign and spoken languages. However, in sign languages, languages in the visual-manual modality, metaphors work a bit differently than they do in spoken languages. In this paper we explore some of the ways in which metaphors in sign languages differ from metaphors in spoken languages.
Irit Meir, Irit Meir, Ariel Cohen
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