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Techniques Deployed by Spoken and Sign Language Public Service Interpreters: A Comparative Study
Półrocznik 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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Cognitive Research, 2022 Face masks occlude parts of the face which hinders social communication and emotion recognition. Since sign language users are known to process facial information not only perceptually but also linguistically, examining face processing in deaf signers ...
Wee Kiat Lau +3 more
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How to Ensure Bilingualism/Biliteracy in an Indigenous Context: The Case of Icelandic Sign Language
Languages, 2021 The paper discusses the implementation of a bilingual education language policy in the context of endangered indigenous sign language—Icelandic Sign Language (íslenskt táknmál, ÍTM).
Elena Koulidobrova +1 more
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Perceived Conventionality in Co-speech Gestures Involves the Fronto-Temporal Language Network
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2017 Face-to-face communication is multimodal; it encompasses spoken words, facial expressions, gaze, and co-speech gestures. In contrast to linguistic symbols (e.g., spoken words or signs in sign language) relying on mostly explicit conventions, gestures ...
Dhana Wolf +11 more
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A stepping stone to compositionality in chimpanzee communication [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Compositionality refers to a structural property of human language, according to which the meaning of a complex expression is a function of the meaning of its parts and the way they are combined. Compositionality is a defining characteristic of all human
Linda S. Oña +2 more
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Genetic relatedness of Tunisian Sign Language and French Sign Language
Frontiers in Communication, 2023 This article constitutes the first cognate study aiming at the verification of the genetic link between LSF (French Sign Language) and LST (Tunisian Sign Language) through a lexicostatistical analysis of both sign languages (SLs).
Aymen Nefaa
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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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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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Constructed Action, the Clause and the Nature of Syntax in Finnish Sign Language
Open Linguistics, 2017 This paper investigates the interplay of constructed action and the clause in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). Constructed action is a form of gestural enactment in which the signers use their hands, face and other parts of the body to represent the ...
Jantunen Tommi
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Dissipative Stochastic Dynamic Model of Language Signs Evolution [PDF]
Компьютерные исследования и моделирование, 2011 Normal 0 false false false RU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 We offer ...
Vasily Vasilyevich Poddubny +1 more
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