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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 LITERACY IN THE SIGN LANGUAGE CURRICULUM
Momento - Diálogos em Educação, 2022 The Sign Language curriculum is a contemporary development which few countries have officially implemented to teach a national standard Sign Language as a first language (L1) and/or mother tongue in the school grades. In these, Sign Language is a mandatory unit, which the deaf child needs to study and develop metalinguistically, as is the case in ...
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Metaphor in Sign Languages [PDF]
Frontiers 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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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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LinguisticsCorpus methods are now established within the field of signed language linguistics. Empirical investigations of signed language corpora have challenged many early assumptions about the nature of deaf community signed languages, while making us more aware
Puupponen Anna +7 more
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Simultaneous structures in sign languages: Acquisition and emergence
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The visual-gestural modality affords its users simultaneous movement of several independent articulators and thus lends itself to simultaneous encoding of information.
Cornelia Loos +2 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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The signing brain: the neurobiology of sign language
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2008 Most of our knowledge about the neurobiological bases of language comes from studies of spoken languages. By studying signed languages, we can determine whether what we have learnt so far is characteristic of language per se or whether it is specific to languages that are spoken and heard.
MacSweeney, Mairéad +3 more
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Bootstrapping Sign Language Annotations with Sign Language Models
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Colin Lea +5 more
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