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Interpretability in Sign Language Animal Signs.
, 2023 The meanings of iconic signs are usually not easily accessible to sign-naïve people. However, most previous studies asked participants to guess the meaning of iconic signs in isolation and without any context or cues. We ask whether signs whose form is based on more cross-linguistically common underlying motivations are easier to interpret than signs ...
Tkachman, Oksana +3 more
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Grammaticalization in sign languages
, 2012 AbstractThis article considers the factors and processes associated with grammaticalisation in sign languages. It provides commentaries on the methodological challenges diachronic sign language research is faced with and describes selected grammaticalisation phenomena that we take to be modality-independent.
Pfau, R., Steinbach, M.
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, 2017 Sign language typology is the study of languages that use the visual-gestural rather than the auditory-vocal modality, and allows typologists to consider issues of language modality alongside typological patterns. Modality effects may be absolute, where features exist only in one of the modalities, or relative, where features are more frequent in one ...
Zeshan, Ulrike, Palfreyman, Nick
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The role of language in economic activities in the Borobudur area: a linguistic landscape study
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThe presence of linguistic diversity in the Borobudur area’s public spaces shows a connection between linguistic, social, and economic interests. Linguistic landscape (LL) research in public spaces is important because of the widespread use of foreign ...
Dwi Atmawati +4 more
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Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2009 The article presents the phenomenon of language sign variability on the formal and semantic levels, gives the classification of semantic variants, and conclusions concerning their psychological nature.
H V Tsoupikova
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Sign Language To Sign Language Translator
Procedia Computer ScienceSharath S R +4 more
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Information Structure in Sign Languages
, 2019 This book presents a first comprehensive overview of existing research on information structure in sign languages. Furthermore, it is combined with novel in-depth studies of Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands. The book discusses how topic, focus, and contrast are marked in the visual modality and what implications this has for ...
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Visually challenging conditions on sign language intelligibility show behavioural analogies with spoken language. [PDF]
Sci RepTobías Figuerola C +3 more
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