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Visual prosody in Korean Sign Language: (non)manual cues for boundary and prominence [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
IntroductionThis study examines how manual and nonmanual features contribute to prosodic marking in Korean Sign Language (KSL), particularly for prominence and Accentual Phrase (AP) boundaries.
Jungah Lee   +3 more
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The development of complex verb constructions in British Sign Language [PDF]

open access: green, 2002
This study focuses on the mapping of events onto verb-argument structures in British Sign Language (BSL). The development of complex sentences in BSL is described in a group of 30 children, aged 3;2–12;0, using data from comprehension measures and ...
Herman, R., Morgan, G., Woll, B.
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The Contribution of Event-Related Potentials to the Understanding of Sign Language Processing and Production in the Brain: Experimental Evidence and Future Directions

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2022
Functional neuroimaging allows investigation of the timing properties of the brain mechanisms underlying covert language processing. This paper presents a review of the use of the neuroimaging technique called Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) in sign ...
Doris Hernández   +3 more
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Numeral Incorporation as Grammaticalization? A Corpus Study on German Sign Language (DGS)

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
Numeral incorporation describes the merging of a numeral sign with a lexical sign to create a single sign with a compositional meaning, e.g., “three weeks.” As a phenomenon of simultaneous morphology, numeral incorporation is unique to sign languages ...
Felicitas Otte   +3 more
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RULES FOR ESTONIAN SIGN LANGUAGE TRANSCRIPTION; pp. 401–424 [PDF]

open access: yesTrames, 2009
Estonian Sign Language (ESL) is the native language for approximately 1,500 Estonian dDeaf people. Like other sign languages, ESL has no written form. In the history of ESL research, different transcription systems have been used.
Regina Paabo   +2 more
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Distinguishing selection pressures in an evolving communication system: Evidence from color-naming in “cross signing”

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2022
Cross-signing—the emergence of an interlanguage between users of different sign languages—offers a rare chance to examine the evolution of a natural communication system in real time. To provide an insight into this process, we analyse an annotated video
Kang-Suk Byun   +6 more
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Second language learning of depiction in a different modality: The case of sign language acquisition

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2023
This study investigated the acquisition of depicting signs (DS) among students learning a signed language as their second-modality and second-language (M2L2) language. Depicting signs, broadly described, illustrate actions and states.
Kim B. Kurz   +2 more
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Predictive Processing in Sign Languages: A Systematic Review

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Survey of Sign Language Recognition and Translation [PDF]

open access: yesJisuanji kexue yu tansuo, 2022
Different from spoken languages, sign language is mainly composed of continuous gestures. Sign langu-age recognition and translation are important means of facilitating barrier-free communication between the hearing-impaired and the hearing person.
YAN Siyi, XUE Wanli, YUAN Tiantian
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