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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sign Language Motion Generation from Sign Characteristics
Sensors, 2023 This paper proposes, analyzes, and evaluates a deep learning architecture based on transformers for generating sign language motion from sign phonemes (represented using HamNoSys: a notation system developed at the University of Hamburg).
Manuel Gil-Martín +4 more
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