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Predictive Processing in Sign Languages: A Systematic Review
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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Production and Comprehension of Prosodic Markers in Sign Language Imperatives
In signed and spoken language sentences, imperative mood and the corresponding speech acts such as for instance, command, permission or advice, can be distinguished by morphosyntactic structures, but also solely by prosodic cues, which are the focus of ...
Diane Brentari +5 more
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Discourses Of Prejudice In The professions: The Case Of Sign Languages [PDF]
There is no evidence that learning a natural human language is cognitively harmful to children. To the contrary, multilingualism has been argued to be beneficial to all.
Humphries, T. +6 more
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Perceptually optimised sign language video coding [PDF]
Mobile video telephony will enable deaf people to communicate in their own language, sign language. At low bit rates coding of sign language video is challenging due the high levels of motion and the need to maintain good image quality to aid with ...
Agrafiotis, D, Bull, DR, Canagarajah, CN
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Synchronizing eye tracking and optical motion capture: How to bring them together
Both eye tracking and motion capture technologies are nowadays frequently used in human sciences, although both technologies are usually used separately.
Birgitta Burger +2 more
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Figure–Ground Spatial Relationships in Finnish Sign Language Discourse
This study is about expressing spatial relationships between Figure and Ground in Finnish Sign Language discourse and shows that the variation in this expression is primarily discourse dependent.
De Weerdt Danny
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Inclusion and Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students: Finding Asylum in the LRE
The movement towards inclusive public education for deaf and hard of hearing children (DHH) has steadily gathered momentum during the last fifty years.
Julia A. Silvestri, Maria C. Hartman
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Review of the book Deaf around the World: The impact of language / ed. by Mathur & Napoli [PDF]
(first paragraph) Since its advent half a century ago, the field of sign language linguistics has had close ties to education and the empowerment of deaf communities, a union that is fittingly celebrated by Deaf around the world: The impact of language ...
de Vos, Connie, Palfreyman, Nick
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Towards understanding nonmanuality: A semiotic treatment of signers’ head movements
This article discusses a certain type of nonmanual action, signers’ head movements, from a semiotic perspective. It presents a typology of head movements and their iconic, indexical and symbolic features based on Peircean and post-Peircean semiotics. The
Anna Puupponen
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The emergence of sign language is of special interest because sign languages are the only human languages that can emerge de novo at any time [...]
Wendy Sandler +2 more
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