Survey of Sign Language Recognition and Translation [PDF]
Jisuanji 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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Production and Comprehension of Prosodic Markers in Sign Language Imperatives
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 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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Deaf children need language, not (just) speech [PDF]
, 2019 Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) children need to master at least one language (spoken or signed) to reach their full potential. Providing access to a natural sign language supports this goal.
Caselli, Naomi +2 more
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Modality-Independent Effects of Phonological Neighborhood Structure on Initial L2 Sign Language Learning [PDF]
, 2015 The goal of the present study was to characterize how neighborhood structure in sign language influences lexical sign acquisition in order to extend our understanding of how the lexicon influences lexical acquisition in both sign and spoken languages.
Bochner +113 more
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Discourses Of Prejudice In The professions: The Case Of Sign Languages [PDF]
, 2017 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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Synchronizing eye tracking and optical motion capture: How to bring them together
Journal of Eye Movement Research, 2018 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
Open Linguistics, 2020 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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Review of the book Deaf around the World: The impact of language / ed. by Mathur & Napoli [PDF]
, 2012 (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
Glossa, 2019 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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Inclusion and Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students: Finding Asylum in the LRE
Education Sciences, 2022 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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