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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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The first signs of language: Phonological development in British Sign Language [PDF]

open access: yesApplied Psycholinguistics, 2007
A total of 1,018 signs in one deaf child's naturalistic interaction with her deaf mother, between the ages of 19 and 24 months were analyzed. This study summarizes regular modification processes in the phonology of the child sign's handshape, location, movement, and prosody.
Morgan, Gary   +2 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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Counting in Sign Language

open access: yesJournal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2002
Do the visuomanual modality and the structure of the sequence of numbers in sign language have an impact on the development of counting and its use by deaf children? The sequence of number signs in Belgian French Sign Language follows a base-5 rule while the number sequence in oral French follows a base-10 rule.
Leybaert, Jacqueline, Van Cutsem, M.N.
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Production and Comprehension of Prosodic Markers in Sign Language Imperatives

open access: yesFrontiers 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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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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Signed languages and globalization [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage in Society, 2011
AbstractDeaf people who form part of a Deaf community communicate using a shared sign language. When meeting people from another language community, they can fall back on a flexible and highly context-dependent form of communication calledinternational sign, in which shared elements from their own sign languages and elements of shared spoken languages ...
Hiddinga, A., Crasborn, O.
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Sign Multilingualism

open access: yes, 2020
This volume has arisen from a three-part, five-year study on language contact among multilingual sign language users, which has three strands: cross-signing, sign-switching, and sign-speaking. These phenomena are only sparsely documented so far, and thus

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Synchronizing eye tracking and optical motion capture: How to bring them together

open access: yesJournal 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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