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The first signs of language: Phonological development in British Sign Language [PDF]
Applied 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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Predictive Processing in Sign Languages: A Systematic Review
Frontiers 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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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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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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Journal 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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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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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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, 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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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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