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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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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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Sign Language Comprehension: The Case of Spanish Sign Language [PDF]
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2007 This study aims to answer the question, how much of Spanish Sign Language interpreting deaf individuals really understand. Study sampling included 36 deaf people (deafness ranging from severe to profound; variety depending on the age at which they learned sign language) and 36 hearing people who had good knowledge of sign language (most were ...
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Agent defocusing in two-participant clauses in Finnish Sign Language
Glossa, 2019 This article investigates what strategies are used for defocusing the agent in two-participant clauses in FinSL. The question is approached by analyzing a set of data that consists of videotaped informational texts.
Sanna Nordlund
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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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An overview of the EtsaTrans machine translation system: compilation of an administrative domain
Literator, 2008 The EtsaTrans machine translation system has been in development at the University of the Free State for the last four years and is currently the only machine translation system being developed in South Africa for specialised and nongeneral translation ...
L. Ehlers
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Languages, 2022 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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The ATIS sign language corpus [PDF]
, 2008 Systems that automatically process sign language rely on appropriate data. We therefore present the ATIS sign language corpus that is based on the domain of air travel information. It is available for five languages, English, German, Irish sign language,
Morrissey, Sara +6 more
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Ambiguities in Sign Languages [PDF]
The Linguistic Review, 2015 AbstractNatural languages come in two different modalities – the aural-auditory modality of spoken languages and the visual-gestural modality of sign languages. The impact of modality on the grammatical system has been discussed at great length in the last 20 years.
Quer, Josep, 1965-, Steinbach, Markus
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How to Ensure Bilingualism/Biliteracy in an Indigenous Context: The Case of Icelandic Sign Language
Languages, 2021 The paper discusses the implementation of a bilingual education language policy in the context of endangered indigenous sign language—Icelandic Sign Language (íslenskt táknmál, ÍTM).
Elena Koulidobrova +1 more
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