Simultaneous structures in sign languages: Acquisition and emergence
The visual-gestural modality affords its users simultaneous movement of several independent articulators and thus lends itself to simultaneous encoding of information.
Cornelia Loos +2 more
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Sequence-to-Sequence Chinese Continuous Sign Language Recognition and Translation with Multi- layer Attention Mechanism Fusion [PDF]
Enabling computers to understand the expressions of signers has been a challenging task that requires considering not only the temporal and spatial information of sign language videos,but also the complexity of sign language grammar.In the continuous ...
ZHOU Le-yuan, ZHANG Jian-hua, YUAN Tian-tian, CHEN Sheng-yong
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Techniques Deployed by Spoken and Sign Language Public Service Interpreters: A Comparative Study
Deaf people are among those who, due to their insufficient knowledge of Polish, are compelled to use interpreting services in all settings. In order to exercise their right to full access to information within both public and private services, they need ...
Agnieszka Dominika Biernacka +1 more
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A stepping stone to compositionality in chimpanzee communication [PDF]
Compositionality refers to a structural property of human language, according to which the meaning of a complex expression is a function of the meaning of its parts and the way they are combined. Compositionality is a defining characteristic of all human
Linda S. Oña +2 more
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Perceived Conventionality in Co-speech Gestures Involves the Fronto-Temporal Language Network
Face-to-face communication is multimodal; it encompasses spoken words, facial expressions, gaze, and co-speech gestures. In contrast to linguistic symbols (e.g., spoken words or signs in sign language) relying on mostly explicit conventions, gestures ...
Dhana Wolf +11 more
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Sign language recognition with transformer networks [PDF]
Sign languages are complex languages. Research into them is ongoing, supported by large video corpora of which only small parts are annotated. Sign language recognition can be used to speed up the annotation process of these corpora, in order to aid ...
Dambre, Joni +2 more
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The first signs of language: Phonological development in British sign language [PDF]
A total of 1018 signs in one deaf child’s naturalistic interaction with her deaf mother, between the ages 19-24 months were analysed. This study summarises regular modification processes in the phonology of the child sign’s handshape, location, movement ...
Barrett-Jones, S. +2 more
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Sign Language Comprehension: The Case of Spanish Sign Language [PDF]
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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Sign Language Motion Generation from Sign Characteristics
This paper proposes, analyzes, and evaluates a deep learning architecture based on transformers for generating sign language motion from sign phonemes (represented using HamNoSys: a notation system developed at the University of Hamburg).
Manuel Gil-Martín +4 more
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Enhancing Sign Language Learning with Augmented Reality
Sign language is the communication language used by people with disabilities, especially deaf and hearing-impaired people. The communication between normal and disabled people using sign language will help them carry out their daily activities ...
Hawa Mohd Ekhsan +2 more
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