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Cognitive Research, 2022 Face masks occlude parts of the face which hinders social communication and emotion recognition. Since sign language users are known to process facial information not only perceptually but also linguistically, examining face processing in deaf signers ...
Wee Kiat Lau +3 more
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Simultaneous structures in sign languages: Acquisition and emergence
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 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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A stepping stone to compositionality in chimpanzee communication [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 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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Variation in Indonesian Sign Language
, 2019 This pioneering work on Indonesian Sign Language (BISINDO) explores the linguistic and social factors that lie behind variation in the grammatical domains of negation and completion.
Palfreyman, Nick
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Perceptually optimised sign language video coding [PDF]
, 2003 Mobile video telephony will enable deaf people to communicate in their own language, sign language. At low bit rates coding of sign language video is challenging due the high levels of motion and the need to maintain good image quality to aid with ...
Agrafiotis, D, Canagarajah, CN, Bull, DR
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Perceived Conventionality in Co-speech Gestures Involves the Fronto-Temporal Language Network
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2017 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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Signed languages and globalization [PDF]
Language 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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Enhancing Sign Language Learning with Augmented Reality
Journal of Computing Research and Innovation, 2022 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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Constructed Action, the Clause and the Nature of Syntax in Finnish Sign Language
Open Linguistics, 2017 This paper investigates the interplay of constructed action and the clause in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). Constructed action is a form of gestural enactment in which the signers use their hands, face and other parts of the body to represent the ...
Jantunen Tommi
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Sign Language Motion Generation from Sign Characteristics
Sensors, 2023 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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