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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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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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Modality-Independent Effects of Phonological Neighborhood Structure on Initial L2 Sign Language Learning [PDF]
, 2015 The goal of the present study was to characterize how neighborhood structure in sign language influences lexical sign acquisition in order to extend our understanding of how the lexicon influences lexical acquisition in both sign and spoken languages.
Bochner +113 more
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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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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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Genetic relatedness of Tunisian Sign Language and French Sign Language
Frontiers in Communication, 2023 This article constitutes the first cognate study aiming at the verification of the genetic link between LSF (French Sign Language) and LST (Tunisian Sign Language) through a lexicostatistical analysis of both sign languages (SLs).
Aymen Nefaa
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Discourses Of Prejudice In The professions: The Case Of Sign Languages [PDF]
, 2017 There is no evidence that learning a natural human language is cognitively harmful to children. To the contrary, multilingualism has been argued to be beneficial to all.
Humphries, T. +6 more
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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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Sequence-to-Sequence Chinese Continuous Sign Language Recognition and Translation with Multi- layer Attention Mechanism Fusion [PDF]
Jisuanji kexue, 2022 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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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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