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The first signs of language: Phonological development in British sign language [PDF]

Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007
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., Morgan, G., Stoneham, H.   +2 more
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Exploring Phonological Aspects of Australian Indigenous Sign Languages

Languages, 2021
Spoken languages make up only one aspect of the communicative landscape of Indigenous Australia—sign languages are also an important part of their rich and diverse language ecologies. Australian Indigenous sign languages are predominantly used by hearing
Eleanor Jorgensen, Jennifer Green, Anastasia Bauer   +2 more
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Comparing Iconicity Trade-Offs in Cena and Libras during a Sign Language Production Task

Languages, 2022
Although classifier constructions generally aim for highly iconic depictions, like any other part of language they may be constrained by phonology. We compare utterances containing motion events between signers of Cena, an emerging rural sign language in
Diane Stoianov, Diná Souza da Silva, Jó Carlos Neves Freitas, Anderson Almeida-Silva, Andrew Nevins   +4 more
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Phonology Recognition in American Sign Language

ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2022
Inspired by recent developments in natural language processing, we propose a novel approach to sign language processing based on phonological properties validated by American Sign Language users. By taking advantage of datasets composed of phonological data and people speaking sign language, we use a pretrained deep model based on mesh reconstruction ...
Tavella, Federico, Galata, Aphrodite, Cangelosi, Angelo   +2 more
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Interview with Diane Brentari

Revista Linguística, 2020
Diane Brentari is co-director of the Center for Gesture, Sign and Language at the University of Chicago. She has published several books, such as Sign Language Phonology (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Shaping Phonology (2018).
Marília Uchôa Cavalcanti Lott de Moraes, Loise Soares de Azevedo, Anderson Almeida da Silva   +2 more
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Repetition Preferences in Two-Handed Balanced Signs: Vestigial Locomotor Central Pattern Generators Shape Sign Language Phonetics and Phonology

Frontiers in Communication, 2021
Language is produced by bodies that evolved to fulfill a variety of functions, most of them non-communicative. Vestigial influences of adaptation for quadrupedal locomotion are still affecting bimanual actions, and have consequences on manual ...
Oksana Tkachman, Gracellia Purnomo, Bryan Gick, Bryan Gick   +3 more
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Phonological Awareness for American Sign Language [PDF]

Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2014
This paper examines the concept of phonological awareness (PA) as it relates to the processing of American Sign Language (ASL). We present data from a recently developed test of PA for ASL and examine whether sign language experience impacts the use of metalinguistic routines necessary for completion of our task. Our data show that deaf signers exposed
David P, Corina, Sarah, Hafer, Kearnan, Welch   +2 more
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Phonological reduplication in sign language: Rules rule [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Productivity-the hallmark of linguistic competence-is typically attributed to algebraic rules that support broad generalizations. Past research on spoken language has documented such generalizations in both adults and infants. But whether algebraic rules form part of the linguistic competence of signers remains unknown.
Berent, Iris, Dupuis, Amanda, Brentari, Diane   +2 more
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Measuring sign complexity: Comparing a model-driven and an error-driven approach

Laboratory Phonology, 2022
The study of articulatory complexity has proven to yield useful insights into the phonological mechanisms of spoken languages. In sign languages, this type of knowledge is scarcely documented.
Beatrice Giustolisi, Carlo Geraci, Caterina Donati, Chiara Annucci, Doriane Gras, Giuseppina Turco, Justine Mertz, Valentina Aristodemo   +7 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.
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