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, 2018 Sign language phonology is the abstract grammatical component where primitive structural units are combined to create an infinite number of meaningful utterances. Although the notion of phonology is traditionally based on sound systems, phonology also includes the equivalent component of the grammar in sign languages, because it is tied to the ...
Brentari, D, Fenlon, J, Cormier, KA
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Over the history of research on sign languages, much scholarship has highlighted the pervasive presence of signs whose forms relate to their meaning in a non-arbitrary way.
Aurora Martinez del Rio +4 more
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The benefits of sign language for deaf learners with language challenges
Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2009 This article argues the importance of allowing deaf children to acquire sign language from an early age. It demonstrates firstly that the critical/sensitive period hypothesis for language acquisition can be applied to specific language aspects of spoken ...
Van Staden, Annalene +2 more
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Architecture design of a reinforcement environment for learning sign languages [PDF]
PeerJ Computer Science, 2021 Different fields such as linguistics, teaching, and computing have demonstrated special interest in the study of sign languages (SL). However, the processes of teaching and learning these languages turn complex since it is unusual to find people teaching
Luis Naranjo-Zeledón +3 more
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Introduction to double issue 41.1–2 on Features
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2015 This special double issue (41.1 and 41.2) contains 11 articles on the formal properties of linguistic feature systems, all of which were presented at a conference in Tromsø in the fall of 2013. The issue was jointly edited by Martin Krämer, Sandra Ronai,
Peter Svenonius, Martin Krämer
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Fonología y escritura de la lengua de signos española
Estudios de Lingüística, 1999 Our aim in this article is to deepen in our understanding of the phonology of Spanish Sign Language. To this end, we have taken a notion of syllable which is consonant with that of oral languages, in which hand configurations are regarded as ...
Ángel Herrero Blanco +1 more
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An EMG dataset for Arabic sign language alphabet letters and numbers
Data in Brief, 2023 Nowadays, surface electromyography (sEMG) is evolving as a technology for hand gesture recognition. Detailed studies have revealed the capacity of EMG signals to access detailed information, particularly in the classification of hand gestures.
Amina Ben Haj Amor +2 more
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The Challenge of Sign Language Phonology [PDF]
Annual Review of Linguistics, 2017 Comparing phonology in spoken language and sign language reveals that core properties, such as features, feature categories, the syllable, and constraints on form, exist in both naturally occurring language modalities. But apparent ubiquity can be deceptive.
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The Signs of Silence – An Overview of Systems of Sign Languages and Co-Speech Gestures
ELOPE, 2019 The paper presents an overview of sign languages and co-speech gestures as two means of communication realised through the visuo-spatial modality. We look at previous research to examine the correlation between spoken and sign language phonology, but ...
Emilija Mustapić, Frane Malenica
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019 Sign languages are natural languages in the visual domain. Because they lack a written form, they provide a sharper tool than spoken languages for investigating lexicality effects which may be confounded by orthographic processing.
Mary Rudner +10 more
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