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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.
Wendy Sandler
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'Children are just lingual': The development of phonology in British Sign Language (BSL) [PDF]
Lingua, 2006 This paper explores three universal tendencies in spoken language acquisition: consonant and vowel harmony, cluster reduction and systemic simplification, using a corpus of 1018 signs from a single child exposed to British Sign Language from birth. Child
Morgan, G.
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The acquisition of Sign Language: The impact of phonetic complexity on phonology [PDF]
Language Learning and Development, 2010 Research into the effect of phonetic complexity on phonological acquisition has a long history in spoken languages. This paper considers the effect of phonetics on phonological development in a signed language. We report on an experiment in which nonword-
Bernhardt B. H. +38 more
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Moving from hand to mouth: Echo phonology and the origins of language
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Although the sign languages in use today are full human languages, certain of the features they share with gestures have been suggested to provide information about possible origins of human language.
Bencie eWoll
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Sensors, 2015 Sign language recognition (SLR) is an important communication tool between the deaf and the external world. It is highly necessary to develop a worldwide continuous and large-vocabulary-scale SLR system for practical usage.
Juan Cheng +3 more
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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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Reading strategies for the profoundly deaf Libras users: Benefits of speech and lip reading for strengthening linguistic skills [PDF]
Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas), 2019 To understand the reading strategies used by deaf students, two groups of profoundly deaf individuals were tested: Group 1: users of the Brazilian Sign Language and Group 2: users of the Brazilian Sign Language and speech and/or lip reading.
Ângela Maria Vieira PINHEIRO +2 more
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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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