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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 +4 more
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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 +2 more
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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 +3 more
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Classification of Phonological Parameters in Sign Languages
CoRR, 2022 18 pages, 27 ...
Boris Mocialov +2 more
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The first signs of language: Phonological development in British Sign Language [PDF]
Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007 A total of 1,018 signs in one deaf child's naturalistic interaction with her deaf mother, between the ages of 19 and 24 months were analyzed. This study summarizes regular modification processes in the phonology of the child sign's handshape, location, movement, and prosody.
Morgan, Gary +2 more
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Development of sign phonology in Kata Kolok [PDF]
, 2023 Much like early speech, early signing is characterised by modifications. Sign language phonology has been analysed on the feature level since the 1980s, yet acquisition studies predominately examine handshape, location, and movement.
Crasborn, Onno +5 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 +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 +7 more
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The Phonological Organization of Sign Languages [PDF]
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2012 AbstractVisually perceivable and movable parts of the body – the hands, facial features, head, and upper body – are the articulators of sign language. It is through these articulators that words are formed, constrained, and contrasted with one another, and that prosody is conveyed.
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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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