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Testing the Event Visibility Hypothesis in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS)
Language and CognitionIn sign languages, aspects of event structure have been shown to be systematically reflected in the phonological structure of verb signs, as proposed by the Event Visibility Hypothesis (EVH).
Julia Krebs +2 more
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Phonological Proximity in Costa Rican Sign Language [PDF]
Electronics, 2020 The study of phonological proximity makes it possible to establish a basis for future decision-making in the treatment of sign languages. Knowing how close a set of signs are allows the interested party to decide more easily its study by clustering, as well as the teaching of the language to third parties based on similarities. In addition, it lays the
Luis Naranjo-Zeledón +3 more
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The Kermanshahi Variety of Iranian Sign Language and Its Differences from the Tehrani Variety [PDF]
̒Ilm-i ZabānIranian Sign Language serving as the primary means of communication within the deaf community of Iran displays some regional differences. In some regions, these differences are more pronounced in some regions and less so in others.
Yassaman Choubsaz +2 more
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Squib: On Phonology and prelexical mechanisms of the language acquisition
Revista Linguística, 2015 Phonology is traditionally defined as the description of the grammatical competence of native speakers concerning the sound patterns of their language (Chomsky and Halle 1968).
Marina Nespor
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Who’s going the distance here? Fictive motion in (German) sign language
Cognitive LinguisticsFrame-relative fictive motion describes a linguistic phenomenon whereby the motion of an entity is communicated via the – fictive – motion of stationary background objects.
Loos Cornelia, Napoli Donna Jo
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Working Memory for Linguistic and Non-linguistic Manual Gestures: Evidence, Theory, and Application
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Linguistic manual gestures are the basis of sign languages used by deaf individuals. Working memory and language processing are intimately connected and thus when language is gesture-based, it is important to understand related working memory mechanisms.
Mary Rudner
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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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L’approche bilingue et l’apprentissage de la lecture chez les sourds
Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2004 The bilingual and bicultural approach in the education of deaf students causes a growing interest in deaf communities, specialists, and deaf children’ parents (Cummins and Danesi, 1990; Mahshie, 1995).
Daniel Daigle, Françoise Armand
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A perfect end: A study of syllable codas in South African Sign Language
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2017 South African Sign Language (SASL) is an understudied language with a rich and interesting phonology. For instance, while the language allows onsetless syllables, it does not allow codaless syllables, except in a small class of signs which do not include
Köhlo, Mikhaela D. K. +2 more
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Brain readiness and the nature of language
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 To identify the neural components that make a brain ready for language, it is important to have well defined linguistic phenotypes, to know precisely what language is.
Denis eBouchard
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