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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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Phonological category resolution: a study of handshapes in younger and older sign languages
Cadernos de Saúde, 2009 The existence of a phonological system – a system of meaningless building blocks that make up meaningful words – is often considered a prerequisite for language, and the discovery that sign languages used by deaf people have a meaningless level of ...
Assaf Israel, Wendy Sandler
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Glossa, 2020 Since signs and words are perceived and produced in distinct sensory-motor systems, they do not share a phonological basis. Nevertheless, many deaf bilinguals master a spoken language with input merely based on visual cues like mouth representations of ...
Annika Herrmann +4 more
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Dataglove Measurement of Joint Angles in Sign Language Handshapes [PDF]
, 2012 In sign language research, we understand little about articulatory factors involved in shaping phonemic boundaries or the amount (and articulatory nature) of acceptable phonetic variation between handshapes.
Bour, Rebecca +2 more
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Multi-Script Morphological Transducers And Transcribers For Seven Turkic Languages [PDF]
, 2020 This paper describes ongoing work to augment morphological transducers for seven Turkic languages with support for multiple scripts each, as well as respective IPA transcription systems.
Kuyrukçu, O. +2 more
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Sound Symbolism in Foreign Language Phonological Acquisition [PDF]
, 2010 The paper aims at investigating the idea of a symbolic nature of sounds and its implications for in the acquisition of foreign language phonology. Firstly, it will present an overview of universal trends in phonetic symbolism, i.e.
Wrembel, Magdalena
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From iconic handshapes to grammatical contrasts: Longitudinal evidence from a child homesigner
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Many sign languages display crosslinguistic consistencies in the use of two iconic aspects of handshape, handshape type and finger group complexity.
Marie eCoppola, Diane eBrentari
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Language experience in LSF development: Behavioral evidence from a sentence repetition task.
PLoS ONE, 2020 In psycholinguistics and clinical linguistics, the Sentence Repetition Task (SRT) is known to be a valuable tool to screen general language abilities in both spoken and signed languages.
Caroline Bogliotti +2 more
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Derived environment effects: A representational approach [PDF]
, 2008 Derived environment effects involve either overapplication or underapplication of phonological rules in phonological or morphological environments. This paper focuses on underapplication effects in both phonological and morphological environments, which ...
Brockhaus +26 more
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Assessing lexicalism through bimodal eyes
Glossa, 2016 The relation holding between words and syntax is at the core of a lively debate. Two competing proposals have been advanced: the lexicalist view, claiming that the lexicon and the syntax are distinct modules of the grammar, and what we shall refer to as ...
Caterina Donati, Chiara Branchini
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