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New Perspectives on the Neurobiology of Sign Languages [PDF]
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 The first 40 years of research on the neurobiology of sign languages (1960–2000) established that the same key left hemisphere brain regions support both signed and spoken languages, based primarily on evidence from signers with brain injury and at the ...
Karen Emmorey
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Metaphor in Sign Languages [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Metaphor abounds in both sign and spoken languages. However, in sign languages, languages in the visual-manual modality, metaphors work a bit differently than they do in spoken languages.
Irit Meir, Irit Meir, Ariel Cohen
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Discourses of prejudice in the professions: the case of sign languages. [PDF]
J Med Ethics, 2017 There is no evidence that learning a natural human language is cognitively harmful to children. To the contrary, multilingualism has been argued to be beneficial to all.
Humphries T +6 more
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Sociolinguistic Typology and Sign Languages [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This paper examines the possible relationship between proposed social determinants of morphological ‘complexity’ and how this contributes to linguistic diversity, specifically via the typological nature of the sign languages of deaf communities.
Adam Schembri +3 more
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Facial expressions, emotions, and sign languages [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 Facial expressions are used by humans to convey various types of meaning in various contexts. The range of meanings spans basic possibly innate socio-emotional concepts such as ‘surprise’ to complex and culture specific concepts such as ‘carelessly’. The
Eeva Anita Elliott +2 more
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Acquisition of Sign Languages. [PDF]
Annu Rev Linguist, 2021 Natural sign languages of deaf communities are acquired on the same time scale as that of spoken languages if children have access to fluent signers providing input from birth.
Lillo-Martin D, Henner J.
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Visual Iconicity Across Sign Languages: Large-Scale Automated Video Analysis of Iconic Articulators and Locations. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2018 We use automatic processing of 120,000 sign videos in 31 different sign languages to show a cross-linguistic pattern for two types of iconic form–meaning relationships in the visual modality. First, we demonstrate that the degree of inherent plurality of
Östling R, Börstell C, Courtaux S.
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Lexical comprehension within and across sign languages of Belgium, China and the Netherlands [PDF]
Glossa, 2023 There are hundreds of known sign languages around the world today, distinct languages each with its own historical and cultural context. Nevertheless, it is well known among signers who move through international spaces and across signing communities ...
Carl Börstell
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LSA64: An Argentinian Sign Language Dataset [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Automatic sign language recognition is a research area that encompasses human-computer interaction, computer vision and machine learning. Robust automatic recognition of sign language could assist in the translation process and the integration of hearing-impaired people, as well as the teaching of sign language to the hearing population. Sign languages
Franco Ronchetti +4 more
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Order of the major constituents in sign languages: implications for all language. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2014 A survey of reports of sign order from 42 sign languages leads to a handful of generalizations. Two accounts emerge, one amodal and the other modal. We argue that universal pressures are at work with respect to some generalizations, but that pressure ...
Napoli DJ, Sutton-Spence R.
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