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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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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. Infants are sensitive to linguistic information provided visually, and early milestones show many parallels.
Lillo-Martin D, Henner J.
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Exploring Phonological Aspects of Australian Indigenous Sign Languages
Languages, 2021 Spoken languages make up only one aspect of the communicative landscape of Indigenous Australia—sign languages are also an important part of their rich and diverse language ecologies. Australian Indigenous sign languages are predominantly used by hearing
Eleanor Jorgensen +2 more
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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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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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Sign Language Typology: The Contribution of Rural Sign Languages [PDF]
Annual Review of Linguistics, 2015 Since the 1990s, the field of sign language typology has shown that sign languages exhibit typological variation at all relevant levels of linguistic description. These initial typological comparisons were heavily skewed toward the urban sign languages of developed countries, mostly in the Western world.
Connie De Vos, Roland Pfau
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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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Ten Things You Should Know About Sign Languages [PDF]
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2023 Karen Emmorey
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AfriSign: African sign languages machine translation
Discover Artificial IntelligenceResearch on sign language translation is ongoing with a high social inclusive goal of crossing the bridge between people with hearing disability using sign language as their basic way to communicate to others who do not understand sign language. Hundreds
Kate Takyi +7 more
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Order of the major constituents in sign languages: implications for all language [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Donna Jo Napoli
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