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Metaphor in Sign Languages. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 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. In this paper we explore some of the ways in which metaphors in sign languages differ from metaphors in spoken languages.
Meir I, Cohen A.
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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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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.
de Vos, C., Pfau, R.
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Challenges with Sign Language Datasets for Sign Language Recognition and Translation
Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022 Sign Languages (SLs) are the primary means of communication for at least half a million people in Europe alone. However, the development of SL recognition and translation tools is slowed down by a series of obstacles concerning resource scarcity and standardization issues in the available data.
De Sisto, Mirella +5 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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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2002 Do the visuomanual modality and the structure of the sequence of numbers in sign language have an impact on the development of counting and its use by deaf children? The sequence of number signs in Belgian French Sign Language follows a base-5 rule while the number sequence in oral French follows a base-10 rule.
Leybaert, Jacqueline, Van Cutsem, M.N.
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Signed languages and globalization [PDF]
Language in Society, 2011 AbstractDeaf people who form part of a Deaf community communicate using a shared sign language. When meeting people from another language community, they can fall back on a flexible and highly context-dependent form of communication calledinternational sign, in which shared elements from their own sign languages and elements of shared spoken languages ...
Hiddinga, A., Crasborn, O.
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Sign Language Comprehension: The Case of Spanish Sign Language [PDF]
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2007 This study aims to answer the question, how much of Spanish Sign Language interpreting deaf individuals really understand. Study sampling included 36 deaf people (deafness ranging from severe to profound; variety depending on the age at which they learned sign language) and 36 hearing people who had good knowledge of sign language (most were ...
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Ambiguities in Sign Languages [PDF]
The Linguistic Review, 2015 AbstractNatural languages come in two different modalities – the aural-auditory modality of spoken languages and the visual-gestural modality of sign languages. The impact of modality on the grammatical system has been discussed at great length in the last 20 years.
Quer, Josep, 1965-, Steinbach, Markus
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