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Formational Units in Sign Languages [PDF]
, 2011 Sign languages and spoken languages have many fascinating differences, caused primarily by the reaction of the human mind to different modalities, but also by some important social differences.
Channon, Rachel, Hulst, Harry van der
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A preliminary look at negative constructions in South African Sign Language: question-Answer clauses
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017 How negation is expressed by means of manual and/or non-manual markers has been described in a wide range of sign languages. This work has suggested a split between sign languages requiring a manual negative element in negative clauses (manual dominant ...
Huddlestone, Kate
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Hand Gesture Recognition in Indian Sign Language Using Deep Learning
Engineering Proceedings, 2023 Sign languages are important for the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities, as they provide a means of communication and expression. However, many people outside of the deaf community are not familiar with sign languages, which can lead to communication ...
Harsh Kumar Vashisth +4 more
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Variation in Indonesian Sign Language
, 2019 This pioneering work on Indonesian Sign Language (BISINDO) explores the linguistic and social factors that lie behind variation in the grammatical domains of negation and completion.
Palfreyman, Nick
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Over the history of research on sign languages, much scholarship has highlighted the pervasive presence of signs whose forms relate to their meaning in a non-arbitrary way.
Aurora Martinez del Rio +4 more
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Transmission of sign languages in the Nordic countries
, 2010 Scandinavia is the name of the three independent countries Denmark, Norway and Sweden; the term “the Nordic countries” includes also Finland and Iceland. The histories of these five countries are interwoven politically, linguistically and culturally with
Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth +1 more
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A matter of complexity: Subordination in sign languages
, 2016 Since natural languages exist in two different modalities - the visual-gestural modality of sign languages and the auditory-oral modality of spoken languages - it is obvious that all fields of research in modern linguistics will benefit from research on ...
Herrmann, A. +5 more
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Sign Languages in Village Communities [PDF]
, 2012 This book unites the work of both anthropologists and linguists who have conducted fieldwork in rural signing communities around the globe. In most cases, these signing communities have emerged in response to a high incidence of (often hereditary ...
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The Signs of Silence – An Overview of Systems of Sign Languages and Co-Speech Gestures
ELOPE, 2019 The paper presents an overview of sign languages and co-speech gestures as two means of communication realised through the visuo-spatial modality. We look at previous research to examine the correlation between spoken and sign language phonology, but ...
Emilija Mustapić, Frane Malenica
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Discover EducationSign bilingual education (SBE) is a relatively new model of educating deaf learners that embraces equitable use of sign and oral languages in inclusive education environments. For deaf learners, Sign Language is used for instruction and the oral language
Patrick Sibanda
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