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Sign languages and second language acquisition research: An introduction
Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2021 In recent years there has been a growing interest in sign second language acquisition (SSLA). However, research in this area is sparse. As signed and spoken languages are expressed in different modalities, there is a great potential for broadening our ...
Krister Schönström
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JWSign: A Highly Multilingual Corpus of Bible Translations for more Diversity in Sign Language Processing [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Advancements in sign language processing have been hindered by a lack of sufficient data, impeding progress in recognition, translation, and production tasks. The absence of comprehensive sign language datasets across the world's sign languages has widened the gap in this field, resulting in a few sign languages being studied more than others, making ...
Gueuwou, Shester +3 more
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Internally-headed relative clauses in sign languages
Glossa, 2017 This chapter considers relative clause data from sign languages in light of their variation with respect to basic word order, nonmanual marking, and presence/absence of internally-headed and externally-headed relative clauses.
Ronnie Wilbur
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OpenHands: Making Sign Language Recognition Accessible with Pose-based Pretrained Models across Languages [PDF]
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021 AI technologies for Natural Languages have made tremendous progress recently. However, commensurate progress has not been made on Sign Languages, in particular, in recognizing signs as individual words or as complete sentences.
Prem Selvaraj +3 more
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The Vulnerability of Emerging Sign Languages: (E)merging Sign Languages?
Languages, 2022 Emerging sign languages offer linguists an opportunity to observe language emergence in real time, far beyond the capabilities of spoken language studies.
Marah Jaraisy, Rose Stamp
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Languages, 2022 The emergence of sign language is of special interest because sign languages are the only human languages that can emerge de novo at any time [...]
Wendy Sandler +2 more
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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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Sign language research in Ghana: An overview of indigenous and foreign-based sign languages
Journal of African Languages and Literatures, 2021 The recognition of sign language as a full-fledged human language with linguistics description has led to several research works in both theoretical and applied linguistics considering different aspects.
Mary Edward, George Akanlig-Pare
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SIGN LANGUAGES AS CONVENTIONAL SYSTEMS IN COMMUNICATION OF DEAF PEOPLE [PDF]
Езиков свят, 2023 Sign languages are conventional communication systems that arise spontaneously in all deaf communities around the world. The current article offers a glimpse into the problem of the essence of a natural human language, which exists in a physical ...
Diyana Georgieva
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Is There Any Hope for Developing Automated Translation Technology for Sign Languages?
, 2021 This article discusses the prerequisites for the machine translation of sign languages. The topic is complex, including questions relating to technology, interaction design, linguistics and culture.
Tommi Jantunen +5 more
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