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Deaf children need language, not (just) speech [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) children need to master at least one language (spoken or signed) to reach their full potential. Providing access to a natural sign language supports this goal.
Caselli, Naomi   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Can sign language make you better at hand processing? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The languages developed by deaf communities are unique for using visual signs produced by the hand. In the present study, we explored the cognitive effects of employing the hand as articulator.
Miozzo, Michele   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

CORPUS OF SIGNS IN WRITING AS A TOOL TO INVESTIGATE THE PECULIARITIES OF HOW SIGNS FORM UP (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE RUSSIAN SIGN LANGUAGE)

open access: yesСовременные информационные технологии и IT-образование, 2018
We investigate the peculiarities of how gestures are formed in Sign Languages; deaf people use these gestures to communicate with each other. These peculiarities make it problematic to describe the Sign Languages linguistically.
Maria A. Myasoedova   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Review of the book Deaf around the World: The impact of language / ed. by Mathur & Napoli [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
(first paragraph) Since its advent half a century ago, the field of sign language linguistics has had close ties to education and the empowerment of deaf communities, a union that is fittingly celebrated by Deaf around the world: The impact of language ...
de Vos, Connie, Palfreyman, Nick
core   +1 more source

Sign language recognition with transformer networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Sign languages are complex languages. Research into them is ongoing, supported by large video corpora of which only small parts are annotated. Sign language recognition can be used to speed up the annotation process of these corpora, in order to aid ...
Dambre, Joni   +2 more
core  

Hand Gesture Recognition in Indian Sign Language Using Deep Learning

open access: yesEngineering 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
doaj   +1 more source

Counting in Sign Language

open access: yesJournal 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.
openaire   +3 more sources

A preliminary look at negative constructions in South African Sign Language: question-Answer clauses

open access: yesStellenbosch 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
doaj   +1 more source

Identifying the Correlations Between the Semantics and the Phonology of American Sign Language and British Sign Language: A Vector Space Approach

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

A video coding system for sign language communication at low bit rates [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The ability to communicate remotely through the use of video as promised by wireless networks and already practised over fixed networks, is for deaf people as important as voice telephony is for hearing people. Sign languages are visual-spatial languages
Agrafiotis, D   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

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