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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

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  

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

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

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

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

Modality-Independent Effects of Phonological Neighborhood Structure on Initial L2 Sign Language Learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The goal of the present study was to characterize how neighborhood structure in sign language influences lexical sign acquisition in order to extend our understanding of how the lexicon influences lexical acquisition in both sign and spoken languages.
Bochner   +113 more
core   +2 more sources

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

The Signs of Silence – An Overview of Systems of Sign Languages and Co-Speech Gestures

open access: yesELOPE, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Sign languages: Then and now [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2020
A way of communication on an equal footing with oral and written speech is sign language. Oral speech is a common way of communication, written speech has, with the development of information technologies, been taking up more and more space.
Isaković Ljubica S.   +2 more
doaj  

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