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Emerging Sign Languages

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, Carol Padden, Mark Aronoff   +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, Jennifer Green, Anastasia Bauer   +2 more
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Modality-Independent Effects of Phonological Neighborhood Structure on Initial L2 Sign Language Learning [PDF]

, 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.
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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)

Современные 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, Zinaida P. Myasoedova   +1 more
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Distinguishing selection pressures in an evolving communication system: Evidence from color-naming in “cross signing”

Frontiers in Communication, 2022
Cross-signing—the emergence of an interlanguage between users of different sign languages—offers a rare chance to examine the evolution of a natural communication system in real time. To provide an insight into this process, we analyse an annotated video
Kang-Suk Byun, Kang-Suk Byun, Kang-Suk Byun, Seán G. Roberts, Connie de Vos, Ulrike Zeshan, Stephen C. Levinson   +6 more
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Counting in Sign Language

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

, 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
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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, Tuhin Tarafder, Rehan Aziz, Mamta Arora, Alpana   +4 more
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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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Identifying the Correlations Between the Semantics and the Phonology of American Sign Language and British Sign Language: A Vector Space Approach

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, Casey Ferrara, Sanghee J. Kim, Emre Hakgüder, Diane Brentari   +4 more
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