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Facial expressions, emotions, and sign languages. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychol, 2013
Facial expressions are used by humans to convey various types of meaning in various contexts. The range of meanings spans basic possibly innate socio-emotional concepts such as ‘surprise’ to complex and culture specific concepts such as ‘carelessly’. The
Elliott EA, Jacobs AM.
europepmc   +2 more sources

INTERLANGUAGE FEATURES OF SIGN LANGUAGES (ACCORDING TO THE MATERIAL OF GESTURES IN SIGN FORM)

open access: yesСовременные информационные технологии и IT-образование, 2019
In this paper we investigate the features of gestures deaf people use in their national Sign Languages. In Sign Languages, almost every word has a sign equivalent.
Maria A. Myasoedova   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Crowdsourcing-Based Framework for the Development and Validation of Machine Readable Parallel Corpus for Sign Languages

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2021
Sign languages are used by the deaf and mute community of the world. These are gesture based languages where the subjects use hands and facial expressions to perform different gestures.
Uzma Farooq   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

The ATIS sign language corpus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Systems that automatically process sign language rely on appropriate data. We therefore present the ATIS sign language corpus that is based on the domain of air travel information. It is available for five languages, English, German, Irish sign language,
Morrissey, Sara   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Distinguishing selection pressures in an evolving communication system: Evidence from color-naming in “cross signing”

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances are very different from ...
Kusters, Annelies   +8 more
core   +2 more sources

An example-based approach to translating sign language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Users of sign languages are often forced to use a language in which they have reduced competence simply because documentation in their preferred format is not available.
Morrissey, Sara   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Transmission of sign languages in the Nordic countries

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

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

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