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Facial expressions, emotions, and sign languages. [PDF]
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.
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INTERLANGUAGE FEATURES OF SIGN LANGUAGES (ACCORDING TO THE MATERIAL OF GESTURES IN SIGN FORM)
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
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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
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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
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The ATIS sign language corpus [PDF]
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
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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
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Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics [PDF]
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
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An example-based approach to translating sign language [PDF]
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
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Transmission of sign languages in the Nordic countries
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
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A preliminary look at negative constructions in South African Sign Language: question-Answer clauses
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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