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Sign, language, and gesture in the brain: Some comments [PDF]
, 2017 In contrast with two widely held and contradictory views – that sign languages of deaf people are “just gestures,” or that sign languages are “just like spoken languages” – the view from sign linguistics and developmental research in cognition presented ...
Campbell, R, Woll, B
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Sign Language Comprehension: The Case of Spanish Sign Language [PDF]
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2007 This study aims to answer the question, how much of Spanish Sign Language interpreting deaf individuals really understand. Study sampling included 36 deaf people (deafness ranging from severe to profound; variety depending on the age at which they learned sign language) and 36 hearing people who had good knowledge of sign language (most were ...
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The Signs of Silence – An Overview of Systems of Sign Languages and Co-Speech Gestures
ELOPE, 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
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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.
Bochner +113 more
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Sign languages: Then and now [PDF]
Zbornik 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
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Clinical Correlates of Anxiety and Depression After Diagnosis of a Pediatric Brain Tumor
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background The prevalence and clinical correlates of symptoms of anxiety and depression in pediatric patients with brain tumors are not well described. We aimed to identify clinical characteristics that are correlated with elevated symptoms of anxiety and depression following initial diagnosis.
Bryony J. Lucas +16 more
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Handling Sign Language Data: The Impact of Modality
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Natural languages come in two different modalities. The impact of modality on the grammatical structure and linguistic theory has been discussed at great length in the last 20 years.
Josep Quer, Markus Steinbach
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A survey on mouth modeling and analysis for Sign Language recognition [PDF]
, 2015 © 2015 IEEE.Around 70 million Deaf worldwide use Sign Languages (SLs) as their native languages. At the same time, they have limited reading/writing skills in the spoken language.
Antonakos, E, Roussos, A, Zafeiriou, S
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction We developed MedSupport, a multilevel medication adherence intervention designed to address root barriers to medication adherence. This study sought to explore the feasibility and acceptability of the MedSupport intervention strategies to support a future full‐scale randomized controlled trial.
Elizabeth G. Bouchard +8 more
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TEACHING SIGN LANGUAGE FOR HEALTHCARE WITHIN A LANGUAGES FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES FRAMEWORK [PDF]
Journal of Languages for Specific Purposes, 2019 Languages for specific purposes is a subdiscipline of applied linguistics that looks at language learning and teaching for a specific education or training need.
Keren Cumberbatch
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