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Modal and Focus Particles in Sign Languages. A Cross-Linguistic Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Bringing together the research fields of sign language linguistics and information structure, this bookfocuses onthe realization of modal particles and focus particles in three European sign languages: German Sign Language, Sign Language of the ...
Herrmann, Annika
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Formational Units in Sign Languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Sign languages and spoken languages have many fascinating differences, caused primarily by the reaction of the human mind to different modalities, but also by some important social differences.
Channon, Rachel, Hulst, Harry van der
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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
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Signed languages and globalization [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage in Society, 2011
AbstractDeaf people who form part of a Deaf community communicate using a shared sign language. When meeting people from another language community, they can fall back on a flexible and highly context-dependent form of communication calledinternational sign, in which shared elements from their own sign languages and elements of shared spoken languages ...
Hiddinga, A., Crasborn, O.
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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
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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
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Sign language ideologies in practice Sign languages and deaf communities ;, 12./ edited by Annelies Kusters, Mara Green, Erin Moriarty and Kristin Snoddon. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In English.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 ...
Green Mara   +3 more
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SIGN LANGUAGE LITERACY IN THE SIGN LANGUAGE CURRICULUM

open access: yesMomento - Diálogos em Educação, 2022
The Sign Language curriculum is a contemporary development which few countries have officially implemented to teach a national standard Sign Language as a first language (L1) and/or mother tongue in the school grades. In these, Sign Language is a mandatory unit, which the deaf child needs to study and develop metalinguistically, as is the case in ...
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Sign Language Research, Uses and Practices. Crossing Views on Theoretical and Applied Sign Language Linguistics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The uses and practices of sign languages are strongly related to scientific research on sign languages and vice versa. Conversely, sign linguistics cannot be separated from Deaf community practices, including practices in education and interpretation ...
Meurant, Laurence   +3 more
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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

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
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