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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"American SIgn language"”.
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Coarticulation in American Sign Language Fingerspelling
Fingerspelling is a category of American Sign Language (ASL) signs that are signed sequentially as an alphabetic representation. The present study proposes to examine the coarticulation and feature-spreading characteristics of fingerspelling. A preliminary study identified feature categories to be …
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Numeral incorporation in American Sign Language
… and a base to form a compounded fully formed sign. Numeral-incorporated signs involve some sort of simultaneity of the base and the numeral. I interviewed six individuals who use ASL as their primary language in order to gather examples of numeral-incorporated signs in ASL, thus getting a …
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Use of American Sign Language for Underwater Communication
… if beginning SCUBA divers with the use of sign language would reveal less anxiety and more self confidence, perform underwater tasks faster and perceive themselves safer and enjoying diving more because of their use of signs than two control groups without the use of signs.
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Classifier constructions as procedural signs in American Sign Language
… I will be analyzing what has typically, in sign language literature, been termed classifiers and classifier constructions. I will be approaching them from the pragmatic perspective by applying Relevance Theory to explain their usage as representations that manipulate and modify their …
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Universal quantification in the nominal domain in American Sign Language
While quantification in American Sign Language (ASL) has been an object of linguistic investigation for more than two decades, there are still relatively few studies on that topic. Most crucially, detailed descriptions of many aspects of quantification in ASL are still lacking. This dissertation is …
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American Sign Language Recognition Using Machine Learning and Computer Vision
… by this use other media of communication such as sign language. Although sign language is ubiquitous in recent times, there remains a challenge for non-sign language speakers to communicate with sign language speakers or signers. With recent advances in deep learning and computer vision there has …
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A lexicon for translation of American Sign Language to English
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, June 1999.
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Visual recognition of American sign language using hidden Markov models
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1995.
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American Sign Language Gesture Recognition using Motion Tracking Gloves in VR
… approach to performing gesture recognition on American sign language (ASL) hand gestures through virtual reality (VR) using motion tracking gloves. As a proof of concept, an application was developed using this approach which is capable of recognizing 34 ASL hand gestures performed by a user as …
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American Sign Language phonemic awareness in deaf children: implications for instruction
… two studies. In Study #1 subjects are given the American Sign Language Phonemic Awareness Inventory (ASLP AI). In Study #2 the phonological aspect ofhandshape and its relationship to the Manual Alphabet is investigated. Twenty-nine deaf children, between the ages of 4-8, who used sign language, …
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Locative relations in American Sign Language word formation, syntax and discourse
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1985.
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American Sign Language as a Foreign Language Requirement: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Standards
This paper examined the arguments for American Sign Language (ASL) as a foreign language and the development of a new ASL curriculum to fulfill a foreign language requirement at Miami University. Due to the large number of individuals in the United States using ASL as a language and the steady …
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Comprehension of Signed English and American Sign Language Stories By Deaf Children
… the comprehension of two stories, one in American Sign Language (ASL) and one in Signed English (SE) by young deaf students. After viewing the stories on videotape, the students answered a series of comprehension questions. Results indicated that there was no significant difference between …
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American Sign Language-English Interpreting Program Faculty: Characteristics, Tenure Perceptions, and Productivity
<p>American Sign Language (ASL)-English interpreting education, which began as a community apprenticeship and vetting process, has within the last several decades moved into higher education. Most recently, the number of baccalaureate-granting ASL-English interpreting programs have continued to …
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The use of telecollaboration with peer learning models for hearing second language learners of American Sign Language
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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EXPLORING THE ANCESTRAL ROOTS OF AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE: LEXICAL BORROWING FROM CISTERCIAN SIGN LANGUAGE AND FRENCH SIGN LANGUAGE
American Sign Language (ASL) is the natural and preferred language of the Deaf community in both the United States and Canada. Woodward (1978) estimated that approximately 60% of the ASL lexicon is derived from early 19th century French Sign Language, which is known as langue des signes …
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Evaluating the utility of the test of narrative language for use with deaf children via American Sign Language
The expressive language tasks of the Test of Narrative Language (Gillam & Pearson, 2004) were administered to eleven deaf, native signers and fifteen English-speaking hearing children who were between the ages of six and ten years old. These tasks were administered to determine the appropriateness …
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The relationship between American Sign Language vocabulary and the development of language-based reasoning skills in deaf children
The language-based analogical reasoning abilities of Deaf children are a controversial topic. Researchers lack agreement about whether Deaf children possess the ability to reason using language-based analogies, or whether this ability is limited by a lack of access to vocabulary, both written and …
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